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I know the old saying can be true, teachers make the worst students. But we need to take ownership of our learning, and sometimes that means we need to be the presenters in our own learning environment.
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One of the fastest ways to get breaking news, and one of the best platforms for instant networking, is Twitter. Twitter is replete with people who love to discuss education, technology, and current events.
So if you are an educator and just getting started with twitter, these 15 and of course me @cyndidannerkuhn would be good ones to follow. I would also suggest adding TweeDeck to your laptop so you can catch the tweets as they come in.
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Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences).
The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency. It’s curious they haven’t really “caught on” in schools considering how well they bridge both the old-form textbook habit of cramming tons of information into a small space, while also neatly overlapping with the dynamic and digital world.
So if you want to try to make infographics–or better yet have students make them–where do you start? The 46 tools below, curated by Faisal Khan, are a good place to start. And with the sheer quantity and variety–from sources of data and models to tools that create them (including our personal favorite, piktochart), you can almost certainly find something to use in your classroom that’s not too pricey, that works for your grade level, and that isn’t blacked by your district’s incredibly frustrating filter.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/46-tools-to-make-infographics-in-the-classroom/
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Ginger Gregory is the Gifted Resource Teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, and currently has 117 videos on her classroom YouTube channel. Ginger has used the six iPads in her classroom and her free, district-provided YouTube channel (since the Yukon school district participates in the Google Apps for Education program) to help her students develop oral communication skills, oral fluency, as well as digital literacy skills this semester. In the following six minute video, Mrs. Gregory and eight of her students explain what they have learned as a result of their assignments this year using iPad videos and YouTube.
Read the full story at: http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/05/16/developing-communication-skills-with-youtube-ipad-videos/
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In this series of video interviews, we learn how one school in Kansas uses social media to empower student learning and connect with parents.
Check out what thsi Kansas School is doing.
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Writing books with or for young children supports literacy skills and creative thinking.
One of the hottest topics in educational technology today has to be mobile content creation. With the rise of the tablet, particularly the iPad, K12 and adult students are eager for opportunities to learn just-in-time with their device of choice. Apple’s January 2012 announcement of digital textbooks and a teacher-friendly iBook authoring software has pushed the conversation around eBooks to the forefront of the educational landscape.
To meet the changing demands of our learners, teachers need to become proficient in mobile learning pedagogical approach that is grounded in a thorough understanding of mobile technologies hardware, software and OS. This session will prepare K-5 administrators, teachers and parents to support student use of iOS learner-centered devices including iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone in the creation of custom digital texts.
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Drag PDFs into Skitch and start annotating them with arrows, shapes, text and stamps.
Bringing PDFs into Skitch opens up a clean new interface, allowing you to quickly view and scroll through the pages of your document. You can even filter to view only annotated pages.
High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) — and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations. (Filmed at TEDxBeaconStreet.)
Tyler DeWitt recognizes that textbooks are not the way to get young people interested in science. Instead, he teaches science by making it fun and fantastical.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_dewitt_hey_science_teachers_make_it_fun.html
Or if you prefer written instructions with screen captures, check out Cats Chronicles.
Thanks to Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers for shaing.
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Last week Write for Dropbox, iPad edition hit the App Store. It’s another good text editor app for the iPad, with Dropbox sync and strong Markdown support.The app’s full title in the App Store is Write for Dropbox – A Beautiful Note Taking App (iPad Edition) – but I’m just going to refer to it as Write from here on in this post.
To say that this app is feature-packed would be an understatement. Here’s its App Store feature list:
Write opens to a new blank note to quickly jot down things on your mindAutomatic Dropbox SyncingFull background support for uploading notes to Dropbox. Notes will continue uploading to Dropbox even if you close the appClean distraction free interfaceCreate, edit and view text files on your iPhone and iPod TouchFolder Support (upto 1 level deep)Full Markdown support with ability to preview markdown even while writingA special markdown toolbar to make writing in markdown easyInsert images with absolute image URLs from your Dropbox accountFull screen writing and readingAbility to click on links and phone numbers when in view modeAn exclusive cursor trackpad and swipe selection
Pull to Save and Pull to DeleteFavourite the files you use frequently and access them quicklyQuick look – A unique quick look inspired way to peek at contents of any file without opening itCustom FontsBrightness Control within applicationNight ModeOffline Support – Upload your changes to Dropbox next time you’re connectedImport notes from other apps into Write25+ inbuilt actions to share your notesPublish as a Web PageGenerate Dropbox share link with a single tapSave in Evernote, Google Drive, CloudAppVirtually unlimited ways to share your note using Custom URL Schemes
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In January of this year we featured a fantastic app developer named iTooch Elementary. You can view the full review here and also see some excerpts below. iTooch was one of our most viewed posts this year and I have heard nothing but outstanding comments on their work since first being introduced to the product. Now, our friends at iTooch are back, with an exciting giveaway offer for a set of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade set of apps.
iTooch Elementary is an app covering the official Maths, Science and Language Arts curriculum for grades 3-5. Each title contains40-50 chapters and includes 1000-2000 activities. The apps created by iTooch are currently being used by more than 300,000 students and have been created byteachers to make sure they comply with the U.S. National Common CoreStandards. You can click here to see the teachers behind the development of iTooch.
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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence
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Hi guys if you use iBooks on Ipad or iphone than you also highlight some important text while reading ,and you wondered how good it can be to extract only highlighted part of that book which you wa…
StepsDownload DiskAId portable from Windows users Click here ( then jump to step 5 now), MAC users please follow this link to download (http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid/download)Once DiskAid set up is done, Connect your iPhone or iPad with Pc/Mac and open DiskAid.Open DiskAId ->; Preferences from menu-bar ……….Read the full story: http://parthiv777.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/extracting-highlights-from-ibooks-ipad-or-iphone-via-online-tool/?utm_source=feedly
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Posts, one of the best blogging apps for the iPad, is now a a free app. It has previously been priced at $9.99 and this appears to be a permanent move to free for the app. I say it appears to be a …
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A publisher’s decision to remove copy protection from its e-books revives a debate over whether such features hurt or help revenue — and not just for books.
This is an interesting perspective.
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Get Vocab Junkie on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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Joe Rogers plays the blues. And he lived it, spending half his time in an institution for people labeled “mentally retarded.” But Joe got out of the institut…
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Run! Don’t walk to this link! This is an incredible documentary from Bill Rogers that you can now watch in its entirety for free on YouTube.
Note: You will be moved, you will find truth, you will be changed—because that’s what Award Winning Documentaries do. See Comments for more info.
http://youtu.be/LNX56YLsF7c
My Uncle Joe Documentary
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Story is a new, free app from Disney. The app is designed for iPhones, but I tried it on my iPad anyway. It worked well on my iPad. Story allows you to pull in pictures and videos from your device’…
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This spring semester, 3rd grade students at Shedeck Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, worked with their librarian, Jeannie Wilmes, to conduct “blended research” about different kinds of animals. Their research was “blended” because students used both library books as well as electronic resources like the PebbleGo website and database. Mrs. Wilmes worked with students twice a week for two weeks in this project, which culminated in students audio recording their research using the free iPad app AudioBoo. Students were then able to share their recordings with classmates and with parents online. In this five minute interview video, Mrs. Wilmes and some of the Shedeck third graders describe their project, what they enjoyed and some of their lessons learned.
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Want to increase student engagement and cultivate a culture of collaborative learning in your INTERMEDIATE classroom? Math stations are one way to differentiate the process and alter the learning environment. By providing your students with a different model for learning – through the use of manipulatives and open questions – you will allow them to explore, collaborate and take risks in their learning. Here’s what you can do:
http://neilfinney.blogspot.com/2013/05/math-manipulative-stations.html
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