For the Love of Project Based Learning

flydsouza:

thingsforteachers:

ScreenChomp is a free app for creating and sharing short tutorials or lessons on your iPad. ScreenChomp provides a whiteboard on which you can demonstrate things by drawing and talking people through your instructions.

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Ipad great tool for teaching!

theuniverseishuge:

While physics can be a fascinating subject, some of the concepts it presents aren’t always the easiest for students to understand or for teachers to convey to their classes. That’s where the web can come to the rescue. Here you’ll find a list of some great videos that both clearly demonstrate the major ideas of physics for beginners, as well as provide insights in more complex topics for those who are more familiar with the subject matter, like students at online colleges for engineering. Check through the list to see if there’s something that can facilitate your teaching or learning process.

These videos will help show the lighter side of physics with amazing experiments, funny raps and explanations of concepts in terms students can understand.

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flydsouza:

world-shaker:

Here was my favorite on the list:

Apps? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Apps!
John Spencer (big fan, hi John!) discusses how he’s rolling out various devices this coming school year. But he’s not going to load them up with apps ahead of time. Instead, he’ll be seeing what the demand is in terms of apps and making decisions based on that data. I love this idea and think it’s a great way to prevent cost overruns as well as having unnecessary apps that will simply be ignored or deleted.

Another one for ipad learners!!

world-shaker:

Here are three (click through for the rest):

1. Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them.
2. Ask students to create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Then allow students to present them or play them on separate devices as an audio gallery.
3. Create a classroom blog and ask each student to write a blog post introducing themselves to the rest of the classroom.

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world-shaker:

6 Tips for Teachers: How to Maximize Shared Resources

Here are the first three (click through for the rest):

1) Introductory Session

If you’re using a new tool or website, model it in the classroom before your scheduled time. This will eliminate time spent explaining…

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flydsouza:

What you need to know before you start with PBL?

a-substitutes-treatise:

I wish that more of my students watched television the way they read books. I know, I know—you are in disbelief that my students actually read. Truth time: they don’t which is why I wish that they used the critical thinking tools I teach them to think about the TV they watch. It’s a tall order…