3 Things I Wish Educators Knew About their Own Learning | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog I meet many educators around the world, virtually and in person… Many times, I am still amazed at the resistance to new ideas, change and willingness to apply the learning they expect of students to their own learning. Here are…
Digital Literacy: Unlocking Technology’s Potential | The Spark Educators need to embrace the creative and collaborative aspects of digital literacy. So much great learning happens through the creative and collaborative processes. Bridget Burns, Michael Crow, and Mark Becker noted the benefits of collaboration in their article “Innovating Together: Collaboration as a Driving Force to Improve…
Homebrew is a great way to easily install all sorts of command line goodies as easily as brew install. I use it to install programs such as Pandoc (convert between several different text formats or create ebooks) or ImageMagick (manipulate images from the command line). Tonight I went to install Mosh (remote access command line client), but was greeted by a series of…
Sharing: Google Saves (new feature for Google Images, via @cogdogblog) It’s still not showing up for my Google Apps accounts. 🙁 Create interactive multimedia and eBooks in Google Slides A post from almost a year ago makes the top 3! Neat tips on creating interactive multimedia with Google Slides. Sharing: Project based learning should be…
How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization Yes, my theory is that Friends may have triggered the downfall of western civilization. You might think I’m crazy. But to quote Ross: “Oh, am I? Am I? Am I out of my mind? Am I losing my senses?” Did you know the song that…
Worlds of Learning | 30 Ways to Create the Conditions to Inspire in a Makerspace I recently took my students into New York City to meet with the team from Buncee. In addition to being an amazing multimedia storytelling tool, Buncee has an incredibly passionate and committed group of people on their team. They spent time talking to…
There is a disease that is infecting millions of smartphone users. The disease to some seems pretty benign, but that is what makes it so dangerous. It doesn’t kill its host, the host who is blissfully unaware of the horror they are inflicting on others. This disease is VERTICAL VIDEO! Please, say no to George Lucas….
Top 10 Reasons to Create Little Free Libraries in Your Community by Tammy Mulligan and Clare Landrigan We often support schools and communities with promoting summer reading. We want students to continue their “readerly lives” over the summer. A few years ago, we were researching ideas to get books to students in different communities and…
Checklist or Art Form? What we teach is not really as important as how we teach. In my first years of education, those suggested activities were my lifeline. I needed them because I thought of teaching as more of a checklist, than an art form. “If I do this, then I will be able to say that…
Today is a day I despise on the Internet. Filled with wannabe Onion writers, millions of sites think they are funny when in reality it’s just annoying. But, all is not lost. There have been great contributions on April Fools Day, and the optimist in me believe there will be in the future. Apple Computer…