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Friday, January 24, 2014

Tweets from Education Technology Gurus, Part II

The Daring Librarian, @GwynethJones, shares Top Ten Most Beautiful Places to Read Books. http://www.educationbash.com/top-10-most-beautiful-places-to-read-books/. The vintage looking libraries call to me.  It makes me think of Professor Higgins' library in My Fair Lady.  There is something quite charming about stacks of old books in stages of disarray. I love looking at these photos and dreaming of idling some hours in such quaint settings.
Jim Lerman, @jimlerman, tweets that Google Search has added an easy way to search for images that have reuse rights.
This is so useful to me.  As an ESL teacher, I use tons of images to make vocabulary and reading comprehensible.  It's so frustrating to have to try again and again to copy an image to use on a test or in a lesson.  Here's what you do:  First of all enter your search keyword, then click on Images. You will then see Search tools. Select this and it reveals Usage Rights with a drop down menu. The default is ‘not filtered by licence’. You can then choose one of four further options:
  • labelled for reuse
  • labelled for commercial reuse
  • labelled for reuse with modification
  • labelled for commercial reuse with modification
Check the best match and you will then only see the images that have those rights.

Kathy Schrock, @kathyschrock, really is a tech guru! It is hard to pick a favorite tweet.  She, like Jim Lerman, tweets about finding usage rights for Google Images.  But here is one of my favorites that she tweeted: 
It is a free app that helps you create visual presentations with animations, banner ads, charts and graphs, etc. It is an all-in-one cloud based tool.  Very cool!
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Tweets from Education Technology Gurus

Linda Braun, @lbraun2000, tweets a link on 5 Reasons You Should be Teaching Digital Citizenship.
The article describes cyberbullying and reckless use of digital communication as being rampant among teens.  This could be due to cruel exploiters, parents who fail to set boundaries, lack of education and discussion in schools, or a combination.   We can teach students to be proactive and mindful of how they deploy their devices.


Tony Vincent, @tonyvincent, had a lot of tweets about something called Stick Around.  He actually created it.  I clicked on one of the links and it took me to an iPad app called Stick Around by Tony Vincent and MorrisCooke, a way to play, design, and share sorting and labeling puzzles. Teachers can make puzzles for students to practice content by dragging stickers from a tray to their correct spots on a background before the time runs out.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stick-around-by-tony-vincent/id557949353?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
It's called Stick Around because it helps make learning stick.

Buffy Hamilton, @buffyjhamilton, has a lot of tweets about her mother, who is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.  But she also tweeted enthusiastically about Write Around Text Activities and linked photos of students doing the activity.  I enjoyed seeing their engagement; everyone was on task.


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