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Lesson Plan. Great resource for teachers who want to help students make connections between concepts and applications. A very powerful tool!

news widgets, some book stuff

The many uses of Google Earth and Google Maps never ceases to impress me. But a lot of people hear the words Google Earth or Google Maps and only think about locating places and not all of the other things that can be done with these great tools. Google's site for UK schools has some great lesson plans for using Google Earth and Google Maps with primary school and secondary school students. (The equivalent in the US is elementary school and middle school).

Daniel Pink's lecture about his book, Drive. While directly addresses the business world but the connections to education are apparent. Speaks to why incentive pay for teachers is a ridiculous idea. Even why grades are a lousy incentive for students.

SnipSnip.it is a new service that allows you to easily clip a section from a YouTube video and share that section with others. 

How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers?

Teacher Robert Drewnowski had only $300 in grant money to help him develop a more effective way of teaching math to fourth graders. He used it to buy a Wii.

There are plenty of services on the web that you can use to create your own private or public discussion forum (click here or here for some I've previously reviewed). But Forums.com takes the prize for easiest name and url to remember. Not only is the name easy to remember, it's easy to create your forum with Forums.com.

start 17:32 end 28:22 (10 min)  Why I Flipped my Classroom by chemistry teacher.

Advice for those doing quick video interviews and webcam projects.  No-one ever warned me that I would be doing video interviews when I first became a teacher. No-one came up to me and offered me media presentation training like they do for politicians.

Skype ideas for teachers and parents

"My goal is to instill appropriate mobile-technology behaviors because they will be using these devices in their professional careers. As a teacher, should I be alarmed about their desire to stay connected? Quite the opposite, I believe." Issues: audio and video recording of lectures/classes

I love CUNY and I love public education. Blackboard is a parasite on both. Writing free software is the best way I know to disrupt the awful relationship between companies like Blackboard and vulnerable populations like CUNY undergraduates. Good list of why Bb is bad, including It forces, and reinforces, an entirely teacher-centric pedagogical model.

"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.

One of the most interesting features of the iPad 2 (cameras and thinner design aside) is the possibility to activate video mirroring: thanks to Apple's Digital AV Adapter or VGA Adapter, any app on your iPad 2 can be mirrored on the television's bigger screen with just an additional cable and no setup required. It works out of the box - meaning all your apps, presentations and websites can be sent off to a monitor that supports HDMI or VGA. This has been touted as one great functionality of the iPad 2 especially among teachers and people who always wished to mirror the iPad's display to an external monitor during business meetings.

connect up with other teachers and classes and (presumably) experts. See what others are doing with skype

Free educational website for students and teachers

Google facelifts and new features as of 7/7/11

Here's a very slick new tool that allows students and teachers to share a Google Doc or Presentation, record themselves along side the presentation or doc and email or embed the video on a blog. It's called Movenote, and it's free.