As 2013 draws to a close, here are some of the most popular web-based educational tools that have risen quickly in popularity this past year. You may have heard of some of these. If not, take a look and see if they are relevant to you and your students.
This link will take you to a page with ideas that you can use in our Google Apps for Education program. A lot of teachers have asked me for ideas on how to use each of the Apps. Here's a good place to get started. Enjoy!
This link will take you to a number of different ideas to use Google Forms for. I thought some of them were relevant. They may not line up exactly for our school's needs but they can definitely be edited to useful documents. Take a look. It might get some creative thoughts going at the very least. Google Forms is really neat once you get comfortable with it.
Schools across the country are increasingly starting to use mobile devices like tablets and smartphones as classroom tools. But some educators are still skeptical that devices will distract students as much or more than they enhance the learning environment.
Take a moment to think about how you learned to write. What steps did you go through? What was your process? Most of us learned the same core set of skills on paper: organize, draft, edit, revise, turn in. Our teachers then marked up what we had handwritten or typed, and returned our writing.