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"This is our first year of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and boy, did the students bring it. They brought it all! We have iPads, Surface RT and Pro, iPhones, Droids, Chromebooks, Macs, and PC laptops. Here's my current thinking. Please share yours in the comments section below. "

"Creating timelines is another important digital skill to be added to the the 33 digital skills we have compiled before. Students should be able to easily create their own learning timelines and share them with each other.This can have a huge positive impact on their overall learning process. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has sifted through some of the best free timeline making tools and come up with the list below. Just to refresh your mind, a timeline is " a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself and usually events labelled on points where they would have happened.' ( from Wikipedia )."

"Engage and Assess With Nearpod it's easy, really easy. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves."

"10 Major Technology Trends in Education We have a first look at the results from the latest Speak Up survey, which polled hundreds of thousands of teachers, students, administrators, parents and community members about technology trends in education. By Chris Riedel 02/03/14 According to the latest data, video for homework is on the rise; mobile computing is "beyond the tipping point"; and most kids don't use traditional computers to connect to the Internet at home. Those are just three of the major trends revealed in the 2013 Speak Up Survey from Project Tomorrow, which CEO Julie Evans revealed at the FETC 2014 conference last week. The 2013 results represent more than 400,000 surveys from 9,000 schools and 2,700 districts across the country. Respondents included 325,279 students, 32,151 teachers and librarians, 39,986 parents, 4,530 district administrators and, new to this year's survey, 1,346 community members."

" Make science lessons so captivating that students tell their friends. Discover the best video clips, activity ideas, and lesson hooks to capture your students' attention and make your lesson unforgettable. Browse every topic taught in middle school & high school science"

I think I need to use the mother ship to see the tiles, the LEM (my iPad) doesn't want to transmit pictures, yet!

" 387 1K+ 5 inShare 29 Print! The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Using Technology I just came across this graphic and thought you might be interested to have a look as well. This is basically a list of 7 habits of effective teachers using technology. I really like how these habits are sequenced and I found them to be the habits of every successful teacher and not only those using technology. I don't know if the habits are arranged in order of importance or not but if they are then I would put number seven as the first habit.Overall , the poster is really a great work and it is worth sharing."

"As you can see below, everything you need to integrate technology into your work is there for you and organized into different categories. I did this work today because a lot of great stuff is buried inside this blog and it would take you forever to sift through it to find it . This way , I think, you will have a user friendly navigation to access anything you want. Make sure you book mark this page because the categories below will be expanding over time so don't miss my future postings. Enjoy "