The Innovative Educator
JUNE 1, 2014
'@InnovativeEdu Balance is key. — Herman Miller EDU (@HermanMillerEDU) May 28, 2014 The above tweet was sent to me in response to my post explaining why innovative educators should look down on upon a new video called, "Look Up." But I disagreed with this balance-seeking Tweeter. "Balance is key" is a common refrain heard by innovative educators and their students.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 2, 2014
'Buncee my favorite Web 2.0 tool of 2013 is not only a fantastic tool to use in education (w/ their educational portal), it is a great tool for educators to use to Flip a lesson or classroom. Teachers can create beautiful looking animated and narrated presentations that students can then view at home. Then they can complete their Buncee assignment online and educators can view/grade all w/in the safe web portal.
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CTE Learning
JUNE 3, 2014
FOR MORE INFORMATION Steve Waddell I Support Learning, Inc. / Support Learning Foundation swaddell@ctelearning.com Awards announced for the STEAM STEM career competition – Future App Game Designer Challenge 2014 – Lighting Strikes Twice – El Rancho Charter School Students Get Top Honors in Middle School Games and Women Designed Game Divisions. Olathe Kansas June 3, 2014 – The Support Learning Foundation (SLF) announced the Women Designed and Middle School Division winners of the 8th Annual Fu
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 22, 2014
'Guest Post by Vicki Davis Editor’s note: Vicki Davis just wrote a new book called, Reinventing Writing. I asked her if she could contribute a post to The Innovative Educator explaining specifically how social media has reinvented writing. This is that post. As hall of fame baseball player, Babe Ruth said, “Yesterday’s home runs won’t win tomorrow’s games.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 4, 2014
'As I shared earlier this year the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) created social media guidelines for students 13+ with students, teachers, and parents. Students said they wanted to see the guidelines as infographics. Teachers and parents wanted guides. So. The NYC DOE gathered together students, teachers, and parents to create what they requested.
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The Innovative Educator
JUNE 29, 2014
'Are you gaga over Google? Do you think Microsoft is magnificent? Do you excel at using Edmodo? Do you think PBS is the perfect platform for digital media content? Wouldn’t it be great to find others in your district using the same tools as you? Wouldn’t it be great to have a direct connection to the people who work at the companies of the very resources you are using for teaching and learning?
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 18, 2014
'While the idea of spending four fabulous years of freedom to be on your own immersed in study, is certainly appealing, t here are a number of reasons why the traditional college experience might not work for students. Today's students are less naive about student loans understanding that the reality, is most of us can’t afford to wrack up tens of thousands of dollars in loans before entering the workforce.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 25, 2014
'My co-author Willyn Webb and I had the opportunity to speak with "Tech Page One - Insights from the Evolving World of Tech" to explain why cell phones should be allowed in the classroom. You can read the entire piece at BYOD Goes to School, Here is what we said during our interview with the author of the article. Once considered a distraction, smartphones are now being used by teachers to expand teaching options Lisa Nielsen, who blogs at The Innovative Educator and co-authored “ Teaching Gener
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 15, 2014
'Cross posted at Smartblogs for Education Have you ever been inspired by a great conference keynote speech? A workshop presenter that your school or district hired? Do you want to share your ideas, be useful to others, and make some extra money? Have you ever wondered how that could be you some day? Well, it can, but it takes time to position yourself to take your show on the road.
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The Innovative Educator
JUNE 2, 2014
'I had the pleasure to speak to librarians today at the U nCommon Approaches to the Common Core Conference about ideas for making trips to museums and other cultural institutions fun and engaging using digital media. Interested in this topic and/or want some ideas to share with others? If so, check out my presentation below.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 28, 2014
'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews 10 Ways Social Media Can Improve Writing in Your C.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 7, 2014
'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Stop saying "balance is key" when discussing techn.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 21, 2014
'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Stop saying "balance is key" when discussing tech.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 14, 2014
'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Stop saying "balance is key" when discussing techn.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 11, 2014
'Online Tutorials or walk-throughs are great for self paced learning. People have been using Google and YouTube to learn how to do things all the time. However, there are also sites specifically dedicated to Online Learning and helping people learn all kinds of subjects. *This list is in alphabetical order. 10 Sites for Online/Educational Tutorials Atomic Learning - Probably the most popular resource on the list, Atomic Learning is a great site to find all kinds of "How to" videos on all sorts o
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 25, 2014
'EDpuzzle is vastly becoming one of the premiere web tools around for learning in the classroom. This is fantastic free tool for editing a video, cropping, adding quizzes/polls, narration, etc. then embedding into site/blog. It is being used to flip a classroom or lesson, Project Based Learning, and even for differentiating instruction. The educational portal allows students to sign-up w/out needing an email account and lets educators track student progress in real-time.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'30hands is one of my all-time favorite free iOS apps for Digital Storytelling. This is a simple app to use w/ a detailed walk-through that helps any first time user create their own. Everything is done in a user friendly drag-n-drop interface that allows students to add/take photos, draw, and record narration to each slide. Once the story is complete it can then be uploaded to the cloud via the free educational community 30hands Learning.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 16, 2014
'Mission to Marsville is a online summer program offered by the innovative Game Based Learning/LMS company, NEXED. They are the company that developed Answerables, and are combing their virtual environment into a summer learning program to help kids prevent summer learning loss. This is all done in their safe 3D virtual environment for grades 3rd-8th in the subjects of Math, Science, and Language.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 19, 2014
'Pixel Press Floors is one of the coolest new iOS apps (free) that I just found out about from the amazing blog, iLearn Technology. This app is perfect for educators looking to integrate Game Based Learning as it lets users create their video game simply by drawing it. The way this works is by printing out a glyph paper and then drawing on it using pre-defined (i.e. x = spike, + = coins) symbols.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 18, 2014
'Penzu Classroom is wonderful new web 2.0 site that allows educators/students to create online journals and more. This is done in a safe environment where educators create a journal/class and then students join via unique code (similar to ClassDojo). Once a student has joined a class a educator can send assignments, instructions, comment on student''s work, etc.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 24, 2014
'The Answer Pad is one of the best and easy to use free Student Response/Dialogue Systems for mobile devices. It is fantastic learning tool that is being used by classrooms all around the world that allows educators to assess their students in real-time on their mobile devices. The way this works is the educator creates from scratch or uses Common Core Aligned templates to create assignments, tests, quizzes, etc and then pushes them out to their student''s mobile devices.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'Level it Books is one of the apps I get asked about most frequently. This is fantastic mobile app (Android/iOS) for educators, parents, or librarians, looking to track their student''s Reading Level as well as keep a digital library of books in a convenient easy way. All a user has to do is scan a books ISBN# (i.e. bar code) and get a Reading/Lexile level.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 23, 2014
'Superhero Comic Book Maker is a fun iOS app for creating a digital comic. This is a great app that can be used for digital storytelling that has tons of different stickers, animations, backgrounds, and sound effects. A user can even draw/color in their comic and make the stickers move by tapping on it or dragging around the screen. Best of all, a student can record their own narration to take their storytelling to the next level.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'ZooKazam is a wonderful free iOS app for Augmented Reality that can be used in the Science classroom. This is a fun super easy to use app that has users printing out a "target" and then interacting w/ animals, dinosaurs, and safari animals in augmented reality. What''s cool is the ability to not only take a photo or video of the animal in augmented reality, but interact w/ it by changing the elements (i.e. make it rain or snow) and more.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'Otus is a fantastic new free learning tool for the mobile classroom. This is a innovative mobile learning environment that lets educators and students interact in a safe and easy way. There is a free iPad app for educators and one for students that lets teachers: assess, track students, poll, grade, browse the web and more. While students can do their assignments, take notes in real-time in split screen mode, and view instruction at home for Flipped Learning.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 23, 2014
'Been for Education is one of my favorite new Web 2.0 sites for Social Learning & Bookmarking. This is a innovative site that combines the the bookmarking abilities of Diigo w/ a visual interface similar to MentorMob to create a innovative experience to browse the web. Best of all, this is all done in a protective "bubble" w/ Been''s educational portal that allows educators to create/manage student accounts.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 26, 2014
'Math vs Dinosaurs is the new free Android (Google Play) app by the creators of Zeus vs. Monsters. As far as I''m concerned this is Peaksel''s most robust app yet and great for Game Based Learning. The game has dozen''s of levels for student''s to play through as they solve basic Math (i.e. addition, subtraction, etc) equations. For those w/ other Peaksel games, they feature excellent graphics, high replay value, and fun game play.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 27, 2014
'I''ve been in touch w/ the people over at Shadow Puppet and excited to announce their new spinoff free iOS app for education, Shadow Puppet Edu. This is an excellent easy to use app for Project Based Learning and Digital Storytelling. Like the former app it has a drag and drop interface but w/ this new educational instance it allows for easier/safer searching and integration of pictures as well as no student email account to use.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 4, 2014
'Slidebean is a site I mentioned a few months ago that is great for creating beautiful looking presentations. Well, they are out of beta and now open to all the public. This is a site that reminds of PPT but a lot nicer looking, cloud based, w/ the ability to embed into a site or blog. One of my favorite features of Slidebean are the abundance of templates a person can choose from such as: charts/graphs, collages, timeline slides, and more.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'Booktrack Classroom is a very simple yet powerful free Web 2.0 tool that can help students boost their test scores, love of reading, and creativity by adding a soundtrack to any text, writing, or digital book. This is a great website that is being used by educators grades K-12 to help ignite a student''s creativity by adding a soundtrack to papers, stories, poems, etc as well as help them w/ their reading and comprehension skills.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 27, 2014
'DimensionU is one of the leading companies around for creating innovative educational games in a 3D virtual world. These games focus on Math & Literacy and are designed for grades 3rd-9th. These game are designed for Common Core Standards and cover a wide variety of topics for each subject. Best of all these games have high-replay, track student scores, and ideal for Game Based Learning.
Technology Tidbits
JUNE 30, 2014
'Water Cycle HD is a fantastic iPad app (that is free today) that is STEM related and ideal for learning about the Water Cycle. This educational app uses a combination of videos, animations, and photographs, to help students learn about the Water Cycle. Also, WC HD follows Common Core Standards and has a quiz that students can take to reinforce learning.
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