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The Weekly Roundup - February 8th, 2014

2/8/2014

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Welcome back!  I hate to pull you away from your curling and bobsledding, but we've got a new post!  If you didn't hear, last Wednesday was Digital Learning Day!  We had apodcast to celebrate, and over at Getting Smart they shared a great collection of tweets and ideas for getting involved.  Even though the day may have past, there are still a ton of excellent resources to bring digital learning to your classroom.


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There's also exciting news for all you Android/Google Play fans, which EdTech Magazine has more on, "K-12 Books Added to Google Play for Education, Along with New Devices."  This addition brings Google Play/Android up a level in the competition between iPads and other tablet devices (like the Learnpad).  They've also added more Chromebook and Android tablet choices to the mix as well.


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Here are a few of FT4T new resources from the week:
  • Strategies for Getting Access to Sites that are Blocked
  • NASA from Space to Everyday Life
  • AirPano - 360 Degree Virtual Tours of the World
  • 26 Videos About the Science of the Winter Olympics
  • The Week in Review - The Olympics Edition


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Dr. Jackie Gerstein at User Generated Education continues her series of posts on 21st Century Skills with "The Brances of the Other 21st Century Skills."  In the post, she includes an excellent graphic showing how these skills are related and a simple summary of what each skill means/looks like.  It's a quick read, but definitely worth a look!


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Finding pictures that students can use without limitation (i.e. without copyright restrictions) can be a challenge, especially with many students relying on the ease of Google Images.  To that end, EduTech for Teachers has a new post on "Pics4Learning: Copyright-free Images for Education."  The site contains thousands of free pictures, all of which are approved for classroom use!


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Here are a few of the new resources from ET&ML:
  • A Teacher's Guide to a Networked Classroom
  • 6 Types of Creative Commons LIcenses for Students
  • How to Share your iPad Screen to other Devices
  • 4 Chrome Extensions for Note Taking
  • 25 iPad Apps for Learning Spelling


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India's EdTech Review has an excellent new post which outlines "How to Connect Your Classroom to the World."  The article covers creating class blogs, video conferencing, using Twitter, creating Edmodo accounts, and utilizing Voicethread. They provide a short description on how each tool can be used to help your classroom extend outside of the traditional brick and mortar school building.


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One of the biggest challenges for teachers, in my opinion, is finding time for professional development and improvement. In that regard, Dr. Amy Burkman at Edudemic has a new article which asks"How Can Busy Teachers Learn Next-Gen Skills." Burkman shares some excellent ideas and resources which aim to help busy teachers develop technology skills.


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Good new for podcast fans, EdReach has begun hosting a new podcast from all-star educators Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow, "Untangling the Web."  I've embedded the episode below, but the podcast is all about sharing educational technology tools and making the web a little bit easier to understand.  This episode covers Twitter and how it can be used in the classroom.


The Lightning Round...

  • Getting Smart shares 5 Elements of Good Games that Can Make us Better Teachers
  • TeachThought discusses 10 Strategies to Reach the 21st Century Reader
  • Mind/Shift and T.H.E. Journal has 10 Tech Trends Students Say Are Changing Their Education
  • Edutopia covers 6 BYOD Discussions Every School Should Have

And that's it for the Roundup today, thanks for reading!  We'll end with a new infographic from Game Salad (which is an excellent, free game creator to try in computer class) and The Avatar Generation on the Future of Games in Education.  Have a great weekend!

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Courtesy of: Game Salad
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