Friday, February 17, 2012

30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning | Diigo

30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning Diigo

Quixey ... a search engine for Apps







Quixey is a search engine for finding apps. You enter a search for what you are looking for. If you don’t know the keyword or description, just describe the problem and they will find the app to solve it.

This is a great tool for educators and students to use when looking for apps. You can search for any app by putting in your search options. The results are listed with the app logo, logos for what platforms it is available on, and a short description of the app. Click on the link and it opens up with a list of each platform, cost, link to the app, and user review ranking.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

DIgital Learning Day Feb 2, 2012

Technology rich classrooms at Timberlane regional Middle School and High School celebrated just another day of engagging their students in lessons that are supported by technology.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Language Arts and emerging technologies

Thinkfinity: reading and Language arts Winter activities
Some activities for students to explore during the winter months.
One way of staying connected to what other writing teachers are doing is to join the
RealWritingTeachers group. To join, you have to set up a yahoo account. Then you can join the group

Another great teaching site is The Learning Network from The New York Times Learning network.. There are daily and weekly lessons for your literacy class.

You will find a lesson, a word of the day, student opinion polls, historic headlines, and, a test yourself.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Audioboo-Great Podcasting Tool



Audioboo is a great alternative to audacity. It is considered a web 2.0 tool and it is free.
Do you have lessons that you want to podcast (which means to audio tape yourself) ?
Do you want student to show you what they have learned auditoraly?
The following video will take you theough setting up an account and making your own Audioboo.
You can connect your Audioboo to iTunes, a blog, a wiki, or as an RSS feed.
If you have a smart phone there is an app for this.
A great tool and easy to use.

http://teachertrainingvideoscom.createsend5.com/t/j/l/chyfy/ddituur/z/