What is Content Curation?

http://www.webbythoughts.com/content-curation-tools-resource/

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Start by checking out the content creation tool, 

wakelet

With wakelet, hosting student projects is easy. You may have them document their thoughts or illustrate their collections and share them with the class. Guide students in the creation of their own digital storytelling like a chronological historic event or a fictional story. Wakelet makes it easy to promote independent interests and projects. You can also create your own engaging lessons through the planning process by embedding resources and placing all your multimedia in one place. 

Check out an example here: 

The Great White Shark

Teaching Tech to Teachers Infographic

 

http://elearninginfographics.com/teaching-tech-teachers-infographic/

Blended Learning v. Flipped Classroom Infographic

Check out the differences between the two hottest technology enhanced teaching and learning approaches!

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SMART Board 885ix Multitouch video

UHM Sakamaki Innovation Zone room D-101 has this type of SMART Board available!
Check out our Resources page HERE for more videos and links!

Sakamaki Innovation Zone!

The Sakamaki Innovation Zone has arrived! Go explore the website is here: www.cte.hawaii.edu/Sakamaki

Once we've ironed out all the wrinkles here on campus and on the website, we'll be including posts here with regards to classroom space and higher education, plus technology in the Zone - SMART Boards + Apple TV, AirPlay and other topics of interest.

Print your Google Calendar!

Print or create a PDF of your Google Calendar!

Something new to me - the ability to print out or save various views of my Google calendar or agenda!

Here's how:

1. Go to the calendar you want to print or save
2. Click on MORE and Print
3. You will automatically be in Print Preview and you can make adjustments as needed
4. If you'd like to convert your view to a PDF, click on Save As

*Note: I needed to expand the window to full size in Chrome to see the Save As option on the bottom right corner

I love being able to print out specific calendars and agenda in Google! Sometimes being able to hand a calendar page to a colleague, print out my personal calendar or having the ability to write notes on the week's work agenda is helpful!

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 from Jane Hart

Twitter is #1!

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 from Jane Hart

MindMapping!

If you haven't tried mindmapping, you're missing out on a fantastic tool!

I discovered mindmapping a few years ago when I was looking for a way to organize and plan a website step-by-step in a visual environment without using paper and pencil. Not only does mindmapping allow you great flexibility in planning, it serves as a system whereby you can brainstorm and organize at the same time. It's easy to create, edit, delete and move your ideas around on the screen. Currently, I use MindMeister.

I also designed our department events workflow here at UHM Center for Teaching Excellence. When the workflow changes or evolves, I jump on MindMeister and update it in a minute or two!

Mindmapping in Education caught my eye recently when I read this article from EmergingEdTech:

Teaching Creativity – The Case for Mind Mapping by Jane Karwoski, PhD on October 10, 2013

Welcome to edsquared!

Aloha everyone!

As an Educational Specialist at the Center for Teaching Excellence, I'm excited about the introduction of this blog to our University of Hawai'i community. I have lots of great ideas to keep you up-to-date with technology in education, plus I'll be offering lots of Tips & Tricks, a little bit of advice, and a place for you to comment on topics, request help or assist others who may need some guidance. Your thoughts and ideas are encouraged! 

I look forward to presenting up-and-coming sessions and workshops on campus. You can check our calendar here. 

Please don't hesitate to email me if you'd like to see a particular topic addressed. Some of the topics I plan to cover will be Google Education, Gmail Tips & Tricks, Google Forms, Google Sites, Google Search, Google Docs (collaborative) Twitter, plagiarism, information literacy, copyright guidelines, and iPad related topics + much more!

suzy :)