Some of the Internet’s best resources dedicated exclusively to educational uses of the iPad.
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ICDL - Free Books for Children - International Children's Digital Library for iPad on t... - 0 views
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Free digital books for Children to download in your iPad
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Technology-Driven Community Building Activities - Home - 0 views
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This website has been designed to describe mobile learning and technology-based activities that facilitate a sense of community in a variety of educational and training settings. The links in the menu lead to descriptions of the individual activities. They rely mostly on texting, emailing, and photo-taking activities. Free, group sharing internet sites are also used which require access to the Internet via a smartphone or computer. Sites such as Flickr Photo Sharing, Google Docs, and Web 2.0 tools supplement some of the activities.
App Store - Bookshelf: Historia de Mexico - 0 views
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App for teaching Mexican History. It is not free but might be worthy.
8 Great Free Web Resources Focused on Using the iPad in Education | Emerging Education ... - 0 views
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put together links to apps grouped by Academic Subject.
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published hundreds of helpful and insightful articles about iPad apps for teaching and learning
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The Comprehensive Guide to Google Free Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Listen to Dinosaurs Talk About Themselves - 0 views
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DinoDatabase.com has a great little feature called If Dinosaurs Could Talk. In If Dinosaurs Could Talk you will find twenty audio recordings in which a narrator playing the role of a talking dinosaur shares a little information about that dinosaur.
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Great for LS
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Welcoming Mobile: More Districts Are Rewriting Acceptable Use Policies, Embracing Smart... - 1 views
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“The advantages of digital media now greatly outweigh the disadvantages and require that schools update their thinking and policies to provide guidance on the use of these tools to improve student learning and achievement,” the paper says.
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“Digital responsibility is big.” Rankin said. “We’re teaching students how to operate in this new world. We wanted to change the wording in our guidelines because we don’t want students to accept them; we want students to be responsible for them.”
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“The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment,” Wells said. The teacher can present information in class, and then the students are free to explore it online – they can look at other students’ work, or check out videos on YouTube. Time constraints are no longer a factor, the process becomes more individualized, and school becomes more relevant, Wells said.
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No longer afraid of giving kids access to the internet and using mobile technologies for learning, a growing number of school districts across the country are developing digital media policies that emphasize responsibility over fear.
Free Technology for Teachers: 9 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online - 0 views
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Need to check this out for my preschool music class.
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Free Technology for Teachers: File Sharing Just Got Easier Through Dropbox - 0 views
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The new Dropbox file sharing option allows you to publish to the web any file that is in your Dropbox account.
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Great way to share documents with your grade level team.
Free Technology for Teachers: Shakespeare Animated - 1 views
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Great for introducing Shakespeare at LS/ MS
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a YouTube channel containing twelve playlists ten of which are animated adaptations of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
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Because the plays are broken into segment they are well-suited to being used one class meeting at a time.
Free Technology for Teachers: Three Questions to Consider Before We All Flip - 2 views
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Do the majority of your students complete their homework assignments on time on a consistent basis?
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f you flip the classroom and students come to class having not watched the video lessons, how do you spend your classroom time the next day?
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Do all of your students have access to the web at home?
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Flipping the Classroom. Can it be done?
Free Technology for Teachers: Pinball - Tools for Organizing Ideas - 0 views
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fun tools from the BBC for organizing ideas and generating new ideas... mindmaps, outlines, and simple slideshows. Pinball also has tools to help you brainstorm and generate new ideas.
Free Technology for Teachers: Visualizing Ocean Currents in Google Earth - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Add More to Your Images with Thinglink - 0 views
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This are other options for us to use in the classroom, to make it fun and interesting, and also to help them develop skills in technology.
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ThingLink and Jellycam.
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Thinglink, a cool tool!
Free Technology for Teachers: About Google Teacher Academy - 0 views
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Are you interested in becoming a Google Certified Teacher? Well, here you can find useful information to start with.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Many Ways to Use Flip Cameras in the Classroom - 0 views
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After looking through these idea I might think about changing part of my project.
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Good information about flip camera use
Free Technology for Teachers: Create Videos Online with WeVideo in Google Drive - 0 views
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How to create and edit videos online
Flipped Classroom A New Learning Revolution - 1 views
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Flipped Classroom is an inverted method of instruction where teaching and learning take place online outside of the class while homework is done in the classroom.
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Advocators of this approach believe that this is the ideal method of instruction in our digital age
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In most Flipped Classrooms, there is an active and intentional transfer of some of the information delivery to outside of the classroom with the goal of freeing up time to make better use of the face-to-face interaction in school.
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Why Khan Academy is so popular-and why teachers shouldn't feel threatened | eSchool News - 0 views
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eachers who are using the service with their students feel more empowered than ever.
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liberates the classroom,”
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Students can access the content “when and how they want it.”
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Uses of a flipped classroom.