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Friday, July 19, 2013
Q: Where I can find good quality classroom ideas?
A: The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas
Q: Where I can find reviews and recommendations about educational tools?
A: edshelf has well organized resources. For example, if you are interested in teachers toolkit for video the search will take you to this page: https://edshelf.com/profile/jonnywathen/teachers-toolkit---video
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Q: How to stay tuned with all changes in social media?
A: Conversation Prism will help you: https://conversationprism.com/whats-new-with-version-4-0/
Q: I need to create a meaningful interactive data visualization for the class project. How to choose the right tool? What technology is used to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations?
A: Look at the list offered by http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
Retrieved from Liz Dorland's scoop: A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization.ch
Retrieved from Liz Dorland's scoop: A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization.ch
Monday, April 29, 2013
Q: What Social Web applications for creating and sharing mind maps are available? I want students to use mind mapping for group projects to generate, visualize, and organize ideas, and develop stronger problem solving, and decision making skills.
A: Try bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/ and Mindomo http://www.mindomo.com/
Q: I want to learn Analytics to build my online courses in the most effective way. Where to start?
A: this Mindmap will help you to see a big picture and all resources available: http://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/learning-analytics-62e500f49d144638b444cc5f26275e0e
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Q: I want to find an alternative to clickers. What tool I can use in class to show the bell curve in real time?
A: You can use technology that students already own (laptops, cell phones). See the list of compatible tools below:
AdobeConnect: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-connect/creating-a-poll/
PollDaddy: http://polldaddy.com Socrative: http://www.socrative.com/ Piazza: https://piazza.com/ https://piazza.com/features#
LectureTools: http://www.lecturetools.com/ QuestionPress: http://www.questionpress.com/ Learning Catalytics: https://learningcatalytics.com/ polleverywhere: http://www.polleverywhere.com/highered-student-response-system mentimeter: http://mentimeter.com/ Celly: http://cel.ly/ eClickers: http://www.eclicker.com/ TurningTechnologies ResponseWare: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/studentresponsesystems/mobiledistancelearning/higheredresponseware/ Socrative: http://socrative.com/# Google Forms: docs.google.comhttps://sites.google.com/a/pjrprojects.co.uk/sitesguide/google-sites/how-tos/create-a-poll-using-google-formshttp://www.demogeek.com/2009/04/01/polls-made-easier-with-google-docs-spreadsheet/Top Hat Monocle: http://www.tophatmonocle.com/ GoSoapBox: http://gosoapbox.com/tour iClicker Web Clicker: http://www.iclicker.com/products/webclicker/ ClickerSchool Virtual Clicker by Eduware: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clickerschool-virtual-clicker/id444020820?mt=8 SodaHead Polls-WP plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sodahead-polls/ Pinnion: http://www.pinnion.com/References:
http://blogs.princeton.edu/etc/2012/04/10/alternatives-to-physical-clickers-in-the-classroom/http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/three-alternatives-to-clicker-response.html#.UXm7AcolHuQ
AdobeConnect: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-adobe-connect/creating-a-poll/
PollDaddy: http://polldaddy.com Socrative: http://www.socrative.com/ Piazza: https://piazza.com/ https://piazza.com/features#
LectureTools: http://www.lecturetools.com/ QuestionPress: http://www.questionpress.com/ Learning Catalytics: https://learningcatalytics.com/ polleverywhere: http://www.polleverywhere.com/highered-student-response-system mentimeter: http://mentimeter.com/ Celly: http://cel.ly/ eClickers: http://www.eclicker.com/ TurningTechnologies ResponseWare: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/studentresponsesystems/mobiledistancelearning/higheredresponseware/ Socrative: http://socrative.com/# Google Forms: docs.google.comhttps://sites.google.com/a/pjrprojects.co.uk/sitesguide/google-sites/how-tos/create-a-poll-using-google-formshttp://www.demogeek.com/2009/04/01/polls-made-easier-with-google-docs-spreadsheet/Top Hat Monocle: http://www.tophatmonocle.com/ GoSoapBox: http://gosoapbox.com/tour iClicker Web Clicker: http://www.iclicker.com/products/webclicker/ ClickerSchool Virtual Clicker by Eduware: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clickerschool-virtual-clicker/id444020820?mt=8 SodaHead Polls-WP plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sodahead-polls/ Pinnion: http://www.pinnion.com/References:
http://blogs.princeton.edu/etc/2012/04/10/alternatives-to-physical-clickers-in-the-classroom/http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/three-alternatives-to-clicker-response.html#.UXm7AcolHuQ
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