I’m becoming increasingly frustrated that YouTube is still blocked here in China. It’s been ten days since I was able to access the site, and it’s cutting into not only my lesson planning but my blogging as well. Evidently the site is being blocked for showing a video of police beating to death a Tibetan [...]
My Year 11 students and I are really enjoying our class blog. I’m seeing a side of their creativity that I would not have seen otherwise, I’m guessing. The students are engaged, innovative, and genuinely seem to be excited about posting even if it’s an “assignment.” Basically I’m having them do three types of post: [...]
Lifehacker has a helpful article listing some more great places to get free online education. Among the more interesting offerings to me are these: language learning programs skills trading quid pro quo sites online university courses See the article for details. With the continued proliferation of all things internet, this trend of providing open source [...]
Digital Education reports that UK schools will be forgoing some content in the National Curriculum in favor of learning classroom 2.0 skills like Tweeting, blogging, podcasting, social media networking, etc. This is another one of those choices that I don’t believe is “either/or.” Learners will need some instruction in learning these skills, but I doubt [...]
Charles Sipe of School Tools Blog introduces some absolutely incredible sites for making flashcards online. These can obviously be used for a myriad of educational purposes. One example: Quizlet Unlike Cramberry, Quizlet allows you to search and find flash card sets created by other users. A nice feature of this site is that it allows [...]
Lifehacker reports that YouTube has just launched a new sub-site called YouTube EDU. Evidently they have links to lectures from many of the US’s top universities. They’re also pointing to another free lecture site called Academic Earth. Great info for those of us looking to better ourselves…for free!
Thomas at Open Education highlights some great sites for easily creating visual learning stimuli in the classroom. If you’re like me–artistically challenged–this is a great way to make meaningful, effective displays for your classroom. Check it out.
Christopher Sessums breaks down an article on businesses’ use of social media and wonders whether the same questions asked of those engaged in business media should be asked of educators wishing to use social media in the classroom. Sessums states: What I like most about Chandler’s metrics is their candor. For example, a question like [...]
This is an excellent video highlighting the incredible need to adjust our teaching approach to the evolving needs of our students. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&hl=en&fs=1] This video was created by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia. Tom used the work of Karl Fisch from Colorado who created a PPT using various quotes and statistics from “flat [...]
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