Kirsten is an award winning edublogger and the founder & editor of EDUKWEST, a growing online media network of educators and educational entrepreneurs ("edupreneurs") highlighting the best of transformational educational technologies and businesses.
Posts by Kirsten Winkler
Google for Education – The Top 5 Products Every Educator Should Use
As a preface to this article I would like to remind everybody that nothing lasts forever, especially if you use it for free. Google’s termination of its popular Google Reader as part…
How to Launch your Edtech Startup on Startup Weekend Education
Do you have a great idea for an application, game or service that would help students to learn, involve parents or make life as a teacher easier? Do you require a skilled…
Common Sense Media Helps Teachers Find Appropriate Educational Content
Last week, we talked about implementing topics of popular culture in the classroom in order to get students more interested and engaged. Today’s post heads in the same direction but is, once…
Pop Culture in the Classroom and Students as Teachers
To keep our students motivated and engaged is a challenge every educator is faced with every day. Today, I would like to introduce you to two approaches on how to bring ‘real…
3 Great Resources for Art Teachers
Art is probably one of the most difficult subject matters to teach. Sure, as long as the kids are young, and happy to paint and craft in class all is well, but…
Why We Need DRM-Free Alternatives Like Open Library
At the beginning of September I wrote an article with the title ‘Who owns your digital content? Hint: Not you’ in which I state both Amazon’s and Apple’s terms of service that…
The Noun Project – Teaching With Visual Icons
Thanks to a quick note on Richard Byrne’s blog freetech4teachers.com I have become aware of a platform called The Noun Project and started thinking of the many use cases in education. The…
Take a Deep Dive Into History and Culture With Google Cultural Institute
In last week’s post I wrote about different online sources history teachers can use in class to give their students a more engaging experience when they learn about ancient cultures and WWI….
Three Amazing Resources For History Teachers That Students Will Love
You might have noticed that I am a bit of a history and ancient culture addict and that I like to share resources for history teachers here on Fractus Learning. This week, I…
Will YouTube Become The Next MOOC Platform?
This week YouTube launched two interesting new features that could be part of a bigger plan to turn the video platform into the next global MOOC platform. And it wouldn’t be YouTube’s…
