VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos!

VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos!

The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! Source: VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! VideoNot.es loads a video on the left side, and lets the user take notes about the video on the right. The notes are linked to the specific time of the video. The notes themselves are…

Flashcard Stash :: Flashcard games and study tool optimized for vocabulary

Flashcard Stash :: Flashcard games and study tool optimized for vocabulary

Flashcard Stash is yet another online flashcard builder. Students can play games on the pre-build flashcards or create their own. There are several different ways to use the flashcards to help remember the terms. Teachers can create an account and then assign lists to students. Unfortunately, the site does not allow Google or Microsoft accounts to…

Cardboard Challenges: No Tech/Low Cost Maker Education | User Generated Education

Cardboard Challenges: No Tech/Low Cost Maker Education | User Generated Education

I believe in the importance of participating in ongoing and continuous reflective practice as an educator. This is my reflection on my Cardboard Challenges Maker Education Camp that was taught to twelve 5 to 10 year old learners for five days, 2.5 hours each morning.  My Cardboard Challenges webpage of ideas can be found at http://www.makereducation.com/cardboard-challenge.html….

De Mobo Slides – Remote control your presentations with your smartphone

De Mobo Slides – Remote control your presentations with your smartphone

De Mobo Slides is an innovative way to use your phone to control your presentation and turns your laptop webcam into a digital overhead projector. Source: De Mobo Slides De Mobo Slides is a website set up to allow you to remotely control your presentations from your cell phone. I tested it from an Android…

These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 | World Economic Forum

These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 | World Economic Forum

A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including batteries capable of providing power to whole villages, “socially aware” artificial intelligence and new generation solar panels, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum. Source: These are the top 10 emerging…

New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

Media specialist Samantha Edwards wants noise in her library—and she hears it.Last fall, Edwards, the librarian at Fogelsville Elementary School in Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, opened a modest self-publishing center in the library outfitted with an iMac, a printer and a machine to bind books. She noticed how excited her students were to create…

Allcancode – Run Marco!

Allcancode – Run Marco!

Play Run Marco! an epic adventure game and learn to code i.e. program computers! Designed for 6 to 12 y.o. kids. Source: Allcancode – Run Marco! Have you been through all of the exercises at code.org and want more? Or do you want something different to start your students on programming? Then All Can Code…

Today We Learned: Empower parents to start better learning conversations.

Today We Learned: Empower parents to start better learning conversations.

Source: Today We Learned: Empower parents to start better learning conversations. Today We Learned is a free site that’s designed to streamline communication with parents. Teachers are given message starters to help create messages to be sent, and also teachers can send alerts and notifications to all parents or to a particular student’s parents. There…

The Problem with App Smashing

The Problem with App Smashing

On many occasions, I have seen/read about App Smashing being leveraged in a way that is entirely anti-inquiry. In instances such as these, an overly contrived and smooth, risk free process is followed, all for the sake of a “cool” product. Source: The Problem with App Smashing A different take from mine on app smashing.