The Moodle page has been updated with some useful links to documentation and videos. Note the clear video from HRDNZ on uploading files.
Note that you can easily add mutiple files, simply create a folder of files on your computer.
Right click on your folder and select Send to – Compressed (zipped) folder.
On your Moodle course you can then add a file and select your zipped folder.
If you upload your file to a folder on Moodle you can choose to unzip the file.
21st Century Digital Literacy by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Try selecting the image and experiment with the sliders.
For an outstanding (free) online graphing calculator which is very easy to use try the Desmos Graphing Calculator.
This is something I use regularly in the classroom. Graphs can easily be shared so I have created many graphs for my students.
For many more examples see this page on my Mathematics blog.
From TED who provide free and inspiring video talks comes a new education initiative: TED-Ed, a series of videos on ‘lessons worth sharing’. New videos will be added regularly to the Ted-Ed YouTube Channel. The introductory video explains TED’s aims.
To use ifttt’s own description you can use ifttt to create tasks with the following structure: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).
I think this is best illustrated with some of the recipes that I use.
I really like my Kindle and using an ifttt task I now get an automatic email when a new book is added to the top 100 free ebooks.
I have various Gmail tasks, for example if I star an email it is automatically sent to Evernote.
Always liking the idea of a backup plan – all my Diigo bookmarks are sent automatically to Evernote (I also have Diigo set up to send the bookmarks to Delicious!)
There are numerous channels to use as building blocks for tasks.
You can use the numerous supplied recipes as a basis for your own tasks or create tasks from scratch. Ifttt has worked flawlessly since I started using it - I am very impressed!
The finalised list of the 2011 Top 100 Tools for learning from C4LPT (Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies).
Compare with the 2010 List
2010 List
The Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning have released a report on how social media can play an important part in teachers’ professional development.
The full report can be downloaded from this article, ‘Tweeting for Teachers‘.
Evernote is an outstanding application for capturing just about anything you want from wherever you want and finding it again! The Evernote search facility is awesome (here’s why), even when I don’t tag resources all that well, Evernote finds them again! I would recommend it for both teachers and students and have included it on the organisation page of the student version of this site.
Create a note using a phone or any web browser or use a desktop application. See this link for a short introductory video and a video library with many helpful tutorials. Evernote have also created a clear guide to getting started.
As a teacher I use Evernote all the time and have a notebook for each class I teach as well as numerous other notebooks. I also use Evernote shared notebooks as a way of sharing information, for example see Mathematics videos, QR codes and very appropriately some Evernote links! Having used a shared notebook to share some useful resources with students at school, some students then created their own accounts.
The free version of Evernote is excellent and more than adequate for millions of users!
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced the 2011 Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning. The websites are presented in various categories each with the associated standards for the 21st century learner. The sites are are free and have been judged by the association as sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
A new tutorials page has links to some excellent resources for learning how to use many of the Web 2.0 tools described here.
