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“The siren call of technology and its bells and whistles is just too powerful for kids,” said Redford. “If they know we’re moving around the room they’re much less likely to wander down the path of distraction. We are literally doing laps around the room.”

Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom

We started with the students writing an autobiographical essay describing themselves and where they are in their lives right now

Photo Story 3 makes movies by stringing together still photographs with music or narration.

40+ Ways to Innovative Teaching Using Glogster EDU in the Classroom

Whether you’re teaching elapsed time or just helping students monitor their pacing and stamina, the timer built into the clock that comes with the iPad (or one of the many comparable options (11)) is a great addition to your classroom.

With the increasingly interconnected nature of our global society and the need for a very different kind of literacy for our students, extending teaching and learning beyond the walls of our classrooms is especially vital in this digital age. Through a blend of authentic examples, hands-on activities, and engaging social learning experiences, this learning path will guide you through the process of modernizing and globalizing your classroom practices while expanding your professional learning network to include colleagues from around the world.

These resources and ideas represent just the tip of the available tools on creating and developing educational games. There is a vast, international network of educators who are banding together and pooling resources to further the study and practice of educational games. Thus, I encourage you to get involved; we can all learn from each other!

But since federal legislation requires students with learning disabilities be educated in the same manner (and often the same classrooms) as other children, there has been a need for modifications and tools to assist special needs students in meeting their educational goals.

60 Educational Game Sites That You’ve Probably Never Seen

the site is an amazing resource,

These aren’t in order of greatness – they all have their own specific applications for education

Digital Citizenship Week: 6 Resources for Educators

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for K-12 (4):

Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship (6):

Create and Manage Student Blogs in 5 Simple Steps

Step 1 – Create a class blog

Step 2: Set up My Class

Following are three applications that can organize your teaching schedule and turn your classroom into an efficient machine.

At the core, technology integration can save us time and make us more efficient, organized educators. Instead of pushing back against technology integration, first see what it can do for you

You can now select auto fix for a selection of different corrections, and there’s also manual cropping, red-eye removal, retouch, and other basic contrast and brightness settings. One of the more interesting features is color enhance that lets you pick an area of a photo to brighten up or darken areas of photos.

The Top 100 Tools for Learning was compiled from the votes of over 500 learning professionals in workplace learning and education from 48 countries worldwide in the 7th Annual Survey, by Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Peformance Technologies