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There are many teachers who want to start using technology in their classrooms, but just aren't sure where to start. That's why I got together ten prominent ed tech bloggers, teachers, and school administrators to create The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. In this book there introductions to more than six dozen web tools for K-12 teachers. Additionally, you will find sections devoted to using Skype with students, ESL/ELL, blogging in elementary schools, social media for educators, teaching online, and using technology in alternative education settings.

Spectatus is a QTI 2.1 test authoring tool, intended to have an aesthetically pleasing, simple interface that uses common UI paradigms such as drag and drop. Questions can be dropped into the application from the user's file system, individually or in batches, as well as brought in from a Minibix repository. The application will interface with Mathqurate (if installed) for question editing, although it will accept any valid QTI 2.1 questions from any authoring tool. If required, the application will add test post-processing code to the QTI generated, providing feedback to the student with total marks overall and per section.

Har ikke fått den til å virke på OS X 10.6.3.

Collection of tips on interesting ways to use web 2.0 tools in the classroom

I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom. No mains gas,

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Schoology is a free web-based learning management system (LMS) built on a social network. Schoology leverages the familiarity of popular social media tools to improve communication and collaboration.

Mathqurate is a project to develop a QTI item authoring tool able to process items containing mathematical content. It is a multi-platform, open source authoring tool for QTI2.

Har ikke fått den til å virke på OS X 10.6.3.

It's very likely you don't have an attention deficit disorder or suffer from reading disabilities. It's very likely that you might dismiss a reading aid

The Singapore Model Method is a pedagogical strategy that was developed by a team of curriculum specialists in the Singapore Ministry of Education in the early 1980's to address the issue of students having difficulty with word problems in early years of school. It has since become a distinguishing feature of the Singapore primary mathematics curriculum. Using this method, students represent the information in the problem pictorially using bars to represent numbers. The model show explicitly the problem structure, the known and unknown quantities, and provides a visual tool that enables students to determine what operations to use to solve the word problems.

"StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping tool. It is used by international organizations such as UNESCO and SACMEQ, NGOs, Fortune 500 companies, government departments, schools and universities for a wide variety of purposes. It can be used to easily and rapidly create interactive thematic maps, interactive graphs, and feature-rich interactive infographics. StatPlanet is also available as a stand-alone application which can be used as free educational software. It comes with up-to-date statistics on demography, economy, education, environment & energy, gender and health, for most countries in the world."

Google Book Downloader is a tool for downloading digital books from books.google.com.

George Siemens on connectivism