Articles of the Week
- Shanghai Dreaming to Become the City with Fastest Internet Speed in the World » M.I.C. Gadget
Will Shanghai ended up with the fastest Internet in China? Maybe the world someday? As a world financial center, it makes sense for the city to have much better bandwidth. - infuselearning | Empowering The BYOD REVOLUTION
We tip our collective hats to Krista Moroder for this one: “InfuseLearning is a breakthrough virtual learner response solution.” And it really is! It’s the ease of the thing, and the ability to actually see kids taking the quiz real time, and downloading the results instantly in an Excel spreadsheet, that have me hooked! - Ed Tech Challenge
“This a self-paced, scaffolded technology integration course for educators. This course was the collaborative effort of numerous technology integrators, classroom teachers, Google Apps Certified Trainers and Teachers, and ISTE Emerging Leaders. We’ve aligned this course with research and international technology standards- and we’ve also supported the content with real examples of teachers in their actual classroom settings. All of the suggestions we give are grounded in practice- they are techniques we actually use and we know work! You can read more about the people who created this course here. The ten-minute video below gives an overview of the philosophy of the course and what we hope to accomplish with it. We’ve flipped this course so that you can learn when you have time, and we’ve created templates, videos, and resources so that you can start using those tools right away.” - The big misunderstanding about MOOCs
1. At least three groups of academics and entrepreneurs have emerged in debating the merits of MOOCs: Advocates, Skeptics, and Agnostics. - Apple – iBooks Author
iBooks Author. Create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad. Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is an amazing app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, mathematical expressions, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could. - Parents Want to See More Reading for Fun With Paper or Digital Books
- Teacher: Beware the ‘Digital Native’ Stereotype
- College-Aged Americans Planning to Use Facebook Less
“They are adding up the pluses and minuses on a kind of networking balance sheet and they are trying to figure out how much they get out of connectivity vs. how much they put into it.” Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet Project
Interview of this week
Tech tips
High School: Infuse learning We tip our collective hats to Krista Moroder for this one: “InfuseLearning is a breakthrough virtual learner response solution.” And it really is! It’s the ease of the thing, and the ability to actually see kids taking the quiz real time, and downloading the results instantly in an Excel spreadsheet, that have me hooked!
Middle School: Inkling Habitat Introducing Inkling Habitat – The world’s first scalable publishing environment for interactive content. Brawn, Meet Beauty Build digital content you’ll be proud of. Easily drag and drop multimedia and interactive exhibits into your existing content. Whether with text, images, audio, or video, you’ll be able to confidently create a new level of delight for your readers.
Elementary School: Apple – iBooks Author Create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad. Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is an amazing app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, mathematical expressions, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
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