On this blog, Vinicius Lemos presents learning activities and tips  "utilizing mobile devices like smartphones, digital cameras and tablets."

"It's 2012[,] the Age of Information[,] and we're STILL using PowerPoint Wrong" (The Presentation Designer, SlideShare, 2012.11.14).

Automated tool for creating your own cloze tests: Thanks to EnglishCentral for pointing it out in Teacher Tips for Making a Transcript.

Davis (2012.10.22) supports her assertion, "For my money (which usually means free), blogging provides the best venue for teaching student writing" ( ¶1).

Oxnevad suggests, "Students can develop transferrable knowledge and skills as they engage in learning experiences that require them to construct knowledge" (¶1). She argues for "seamless integration of technology" that will enable "students students to have access to the tools and information they need for success" (¶2), and proposes five instructional strategies for teachers to use to achieve those ends, namely: 1. Preparing "complex questions that require students to use higher level thinking skills" (Help students uncover knowledge, ¶2); 2. Facilitating learning from engaging and online resources, rather than delivering content (Eliminate the front of the classroom); 3. Creating opportunities for real world collaboration (Encourage collaboration); 4. Exploiting classroom and online opportunities for "frequent [and] informal assessment to gauge the effectiveness of your instruction and make adjustments to maximize the learning experience for each student" (Informally assess students [and instructional practices]); and 5. Preparing and publishing screencast tutorials for students to peruse whenever necessary, "...[i]Instead of spending valuable instructional time teaching the same tech skills over and over again to individual students" (Provide students with built in tech support). This October 30, 2012, post ends with an illustration comprising focus questions and a ThingLink product of fifth grade students' work. A list of links to related posts follows.

Complete, step-by-step demonstration and instructions for getting started with WordPress: sign-up, site navigation, blog creation, creating and deleting posts, adding categories and tags (labels), using views, tabs, and filters, using pages, creating links, adding images, and embedding videos (23 short segments).

"Creating long, secure passwords can be extremely difficult, especially when you have multiple accounts and have to remember them all. It's no wonder that we end up writing them down, or using the same password again and again. This is however, a terrible habit to get in to." (Creating (and remembering) Great Passwords, ¶1) To help online site and tool users do a better job of password protecting their accounts, ShouldIChangeMyPassword (the Avalanche Technology Group) recommends: Padding, Passphrases, Formulas, and Password Managers.

In this post Tony Vincent outlines ways to evaluate a wide range of educational application. His Education App Evaluation Rubric focuses on relevance to users and their purposes, customizability, provisions for feedback, promotion of higher order thinking skills, potential for user engagement, and the exportability of performance summaries or products of use. Links in this post enable you to download his rubric and a related checklist. There also are links to checklists and rubrics that other educators have created.

"There are many convenient ways to enjoy eBooks right on your computer, without paying for an extra device, and without having to venture to the book store every time you want a new book. It might not be as convenient, but it's still a great option." (Yaara Lancet, ¶2) Lancet introduces: Nook for PC/Mac/Web, Kindle for PC/Mac/Cloud, Kobo for Windows/Mac/Web, Calibre for Windows/Mac/Linux, and Book.ish for Web, and provides links for downloads.

Antoinette Spiegel's "curating niche to catalogue and share neat tech ideas, tips, techniques and favorite tech resources for teachers" (Home, para. 1, 2012.09.08).

Quick summary of practices

For Windows, "Free Sound Recorder is a perfect audio recorder to record your own voice, music or any other sound by working directly with your sound card. It supports the record input/source from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, external input devices (CDs, LP, music cassettes, phone line) as well as other applications like Winamp, Media Player" (Publisher's Description, From CoolRecordEdit, ¶1, 2012.08.31).

"The Web's Largest Resource for Definitions & Translations" (deck, ¶1, 2012.08.29) - Thanks to Nik Peachey for Scoop.it-ing this site.

This About Binders page comprises links to a 90 sec. intro. video, a page with additional explanation (Learn More), and exemplars (View Great Binders).

Richard Byrne advises teachers to activate page-level permissions when giving students access to classroom websites for blogging or digital portfolio development (2012.05.24).

Richard Byrne explains "five ways that Google Sites are commonly being used in schools" (2012.08.20).

Kharbach introduces easy to use tools for creation and sharing of videos.

Recommended by Sar Davila, http://saradavila.com/front/moodle/

Jeff Dunn (2012.07.24) posted "a new list for 2012, featuring the very best tools available to Twittering teachers today" (¶1).

In July 2011, Larry shared his choices, "[starting] ...off with posts from educators" that he recommended reading, along with the comments that followed. A note at the head of points out news of update as of Sept. 2011.