It's time to head back to school and there are a number of web-based and social tools to help you get through the school year. Here are 15 essential ones.
With small private campuses and large research universities alike teeming with iPhones, iPod Touches, BlackBerries, and other mobile devices, a college counseling company has highlighted five institutions in particular as the best landing spots for students attached to their gadgets.
# Truly disruptive tools will force new thinking and new approaches to ensuring student learning in higher education.
# Technology enables online learning, which potentially qualifies as a disruptive innovation in education.
Organize your notes for projects on the Web. Students say it feels a bit easier and projects seem more self-contained than projects in Google notebook.
ThinkTank is an electronic performance support system to help students narrow down research topics and create keyworks and searches to move the research process forward.
Skoolaborate is a global project that uses a blend of technolocies including, blogs, an LMS, wikis and 'virtual worlds' for collaborative learning of both teachers and students.
Weebly has now added an education section. Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects.
Although many teachers have enthusiastically adopted interactive whiteboards, little research is available on their effect on student achievement. However, in a study that involved 85 teachers and 170 classrooms, the teachers used interactive whiteboards
One of the resources developed for my students is a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance educ