"Staff Writers from OnlineColleges.com wrote an article that I thought I would share with you. They noted, "While the laptop remains the tech tool of choice for most high school and college students, many are embracing portable and innovative tablets like the iPad. Since its release in 2010, the iPad has taken the tech market by storm and become a popular, educational and fun tool for both teachers and students alike. It is increasingly infiltrating college education, with some schools en offering free iPads for enrollees.""
"Summary
The family's role is increasingly acknowledged as critical for children's learning both in and out of school, giving rise to requirements for secondary schools to report to parents online by 2010, and the Children's Plan identifying 'parental engagement' as a high priority for 2009. However, little is known about the learner's role in mediating relationships between parents and teachers, and between home and school. Young people may actively facilitate or resist their parents' involvement with their education, and without recognising their active role, strategies that aim to enhance communication between home and school may become a missed opportunity that makes little difference to children's learning."
"With Version 5.0, Diigo moves one step further towards its vision of providing the best cloud-based information management service that enables users to collect, highlight, access and share a variety of information, on a variety of devices."
"A lot has been written about the implications for Google Street View in terms of privacy; I don't think that there's much to be added to that discussion, and the implications are probably still not clear ... Having said that, even I can't really tell if that face in the crowd is me - So I won't be losing any sleep over it yet. If you know where to look, you can find my flat - but to be fair, I'd be more worried, if you just came down the road and found it for real, so I'm probably OK.
What I'm more interested in is how this tool can be used in language classes; as you will see from this page:http://classroom201x.wordpress.com/teaching-links/authentic-materials/ , I'm really interested in using authentic materials in language teaching. What could be more authentic that looking at the real streets outside! "
"If you're not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. "
"Welcome to the ultimate guide to YouTube. Unless you've been living under rock throughout the 'Noughties' YouTube is quite simply the world's largest collection of video content and as an educator it is an amazing resource that you SHOULD NOT be without. I say should because I appreciate that not all teachers can access YouTube at your school for either political or technical reasons. "
"Podcasts are a fantastic way to gain new information from the Internet quickly and efficiently. With a huge variety of topics available, podcasts offer something for everybody. We've scoured the Internet and picked out the ten best podcasts specifically for teachers."
"After 14 months of manually managing the rapidly growing participants/educators to the Around the World with 80 Schools project (and adding their locations to a Google Map), I have decided to migrate and build a community for participants on the Around the World with 80 Schools Ning."
"It was the first time I gave a presentation about tools at the Teacher2Teacher conference. It felt a little odd, since I so strongly believe that:
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE TOOLS, It's about the Skills!
Nevertheless, we do need to use tools in order to expose, practice and create through them."
"Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results."
On Saturday, I had the privilege of watching the middle and high school interns from the WNY Young Writers' Studio guide small groups of writers through the next phase of our collaborative digital storytelling project. "
"Oregon's 540,000 public school students will be able to get teacher feedback on classroom projects in real time and create web sites and online videos, after the state school system announced April 28 that it will be the first to use Google Apps for Education in K-12 schools statewide."