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"Coding In The Classroom: 10 Tools Students Can Use To Design Apps & Video Games In this age of social media, edtech, smartphones, tablets and MOOCs, software applications play a larger role than ever in the learning environment. In fact, apps have reached such a level of ubiquity and everyday integration that a number of software companies are turning out apps that can help students create apps of their own. Here's a list of 10 software tools that can jumpstart a student's knowledge and skill in computer programming"

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting."

How to use Augmented Reality - slides from Coursera Mooc K12 Emerging Trends

"...MOOCs are just the latest incarnation of bringing watered-down versions of culture, knowledge, and learning to a mass audience. What we see as the courses' flaws may well be their strengths, and they have the potential to carry those strengths to a broader audience than ever before. Problems arise only when we think of MOOCs as university courses rather than as learning for the masses. Yes, the vulgarians who run Coursera and Udacity deserve to be swept into the dustbin of history, and the fact that they seem not to have figured out how to profit from their enterprises suggests that they'll soon be hoist by their own capitalist petard. When they are, the real action can begin. As the history professor Jonathan Rees puts it, the fast-­approaching post-corporate-MOOC world "will almost certainly be a period of real pedagogical innovation conducted by people who are more interested in actual education than they are in becoming famous or just making a quick buck."..."

Giusto! Aspettiamo che l'azione inizi (e forse si può dire che è già iniziata! ;-) )

Non rinuncerei mai alla possibilità di usare i mezzi tecnologici per la diffusione della conoscenza, tuttavia è vero: non c'è nulla che possa sostituire la relazione didattica, nel senso di interazione significativa individuale.

"...Have you dealt with a systemic tech failure in a course? How did you manage it so students didn't suffer? Please share in the comments below."

Nell'articolo ma soprattutto nei commenti, racconti di problemi tecnologici - e di come son stati affrontati - in classe.

"Provide Personalized Feedback Capture the documents or presentations your students are working on, add feedback, and easily share with your students for review wherever they are. Keep Everyone in the Loop Take a quick capture of a paper or project your students are working on, add notes, and send to fellow teachers, parents, or the entire class. Utilize Your Google Drive™ View, mark up, and manage your captures anywhere, thanks to the deep integration Snagit for Google Chrome™ has with Google Drive™."

"Get a FREE RealtimeBoard license to enhance your teaching If you are a teacher or a student, you are eligible for a free version of our full-featured Pro account."

"The easiest & fastest way to tell stories with animation. Muvizu's 3D animation software is a great way to exercise your imagination, engage your audience and even promote your business. Muvizu has everything you need to tell an animated story from drag and drop customizable characters and pre-built sets, to libr"

"Prima frase non delimitata da e . Seconda frase non delimitata da e . Prima frase delimitata da e . Seconda frase delimitata da e . E ora: volete vedere il codice di questa pagina? Usate la combinazione Ctrl-u :-)"

Vedi http://iamarf.org/2013/11/29/vediamo-un-po-di-html-loptis/#comment-21943 per il contesto.

"Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. No previous programming experience is needed! With Hackety Hack, you'll learn the Ruby programming language. Ruby is used for all kinds of programs, including desktop applications and websites."

"Simply put, openFrameworks is a tool that makes it much easier to make things with code. We find it super useful, and we hope you do too."

""Scoot & Doodle, a social creativity site that blends the video conferencing capabilities of Skype with the playfulness of Draw Something." -GigaOm "This is a mind amplification tool that allows verbal and visual thinking to happen simultaneously." -Apple Distinguished Educator, Canada "Scoot & Doodle offers some of the capacity to do what I believe technology should be about. Technology should be about how it intertwines itself with the way we live and the way we do things." -WIRED's GeekDad"

"The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs"

Come ci si deve comportare quando si commenta un blog altrui? Come si "costruisce valore", guadagnando lettori (eterna preoccupazione degli statunitensi)? Al di là dello stereotipo e dei suggerimenti scontati, qui si trova anche pane per i ragazzi che devono imparare a stare in rete (cittadinanza digitale)

"Are you curious about the Helpouts experience? Take a free test spin with a member of the Helpouts Team! You'll get a firsthand tour of the product and see just how easy it is to receive help over video chat. Schedule a time with one of our Helpouts Specialists, or see who is available now! Our team of knowledgeable specialists looks forward to showing you how it all works. If there is a long queue to join this Helpout, feel free to watch our intro video instead!"

La mia recenzione di questo "helpout sugli helpout": "Ronnie was very patient and gave very clear answers. As to whether people from other countries than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, U.K., and the U.S. (see https://support.google.com/helpouts/answer/3164468?hl=en&ref_topic=14126 ) would be allowed to offer helpouts in future, he said this is planned. As to the difference between helpouts and hangouts, he explained that though helpouts are using the hangout platform, they are a different service. And when asked if helpout participants can use the live captioning app that can be used in hangouts (see https://hangout-captions.appspot.com/ ), he said no. When I asked why the "Introducing Helpouts by Google" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VFC9AQM1k video is uncaptioned, and the video embedded in the "Find out what it's like to get a Helpout!" https://helpouts.google.com/111421743141645456280/ls/b41c1faef6b76d0f page is not only uncaptioned, but also uncaptionable via e.g. streaming it to amara.org, because if you try to open it on youtube, you get to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picasacid , which says: "An error occurred during validation. This video does not exist. Sorry about that." he candidly said he couldn't answer and suggested using the feedback, which I'm doing. Same reply when I asked if Google planned to caption these videos. Sure, I would have preferred to get more hopeful answers to the questions about accessibility, but it was great to get candid ones, which can now be reported to the discussion lists of the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning - http://ccacaptioning.org/ . " No, è vero, Ronnie è stato bravissimo. Chissà quanti helpout si sarà sorbito quel giorno, e paffete arriva una che comincia a rompergli le scatole e il nuovo giocatolo Google, portandolo a riconoscere implicitamente che insomma, meglio gli hangout veri e propri..

"If you're interested in becoming a provider, sign up to receive an invitation code. You can only sign up as a provider if you are in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, U.K., and the U.S. Once you sign up, we'll process your request. We're processing a lot of requests right now, but we'll try to get back to you as soon as we can."

"...I don't mean to imply any untoward motives by the makers of MOOCs. I'm not arguing that the content or methodologies of most current MOOCs are wrong because they are based on the dominant Western academic approaches. But I do believe it is important to point out that a powerful emerging educational movement strengthens the currently dominant academic culture, perhaps making it more difficult for alternative voices to be heard."

C'è MOOC e MOOC, of course...

"Connecting your class Education 2.0 social network for your class"

Le funzionalità ricordano Edmodo, anche se non ho provato la piattaforma. La versione (ad oggi) è beta: suppongo si tratti di una creatura "giovane", anche dal fatto che è solo in inglese. Esiste un copyright ben supportato da articolati "Terms of service". Nessun segno di filosofia wiki, contrariamente ad Edmodo. Una volta avviato, il servizio potrebbe in teoria essere soggetto a pagamento, dunque.

lista di strumenti open source utili per la didattica con consigli e commenti di Mark Johnson. Segnalati da S. Downes sul suo blog Stephen's web

Il livello di questa risorsa, che ha tutti i crismi dell'ufficialità, è altissimo. Anche chi non mastica troppo l'inglese riconosce la suddivisione in categorie e può comprendere i commenti nelle loro linee principali. Raccomando caldamente.

"Twiddla does EtherPad Remember EtherPad? They were the the coolest thing around a few years back, with their little collaborative text editor that synchronized everything as you typed. As a product, it was simple and to the point. And it just plain worked in a way that all the other "Online Word Processors" of the day didn't. Then Google bought them and it went away."