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"To make the paradigm shift with campus wireless possible-or even advance its evolution-wireless must be ubiquitous and seamless. Wireless devices need to work, not just on campus, but globally, and they must be able to go from campus to home to plane to Sri Lanka seamlessly. And we can't teach a course that makes effective use of wireless technology without an appropriate wireless device. With these infrastructure requirements, we could have classes that really use the mobility of mobile devices. One small step in that direction would be to have distributed classes where some students would physically be in a classroom while others would be distributed to various action sites. Learning about pollution? Have some students locate different polluted sites and participate in the class on site like the evening news. "This is Sue reporting Podunk the toxic chemicals are pouring into the Crimea River."

"Knowmia Teach is a new free lesson planning and recording tool for teachers. It helps you create short video lessons on any subject and publish them on Knowmia.com so your students and the public can find them. Knowmia Teach makes it easy to bring in visual aids from multiple sources, organize them in steps (like slides in a presentation) and use your own voice and fingers to bring your lesson to life. You can design each step in the lesson, record illustrations as you draw them, and create sophisticated animation sequences with a simple stroke of a finger. We also give you the ability to describe your lesson in a way that makes it simple for any student who is interested in the subject to find your video. " This seems to be a hany app that allows you to design and record and draw with one app. Available at the iTunes store. So far iPad only, but their site at knowmia.com also gives tips for creating lessons using other tools and storing them at their website.

Kathy is back with a blog for teaching with mobile technology. This should be good. One interesting link: Quick tips and tricks on how to use an iPad and video tutorials for details.

"Knowmia Teach http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teach/id527216211?mt=8 Free; Designed specifically for teachers; Integrates directly into Knowmia.com (publish a lesson with the push of a single button); Organize lessons with steps/slides; Draw using shapes, multiple pens (with your finger), text tools, laser pointer and much more; Animate graphic elements on the screen by using two fingers (moving, scaling and rotating them); Integrate videos as part of a lesson (coming soon); The only iPad tool to allow face recording while capturing a lesson (coming soon); Imports images, drawings, and Adobe Acrobat files (coming soon); Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.net and Gmail for transferring files (coming soon)" $2.99 Great tool for the iPad; see more info at the iTunes store.

Ways for younger students to start tinkering with programming language, including "Move the Turtle," from the old LOGO, Symour Papeert, and Apple IIe days. Some are apps for mobile devices.

"We currently teach multiple courses for a total of 12 or 13 different lab classes. Each class has 50-60 students and can have up to two or three graded assignments in a given day. Paper grading takes too long and transferring thousands of grades to our computerized grade forms has huge potential for human error. Grading with a spreadsheet, even on a tablet, becomes too slow with so many rows and columns. So we made Green Gradebook to solve our problems. "Our plan was to create a gradebook app that allowed for large or small student and class numbers while minimizing the time it takes to enter a grade for one assignment. Ideally this would speed things up for us as we walked around the room grading!" Mobile access for grading has some real advantages.

How to use Evernote in a content-based classroom to provide content and learning with a variety of devices, including mobile.

This is a great creative app for iPhone or Android to create up 1-hr-long videos for YouTube. Your students can make shorter videos on their mobiles, then upload and splice them together.

Dozens of ideas for using technology, explained by teachers. Emphasis on middle-school students (ages 11-13), and many for uses of video and mobile technologies.

Using Screenchop on tablet (or similar) and show teacher answers so everyone participates, but does so privately. Including ways to refuse sexting or an invitation to post pictures, etc. Includes discussion of ways to adapt to a non-tech classroom.

A variety of examples of teachers using EE to teach or have their students create projects. App for iPad.

"Apple is upping its bid for its hot-selling iPad to be a teaching device, with an update today to its iTunes U app that allows any teacher to create a private course. "The new features, aimed at K-12 teachers who use iPads in the classroom, allow teachers to create up to 12 private courses. Within each course, teachers can point students to curriculum across lots of different (mostly Apple-powered) media such as iBooks, textbooks, apps, videos and Pages and Keynote documents." But there is no student information system or gradebook included, and you can't converse with students. Might be useful for mini-lectures.

A nice Prezi presentation with clickable visuals to each of the programs/tools mentioned in Bloom's "Digital Taxonomy." Indicates tools that could be used to integrate techology into daily teaching practice.

"You are teaching a class and want to collect feedback at the beginning of the class to see whether everyone is on the same page. You can do tests, collect them and grade them, or you can use quizsocket. You get instanteneous feedback about problems. As a teacher you learn what was difficult to understand in the last class and can immediately react. And the student is reminded of the topics through the questions." Nice for spur-of-the-moment checks on whether students are paying attention. Mainly for live class lectures, which I don't do much of anymore, but a useful idea that might work if you are doing an online meeting/class.

"Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the technology, or assume that our students already know it because they use it every day, is to participate in educational malpractice." A very sensible article about what main tools are used to move kids from social media to academic purposes -- and how to get them there. Speaks to PLNs, PLEs, Pinterest, curation with Diigo, Symbaloo, Netvibes, Twitter. Very good explanation of how the work, the advantages, and the possible problems. Hybrid Pedagogy is a Digital Journal with a team of editors and writers.

"What I like the most about this chart is the fact that it emphasizes the social and affective component in learning, something which is often overlooked in today's digitally-focused learning paradigms. These mechanical skill-based and market-oriented paradigms reduce students to 'cheerful robots' and view pedagogy as 'merely a skill, technique, or disinterested method' to teach pre specified subject matter' (Giroux, 2011). Instead, education should be viewed as an important locomotive not only for gainful employment but also for 'creating the formative culture of beliefs, practices, and social relations that enable individuals to wield power, learn how to govern, and nurture a democratic society that takes equality, justice, shared values, and freedom seriously.(Kindle Location, 67 from "On Critical Pedagogy")." The checklist is also quite short.

"Videos have already become an important part of modern education, whether through well-known education platforms like Khan Academy or content created by teachers for their students' use. Video tutorials can help students with questions on homework or test preparation. However, students are finding the value in creating tutorial videos themselves for other students. " T/H to Nik Peachey

This Google docs page aligns the apps that can be used to address various aspects of Bloom's Taxonomy. The list is regularly updated by the curates. The "How Do You Use It?" column has lots of ideas for teaching, with an emphasis on creativity and content-based learning. Rich resource. A similar spreadsheet for apps to use with Common Core goals would be very helpful. T/H to A. Burns

A nice info graphic about the process of inquiry as an approach to learning/teaching. Fits well with critical thinking strategies and Know-Want to Know-Learn.

This is an essential video to learn how to use Twitter effectively. If you are interested in mobile social media Twitter is needed, but TweetDeck helps you organize and use a variety of social networking tools. (This set of videos doesn't deal with the iPhone and iPad versions of TweetDeck, however.)