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My instructor from Penn State U shared his thought on the podcast. "I was very intrigued by his reference to Alan Kay when he talked about how the tools shape us via our interactions with them. Kay was (and is) most definitely one of the most visionary and original thinkers when it comes to technology and its applications. To be sure, this point about how the tools shape us is a very good one to emphasize. Tools are not innocuous things and metacognitive awareness can help both teachers and learners think about how their perceptions of ideas, concepts, etc are influenced by the tools they use to express their understandings of these things that they encounter." P/S Apologies for the poor editing by Rachel (first time using Audacity)

resource for our google training

Despite the slightly hyperbolic title, it's quite thoughtfully written actually. Some interesting case studies and reflections on how to use mobile learning in practical fieldwork, including some comments from teachers and students. A good read.

Excellent resource written by excellent people!

This could be useful for helping overworked teachers automate a tedious aspect of formative and summative assessment: tests. Yes, it's about exams, but it may not be as bad as it looks, because it can be used to enhance personalized workflows.

Might this be a good platform for the digital storytelling efforts by ELL? I'd like to hear from the ETs and IDs.

For video team. See highlighted portion in particular.

Common Craft videos have helped teachers and trainers delight millions by making complex ideas easy to understand.

An interesting app where you can make annotations on live video recordings and save them to the video itself. Recommended to me by one of my teacher friends.

Step by step guidelines on Google Drive and Docs.

A must read: As educators, there is a need to see the advantages of how BYOD can be intertwined with education positively and how it is able to embrace itself with technology instead of ignoring it. 

For video team to take note. Other teams may also find the tools relevant for personal or staff use.

100 best Twitter Tools. Save it on your bookmarks!

Something i thought the ETs would find good resources.

I've been thinking. If the highest level of e-learning is augmentation of existing teaching and learning capabilities, then why not investigate cloud supercomputers - the logical extrapolation of today's cloud computing. Imagine the learning possibilities if students could easily run simulations using real-world data to investigate real-world phenomena or even social ones, to see what would happen if you tweaked certain environmental / historical conditions. Then teachers could use the various simulated outcomes as a starting point for discussion purposes - e.g. if everyone on earth had a car, what would happen to the earth's temperatures in the next few years? and then ask further questions from there using fundamental principles. Less time spent on tedious models, and more time spent observing systems interactions, may help make the next generation of It sounds like a very high-level concept, but I think a practical example is when I used the speech-to-text convertor feature of an English dictionary app on my iPhone to help a boy learn how to pronounce words correctly. It turned a boring dictionary into a fun interactive game for him, and he learnt a few new words along the way. Just some food for thought this holiday season. Merry Christmas!

Xtranormal for Teachers

Last time used to be free.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets.

easy to use. this is a great tools for teachers. thanks for sharing ;)

AR - fringe event for e-fest?

Since our trainee teachers need to teach in classroom, create different scenario of classroom like noisy class, playful class, unattentive class, etc, and instructor can use these content to teach trainee teacher about classroom management.

thanks for the idea KC! But not sure this conversion will spam the rest of those who commented. Let's discuss in details offline. :)