Welcome back to the Round Up! Today we'll start over at Teach Thought with a post about "Teachers and Social Media: Finding Your Comfort Zone." For those teachers who are just beginning to break the social media ice, this is an excellent article to start with. The post covers some basic resources on social media tools and advice on how to get started.
Next up, if you haven't yet heard of the new service Vine, or considered how it could be used educationally, then check out "What Is Vine and What's It Doing In My Classroom?" Basically, Vine is twitter but for videos, really short 6-second videos, but videos nonetheless. The article goes further in depth and offers some suggestions for integration.
Finally, Teach Thought has a repost of a Getting Smart article from a few weeks back, "10 Significant Trends in Education and Online Learning." If you didn't catch it the first time around, it's your lucky day!
Next up, if you haven't yet heard of the new service Vine, or considered how it could be used educationally, then check out "What Is Vine and What's It Doing In My Classroom?" Basically, Vine is twitter but for videos, really short 6-second videos, but videos nonetheless. The article goes further in depth and offers some suggestions for integration.
Finally, Teach Thought has a repost of a Getting Smart article from a few weeks back, "10 Significant Trends in Education and Online Learning." If you didn't catch it the first time around, it's your lucky day!
Edudemic opens with a list of "5 Free Online Courses for Tech-Savvy Teachers." If you've got some free time this summer and and iPad to learn about (or perhaps a BYOD program) then definitely check out this post. They cover all the basics you could need on iPads in education and launching a BYOD program in your school or district.
Continuing on with the iPad, edudemic has a new write-up on "8 Powerful Apps to Help you Create Books on the iPad." If you're fortunate to have iPads in your school, having the students create their own books to show their understanding of particular topics can be an awesome activity. If you're not sure on which apps would be best for that, this Edudemic guide is very worthwhile.
And Edudemic closes with a great Prezi from Pip Cleaves on "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools." (embedded below) and a new infographic on "The Busy Teacher's Quick Common Core Guide."
Continuing on with the iPad, edudemic has a new write-up on "8 Powerful Apps to Help you Create Books on the iPad." If you're fortunate to have iPads in your school, having the students create their own books to show their understanding of particular topics can be an awesome activity. If you're not sure on which apps would be best for that, this Edudemic guide is very worthwhile.
And Edudemic closes with a great Prezi from Pip Cleaves on "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Web 2 Tools." (embedded below) and a new infographic on "The Busy Teacher's Quick Common Core Guide."
The Innovative Educator has a new guest post by Eric Williams outlining "3 Ways to Decrease the Teacher Dropout Crisis." Not especially Ed Tech related, but an important post regardless. His advice is incredibly well-written, thoughtful, and needed with the growing number of teachers across the states who are leaving the profession.
Finally, we've mentioned the educational uses of MineCraft a few times on the Round Up (a game that allows users to create virtual worlds out of textured cubes) and if you're familiar with the program and looking for new ways to integrate it with your curriculum, you'll definitely enjoy Ed Reach's new post, "Minecraft in the Classroom with peter Tromba."
That's it for the Round Up today, we'll end up with an infographic for one of the most important (yet often overlooked) positions in K-12 Education, "27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does."
Courtesy of: Educational Technology
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