Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.
NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, subscribe to blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts, watch NASA TV live, or simply read about our mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
These technology-rich interactives bring excitement to students and offer them a fresh, new way to them in active learning. Each learning adventure is aligned to national standards. There are support materials included for teachers or parents, interactive activities and lesson plans.
A discussion about how we are using Audioboo and List.ly as tools for learning.
Learn more at http://www.ericsson.com/networkedsociety Can ICT redefine the way we learn in the Networked Society? Technology has enabled us to interact, inn...
I’ve never observed anything else that has had the impact on teacher personal learning like an iPad classroom.
An inside look at the habits of the modern student. Infographic.
The Honor Roll: 50 Must-Read K–12 Education IT Blogs 2012
'Essential questions' are all too often lower order. And not that essential.
A little run of posts inspired by my favourite educationalist of the past decade, Dylan Wiliam. He's the chap that explained formative assessment to me in twelve pages flat, and changed my practice forever. In this two-minute clip he pleads with us to move away from IRE questioning (Initiate a question to the class, Response comes from one child, Evaluation...
I've been discussing memes such as Gangnam Style in my recent presentations. I'm particularly interested in memes as an emerging information literacy and their study is important for comprehending the way in which information flows through systems. Dae Ryun Chang wrote that one of reasons why Gangnam Style has taken off is that "the song intentionally lacked a copyright so that people would be encouraged to create their own online parodies, in essence their own 'XYZ Style'".
10 Books to Inspire Innovation in the Classroom - ThingLink
A free learning styles inventory
Take the FREE Learning Styles Quiz to find out how you learn best. Are you a visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner. Learning Styles affect everything you d(...)
Everybody has a preferred learning style. Knowing and understanding our learning style helps us to learn more effectively. This is particularly true for LD/AD(H)D people because of their different ways of learning. Through identifying your learning style, you will be able to capitalize on your strengths and improve your self-advocacy skills.
Writing lesson plans does not have to be difficult. This is the time that a teacher can show their creativity. Here is a how-to on how to create effective lesson plans that will help ensure success. You can use the Lesson Plan Template as you work through creating your lesson plans.
The flipped classroom model encompasses any use of using Internet technology to leverage the learning in your classroom, so you can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher created videos (aka vodcasting) that students view outside of class time.
