A Great Visual Timeline Chronicling The Major Literary Events, Movements, and Authors

July 1, 2014Here is a wonderful infographic that has been making rounds online during this week.This visual which is created by online-literature captures some of the major literary periods and movements from the medieval period stretching between 500 to 1500 to the post modernist era that started in the late sixties of last century and is still going on till today. This timeline also chronicles important events that marked the trajectory of literary...

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Map Terms Kids Should Know About

June 30, 2014Teaching kids how to use and work on maps starts first with getting them acquainted with the map terminology. These are the different geographic terms and map concepts that will allow students to identify and understand the lingo used in map creation and description.For instance to describe the exact position of a point, students need to know the difference between absolute and relative locations. They should also able to understand...

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Over 40 Great Websites for Kids and Young Learners

June 30, 2014Looking for some wonderful sites for your first graders ? The resource below is definitely a must have. This is a Symbaloo board created by Emily Richeson where she featured 45 websites particularly curated for young learners.These sites include interactive games and exercises to provide your first graders with practice on key literacy areas such as Math, reading, and writing. I spent sometime sifting through these sites and I found...

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A Comprehensive Guide Featuring 101 iPad Tips and Tricks

June 29, 2014I just came across this wonderful guide and could not let it go without sharing it with you here in EdTech and Mlearning. Whether you have just bought a new iPad or you have been using one for awhile now, this guide will definitely help you make the best out of your "iPadding experience". I have spent sometime trying out some of the tips it features and I am really amazed at how much I did not know I could do on my iPad.image credit:...

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Interactive Visual Featuring 6 Tasks You Can Easily Do Using iPad

June 28, 2014This is an interactive image (created using Thinglink) that features a bunch of useful iPad apps that you can use to do tasks you would traditionally do using a pen and paper. I really liked the idea of providing alternatives to do things digitally. For instance, instead of taking notes in a notebook or on paper you can use Evernote or any other note taking app to do it on iPad. The good thing about doing things digitally is that you...

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StoryDesk- A Powerful Alternative to PowerPoint and Prezi

June , 2014StoryDesk is a good presentation app for iPad. Its beautiful interface makes it fast and easy to create presentations that help you break down complex concepts into bite-sized, easily understood bits. In many ways, StoryDesk is a next generation alternative to PowerPoint and Prezi.How StoryDesk WorksAt it’s core, StoryDesk is a collection of interactive templates. These templates do all kinds of stuff – ranging from video playback,...

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31 Paid Android Apps Are Free Today (Offer Expires Tomorrow)

June , 2014Here is a good deal for Android users from Amazon App Store. Today I learned from Digital Inspiration that the Amazon App store is giving away a package comprised of 31 paid Android apps worth a little over $100 for free. This is only a limited offer which will expire tomorrow (28th June).The  apps offered in this package are multifarious and cover a wide variety of areas. Some of the popular apps include gaming and utility apps such...

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PixiClip- A Great Tool for Creating Screencasts and Tutorials for Your Students

June 27, 2014PixiClip is a great web-based interactive whiteboard with huge potential for educational uses. PixiClip allows you to easily record your screen and share it with others.It provides an online canvas on which you can type, narrate, draw, sketch, and upload images to mark-up. You can record the whole process of your work on the canvas accompanied with your voice.Some of the key features that make PixiClip stand out from the rest are:Its...

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Classroom PDF A Great iPad App to Annotate, Grade and Present PDFs

June 27, 2014ClassroomPDF for the iPad is a PDF App tailor made for a teacher's workflow. It is ideal for grading PDF documents and presenting them in class. In addition to a silky-smooth handwritten ink engine, unique One-Tap Covers let you hide answers on the page and reveal them when needed. This is great for impromptu quizzes and motivating in-class discussions.Annotate PDFs:ClassroomPDF can open standard PDF files exported from other Apps...

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Handy Google Hangout Cheat Sheet for Teachers

June 26, 2014One of the best features of Google Plus I like so much is called Hangout. Hangout is a great way for teachers to  host group discussions online . Google Plus Hangout allows you to organize video and text conversations with your contacts. Within hangouts, users can share files, documents, and photos. Video calls on Hangouts are limited to only 10 members but using Hangout on Air will let you share your hangout live on YouTube or...

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BoomWriter- A Great Tool for Conducting Engaging Group-Writing Projects with Students

June 26, 2014BoomWriter is a collaborative writing website that is free for teachers and allows students to create, share, and even publish stories and other original content. BoomWriter’s easy-to-use and interactive group writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills.Here is...

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Three New Important Updates to Google Drive Released Today

June 26, 2014Google released today a major update to Docs,Sheets, and Slides. With this new update, users will be able to work on their documents across different devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone), anytime and with or without Internet connection. Here is the three main things that come with this new update:Slide App is now availableLike Docs and Sheets, Google Slide has now a mobile app for both iOS and Android. Using this app, you will...

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Use Google Docs to Convert Images and PDFs to Editable Text

June 25, 2014Here is a great Google Doc tip that helps me a lot with my studies in university. As a graduate student, most of my reading assignments and hand-outs come in the form of PDFs and some of these documents are only scanned versions of the original documents. Often times, these PDFs are low-quality as they are poorly scanned which makes reading them a real pain in the butt. Also, scanned PDFs do not allow you to do much on them: You can...

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Teachers' Visual Guide to Twitter Chats

June 25, 2014In an earlier post here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning I talked about some of the ways teachers can leverage the power of Twitter for their professional development. One of the things I mentioned is the use of Twitter chats. I am a big fan of these chats and though I don't  attend them regularly but I always check the archive to catch up with what teachers discuss and share on them. In fact several of the ideas and...

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