FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

"Richer than a document, simpler than video, SlideSpeech transforms the way ideas are shared. By reading the speaker notes in your own presentation using the latest text-to-speech technology, SlideSpeech ensures your message comes across loud and clear."

Blogging is one of the eventual realization of web 2.0 technologies. It is the driving engine behind this online information revolution. Thousands of blogs are created everyday and for different purposes. 

"Learning and teaching is a lot more fun through visuals. Research and present material with the same tool! Share quickly assembled videos with your class!"

"Recently, I've been noticing that a lot of instructors are under the impression that they are successfully integrating technology, when in fact they are simply using technology. Although this might seem to some as just semantics, in my opinion there is a huge difference between the two - a difference that can be seen in the impact the technology usage has on student learning."

A LiveBinder full of Google tools, help, & integration suggestions.

"InfuseLearning is a breakthrough virtual learner response solution. If you like Socrative.com, you will love Infuse Learning. Students can annotate images, draw responses, respond on devices, and receive feedback from the teacher."

"That's amazing! I would lose so much time pausing the video, opening Evernote and taking notes." Alexandros "This is very nicely done. The time code links and automatic saving to my Google Drive makes this a very useful app." Jim "This is the best note taking tool I have ever seen! Thanks!" Jaclyn"

Insight into the importance of asking questions and taking in answers.

"So digital citizenship is nearly the same thing-"the quality of a response to membership in a digital community" would be a good first crack at the definition."

"Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, and are weakening their ability to transfer what they have learned to other subjects and situations"

"A checklist on the form included: reading a book, writing on paper, typing on the computer-and also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the web. Sitting unobtrusively at the back of the room, the observers counted the number of windows open on the students' screens and noted whether the students were wearing ear-buds."

"Enjoy effective visual collaboration in realtime"

"Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them"

"Create and play your own free educational quiz show templates!" Why use eQuizShow to make your quiz show templates? Show students questions & answers to review; no PowerPoint; No registration required.

"The easiest way to caption and translate any video. The most powerful and flexible subtitling platform in the world."