Welcome back to the Roundup! I hope everyone had an excellent weekend! To start, a little sad news: The Roundup will be a bit sporadic this week. I've got middle and high school back to school/meet the teacher nights this week, so unfortunately I won't have as much time for the site. But anyway, let's get started with Edudemic's article on "How Blogging Can Help Reluctant Writers." It's a great read and if you have the opportunity to use blogging in the classroom, do it!
Free Technology for Teachers has five new resources up:
Jackie Gerstein at User Generated Education has an excellent new post on using "Photography for Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning." Her article discusses how the use of photography in a variety of subjects (English, Science, History, Art, etc.) can help students increase their social and emotional learning. She also provides links to tons of excellent classroom resources.
Alison Anderson at Getting Smart has a new write-up on "Taleblazer: The New Scratch." If you're not familiar with Scratch, it's an awesome program from MIT that helps teach students the basics of programming. Taleblazer is a web-based platform that will allow students to create location-based augmented reality games that you can play on your smartphones and mobile devices! I'm a huge fan of scratch, and Taleblazer sounds incredibly exciting.
Educational Technology has five new posts to check out:
Kelly Walsh at Emerging Ed Tech has a great new post showing that "Instructional Technologies CAN Improve Learning Outcomes and Help Address the Challenges Education Faces." In the post and video (embedded below) Walsh discusses a variety of examples of Educational Technology Success Stories.
The EdReach Network has five new podcasts for you:
The Lightning Round...
- Teach Thought shares 41 Must-Have Teaching Tools from edshelf
- Lisa Nielsen covers 5 Back to School Management Tips for Innovative Educators
- Getting Smart gives us 30 Apps for Sharing, Showing, and Tracking
- Edudemic has a new infographic on Formative Assessment and Technology
- They also have a new infographic Visual Guide for Teachers New to Apple iPads
And that's a Roundup! Thanks for reading and we'll be back tomorrow! I hope everyone is having a great back to school week (unless you're starting your third week like we are, in which case, keep it rolling!)
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