Welcome back and happy Friday-eve! If you missed our podcast last night, you can check it out here. If you already watched it, thanks for tuning in! Today we start with a new post from Adam Renfro atGetting Smart on "Going Hollywood in the Classroom." In the post, Renfro discusses how the "Hollywood" Model (i.e. collaborative and project-based) can be implemented in the classroom and what the possible benefits would be.
Next up, Katie Lepi at Edudemic covers some"Must-Have Facebook Guidelines for Educators." As the post mentions, there are tons of awesome ways to utilize Facebook in the classroom and if you are using the site (or are considering it) Lepi has some excellent guidelines that are worth thinking about before you virtually connect with your students.
Free Tech for Teachers has three new posts to check out:
Marisa Kaplan at Edsurge (and the creator of EdGeeks) has a new post entitled, "A Teacher Walks Into a Demo Day." In the article, Kaplan reflects on her recent trip to the Kaplan, Inc. Demo Day where she got to check out tons of new ed tech tools that are on their way from Kaplan. If you're interested in what's on the edtech horizon, check it out!
Having been a pianist for the better part of the last 30 years, any post/tool that focuses on getting music instruction out to more people is a wonderful thing in my mind. Emerging Ed Tech has a great post today on "Four Resources that can Enable Suzuki Method Instrument Instruction Online." If that's up your alley, there are some great ideas!
Educational Technology has five new resources up:
TheEd Tech Review has a new collection of "Tips for Teachers Who Wish to Use Twitter in Their Elementary Classrooms." The post opens by discussing some of the benefits Twitter can offer in the Elementary classroom and goes on to offer some suggestions to keep things organized and safe for students.
Finally, EdReach has four new podcasts to check out:
The Lightning Round...
- Lisa Nielsen covers 5 Ideas Essential to #1to1 Tech Learning Success
- Getting Smart shares 25 Great YouTube Channels for Blended Learning
- Edudemic gives us 5 Cool STEM Activities Students Should Try this Year
- And finally, Edudemic has 6 Questions to Ask Before Doing BYOD
And that's all we've got for today! Thanks for reading! We'll be back on Monday with the news from the weekend and, speaking of which, I hope everyone has a wonderful one! (what a poorly phrased sentence, eh?) We'll end today with a new post from SigNix which asks Who Can You Trust in a Digital World?
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