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Mobento is a video learning platform. We think education is under-served by video technology. High quality videos are hard to find while lots of dross is pretty easy to stumble into. And searching for the pearls amid the clutter is time consuming. In short: we think the world where video meets education "could try harder"… as your old school report used to say. Mobento can help by organizing content better, being brutal in quality control, and being top of the class in innovation.

Links to various virtual tours from around the world and beyond.

An alternative site to Socrative.com, cel.ly, and PollEverywhere.com. Built more for university courses & classes.

Good read for learning more about flipping your classroom.

While people attend presentations, panels, and lectures to learn something from the people at the front of the room, there's a lot of potential for creating spaces where audience members can interact with each other and the people presenting. backchan.nl does this by providing a web-based interface for audience members to identify themselves, post questions, and vote on other people's questions.

"In the past few years, many teachers from around the world have started to use a new method called the flipped classroom.  Some parents are curious, others skeptical, and a few hostile.  If you are a parent of a student in a flipped classroom, what is it you need to know about the model so that your son or daughter can have the best experience possible?"

What I can do with DebateGraph...? 1. Facilitate group dialogue - and augment individual intelligence 2. Clarify a key argument 3. Deliberate together, decide, and manage the tasks arising 4. Collaborative learning and teaching 5. Conference reporting and engagement

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative learning and iterative improvement."

"The days of foldable paper maps are numbered but the world wide web is opening up the potential of maps by offering an amazing variety of cool websites that teachers should take the time to explore. Below are ten great mapping sites for you to use in the classroom."

"What does student engagement look like? I have received this question from teachers in a number of different forms. Often the words "apathetic" or "unmotivated" are used in place of "disengaged." But the point is the same. Many of us have had students in the classroom whose stubborn lack of interest or motivation threatens to undermine the positive learning environment we've tried to create. How do we turn this around?"

"Frequently this conversation focuses on the most effective hardware for teaching and learning. While this is an important decision to make, it should not be the focus. In fact, the best devices a school can employ are great teachers."

"If your students understand the "why" behind your technology use, then the class will have a purpose and technological glitches and issues can be worked through. If they don't understand the "why" then any small issue could turn into a major problem."

"Pear Deck makes it easy to plan and build interactive lessons directly from your Google Drive that promote active learning in the classroom. As students interact with the lesson, real-time data provides instructors the feedback they need to adapt teaching on-the-fly." Currently in limited beta testing, but you can sign up and be part of the first test groups trying this out.

"Good teaching is the result of the conscious engagement between the teacher and the students, in an environment fostering inquiry, discovery, and creation. Good teaching is what makes digital age environments meaningful to students. Good pedagogy is the key to learning, regardless of the tool."

"The opening minutes are also the time when students' brains are their freshest and they tend to remember more of what's been taught during this period than any other time of the learning episode. In addition, student motivation can increase if they realize that the concept being taught today connects to their lives and has value."

"As video becomes a growing part of our everyday lives, it's natural to see it being used in the classroom now more than ever."

"While faculty toil over getting that perfect lecture, the variation in learning outcomes from different lectures is negligible. So what did matter? Feedback. Feedback on student work has been consistently shown to be among the biggest influences on student achievement. Yet faculty usually give little thought to how they provide feedback to their students. Many go through a student's work, making margin comments such as "vague" or "grammar" or "needs synthesis.""

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."