Welcome back! I hope everyone's week is off to a great start. Today we begin at Edudemic with a new post on "Why You Should (And Shouldn't) Use Digital Textbooks." The article covers the pros and cons of digital texts in the classroom and also gets into the general benefits of the completely digital educational environment.
Next up, EdTech Magazine discusses "How Districts Are Feeding the Mobile App Beast." Every day, dozens of new educational apps are released and finding the right ones for the classroom can be an immense challenge. This post from Jennifer Zaino covers some of the ways districts are meeting the challenge. Zaino closes with some great tips to help districts with the process.
Free Tech for Teachers has five new posts from today:
In case you missed digital citizenship week last week, fear not! Jamie Forshey at EduTech for Teachers has an excellent new post to share her, "Digital Citizenship Survival Kit." As Forshey says, "With the plethora of resources available for teachers, there's no reason we have to stop promoting the importance of behaving safely!" I couldn't agree more, and Forshey's ThingLink survival kit is a great place to start.
Educational Technology has five new posts from today:
Up next, Tom Raymond at Emerging EdTech has a review of the flipped learning tool, Metta (Here's our review of the service as well). The review, "Create Digital Learning Content by Easily Combining Parts of One or More Videos with Images, Text, and Audio" outlines the basic process of using the site and provides some classroom tips as well.
Morgan Sims at Getting Smart has compiled an excellent collection of "Great Apps and Tech Tools for Education." Sims covers a huge variety of subjects, devices, and operating systems and offers tips and summaries for each item. Plus, Tom Vander Ark has also collected "10 Strategies and Apps to Manage the iPad Classroom." It's a great list of suggestions and apps to try out!
Finally, the EdReach Network has five new podcasts:
The Lightning Round...
- Getting Smart gives us 50 Hashtags for Connected Educators
- EdTech Magazine has a new guide for E-Rate Applications
- Edutopia shares 11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom
- Edudemic discusses 3 Simple Ways to Start Using Smartphones in the Classroom
- Edudemic also has a new graphic on Digital Learning Literacy
- Teach Thought presents 13 Tools to Make Your Classroom More Fun From edshelf
- Finally, the Ed Tech Review describes the Best Ways to Connect with Teachers Globally
And that's it for tonight! If you're on Twitter, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is moderating the #EdTechChat tonight, which is starting right about... 10 minutes ago! Get over there! Thanks for reading and we'll see you tomorrow (hopefully) or on Wednesday night with a brand new podcast!
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