The Instructional Technology Ward

Focusing on instructional technology in the classroom, including applications of assistive tech, web 2.0, and other emerging technologies.

[edtechward-blog]

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom

Is Social Media Relevant? Take the Quiz

The Social Media Answer

The Social Media Myth

12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom Right Now

It's in the Standards

via Edutopia 

[edtechward-blog]

Ed Tech Digest: Cool Tool- Glean

Glean is an online platform for searching useful educational videos in a variety of subjects.

Ed Tech Digest Article

Glean Website

[edtechward-blog]

Flipped Learning definition from flippedlearning.org

[edtechward-blog]

15 Tips For Facilitating Online Discussion

via Edudemic

[edtechward-blog]

Create Whiteboard Recordings on the Updated eduClipper iPad App

[edtechward-blog]

The Top 10 Free Web Tools (Organized By User Rating)

via Edudemic

[edtechward-blog]

IdeaStorm – A Free and Simple Drawing App

via ipadapps4school

[edtechward-blog]

The Teacher’s Guide To Using Screencasts In The Classroom: How to start, plan, and utilize screencasts in your classroom.

Make your own example

Differentiate

Encourage creativity

Planning

Create Slides

Practice, practice, practice!

Use students' screencasts to teach

via Edudemic

[edtechward-blog]

14 Little-Known Ways Students Can Get More Out Of Google

via Edudemic 

[edtechward-blog]

Story Me – A Free iPad App for Creating Comics

[edtechward-blog]

6 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2014 via Edudemic

[paulselearning]

via Free Technology for Teachers

[theatlantic]

Why Are Glasses Perceived Differently Than Hearing Aids?

Without technology, the human body is a pretty proscribed instrument. We cannot write without a pen or pencil, nor eat hot soup without a bowl and, perhaps, a spoon.

And yet, only certain technologies are labeled “assistive technologies”: hearing aids, prostheses, wheelchairs. But surely our pens and pencils, bowls and spoons assist us as well. The human body is not very able all on its own. 

My curiosity about how we think about these camps of “normal” and “assistive” technologies brought me to Sara Hendren, a leading thinker and writer on adaptive technologies and prosthetics. Her wonderful site, Abler, was recently syndicated by Gizmodo. I talked to her about why crutches don’t look cool, where the idea of “normal” comes from, and whether the 21st century might bring greater understanding of human diversity.

Read more. [Patrick Murphy/Flickr]

[otl1fe]

Very cool! Please share with me if you or someone you know has or does try this out! I’m going to pass along to my friends at Head Start!

Here you will find the best environment on the Internet for children living with various autism challenges.

Zac Browser is a totally free software package. It is the first Internet browser developed specifically for children living with variants of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, PDD not otherwise specified and PDD-NOS, also called atypical autism.

[alwteachingresources]

article on Evernote

[gjmueller-deactivated20181226]

3 Methods to Strengthen Students'€™ Social Media Skills

[edtechward-blog]

Social media can be a distraction. It can be a liability. Or, it can be a way to build up your knowledge and make valuable connections.

Make social media group participation part of the assignments.

Treat Twitter (and its cohorts) like a resource.

Teach the tools.

[tedx]

High school senior Piper Otterbein has dyslexia, but it doesn’t define her. In a talk at TEDxYouth@CEHS, she shares the lesson that her difficulties with dyslexia have taught her — the best path in life is to harness the strengths you already have, rather than fixate on things you think you lack.

Watch the whole talk here»