5 Tools to Create a Collaborative Classroom
Teachers often focus on tools such as blogs that allow their students to connect to the outside world. This is fantastic because it allows students to see how their learning connects to…
- May 24, 2013 by Rebecca Davies
Apps, Tools
Google Drawings for Collaborative Problem Solving
Last week I was sick and needed a way to model problem-solving with my students from home. We are in the midst of a unit on multi-step equations which is the last…
- May 23, 2013 by Gary Johnston
- Google, Math
5 Things You Need to Know About Coursera’s New Teacher PD Section
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rug for the past couple years and not reading the Fractus Learning blog like your mother told you to, you know that MOOCs are a pretty…
- May 21, 2013 by Adam Heckler
- MOOC, Training
Create Your Own Education App in Minutes With Cleverlize
“There’s an App for that”… Well actually, sometimes there isn’t. Sometimes the App you want is the one in your head, not in the App Store. This is where German startup “Cleverlize”…
- May 20, 2013 by Nick Grantham
- Apps
5 of the Best Collections of EdTech Resources on the Web
With new #EdTech ‘dailies’ published on Twitter every moment, whole sites dedicated to online resources for teachers and more educators hosting their own blogs than ever before, the plethora of online material…
- May 17, 2013 by Laura Bates
- Tools
Just-in-Time Teaching: Harnessing the Power of Google Forms
Not long after I began flipping my writing and literature classes—delivering the course content remotely mostly through outside readings and online videos, readings, and exercises and then practicing the content in the…
- May 15, 2013 by Keith Hamon
- Flipped Classroom, Google
5 Simple Computer Languages That Are Great for Kids
The use of computers and computer languages in education has been impressive in the last couple of years. More and more school going kids use computers in the heart of all academic…
- May 14, 2013 by Fractus Guest Post
- Coding
How To: Use Wikipedia in the Classroom Responsibly
Despite the fact that it’s currently the year 2013, and that our collective EdTech excitement is growing every single day, there’s still one aspect of modern technology and the Internet that is…
- May 13, 2013 by Adam Heckler
- How To, Web
6 Brilliant Videos for Science Teachers
From the origins of the universe to tree frogs, there are some fantastic video resources out there for teachers to use when illustrating tricky topics in the classroom. Open Culture is a…
- May 10, 2013 by Laura Bates
- Science, Video
Top 4 Student Resources for Learning to Code Online
Believe it or not, one of the coolest things you can be in this day and age is a computer programmer. Computers are the future, and so it makes sense that those…
- May 7, 2013 by Adam Heckler
- Coding, Training
