Summer time : time for CPD while sitting on the sofa at home

THE POWER OF  LEARNING ............ALSO  IN THE SUMMER 


The summer has arrived with lots of interesting activities on  line for  teachers.  Among the many activities which can be done from home, you just need to sit on a  sofa and have your  tablet or  a laptop and  then  .................................you can start your  journey to recharge your  batteries and learn more for your  professional development.

SIMPLEK12  is a nice website for teachers and they run regular webminars for those who need to implement their technologies. Just check the webminar pages and you need to register to have access to the webminars. You need to register to the site, but if you do not want to pay, webminars are free. Those you register and pay for an annual subscription  will get  a certificate of attendance.

For teachers who are  interested in learning more about  e-learning and  might be interested in teaching on line  Coursera  has  just started  an interesting course on line. 

The course  started in July and  there might be another course this year:
COURSERA LEARNING TO TEACH ON LINE

The course has provided me with a long list of weblinks , new tools and also  more knowledge about  CC and  copyright.

The  Resource  Library is very rich and I feel that this link should be shared:

SELECTING TECHNOLOGIES AND OUTCOMES

TOOLS DIRECTORY 

If you do not have the time for doing a course you might be interested in  watching some old webminars dealing with education and web 2.0 tools: here is the link to the archive 


CLASSROOM 2.0 ARCHIVE OF WEBMINARS 



Have a nice summer and enjoy your CPD

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More about WEBTOOLS used for BLENDED LEARNING AND FLIPPING

After doing the interesting MOOC aboout WEB 2.0 with Coursera this spring, now  I have started a new journey into the  use of  technology to make our teaching and learning much better. I am doing a course about  TEACHING ON LINE, which sounds  a great way for improving my  teaching.


The first thing  I have  revised are web 2.0 tools and I came across this interesting presentation:there is a long list of tools among which  some are now well-known in my country too, but others are not  used because at school and at home we do not have a good internet  connection.  Once more  technology can help us but we do neet  a better learning  environment and  a good teaching team.  Some tools are  really easy to use, thus we should all try to choose  which one we want to try.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 from Jane Hart

Here are somo free tools for teachers  who need to work on line  

Thanks to a recent  webminar on line with  professor  Jiim  Baker  I  saw the use of   TWIDUCATE  http://www.twiducate.com/   . It is a tool can be used for collaboration on line, sharing ideas, posting activities on line, it is a sort of  TWITTER - a social network but for students.

EDMODO  

https://www.edmodo.com

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

https://www.blendspace.com/

Usefull webtool for creating lessons, tasks: you can find lessons in the Gallery. 

CLASSFLOW
https://classflow.com/


Class management tool, it can be used for  assessment and collaborative learning. You can use it to create lessons and  your classes are on line. You can have a free account. 

To be continued ............................................

MY CPD - SHARING INTERESTING WEBSITES FOR LEARNING

Thanks to SYMBALOO I have now collected my best  favourite sites/ blogs which are now part of my CPD.

After doing  two interesting MOOC courses with COURSERA  I have now learnt that my  profession is undergoing changes but we should all share new  things which we have learnt.

These are two important collections which I have decided should be shared and  used by other teachers willing to learn on line.

  Important websites where you can do on line courses and MOOCS: some are really great and should have  a look at them.
The second is the colletion of my favourite sites where you can see about  modern technologies and learn more.
I hope you will enjoy most of them!  




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