These are just a sample.
See the full list at Edudemic.
FYI… I have used many of these, and plan to check out the rest. Ask if you have any questions about my experiences with any of these tools.
Worth a read by students, teachers and parents…
Plagiarism is rife on campus, with students lifting material from a host of online sources. While technology has made cheating much easier, can it also provide a solution?
The amount of serious plagiarism committed by UK students has declined by 60 per cent since 2005, according to detection service Turnitin.
There’s a new classroom messaging app that goes beyond your typical mobile classroom app. It’s called WDWDT (stands for What Did We Do Today?) and is a messaging service custom-built for students, parents, teachers, and others to stay in the loop about what’s been happening in class lately. Read more at Edudemic.
(Screenshot and text from Edudemic posting)
From the New Media Consortium…
The Horizon.K12 Advisory Board voted for the top 12 emerging technologies as well as the top ten trends and challenges that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five years. These initial results have been compiled into an interim report, known as the “Short List,” and described in further detail.
This Short List will inform the decisions of the advisory board as they embark on the final round of rankings, in which the list of technologies, trends, and challenges will be cut in half for the final report.
From an interesting blog by Mia MacMeekin titled “An Ethical Island: How to Teach Without a Lecture, and other fun.”
Read the short article at Edudemic.
Read the full original article at TeachHub.com.
FYI… I have used Voki and Polldaddy. Both are simple, intuitive and user friendly. Now I guess I’ll have to try these others as well.
From The Ontario Library Association:
OTF has just released a listing of online webinars for Professional Learning. They are free of charge and led by exemplary teachers from across Ontario. The offerings cover a broad range of topics from Digital Storytelling, Financial Literacy to Workplace Issues. Visit this website to view their offerings: http://www.otffeo.on.ca/english/events/?page_id=372 . These webinars fill up fast so register soon!
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