My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say “My” in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction.
"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."
"This website has a collection of short, simple and fun video clips to correctly define and provide examples of around 800 words in context. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. The students are encouraged to play with words,create their own vocabulary videos and upload their work to the website. Teachers may direct activities and assign word projects to the students. The Study Room allows personalized list creation and sharing. Visitors can also sign up to receive a word of the day in the email."
Each animation is embedded in a web page that elaborates on what you
will see, but some web-browsers may not like those embeddings; for that reason I've
provided direct links to each of those embedded animations on the web page
in which it's supposed to appear. If clicking on a link from this
page opens a page that fails to display a movie, click on the link to
that movie.
ImaginationCubed
is a multi user drawing tool.
GroupTweet.
It lets you create your Twitter account into a group communication tool
where everyone in the group uses direct messages
create your forum, mailing list,
share documents,files and your agenda to organize events, have your own
YouTube, share links, bookmarks, photos
emails, text messages,voice mails.
PageFlakes is
a social personalized homepage
WriteBoard is
a-web based text documents
Wiggio
is an online toolkit
Nik Peachey's Wallwisher as a great example.
eep shared calendar,
WeToku is an interview tool that automatically records
share your notes
Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer
PalBee is
a free online service that allows you to set up online video meetings
Phuser
is a tool for groups to discuss or work together and privately
WikiDot is
wiki builder to share content, documents and collaborate with your
students, colleagues, friends
Creately lets you create professional looking online diagrams with your colleagues
DoingText is
a web based text editor for collaborative writing.
SpringNote is
an online notebook for collaboration.
MeBeam is a place where you can create your chat room