One way that we can encourage creativity with our students is through student designed and published e-books.
The Digital Shift additionally has an excellent post about Travis Jonker’s ereader journey with Yr 5 and 6 students.
Create your own ebooks using these tools from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning’s blog.
See more useful resources at my diigo ebooks list.
Create your own E-Book for your iPad
Each year Jane Hart compiles the Top 100 learning tools.
Additionally, Jane has also provided the following tools:
“But now for the complete 2012 Top 100 Tools list. I have prepared a number of resources that not only provide detail about the tools but that also help to analyze the list. This includes:
– a shareable slideset, (via Slideshare), which I have embedded below
– a textual list, where you can also see at a glance, how the tools are commonly being used (ie for Personal/Professional use, in Education or in the Enterprise)
– a list of the Winners and Losers in 2012 – compared to 2011
– and a categorised list of tools, called Best of Breed 2012
And, if you want to compare the rankings across the six surveys, there’s the Top 100 Tools 2007-2012 list too.”
Source
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2012/10/01/the-top-100-tools-for-learning-2012-list-is-revealed/
I love looking at this list to see if I am current in my awareness of the tools that others are using, as well as finding new ones!
It is an excellent way to easily share what can be used from the myriad of resources out there, that can simply overwhelm.
My general rule of thumb is – find one new tool to experiment with – consider its benefit to education – trial it with some students and then share :).
I already use the majority of tools on the list – but will be testing out Learnist as an alternative content curator.
Thinglink is a tool that has many educational applications.
See my diigo links for ideas and resources for using this interactive, creative tool.
This thinglink Thinglink Edu is an excellent example of how to use it.
Spectronics have compiled a comprehensive table of apps to support the teaching of Special Education.
Seen this assistive technology page @spectronics? #assistivetech Definitely worth you having a look http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/article/apps-for-special-education
The transformation that iDevices can make to a classroom, student engagement and learning!
See The teaching palette’s blog for some wonderful ideas.
Literacy and Visual Literacy in particular are key areas in the Australian Curriculum and General Capabilities.
Recently I presented about some ways to incorporate Visual Literacy with an iPad at the recent Apps Galore joint Mini-Conference (BCE and Lutheran Education).
These resources can be found here.
iPhone App for the session
Visual Literacy resources (JSSALC wikispaces)
Additionally, the Glean website has some excellent resources to support the development of literacy skills in its various forms.
Glean Learning Tools are free information literacy, data literacy and math teaching tools produced by Public Learning Media, Inc.
See http://www.glean.org/information-literacy
In order to compile students and teacher reflections about iDevice use, I have created a podcast to post these.
This hosting is using the service Hipcast.
Podcast title
Conversations with teachers & students about iDevices
Support blog LEQICT Blog
The Horizon Report 2012 is out!
The NMC Horizon Report for 2013 identifies mobile devices & apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less.
Then within two to three year we sill be seeing Game-based learning and personal learning environments are seen in the second horizon and then augmented reality and natural user interfaces in four to five years.
This livebinder is an excellent resource for teachers to begin to understand the implications of these developments.
