Group items tagged

"Educators and trainers can select and download those PowerPoint games that support your learning objectives and are compatible with the technology capabilities of your learning environment. We hope you enjoy the site and we welcome your feedback." Each game is a download and includes a ppt with a sample game and ppt template to use to make your own game.

"We are a group of passionate language teachers interested in or already teaching in Second Life. You are welcome to join our cosmopolitan Community of Practice if you want to learn more about Language Learning in 3D Virtual Environments." Nice sharing site for language teachers.

An interesting collection of widgets used to create ROLE tools (Responsive Open Learning Environments) that can then be embedded in a learning or course management system. Users are invited to create their own.

"Quandl is a repository of time-series data on the internet, tailored for researchers, students and other data professionals. Quickly find the numerical data you need Get that data in any format you want Have complete transparency to the source of the data Quandl is open and free. Quandl currently has over 6 million time-series datasets. Most of the data is in the domains of finance, economics, demography, sociology, energy and the environment. 1000s of new datasets are added to Quandl daily."

Some of the good things about flipping the classroom, and how to do it. "A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and moves "homework" to the classroom. Moving lectures outside of the classroom allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student. Students have the opportunity to ask questions and work through problems with the guidance of their teachers and the support of their peers - creating a collaborative learning environment."

An intriguing game for online players that demonstrates how evolution works out in a population of "critters" when various factors, such as food and environment, undergo changes. Great as a science project.

Simple Modular Programming Language & Environments is presumably simple enough for kids to use to create tablet apps or computer programs. Haven't had a change to try it out. For Windows-based computers and tablets only.

A clever game site that could be used for lesson on where garbage goes. for very young learners, but supposedly adaptable to older learners, too.

"Developing questions that align with the ubiquitously misused New Bloom's Taxonomy -- starting a discussion with recall questions and stair-stepping through the rest until higher order prompts are dispatched -- has been sold as a pathway to cognitive vigor. Observe how many classrooms have Bloom's Taxonomy posted on the back wall for the teacher to reference. Over-reliance on question hierarchies can result in conversations that are irrelevant to the content and context of the learning environment, and invite answers that nobody cares about. " Quality whole-class discussion, rather than recitation/quiz type discussion is possible with good teacher training.

Sharing docs on Google Drive creates an excellent environment for good composition practices, especially in a flipped classroom. Students begin writing by structuring in class on computers, using templates and discussion of the assignment with the teacher. Plagiarism is non-existent as all interactions with the text are transparent.

This is the anchor page for the playlist of video materials for Shaping the Way We Teach English. Great as an idea resource for lesson plans for your own classes. Each video/module has suggestions for both non-tech and tech-rich environments.

"For Teachers: automated homework assignment, grading, and reporting For Parents: manage student success For Students: learning with immediate feedback in students' preferred environment, the WEB "

"Google's Drawing program is the perfect platform to practice orthography- the skill of writing characters and symbols to create words- in language classrooms with non-Roman alphabets, such as Arabic or Chinese. Students of these languages need lots of practice handwriting the new alphabet or pictographic symbols, which is difficult to do in a digital environment. In traditional word processing programs, typing pictographic languages, such as Chinese, requires the student to change the keyboard language and then phonetically type the syllables. Characters will pop out fully formed, which is efficient and useful, but bypasses the important orthographic practice! Google Drawing presents teachers with an opportunity to digital collect and monitor their students' orthography without having to scan in and email worksheets. The Scribble Tool in Google Drawing allows the user to create free form lines and by extension hand-drawn language characters. Couple Google Drawing with a pen mouse and Chinese language students are fully prepared to complete short answer or extended writing assignments online." You could also use Google Drawing for students from pictographic language to practice handwirting English.

Links to family/kid sites.

"The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other primary and secondary educators in their local region." To get into the Academy, you must submit a one-minute video--more instructions on the page.

Graham Stanley's presentation at a British Council Teacher Conference, Sept. 2010.

"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. Set up your class with no student email addresses. Provide your students with an authentic, engaging, and interactive learning experience with Kidblog." Looks like a safe environment for elementary/middle school kids.

Marina Petrovic has started a Ning group to work with and explore Vyew Virtual Classroom. This will be a great help i mastering this online environment. The YG Learning with Computers is begining a new series of activities in March. To follow, check out their wiki, http://learningwithcoputers07.pbworks.com, and join the YG, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers (a spin-off from EVO 2006).

"The purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a way that even "non-techy" teachers can utilize them. It took around 10 years to collect these resources, but new ones are found every day. All of these websites have been recommended by other teachers and educational organizations and qualify as "the best". You'll find support for all core curriculum areas. In addition, you will find lesson plans, multimedia, and primary sources to enhance your students' learning environment." by Nadine Norris, a tech specialist for elementary schools near Chicago, IL. Has a wide variety of explanatory pages: tools to use with core content areas, project-based units, rethinking Powerpoint and classroom presentations, a blog highlighting social media, and advice about using digital literacy skills and research skills on the Internet.

This is a php-based wiki that you can install on your own school server to have a safe wiki environment.