E-book from EDUCAUSE.edu on how information technology is changing thinking and practice in higher education. Focused mainly on North America, but relevant globally
"Free and easy-to-use tool for interaction with your audience
Mentimeter allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question you specify. Our vision is to improve the meeting between a presenter and an audience."
Educaplay enables you to create activities and then embed in your blog or wiki. You need to set up an account. The default settings are Spanish, so make sure you select English.
Ways to use this in a classroom:
- spelling word activities
- topic word activities
- shared book activities (as shown below)
- making crosswords about topics or books
- specific grammatical activities like changing tense, adding endings, plurals etc
- Comprehension activities
Cloudworks is an open participatory and social site for discussing and sharing ideas and resources about teaching and learning. It is based around the idea of "social objects" surrounded by a social space for discussion. These social objects can be cumulatively and collectively improved. Cloudworks is being developed by the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK.
Project report on innovation and especially the use of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning for aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resources management education
