Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingDitch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom by Matt Miller tells his story of how he went from plowing through a textbook to an open digital classroom. Thanks to his vision and some hard work, Matt opened the world to his students and started preparing them for the world they would soon be living in. Each chapter ends with one or more QRReader images that can take your smart phone directly to a relevant post at Read entire post...
Ditch That Textbook by Matt Miller
April 5th, 201613 Online Resources and Collaboration Tools To Engage Classrooms by Julie Petersen
April 3rd, 201613 Online Resources and Collaboration Tools To Engage Classrooms by Julie Petersen will save you a great deal of time and trial and error in your quest for effective collaboration tools. Thanks to Julie’s efforts you can just start checking out the list below rather than doing your own searches. If 13 teachers each check out one and report back you will save even more time.
Read entire post...7 Things to Consider Before Teaching an Online Course by Ben Russell
March 28th, 20167 Things to Consider Before Teaching an Online Course by Ben Russell offers advice to institutions who are adding online courses to their face-to-face offerings. If you are thinking of teaching one, be sure to use this checklist.
Read entire post...Take Control of the Noisy Class: From Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds by Rob Pelvin
March 4th, 2016Take Control of the Noisy Class: From Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds by Rob Pelvin should be included in every teacher preparation program and shared with any teachers who have discipline problems. Principals should have a few copies available for teachers who send more than their share of students to the office. @RobPlevin @CrownHousePub
Read entire post...Five Practical implementations of Internet of Things that can make your Life Easy by Vaishnavi Agrawa
February 18th, 2016Five Practical implementations of Internet of Things that can make your Life Easy by Vaishnavi Agrawa explains how the IoT is changing MANY aspects of our lives at work and at home. This is a guest post from Bangalore, India. If they get it there you should get it here.
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