Watch the video at the bottom. Evernote also syncs with your online account to work on your pc or smartphone.
Great productivity tool if it fits your world.
Free plenty of ideas for teaching & Learning. T&L
Still don't think the iPad is good for Teaching & Learning (T&L)... these tools can be implemented into our world seamlessly, and more importantly, more intuitively.
BTW - I'm going to use T&L anymore instead of education... too stuffy for me. ;)
Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation. Users can choose from a range of preset characters and environmental options, or they can create their own. The site offers drag-and-drop simplicity co
Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:
* Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
* Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
* Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
* Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
* Tell a story
* Make a drawing
* Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof:
* Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)
* Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)
* Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store
* Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug
* Tell a story
* Make a drawing
* Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
"R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity."
T&L advisor Kim Cofino, 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the Yokohama International School Bangkok in Japan, shares her priorities for starting the year off right.
"Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
Layar is a global application, available for the Iphone 3GS, T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in all Android Markets. It also comes pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands.
How do you use Layar?
By holding the phone in front of you like a camera, information is displayed on top of the camera display view.
For all points of interest which are displayed on the screen, information is shown at the bottom of the screen. "
"Student Journalism 2.0 engages high school students in understanding the legal and technical issues intrinsic to new and evolving journalistic practices. It is a project of ccLearn at Creative Commons, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in partnership with HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the University of California, Irvine and Duke University. "
The regulation calls for the state to provide 10 end-of-course exams, beginning with English literature, Algebra 1 and biology in 2010-11, with other English, math, science and social studies subjects being phased in through 2016-17.
School districts would be required to count the exams for at least one-third of a student's final grade or districts could use other options, including validated local assessments or Advanced Placement exams instead. Districts also could set up a project for students who failed exams.
Opponents of the exams told the regulatory commission that the testing program would cost too much to administer and be unfair to otherwise good students who perform poorly on standardized tests.
This is HUGE. There will eventually be ten end-of-course exams, each counting for one third of a student's final grade. Some will argue that this means that there will be no time for "21st Century T&L" concerns. Others will argue that those concerns are exactly what are needed to ensure true mastery of the subject. Where do YOU fall in that debate?