Skip to main content

Home/ Web Tools for Educators/ Group items tagged mobile

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Nik Peachey

Nik's QuickShout: Creating interactive video on the iPad - 7 views

  •  
    I think this kind of tool can be really beneficial for creating flipped learning or video orientated learning as the speaker can guide learners to various learning resources on the web. They can also embed visual support for language learners such as text and images and even write over the video as though it were a whiteboard.
Gilmar Mattos

Fluid Learning - 0 views

  • control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • We can’t roll back the clock to an earlier age without computers, without Internet, without the subtle but profound distraction of text messaging. The school is of its time, not out it.
  • The role of the instructor has changed
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • helps the students find the material available online, and helps them to make sense of it, contextualizing and informing their understanding. even as the students continue to work their way through the ever-growing set of information.
  • The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere.
  • the more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes.
  • Education happens everywhere, not just with your nose down in a book, or stuck into a computer screen
  • Many students will never be very computer literate, but every single one of them has a mobile handset, and every single one of them sends text messages.
  • net filtering throws the baby out with the bathwater
  • Services like Twitter get filtered out because they could potentially be disruptive, cutting students off from the amazing learning potential of social messaging. Facebook and MySpace are seen as time-wasters, rather than tools for organizing busy schedules
  • media sites are blocked because the schools don’t have enough bandwidth to support them; Wikipedia is blocked because teachers don’t want students cheating.
  • Filtering, while providing a stopgap, only leaves students painfully aware of how disconnected the classroom is from the real world.
  • the maxim of the 21st century: connection is king
  • Students must be free to connect with instructors
  • difficult for instructors to manage, but it is vital.
  • Connection is expensive, not in dollars, but in time. But for all its drawbacks, connection enriches us enormously.
  • We need to let go, we need to trust ourselves enough to recognize that what we have now, though it worked for a while, is no longer fit for the times.
  •  
    I: Out of Control Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the
Jose Antonio da Silva

Free Tools - 14 views

  •  
    Below we review some of the best free tools on the market from Audacity for audio editing to Moodle LMS.
Jose Antonio da Silva

Teaching Today | How-To Articles | Cell Phones in the Classroom - 8 views

  •  
    Cell phones in the classroom
Joseph Alvarado

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 0 views

  •  
    Real time voting, using cellphone, twitter, and web2.0.
Maggie Verster

Digital Gadgets & Podcasting in the Classroom -a Guide for Educators - 0 views

  •  
    There are many handheld devices and digital "gadgets" available to support all types of new teaching and learning initiatives. This pages will provide links to some of the resource pages specifically designed to enhance the use of these devices in the K-12 classroom. From Kathy Schrock
Roseli Serra

Open Educational Resources Explained for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile L... - 3 views

  •  
    I want to introduce you in this post to the concept of Open Educational Resources ( OER ). I know some of you are already familiar with OER but for those who are still struggling to come to grips with what OERs are all about, the slideshow below is a good place to start with. Here is what you will learn from it.
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 53 of 53
Showing 20 items per page