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Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/04/2013

Posted on 02:30 by Unknown
  • Free Technology for Teachers: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools

    An ebook about classroom backchannels from Richard Byrne.

    tags: education news backchannel

  • How to Make a Class Backchannel | Democratizing Knowledge

    Mike Gwaltney shares how he uses Twitter to make a backchannel.

    tags: education news backchannel bestpractices

  • Back-Channeling with Socrative | Socrative Garden

    Socrative has class backchannel capabilities.

    tags: backchannel education news

  • MAKE | How to Build CoffeeBots

    As my classes pursue inventions during our genius hour each week, I keep coming back to the makezine website for fantastic ideas. Here is something inexpensive that beginners can do using coffee cans and the Aurdino - it does require some soldering so you might want to reserve that part for an adult unless you have older kids capable of it.

    tags: news education invention geniushour maker_projects steam

  • 9/11 Day of Service

    Next week on 9/11 is the 9/11 day of service that many are commemorating. You can go to www.911day.org to see what others are doing and join in. This is a great activity and focus on others but more importantly - it is a remembrance - it isn't enough but it is a remembrance. Some of us still feel like it was yesterday.

    tags: news education events

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