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The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.

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"Introduction In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts' committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. ..."

Today there are lots of creative blogging tools for students to use at school, but the five below are specifically catered towards a K-12 audience and come with lots of useful features for teachers and students. So, if you are itching to get your students online, consider the following options.

"These are just a few ideas on how you can use Twitter in the classroom. Because of how flexible the medium is, there really is no end to how creative you can be using Twitter in an educational environment."

Amazing creative choices here

Under-development - This e-book is intended for use by teachers from primary, elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools. The contents of the book are made available under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license.

Ringwood North Primary School presents our Podcast/Vodcast website, which showcases the creative talents of our students and the innovative work they are involved in. Episodes are written, recorded and produced by our students.

Cannon Eye is a leading advertising and marketing agency that specializes in offering bulk email marketing services focused at hitting the bull's-eye. The company is backed with skilled professionals that design responsive email layout optimized for different devices giving ease to the users. These creatively-driven emails marketing strategy pays back.

The DIY online club awards badges (called 'Skills' on the site) to students and kids of all ages in exchange for completing tasks. DIY Makers share their work with the community and get patches for the Skills they earn. Each Skill consists of a set of Challenges that help them learn techniques to get the hang of it. Once a Maker completes a Challenge, they add photos and video to their Portfolio to show what they did.

Fun tool lets users create photo collages in a variety of cool shapes. Also includes a tool for hunting for a photo in the spirit of Where's Waldo.

Good discussion started on Flipped Classes - where the teacher is more of a learning manager in school and students watch/listen to lecture for homework. "Flip" seems to refer to the student activity being reversed.

Good discussion started on Flipped Classes on LinkedIn- where the teacher is more of a learning manager in school and students watch/listen to lecture for homework. "Flip" seems to refer to the student activity being reversed. (Requires LinkedIn)

Ultra simple web-based drawing tool, no account needed, and drawings can be downloaded.

Nice collection of STEM project ideas for home (or school), sortable by age, complexity, or expense.

Awesome collection of copyright-friendly tools for the classroom!

Scratch-like tool from MIT lets students create their own mobile apps!

New collection of lesson plans for using MakeyMakey in the classroom.

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