Moodle is an Open Source tool that allows even non-technical teachers to set up and maintain a Web site where students can log in and access course information, interact, share, and teach others.
See on www.techsoup.org
There’s a great Google Documents presentation going around which features 42 (and growing) “interesting ways to use Moodle in the Classroom”.
It was originally started by Tom Barrett (@Tombarrett) but many other Moodlers and educators have continued building upon the original slides to create a dynamic encyclopedia of tips, tricks, Moodle-uses and module sneak peaks.
See on www.moodlenews.com
Ed tech expert Meg Ormiston shares creative ways to use cell phones in the classroom and her reasons why these will make great learning tools.
See on www.teachhub.com
Multiple Tools for Teaching Search Skills in the Primary Classroom « ICT for Teaching & Learning in Falkirk Primary Schools
See on blogs.glowscotland.org.uk
This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators.
The lesson plan concludes with a mock trial that tests the students’ understanding of copyright and its limitations and encourages them to consider the positions of each party involved.
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Read more:
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs
See on www.teachingcopyright.org
One of the basic aims of education in general is to teach us how to be a life long researcher, how to discover new fountains of knowledge and illuminate our lives. Knowledge itself is based on research and every discipline be it philosophy, science, technology, art or humanities, they all have one common pillar which is research.
See on www.educatorstechnology.com
Last year we presented “Ten of the best Droid apps for education,” which highlighted some of the best apps for Google Android-based mobile devices.
See on www.eschoolnews.com
