Well, hello! After a bit of a hiatus, I'm happy to announce the Roundup is back! What was supposed to be a short fall break, turned into a 5-day bought with the Colombian flu, of which I have finally recovered! My apologies for the lack of rounding and upping over the past few days, but let's get back into it! But before we start, just a quick reminder that our podcast will also be back tomorrow night! We'll have Taylor Dopuch as our guest, a high school English teacher who works with me at Colegio Parrish. He'll be talking about some of the tech activities he's tried out in his English class. And now... time for some roundupping!
First up, the always enjoyable Dom Norrish has a great new article entitled, "Democratising Da Vinci (or Why Technology in Schools is a No-Brainer for the World)." Norrish discusses one of the major benefits that technology provides education which is to allow the intersection of student opportunity and talent to occur more often. It's an excellent post!
Free Tech for Teachers has five new posts to check out:
Next up, Susan Oxnevad at Getting Smart has a great new post on "Using Avatars to Teach Digital Citizenship." The post discusses four different tools that teachers can use to help students virtually explore the ideas of internet safety and digital citizenship. There are some excellent ideas here for computer teachers or any teacher that wants to emphasize the importance of digital citizenship. Getting Smart also has a new collection of EdTech articles from October.
Educational Technology has five new posts to check out:
Kaitlin Louie at Emerging EdTech has a new post on "Interactive Textbooks Revolutionizing the Classroom Text." The articles discusses how the interactive capabilities iBooks are beginning to change the way students interact with their texts. With videos, hyperlinks, 3-D animations, and various other types of media, these new ebooks have some serious educational potential.
EdReach has five new podcasts to peruse:
Finally, we've spoken about Edgenuity a few times before on the Roundup (the "leading provider of online and blended learning solutions") and right now they've got they're Second Annual Video Contest going on. Edgenuity is asking secondary teachers to submit video stories on how they use online and blended learning to improve academic outcomes. The winning prize? A $5000 technology grant! Pretty great!
The Lightning Round...
- Edutopia shares 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills
- Teach Thought covers 36 Core Teacher Apps for Inquiry Learning with iPads
- Teach Thought also gives us 10 Steps to a Successful School iPad Program
- Lisa Nielsen discusses 5 Ways to Open Up Learning & Engage Students
- Edudemic has 7 Signs Your School Needs a Technology Makeover
- They also cover 6 Reasons to Try Mobile Devices in the Classroom
- Finally, Edudemic has a great post on 7 Ways to Sabotage Your Device Initiative
And there you have it, another day, another roundup! Thanks for reading and we'll see you tomorrow night for a brand new podcast!
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