Rating 3.00 out of 5 It’s time for another episode of TILT (that’s Teachers Improving Learning with Technology) from my pal, Danny Maas. “Having students create their own graphic organizers with key words or phrases, multimedia, connections, color, and layout can be a great way for them to develop visual literacy and thinking skills, construct [...]
Rating 4.33 out of 5 I saw this nifty site demonstrated at a seminar the other day. The speaker, Rick Stiles-Oldring, from Edmonton Public Schools, used PollEverywhere to demonstrate how the common cellphone can be used as a classroom response system. As Rick put it, we know students have them and they’re probably using them [...]
Rating 3.00 out of 5 At his Stanford University commencement speech in June 2005, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself. – The URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html
Rating 3.00 out of 5 My sister-in-law told me about this one – just put your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and the newspaper headlines pop up… Double click the dot and the page gets larger – you can read the entire paper on some if you click on the right place. [...]
Rating 3.00 out of 5 I got this gem from Sydney teacher, Daphne Gonzalvez. Teachers can have a bit of fun creating poetry with their students on the PicLits website. It has a fantastic selection of high quality and unusual images that can be used to inspire writing. The Learn It Tab has instructions on [...]
