Gamifying Learning
If you google “gamify“, “gamification” or “gamifying”, you will find several entries with this relatively new trend on the Web (the term is normally related to Web design and marketing). I just wrote a...
Tagged: education
Uses of the iPhone/iPod/iPad in the Classroom
I came across a short presentation by Grace Poli from Union City High School on Slideshare.net. The presentaion focuses on practical ways for using the iPod Touch in class, but of courses the uses...
Apple’s Mobile Devices and Education
Apple is known for supporting educational uses of its technologies. On Apple Learning Interchange Community, for instance, teachers can find news and share lesson plans and ideas on different subjects. Of course, Apple also supports the...
Social Media Threat to Education?
“CNN Sees Facebook as Major Competitor” says Mashable’s writer Jennifer Van Grove in an article today. Even though it seems reasonable at first “well, people are getting their news first on Facebook”, media giants...
Google For Educators
Google has an area dedicated to Education called Google for Educators which provides news, resources and tools for the classroom. Featuring information about events and opportunities for educators and students, tutorials and testimonials around...
Google Wave and Education
Imagine a scenario in which a professor, instead of having students discuss questions in separate threads in a classroom forum, s/he simply starts a conversation in one place on the Web where everyone can...
Open Books and TextBooks Online, Free
Taking after the movement of open source (free – as in freedom) software development, knowledge and information has also been “open sourced” (and crowdsourced) as new Web technologies allow for flexibility and ease of...
Social Media Revolution – Evolution
Let’s think about the impact these emerging technologies can have on Education, on learning, on other fields (not just marketing)… not sure “revolution” is the term, but definitely an “evolution” of the way people...
Essential iPhone Apps for Students and Educators
MacWorld published the “Ten Essential Back to School iPhone Apps”. While they chose very good apps, they might have left out a few other interesting apps as well. A possible improvement on the “top...
Uses of Second Life in Education
Excellent list on the SLEducation wiki on the use of Second Life for immersive learning. Some very interesting islands are highlighted like the ISTE island. Explore the list here.
