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feedly: your news. delivered. - 0 views

  • Most blogs have at least two methods of subscribing to updates; RSS and email. Subscribing via RSS through a reader app like Feedly or Flipboard will put the latest updates on that app in near real-time. In both of those RSS reader apps you can create categories of feeds from your favorite blogs and read them all in one place. Feedly and Flipboard don't display advertising next to articles while you're reading. Subscribing via email will send you an email when new content is posted on a blog. In many cases you can read the full blog entry without leaving your email client. The emails from Free Technology for Teachers come out once a day and include all of the posts from the previous 24 hour period. In the emails that come from this blog, advertising has been removed too (there was a small glitch with that earlier this week, but it have been fixed).
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    How to follow a blog 
Meghan Brooks

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 11/05/2013 | Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 0 views

  • Projectqted is a new presentation builder
  • Projeqt lets you create what you could call interactive slideshows… I might describe it as a more sophisticated Prezi that’s easier to create and less confusing to watch.
  • Haiku Deck is one of my all time favorite quick presentation makers when I just have to share something meaningful with my class and only have a few moments to pull it together.
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  • Google presentations is another alternative for presentations online.
  • Prezi is a fun online presentation program used by many teachers and students.
Meghan Brooks

The Best 15 iPad Apps for Teacher Professional Development ~ Educational Technology and... - 0 views

  • To tap into the full potential of iPad and to leverage it for your professional learning purposes, you should definitely have certain apps installed on it.
Meghan Brooks

Over 40 Wonderful Math Games for Kids ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Using mobile learning to teach children math through fun games.
Meghan Brooks

Awesome Digital Citizenship Poster to Use in Your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mo... - 0 views

  • This visual is designed to help students cultivate a culture of digital citizenship when interacting with,sharing, consuming, and using digital content.
Meghan Brooks

A Beautiful Visual on The Importance of Games in Learning ~ Educational Technology and ... - 0 views

  • Gee argues that games,particularly video games,  require the players to learn and think in ways at which they are not adept. He further states that games provide a life enhancing experience for learners and they also revolutionize the routinized ways of learning through fusing learning and play.
Meghan Brooks

10 Good iPad Apps for BYOD Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Using technology, such as an ipad to help students with understanding math.
Antonio Amores Ortiz

eQuizShow Makes Create Jeopardy-style Games - 0 views

  • eQuizShow Makes It Easy to Create Jeopardy-style Games
  • To build your quiz just enter a title, an administrative password, and your question categories. eQuizShow will then generate a grid on which you can enter questions and answers.
  • If you don't have time to build a quiz or you just need some inspiration, browse the eQuizShow gallery.
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  • Applications for Education eQuizShow works well on interactive whiteboards. If you have an interactive whiteboard, using eQuizShow could be a good way to display questions and answers to students during a review session.
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    web tool to create Jeopardy games, your own game or using the gallery of games
Antonio Amores Ortiz

A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages - 0 views

  • A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages
  • with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.
  • Companies like Second Life and Middlebury Interactive Languages both offer digital avatar programs to give language learners a chance to practice their skills in virtual environments.
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  • Teachers and students can give their character a voice by using one of three methods: text to speech, recording by microphone, or uploading their own pre-recording audio file. Voki characters can speak in over 25 languages, and 150-plus voices, according to Eric Kiang, Voki’s Product and Marketing Manager.
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    Using Avatars to add voice and character to learning language
Antonio Amores Ortiz

60 Educational Game Sites - 0 views

  • 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
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    A list of Educational Games Sites that can use in different classes
Antonio Amores Ortiz

Digital Storytelling in the Spanish Language Classroom - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • Having practiced with Photo Story 3 and having explored the technique of telling a story through still photos, students used Photo Story 3 to turn their digital audio presentations into digital video
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    Example and process to make a digital storytelling with Photo Story 3
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: How Flubaroo Helps Teachers Save Time - 0 views

  • If your school uses Google Apps for Education, when you have students take quizzes that you've created through Google Forms, have your students sign into their accounts before taking the quiz. That way you will capture their email addresses and be able to quickly email grades to them after you have run the Flubaroo script to grade the quiz. If your school doesn't use Google Apps for Education you can still require email addresses by making "email address" a required question on the quizzes you create in Google Forms.
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    Helps teachers manage their time when grading assignments/tests
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: Stipple - Create and Search for Interactive Images - 0 views

  • Stipple is a new service that allows you to create interactive images. The service launched in closed beta during the summer. Since the summer Stipple has left beta and has added a free iPhone app for creating interactive images on the go. Using Stipple you can upload an image and tag it with pinmarks. Within each pinmark you can include videos, links, text, audio files, and more images. Stipple also gives you the option to track where your images are viewed and shared by others. The video below provides an overview of Stipple's features.
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    Helps teachers make interactive images for their class
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: Studying Through Text Messages - 0 views

  • Here's how it works; students sign-up on Study Boost and link their favorite IM service or SMS (mobile number) to their Study Boost accounts. Then students create batches of questions or find batches of questions made by others. After creating and or selecting batches of questions students "activate" those questions. Activating a batch of questions means that those questions will be sent via IM or SMS at intervals specified by the student. Students answer the questions and get feedback via IM or SMS.
  • Study Boost could be a good service for students to use to study on the go. Using Study Boost students traveling for club or sports activities need to only take their mobile devices with them study. As a teacher you can register and submit batches of questions that your students can study. Or students can create their own sets of questions to study.
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    A resource that can help students be more effiecient when studying
marathonman1313

Free Technology for Teachers: eQuizShow Makes It Easy to Create Jeopardy-style Games - 0 views

  • offers an easy way for teachers to create Jeopardy-style review games. Unlike similar tools you do not have to download or upload any PowerPoint files to use eQuizShow. On eQuizShow you can build and display your quiz completely online. To build your quiz just enter a title, an administrative password, and your question categories. eQuizShow will then generate a grid on which you can enter questions and answers.
  • If you don't have time to build a quiz or you just need some inspiration, browse the eQuizShow gallery. When you play the games you have the option to assign points to up to six teams playing the game. You can also play without awarding points.
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    Quick way to make a review game for a upcoming test
marathonman1313

Trim Recess? Some Schools Hold On To Child's Play : NPR - 0 views

  • A growing body of research shows that play is fundamental to kids' development by promoting social interaction, exploration and creativity. There are no recent national studies or fresh numbers on recess time, but 2005 data from the Education Department survey and a 2006 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that about 9 in 10 elementary schools regularly schedule recess, with times ranging from 24 to 30 minutes a day.
  • School districts that are cutting back on recess or physical education to save money or add instruction time should think twice, Goodman says. "It's penny wise and pound foolish to cut back recess and put in academic time. Because, in the end, the kids won't be prepared for academic time.
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    Talks about how recess can help  student learn to grow academically and creatively and relationship wise 
marathonman1313

A Tip for Teaching Tenacity and Teamwork - Coach G's Teaching Tips - Education Week Tea... - 0 views

  • Give each group two plastic cups, one green and one red, and advise students to keep one inside the other in the center of their table (or adjoining desks), with the red cup on the outside when a group needs your help and the green on the outside when it doesn't. I love this idea for a few reasons. First, it lets teachers see from anywhere in the room which groups need help at any given time. Second, it's a concrete way to uphold a key to promoting independent and interdependent learning: only helping students if they've exhausted all other available resources including each other.
  • Best of all, the cups help students develop important non-cognitive (or character) traits/skills such as self-determination and collaboration. At first, for example, some students are quicker than others to give up and reach for a red cup. But more often than not, one (or more) of their fellow group members will protest: "Hey, change that back to green." Over time, this I'm-not-ready-to-give-up-and-ask-the-teacher mentality becomes contagious, and students are more persistent. They're also more motivated to reach out to each other for help. Who would have thought a couple of plastic cups could inspire such tenacity and teamwork?
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    Helpful teaching tool to establish teamwork in any group 
marathonman1313

Case Study: Anxiety, Race Preparation, Control and Confidence - SwimPsych | Swimming Ps... - 0 views

  • I was recently approached by a male senior swimmer ‘G’ who wanted help preparing for competition, because he was experiencing issues with anxiety and confidence, and losing time from starting the race feeling tense. The senior Nationals were around 6 weeks away and he wanted some help preparing for the event and races beyond.
  • It became apparent that there were a number of different phases during the run-up to the race that were presenting different challenges, with the effect that by the time G stood on the blocks his mind was full of doubt. We talked through the thoughts and feelings that he experienced in these, slowing things down. Some of the literature relating to pre-competitive anxiety appears to imply quite a static pre-competitive state (or something that changes with time), a swim meet is a very dynamic environment with different challenges, as you will see
  • hese phases were: A positive phase, in which he enjoyed being with team-mates and, indeed, being in the heart of the team. This kept his mind off competing. Physical warm up, and last words with his coach. Again, G was happy with this stage and felt relaxed and confident. Getting changed and ready to report for his race. During this phase, G started to feel rushed and out of control, even though he recognised on a rational level that he had plenty of time. Being in the holding pen. During this phase, of about 20 minutes ‘waiting time’ before between reporting and being summoned to race, G’s feelings of being out of control increased. He described being ‘imposed upon’, feeling ‘penned in’ and ‘intimidated’ by the presence of other swimmers. He questioned his right to be there. Walking to the blocks. Upon being called to race, G again described feeling rushed but, paradoxically, described the ‘long walk’ to the other end of the pool (for a 50m race). Behind the blocks to starting the race. By this point G felt out of control, anxious and again rushed as he undressed to race. As he stood by his block, his loss of confidence was summed up by his description of looking up seeing a very long 50m ahead of him.
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    Coaching tip on how athletes are before a competition  
Meghan Brooks

Special needs disability parenting BLOOM: Meet Arthur Fleischmann - 0 views

  • Arthur Fleischmann, author of Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism, tracks the remarkable journey of his daughter Carly, who has autism and was unreachable till she typed a message on a computer at age 10.
Meghan Brooks

6 Open Educational Resources | Edutopia - 0 views

  • More and more, schools are seeking efficient, cost-effective alternatives to using paper and supporting over-priced textbook companies. One way is by supporting technology in schools. Schools are seeking ways to upgrade and sustain wireless infrastructures and integrate mobile devices that broaden teaching and learning opportunities. Similarly, schools are decreasing their dependency on paper and incorporating digital workflows.
  • Curriki (1) is a website that curates content in a variety of disciplines, highlighting noteworthy teachers and content.
  • The CK-12 Foundation offers FlexBooks (2), full digital texts that students and teachers can access on multiple devices in PDF, MOBI and ePub formats.
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