...there's more to it than teaching teachers how to use technology. "We want to help teachers learn to be learners again," says eMINTS National Center executive director Monica Beglau. "We want to help them move away from being the people who hold all the knowledge to being the people who actually sit alongside -- not in front of -- their students and become facilitators of learning while continuing to learn themselves."
Fascinating! What if the school could provide each student a domain. Not some lousy directory or content-managed set of pages or subdomain. A fully fledged domain. Where the student could choose the best way to manage his/her own digital identity, whether it be WordPress, or a wiki, or whatever.
"Meograph provides tools for creating map-based and timeline-based narrated stories.
When you watch a Meograph story (click here to watch one about women's rights in the USA) you will notice that it is very similar to a watching a narrated Google Earth tour. That is because it is based on the Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plug-in. As the story plays you can stop it to explore additional content in the forms of videos, texts, and images." http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/07/meograph-opens-four-dimensional.html
HOLY INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING RESOURCES, BATMAN! So many simple, effective download-edit-and-use right away ideas on this wiki. I could have used this 5 years ago!
What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use. Beautiful.
From the author: "another list of some equally important digital skills that you, as a teacher, need to seriously consider if you want to pave the way for the 21st century teaching. I have added a list of web tools under each skill for teachers to better exploit it."
Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities.
Personal learning environments offer an alternative, but with their own limitations.
An open learning network helps bridge the gap between the PLE and the LMS, combining the best elements of each approach.
The initial implementation of an OLN at Brigham Young University represents a new learning platform model in higher education.
a 6-lesson scheme of work to teach ICT and programming using Scratch with lots of great worksheets, powerpoints, games and generally good resources for a tightly focused unit of work