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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Quadbase: Question banking made easy.

Quadbase: Question banking made easy. | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
A bank of community-written homework and test questions where authors get credit and access is completely free.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Make Interactive Images on ThingLink Education

Free Technology for Teachers: Make Interactive Images on ThingLink Education | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Richard Byrne shares a short tutorial on using ThingLink to create interactive images. ThingLink is now offering educators and students free accounts (create up to 50 images for free) or a paid plan with 500 images at a discounted price. How might you use ThingLink. He suggests that it "could be used by art students to identify and tag important elements of a picture, drawing, or photography...could also be used in history classes to have students identify important places in a battlefield like Gettysburg." What ideas do you have for using this tool?

Tiina K's curator insight, September 6, 2013 4:26 AM

Mitä merkitystä on sillä, että verkossa olevaan

kuvaan, yrityksen www-sivuun jne. lisätään vuorovaikutteisuutta?

Tutustu seuraavaan sivustoon http://www.thinglink.com/

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Multimedia Learning Resources - Educaplay

Multimedia Learning Resources - Educaplay | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Make and share your own learning resources. You can practice with other user activities. Free!
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16 Free Alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint: Create and Store Online!

16 Free Alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint: Create and Store Online! | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"When students are working on presentations for class, it is always easy for them to lose track of where they last saved it, and that's why using the cloud works out best. EXAMPLE: Due date for the school project is after the school vacation and one kid chimes in "But our family is going to the Bahamas for spring break!" No problem, dear. Do you have access to the Internet at your hotel? (They answer "yes") Then you'll be able to get to your project on the website. Here are 16 free presentation programs which store your projects in the cloud..."

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OER Glue - Gather Resources/Add Interaction/Build a Course

OER Glue - Gather Resources/Add Interaction/Build a Course | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Simple - Great OER content is out there. Gather that content, stitch it together, and engage learners w/o reinventing the wheel.

Stretchy - Seamlessly integrate content with dozens of popular websites, apps, and social media services.

Sticky - Make ANY web content engaging, interactive and shareable using the same tools your learners use every day.

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The Night Zookeeper - Inspire Young Artists and Writers

The Night Zookeeper - Inspire Young Artists and Writers | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Hello and welcome to my zoo. This zoo is unlike any other in the world. Here you can awaken your imagination and play under the light of stars. Together, we will answer the question: what do animals dream about? So if you want to play loads of creative games, read about amazing animals and create your very own...The project fosters a great sense of creativity amongst pupils and has seamless cross-curricular links. It involves aspects of Literacy, Art and ICT.

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What is App Inventor? | App Inventor Edu

What is App Inventor? | App Inventor Edu | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

App Inventor lets you develop applications for Android phones using a web browser and either a connected phone or emulator. The App Inventor servers store your work and help you keep track of your projects.

You build apps by working with:

* The App Inventor Designer, where you select the components for your app.

* The App Inventor Blocks Editor, where you assemble program blocks that specify how the components should behave. You assemble programs visually, fitting pieces together like pieces of a puzzle.

* Your app appears on the phone step-by-step as you add pieces to it, so you can test your work as you build. When you're done, you can package your app and produce a stand-alone application to install.

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Creating Infographics with an iPad

Creating Infographics with an iPad | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

...Now, however, there is an iPad app that can simply and flexibly create professional-looking infographics of almost any kind.

Visualize is a free (woo-hoo!) app from Reallusion, Inc., that offers a versatile canvas for designing information. Students can choose from a large array of fonts, shapes, call-outs, stickers, post-its, and backgrounds to lay out their graphics.

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Sir Ken Robinson - Leading a Learning Revolution

Sir Ken Robinson provides the closing statement for the LWF 12 conference under the theme "leading a learning revolution". Reforms are required for our indus...
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Wouldn't It Be Cool If...A Contest for Ages 10 -15

Wouldn't It Be Cool If...A Contest for Ages 10 -15 | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Dream up the coolest thing to make your life more awesome. Finalists will pitch their idea in person to will.i.am and other special guests. One lucky winner will see their idea come to life with support from a lead design and innovation agency. You may enter in teams of up to three or individually. Entries due by March 28, 2012. 

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Grabba Beast - Create Your Own Beast

Grabba Beast - Create Your Own Beast | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Grabba Beast lets you build your own Beast from a huge, ever-growing library of body types and parts - some scary, some cute - most are ridiculous - and arrange/color them as you see fit. If you don't feel like starting yourself hit Randomizer to generate a random creature or Grabba Glance at other beasts in the Beast Gallery. Another tool that could be a great starter for writing stories.
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Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share

Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Scratch: a programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.
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NYPL Labs : Stereogranimator - Create & Share Animated GIFS and 3D Anagraphs

NYPL Labs : Stereogranimator - Create & Share Animated GIFS and 3D Anagraphs | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library.

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INCREDIBOX - Express your musicality!

INCREDIBOX - Express your musicality! | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Express your musicality, pump it up and chill!

Create your own acapella group adding effects, beats, melodies, chorus and voices.

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Digital storytelling in the classroom

Digital storytelling in the classroom | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
When students create a movie or interactive slide show to tell their story, learning becomes personal.
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Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"As devices for reading e-books proliferate, it increasingly makes sense to make publications available in an e-book...

Making an e-book can be easy—almost trivially easy—using Pandoc, a tool I’ve written about earlier on ProfHacker. Of course, Pandoc isn’t the only way to do this. Mark has used Sigil and written about it, and another good option is Anthologize, which Julie wrote about."

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Infographics & Data Visualizations | Visual.ly

Infographics & Data Visualizations | Visual.ly | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Like infographics and data visualizations? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of dataviz and infographics. Come explore, share and create.
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Teaching video literacy for a media revolution

Teaching video literacy for a media revolution | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Michael Rosenblum: it's vitally important we teach people how to communicate their ideas in video so they might speak the media language we are all increasingly using...
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Asking The Right Questions | The Thinking Stick

Asking The Right Questions | The Thinking Stick | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Over the last few weeks I have received a hand full of e-mails all asking the same question.

What would you recommend?

  MacBook vs ChromeBook

  Laptop vs Tablet

  Tablet Laptop vs Tablet Slates

The problem is that's not the right question to be asking...read on to find out what question we should be asking.

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How-To-Guide: Recording Audio Files and Generating QR Codes | Langwitches Blog

How-To-Guide: Recording Audio Files and Generating QR Codes | Langwitches Blog | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
I shared a very successful collaboration between our Art teacher and Language Arts teacher in a previous post titled Transliteracy: QR Codes and Art as well as at several conferences and workshops I was leading in the past few months.
Mitsch Krumm's curator insight, November 26, 2014 5:56 AM

We, The Voice of Barcelona recently took part in several workshops for optimizing the quality of our audio guides.

See, hear and download the results @ www.thevoiceofbarcelona.com

(Pia)

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FlixTime - Video Slideshows made easy!

FlixTime - Video Slideshows made easy! | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
FlixTime videos - the coolest way to create amazing videos using your images, videos clips and music...
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One True Media | video creation that's simply powerful, easy and free

One True Media | video creation that's simply powerful, easy and free | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
One True Media makes video creation fun, easy and free. Mix your video and photos with our effects, text and music and post to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more. Get a download or DVD.
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Cool Tools: Easy-to-Use Applications for Creating Your Own Ebooks — The Digital Shift

Cool Tools: Easy-to-Use Applications for Creating Your Own Ebooks — The Digital Shift | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Technology has changed what it means to be an author and how people can discover your work. Today, anyone with a computer and Internet access can create an ebook, which is great news for schools. Now teachers and students can build their own reference works, and young authors can publish their stories and share them with the world.

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Edudemic on How to CreateaBlog.mp4

Do you want to set up a blog in Wordpress? If so this video will go through the steps of creating one in Wordpress, and it will help anyone thinking about setting up a blog with questions that they should consider, such as:

What do I want to write about?
Who will read my blog?
How can I manage my blog?
What features to I need to have to manage my blog?
Do you want to self-host your blog or using a hosting service?
Answers to these questions and many more are answered on this video.

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Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - -Quicksheets

..a quick and easy summary of the six different taxonomic levels of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. They define the different taxonomic levels, provide the Digital Taxonomy Verbs with some possibilities for classroom use.

Stephanie Sapp's curator insight, October 17, 2015 10:39 AM

Some great Web 2.0 Tools to use based on Bloom's Taxonomy