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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
The teen’s misdemeanor invasion of privacy charges stem from what he said was him merely playing a joke on another student “to get a laugh.” The boy on the receiving end was joking around, too, not really masturbating but pretending to, according to a juvenile witness. But in the end, that didn’t matter. The boy…
“We are in a new era, one in which we are building systems that can’t be grasped in their totality or held in the mind… Source: The World Depends on Technology No One Understands I find this both fascinating and scary. With complexity comes more power, but if no one understands the system, can we…
Learn more in less time with Synap’s unique spaced repetition website and app, and our free collection of over 10,000 Multiple Choice Questions Source: Synap: Create & practice Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) online Synap has thousands of multiple choice questions online, or students can create their own, to help reinforce concepts taught in the classroom. What makes…
Source: Sown To Grow Do you want a more student oriented grade book? One where the students report their progress for various activities allowing them to reflect on what they’ve learned? Then check out Sown to Grow. To use Sown to Grow, teachers add any activity that students will be completing in the classroom. Students…