Technology in Teacher Education

I picked the project conducted by Yorkshire Coast College. It emphasizes the power of text messages in learning; therefore, it increases the retention and welfare of students. In addition, it will definitely help to motivate them because they never set their mobile phones aside.

"Join over 33 million teachers and students safely connecting in online classrooms, collaborating on assignments, discovering new resources, and more!"

* Edmodo is an online networking application for teachers and students. * Think Facebook, but in a safe and controlled environment appropriate for school edmodo is primarily a tool for within class communication, but it also provides several ways for teachers to connect with other teachers. * Over 500,000students are using edmodo worldwide

"twiducate is the perfect solution for elementary and secondary students. Rather than having your students sign up and enter an email address, you sign up and create a class code." This site seems nice to use as well. Using this code, your students log in to your class network. Here, they can answer questions, collaborate on problems, and even embed pictures and videos. As a teacher you have full control over the network. You can even add other teachers!"

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. It is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom.

Here you can find many sites of online communities of practice where educators meet

"Built from the ground up for social, Ning's platform gives you the tools and expertise you need to publish and connect with your community - all in one place."

I found that platform really cool :)

I've been using this platform since my undergrad years, and I really like its appealing interface. Try it!

"To bring you closer to how you can use social media in your teaching, I am sharing with you the graphic below that features several tips on how to leverage the power of SNSs in your classroom." An exemplary infographics.

"The potential of social networking sites in education is huge and we need to capitalize on it to enhance our professional development and consequently improve the quality of our instruction. Searching for articles on this topic , I came across Doug Johnson's post on the 10 social media competencies for teachers. I like the competencies Doug included and decided to make an infographic featuring all of these skills. Have a look and share with your colleagues."

Teachers are using social media in their classes and share them with public who are interested in integration social media into lessons

According to information they provided, this site is using digital technology to teach kids math, social media in the classroom and the power of learning code for girls. There is a video how they work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riZStaz8Rno

MoLeNET was a unique collaborative approach to introducing and supporting mobile learning in education and training via supported shared cost mobile learning projects. Collaborative approach is related to my interest. It provided technical and pedagogic advice and support, materials development, continuing professional development, mentoring, facilitation of peer-to-peer support, networking and resource sharing, research and evaluation.

Find pubs, libraries, colleges and a huge number of other points of interest from around the city in Places. You can search by name, by category with places and by proximity using your phone's GPS or place name/postcode.

Presemo provides a flexible suite of participation activities and accommodates different workflows. As always in class, there's more than just one way to do it. Presemo focuses on developing mobile participation platforms that teachers can use during lectures to support greater interactivity, communication and collaboration among students.

An open-source technology education movement that partners with educators in schools and learning centers to deliver courses to young people. Aim of this movement is to encourage students to work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn to build a mobile, web or social app to solve them which makes it good in that it helps learners to be productive.

A very practical way of using mobile learning in a school environment in a specialized course,also appropriate for the school's mobile phone policy in that context.

PRIORY SCHOOL (UK) Project...

Check the latest infographic report by UNESCO about bridging the financial gap to reach education for all students. Reviewing an educational budgeting report has never been that reader-friendly until I have come across with UNESCO's eye-catching, and easy-to-understand infographic reports.

A good summary of educational technology tools that teachers can use in and out their classes

thanks Hatice. there are many i have heard for the first time :)

Me too. It is difficult to catch innovations..:D