Today's Round Up begins with a pretty awesome Kickstarter that teachers Walter Duncan and Isaac Van Wesep started for their app Quick Key. The app would allow teachers to grade papers at lightning speed with their smartphone (provided the answers are bubbled in like a scantron) and have immediate results recorded for each student. The app has some serious potential - check out the video for more.
Next up, Getting Smart has an article by Steve Netcoh, the CCO for NuSkool entitled, "A NuSkool Approach to Student Engagement." The article describes NuSkool's philosophy on designing common core standards-based lessons around popular culture in an effort to engage students. It's free to create an account on their site, and it's a great resource and easy to navigate, but it would be nice to see a list of which specific standards are covered under each lesson.
Educational Technology has a new post covering "Two Excellent Apps to Create Digital Magazines on the iPad." First up is Flipboard (which we've talked a lot about lately here and is my personal favorite). They also recommend Glossi which is a "new self-publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share digital magazines."
Tech & Learning opens with an article on"Taking a Step Back and Thinking Critically About Technology." The article argues, quite reasonably, that before throwing all our tech-based-learning eggs in the iPad or tablet basket, we've really to take a hard look at tablet technology and decide if schools are just implementing these programs because it's the new thing, or because it actually has educational benefits.
The site also has a new post on "Gadget Safety" which offers some basic advice for schools and teachers to help keep laptops, mobile phones, and encrypted USB drives safe. The post also outlines the basics of online safety for students as well.
The site also has a new post on "Gadget Safety" which offers some basic advice for schools and teachers to help keep laptops, mobile phones, and encrypted USB drives safe. The post also outlines the basics of online safety for students as well.
Ed Week has a new case study on,"Flipped PD Initiative Boosts Teachers' Tech Skills." The article discusses how a school district in Minnesota uses "flipped" learning to help boost the tech skills of their staff. The model works by having the tech specialists meet with classroom teachers in small groups every month. Rather than the tech coordinators dictating what the staff learns, the PD is "flipped" because the teachers bring ideas of what they want to do and the coordinators help find tech resources the teachers can use.
We talked about Vine a few weeks back (the twitter-like service that allows users to upload and share 6-second video clips) and now, Teach Thought has a new article on "3 Ways to Use Vine in the Project-Based Learning Classroom." The article has some great ideas as well as a few examples.
And finally, Ed Reach has three new podcasts up from today!
The Lightning Round...
- Free Technology for Teachers shows us 5 Ways Students Can Create Audio Slideshows
- Education Technology covers the 5 Most Popular eBook Formats for Teachers
- iLearn tells us about 8 Alternatives to Google Reader
- Edudemic has a great list of 10 Open Source Tools for Busy Teachers
- Edudemic also has an infographic on How Technology is Used in Higher Ed
- And another from Edudemic on 27 Things to Do with Students Who Aren't Paying Attention
And there you have it! All Rounded Up and ready to roll! Today we'll end with a new infographic on... Infographics! How Meta! This is 13 Reasons Your Brain Craves Infographics. Hasta Mañana!
Courtesy of: Edudemic
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