Technology: An Educational Issue?

BioBook

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:50:00 -0500

The BioBook is an iPad and web-enabled interactive biology textbook for college level. Educators can track individual student progress and develop content from a national database of educator-contributed material. Students can explore concepts following branched, interlinked idea paths. Unlike storybook formats, chapters are structured into threaded learning where all students start with

Noteshelf app for iPad

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500

Noteshelf is an awesome app for note taking on the iPad. It lets you write notes, organize all your notebooks each with a cover and title, protect groups of notebooks with a password, and rearrange pages between notebooks. Does any student need copybooks and pens anymore? Do teachers need to carry paper notebooks around at conferences? Add fun to your notes using the smileys and icons that come

Create EduGames Online

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 3 May 2011 16:59:00 -0500

Gamestar Mechanic is a game-based digital learning platform designed to teach the guiding principles of game design and systems thinking in a highly engaging and creative environment. Gamestar Mechanic was designed with the understanding that game design is an activity that allows learners to build technical, technological, artistic, cognitive, social, and linguistic skills suitable for our

Using Apps

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Mon, 2 May 2011 12:41:00 -0500

Educational organizations are finally embracing apps for smartphones such as the iPhone and tablet computers, such as the iPad. Learning with apps is often more convenient in this mobile world. Many of these apps are free to use for educational purposes.For example, an app to get students thinking about how biomechanics and anatomy are related is the Vernier Video Physics app. Students can

Student-Produced Videos

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:44:00 -0500

Elev8ed.org is a site for students to submit videos that:- Offer new ideas for what education could be, and/or- Inspire others to transform education, and/or- Propose actions to improve education in the community.Ask your students to check it out and see if they are interested in participating. There are lots of sample student productions to view.

Free Forensic Webinars

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:32:00 -0500

Ward's is offering free webinars on teaching forensics. See the schedule at the bottom of the link provided. The webinars are presented by Professional Development Academy experts,featuring the same content and interaction as live workshops, but without the cost of presenter travel fees. Webinars are broadcast live via the internet to your school building or multiple sites within your district.

Student Video Contest

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:53:00 -0500

Population Connection is hosting a video contest for high school students that challenges students to create a public service announcement that illustrates the impact of population reaching seven billion as it relates to environmental and global issues. Students can win cash prizes, the deadline for entries is coming up on March 1, 2011. If at least 10 students submit videos, they will send

Interactive Science/Math

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:57:00 -0500

Howtosmile.org, from the University of California, is an online collection of thousands of hands-on interactive science and math activities dedicated to making learning exciting and engaging for everyone. All activities are freely accessible. Howtosmile.org, funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library, brings together a consortium of science museums

Skype for the Classroom

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:55:00 -0500

Skype is developing a free online directory to make it easy for teachers to connect with other teachers and resources from around the world. The directory will launch in December 2010 in English only. Once you sign up with your Skype account and create a profile, you'll be able to search for other teachers and classes by subject and region. You can also share inspiration and tips to help students

Timetree of Life

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:23:00 -0500

The Timetree of Life contains electronic files of articles and figures from the book The Timetree of Life (2009), Oxford University Press, and a wall poster. These resources are copyrighted but are provided free for personal, research, or educational use.TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands

Web Video & Innovation

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:16:00 -0500

TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.

Blogging for Teachers

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:30:00 -0500

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TweetDeck

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:03:00 -0500

TweetDeck is a personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. The download is free. You can also sign up for a TweetDeck account, which allows you to add columns and Twitter Lists straight from the TweetDeck Directory, as well as rate and comment on all the lists you find. You can also participate in the

Blogging Tips

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:00:00 -0500

32 ways to make your blog suck lessView more presentations from Scott Hanselman.

Tech Standards

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:06:00 -0500

The ISTE National Technology Standards for Students say that we should be preparing students so they can effectively use technology tools and demonstrate…1. Creativity and Innovation2. Communication & Collaboration3. Research and Information Fluency4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making5. Digital Citizenship6. Technology Operations & Concepts

Jeopardy Labs

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:53:00 -0500

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. You can build your own jeopardy templates or browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It's free, without login requirements.

Science Buddies

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 4 May 2010 12:14:00 -0500

Looking for information about a hypothesis or chromotography? Or maybe the scientific method or how to build a wind tunnel? The Science Buddies website is full of reference materials and Project Ideas, particularly for free science fair ideas. There are: Over 900 Project Ideas to choose from.The Topic Selection Wizard will recommend a science fair project idea that is just right for a class/

Making Tracks Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:40:00 -0500

Making Tracks Challenge provides downloadable nature guides and species lists for hiking trails throughout the United States. It offers resources for students to make their own educational nature trails on school grounds or in nearby communities and the site will automatically generate an illustrated field guide for their site. It has more than 2,000 species in the database already but users are

MIT OpenCourseWare

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:53:00 -0500

MIT OpenCourseWare is a collection of over 1,800 college-level class materials offered at no-cost to the public. Upgrade your knowledge and skills by studying the lecture notes, completing assignments, reading study guides, and watching lecture recordings. All classes are available through the official Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare website.The courses are designed for

Kidblog

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:56:00 -0500

Kidblog is designed for elementary and middle school and it's free and simple to set up. Teachers will notice the ease of creating and maintaining blogs if they have tried other blogging platforms like Blogger or Wordpress, which are not always easy for younger students. Kidblogallows students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers

High-Tech Nature/Science

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:10:00 -0500

Science and Nature magazines will co-launch an open-access, online-only journal in April 2010. The name of the Journal is being decided by text-message vote by the public. Preprints will be posted on a special social networking Web site where scientists registered in the newly created Faculty of a Million can vote for acceptance by pressing a "Like" thumbs-up button or reject the paper by

Internet Bird Collection

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:33:00 -0500

The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of the world's birds that is available to the general public free of charge. The online collection consists of over 40,000 videos, about 20,000 photos, and almost 5,000 bird sound recordings.Photo: Horned Sungem (Heliactin

GEON Mentors

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:22:00 -0500

Why not invite a geneticist to visit your classroom? You can search the Genetics Education Outreach Network (GEON) to find a genetics professional in your area. GEON members include scientists, clinicians and counselors who are eager to work with K-12 students and teachers.Nearly 650 members of the genetics scientific and counseling community have volunteered to be a part of this unique resource

Zine the Science

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:14:00 -0500

Imagine a mini-magaZine you make yourself. Now make it smaller – from a single 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper to make an 8 page booklet that fits in the palm of your hand. You'll be amazed how much entertaining science can be packed into a zine and shared with the world! After three rounds of reading, laughing, and learning a lot of science, a panel of six judges selected the winners of the Year of

SPILL: Learning by Avatar

noreply@blogger.com (scilit) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:53:00 -0500

SPILL is a Business Simulation that takes place in a 3D world that teaches students how to apply business skills to environmental remediation. In the 3D city there has been an oil spill. Students design avatars and collaborate in teams inside the Virtual World to apply business skills, learn, clean up the spill, and win. Underwritten by Deloitte and provided to teachers at no cost, this new