Colin Simpson

BELLTONES: An Open Letter to Teachers Who do Not Prefer Technology – Internet@Schools Magazine

Some interesting ideas in this post – we often overlook teachers that are tech-averse. http://bit.ly/1jBgtUy via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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SIMmersion.com – Jennifer Lerner – Interview and Interrogation Techniques

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Gardens of Discussion: What Makes Online Communities Work? — Academic Technology

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buildAR.com : Overlay your content on the real world

Location based augmented reality running in a standard web browser with no additional plugins. Impressive. Visit the site

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Slides – Create and share presentations online

https://slid.es/ Quick and easy to use online tool for creating slideshow based presentations via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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14 Web Tools For Teaching Without Student Logins – Edudemic

http://www.edudemic.com/web-tools-for-teaching-without-student-logins/ Some useful login-free online tools for use in teaching – I’m a particular fan of Padlet via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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English Raven: Moodle Tutorial: Page design to avoid the ‘scroll of death’…

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How to Moderate a Forum » Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm

http://laurelpapworth.com/how-to-moderate-forum/ A very practical and informative guide to effectively running and moderating an online community from someone with a lot of experience in the field. via Delicious (via IFTTT)

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Using Feedback in Moodle for more than student evaluations & Using Padlet

The first in our series of CITFLN TeacherNet Show and tell sessions went well with Jo Whitfield sharing some ideas about using the Feedback tool for more than student evaluations and I presented Padlet, an […]

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Kahoot! – handy online quiz activity builder supporting mobile access in class

https://create.kahoot.it/# Kahoot is a very simple but highly interactive online tool that enables teachers to create quizzes (or survey questions) that students are able to access via mobile devices. It takes a fairly gamified approach […]

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