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Powerful Learning Practices has created an infographic "A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator" to show that using social media in your classroom and in your life can be integrated, easy, and fun.

Many educators recommend Skype and ePals as great tools for Classroom to Classroom interaction. Let's learn about the usage of both of these tools for effective collaboration and interaction.

Proč učitelé o dovolené jezdí na letní školy a další vzdělávání : They spent their summer vacations doing this because knew there were other teachers out there they could learn from and compare experiences with, and they suspected something big might happen if they could share their ideas with each other. Proč využívat sociální sítě v pozici učitele : "Innovative educators often find themselves isolated in their schools," said Valeria, who teaches in Florida. But more and more, she and the others at the table are finding themselves able to connect with others with the same kinds of ideas. "You don't feel like you're the crazy one," said Cheryl, a junior high teacher in Arizona. "Your ideas and your perceptions resonate."

Tips and tricks for the iPod Touch are needed to assist teachers in making the process easier when using this digital device for teaching and learning. As these digital devices become more widespread in classrooms, the need for more efficient use of these tools is coming to the forefront. This evolutionary course of action is resulting in more efficient and time saving strategies. The purpose of these 10 tips and tricks is to provide teachers, both novice and experienced, with features and applications (apps) designed to make an iPod Touch's functions easier to use. These features and apps offer the ability to customize this device to resolve management issues and integrate efficiently with other digital devices, such as a Mac laptop.

Have you ever wanted to create short "how to" video for your students to use for homework, remembering facts, and solving math problems. How often have your students stated, "I could not complete the homework assignment, because I could not remember the steps and no one could help me." Well the answer is to create a screencast or video for posting on your class wiki or blog for students to view at home or anywhere else they have web access.

Pokud má opravdu fungovat 1:1, pak musí techniku mít žáci nejen domů, ale také mít možnost si ji upravit podle svého (nálepky, instalace, vzhled, ikony...). Jsou s tím problémy? Ano, škola s tím počítá: Our middle school kids mess up a lot, our high schools kids almost not at all. That's learning.

The use of this interactive wireless technology is ideal for stimulating student involvement using both interactive whiteboards and for one computer classrooms.

The use of web based technology is growing by leaps and bounds every day. These online tools are the new set of keys for opening your students' minds. The vast resources on the Internet are making the use traditional methods of teaching and learning obsolete in countless ways.

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.

"Snake Wrangling for Kids" is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

Strategies and techniques are presented for incorporating interactive technology for connecting lesson concepts and engaging students in the learning process.

Science applications (Apps) for iPod Touch offer students and teachers excellent tools to help students spend more time learning science content in class and laboratory situations. Although many Science Apps are loaded with ads and other distracting information, I have found several that are free of ads.