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How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple | MindShift
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ClassroomWindow - find teacher-approved tech right now
an unbiased directory of teaching tools. From textbooks to assessments to tablets to smartphones, it’s all there.
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SoapBox- "looks to be the "do it all" back channel application for teachers."
You or students can create socially ranked questions where students can determine importance and that get updated in real time. Students can also participate in polls and respond to questions through a clicker type system. At the same time, students can mark whether they understand or are confused about something and the software updates real time. There is also an area for discussions where teachers can create topics and the can be discussed.
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Scholastic Teacher- Daily Starters
"daily starters" for review and practice in language arts and math skills. Teachers can select grade levels and even reveal answers. New skills and activities are posted every day!
Friday, January 27, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/27/2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/26/2012
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PIPEDREAMS - Essential Tech Tools for NEW and Experienced Educators
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GradeCam - Free Formative Assessment Tool
a software suite that allows webcams and other types of cameras to be used to scan multiple choice tests and collect data to be used to aid instruction
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/24/2012
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Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate - The Washington Post
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Tool Review: Posterous Spaces - The Tempered Radical
If you're looking for a ridiculously easy tool that can save you time and hassle all while helping to ensure that your parents actually read the content that you are posting on your classroom website, Posterous rules.
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The Ultimate Guide To Apple’s New Education Initiative | Edudemic
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Homework: To Flip? or to Toss? | Beyond School
"My current experiment involves not so much flipping homework as (almost) ending it. I’m using document-based lessons in which all reading and discussion is done in class, and the only homework is a reflective blog post about the day’s content on a team blog — which student team-members read and comment on with corrections, extensions, challenges, etc."
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ideas for lessons contributed by teachers around the world
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/20/2012
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create and publish amazing multi-touch books for iPad
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Good Instruction Activates Prior Knowledge and Uses Authentic Assessment | Edutopia
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Top ‘Apps’ for PE Teachers – Part 8 « Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek
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Teachers as Technology Trailblazers: Flipped Classroom Infographic
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The Straw Breaking My Professional Back - The Tempered Radical
teacher rant about the need for increased technology in classrooms
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Wolfram Education Portal: Free Resources
"In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts."
Thursday, January 19, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/19/2012
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Glogster "Bucket List" Project
My students just finished reading an alternative novel by MT Anderson called FEED. There were many themes that the story dealt with, but one that I found the kids most were interested in was the fact that a teenage girl was dying, and she was making a list of the things that she still wanted to do while she was alive. This chapter prompted a class discussion, and I explained to the students what a “Bucket List” was. They all discussed their ideas of what they wanted to do during their lifetime, and I knew that this was my opportunity to create a meaningful project for them.
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two lessons for teachers who are curious about the dumb, the good, and the riskier aspects of using Twitter for educational purposes