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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

Plus, it’s easy to create multimedia presentations that teachers will actually enjoy or make use of webinars and videos. A survey of 755 teachers in the US found that they value the immediate feedback they get on Twitter. Hundreds of teachers are interacting daily through Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc.

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Introducing The Idealis, An Open-Access Journal for Library and Information Science Research

ProfHacker

Browsing through the Discover section, there are already quite a few great articles about Open Access, Academia.edu, sentiment analysis and Twitter, data science…It’s a really great list of essays and articles that go beyond interest for just librarians.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

The easy tool educators are using every day From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tip: Many of the best conversations on this topic happen on Google Plus or Twitter with the #gafe hashtag. Google Docs Research Tool Removes the Drudgery from Presentations. Updated: February 5, 2016.

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Learner Variability: The Why of Personalized Learning from Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

Learn more from Tom by following him on Twitter: @Mr_Driscoll. The UDL framework and associated guidelines help educators “address the predictable variability in learning that we know will be present in any environment.” Much of this overlaps with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Reports can be found here.).

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The Big List of Board Games that Inspire Mathematical Thinking

MIND Research Institute

When a board game is presented as a math game, I am always eager to try it out! Khet Tip: Use a piece of white paper to see where the laser goes when it doesn't hit a piece. Please let me know on twitter ! These games are usually far from fun, only allowing kids to practice math facts or formulas. Recommended ages : 8+.

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Preview App on the Mac

Kathy Schrock

You are instructed to sign your name in black ink (the thicker, the better) on a piece of white paper and hold it up in front of the camera on the Mac. Simple open the image in Preview, go to File-Export , and you are presented with the choices of saving the image as a JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG, or TIFF.

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How Teachers Can Learn From One Another at Unconferences, Meet-ups and Edcamps

MindShift

In fact, the first unconference I ever attended was a “mini-unconference” called “ BrewCUE, ” an agenda-less gathering of educators promoted on Twitter (BrewCUE has roots in the California ed-tech organization CUE). He was joking, but sometimes the answer is yes. What if the attendees feel like they got ripped off by your event?

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