Into the Driver's Seat

Wizer is the most powerful digital worksheet creator for teachers everywhere. Instantly convert any pdf to an interactive Wizer worksheet and organize your Wizer worksheets in your Google Drive.

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I don't get nearly as many requests for help with file conversion as I did 5-10 years ago, but I still do get them from time to time

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I have already written a post about working with PDFs on a Chromebook. I have also written about creating eBooks on Chromebooks. In this post, I discuss the various ways you can make ebooks, one of…

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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Higher Order Thinking Strategies and Tools

 

The following Online Interactive Thinking Strategies and Tools are designed to provide a scaffold which enables students to think with more depth and structure.

 

Read more, very interesting...:

http://learningcurveplanner.com.au/thinking-tools.html

 

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Sometimes we receive worksheets in PDF from our daughter's teachers for her to work on. Our printer doesn’t work very well, and I know some of the families don't have a printer at home, so in order to make the PDF editable for her and her classmates to complete using a computer, I use Google Slides..

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Gwen Hilliard

SpeechTechie will help you find speech language pathology and technology resources for your lesson plans and therapy. This blog shows you the best free internet sites and apps related to speech and language goals

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Free PDF tools are hard to come by, but don't worry! PDF Candy has forty-four EdTech tools for teachers that make working with PDFs easy.

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Teachers are the most important school-related factor influencing student learning. Teachers can help level the playing field and provide opportunities...

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=OECD

 

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Teacher professional learning is of increasing interest as one way to support the increasingly complex skills students need to learn in preparation for further education and work in the 21st century. Sophisticated forms of teaching are needed to develop student competencies such as deep mastery of challenging content, critical thinking, complex problem-solving,

 

effective communication and collaboration, and self-direction. In turn, effective professional development (PD) is needed to help teachers learn and refine the pedagogies required to teach these skills. However, research has shown that many PD initiatives appear ineffective in supporting changes in teacher practices and student learning. Accordingly, we set out to discover the features of effective PD.

 

This paper reviews 35 methodologically rigorous studies that have demonstrated a positive link between teacher professional development, teaching practices, and student outcomes. We identify the features of these approaches and offer rich  descriptions of these models to inform those seeking to understand the nature of the initiatives.

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=coaching

 

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=professional+development

 

 

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Robin Good: HelloSlide is a web-based service which allows anyone to upload a PDF (max 100MB) and add a voice-over track to it by simply adding a text copy of what needs to be said on each slide.

 

HelloSlide does the rest by generating a good quality voice over by utilizing synthsized digital voices that automatically read your script slide after slide.

 

Not only. By leveraging this type of approach HelloSlide can make your presentation available in over 20 languages instantly and by providing a full text transcript with the presentation there may be also some SEO benefits, as search engines can tell now precisely what you are talking about in those slides.

 

The free plan allows about to 50 presentations.

The Pro account which costs $9/mo allows up to 200 presentations, an export-to-video function as well as the ability to auto-translate to other languages. The Premium at $39 extends the numbers of presentations, auto-translations and throws in 10 human-voiced translations per month. 

See examples: http://www.helloslide.com/ 

 

My test: http://www.helloslide.com/presentations/520/la-formula-di-sharewood-alt-20111220pdf 

 

Plans and pricing: http://www.helloslide.com/pricing

 

FAQ: http://www.helloslide.com/faq 

Try it now: http://www.helloslide.com/ 

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