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Pursuing An Online Degree In Education
Education in general may be the 2nd biggest sector inside the complete United States, making use of around 13.3 million jobs. Inside extensive definition of education drop the four most recognizable jobs: training in kindergarten, fundamental institution, middle school and school. These teachers placed roughly 3.5 million jobs as of 2008, and employment during these career fields is expected to develop concerning 13 percent between right now as well as 2018.
Customarily, the method to learning to be a community school teacher with the levels of training calls for completing a bachelor's degree coming from a college which has a teacher education program accompanied by receiving a license. Education packages were created specifically for those that want to educate and will include courses which educate schooling philosophies, therapy involving learning instructional classes and also educating strategies. The majority of programs, even on the internet programs, will need pupils to execute a student-teaching internship to achieve the actual first-hand example of training just before selling it to this expertly and also independently.
Accreditation is necessary in all 50 states and also the District involving Colombia prior to a Master can instruct on their own which is of course with the Point out Aboard of Education or even a licensure advisory committee. In order to earn a license, almost all declares require common education teachers to acquire their bachelor's amount and also have finished their own internship. Additional specifics change by express and often contain getting the user's degree inside a certain period of time soon after graduating, technology instruction and also making a minimum GPA by means of university. After achieving just about all needs, college students can do a job within education.
Social Media Cheat Sheets - free tips and more for social media sites
Walyou, a great site for interesting information and more, has a great collection of cheat sheets that have tips, shortcuts, and more for social media sites. The sites include Google+, Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook and have some great tips for making them more useful and easier to use.
These are great for finding some cool new features or shortcuts and also great to help newbies get started.
Check them out here: http://walyou.com/social-media-cheat-sheets/
Related:
Social Media in Education - Connect, Share, Learn, Communicate and more
Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook - a nice comparison
Google+ - more reasons it's great for educators
Google Unit Conversions are now interactive
Google's OneBox, the search/URL/etc box in Chrome and search bars has been updated. You have been able to enter a conversion, say 5kg into pounds, in the box and get an answer, but now it's interactive where you can easily change the number and units in the results box itself.
I entered "5kg = ? pounds"
You can click on the "Mass" to bring up a drop down menu of different measurements, including temperature, velocity, volume, and more and clicking on "kg" or "pound" brings up a drop down menu to change the units.
This is a great resource for students and teachers needing a quick and easy conversion calculator anywhere.
Cubby, cool file sync, share and storage service, offers big storage increase for referrals
LogMeIn is a service that allows you to remotely access someone else's computer (with their permission and cooperation, of course) so that you can help them fix a problem. It's much easier than having them try to explain the problem over the phone, or you having to drive to their house.
This past April they launched Cubby, a new cloud file sync, share and storage service. It's still in beta, but you can enter your email to get an invite. You can sync your files across all of your computers, tablets, and smartphones easily. You can share files and collaborate on them with others. You don't need to reorganize your files either. You can just select any folder on your device to by synced and make it accessible anywhere.
They have just announced that users can ear more memory, the free account starts with 5GB, by having friends sign up for an account. For every referral that signs up, you get 1GB of extra space. That's pretty good. Have a few friends sign up and you can easily end up with some serious storage space.
They have also announced some improvements to the iOS app and some other new features.
Read more about this announcement: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/13/logmeins-cubby-offering-up-1gb-for-referrals-tells-dropbox-whe/
eduClipper now available and up and running
eduClipper is a new app from EduTecher Adam Bellow that I wrote about last month. eduClipper is now available to use to those who signed up earlier. It provides a way to clip anything from the web and then share it with anyone.
It's free and allows you to clip and capture anything from the web including articles, links, videos, lesson plans and more. You then create a clipboard to organize what you have clipped and then you can share the clipboards with students, colleagues, the public or just keep it for yourself. Students can use it too and the clipboards are searchable. You can also share your clipboards via different social networks.
The social sharing aspect is what makes it different from other web clipping services and apps. You share what you have clipped with others and people can comment and discuss the clip.
You can still request an invite too: http://www.educlipper.net/
Adam has a nice YouTube video that describes eduClipper in more detail:
Related:
EduTecher - explore and share educational web tools
iGoogle shutting down Nov 1, 2013 - here are some alternatives
iGoogle, Google's customizable start page, is shutting down and will not be available after November 1, 2013. Google has decided that iGoogle has outlived it's usefulness with the new apps and technologies that are now available. All of your data in your Google product widgets will still be there in the original product, like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. Other gadgets you use probably have a way for you to export your data to another service and many of the gadgets exist as stand alone apps now.
I have used iGoogle for many years as my start page but have noticed that lately I am really only using it for the Google Reader. I have all of my Google apps, and other apps that I use throughout the day, either launch in their own tabs when I start up Chrome, or they are on my Chrome homepage. I really don't need iGoogle anymore when on my own computers. As for having a place to go when on a shared computer, I'm setting up all of my links to my apps and services in an Evernote note for quick access and linking and I might make a Google Site with all the links and add any gadgets.
Some other alternatives to iGoogle include:
Symbaloo - recommended by Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers
Create your own Wiki or Google Site with links to all of your apps.
Use an Evernote note, as I mentioned above, to have links to all of your apps and resources.
NetVibes and Protopage - from Life Hacker
Related:
Google for Education Resources
Evernote for Education Resources
Zoho Planner being shut down
Zoho Planner is a service I wrote about this past April that was a very useful way to get organize and plan out your schedule and activities. It allowed you to create to-do lists, notes, upload images and files add email reminders and access your data anywhere.
I just received a notice from Zoho that they are shutting down Zoho Planner. The full notice can be seen below. Planner will remain online until December 31st 2012 but will switch to read only soon. Users will need to back up their data before the end of the year when all data will be erased. Zoho has a support site and email available and reminds users that they can use Zoho Calendar, Wiki and Tasks to replace Zoho planner.
You can also use Google's many services and Evernote to get organized and replace Zoho Planner.
See links to other services and the full shut down notice below.
Related:
Zoho - suite of on-line business, productivity & collaboration apps
Alternatives to Google's web services and apps
Google for Educators Resources
Evernote for Educators Resources
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181 Google Tricks that will save you time in School - updated
181 Google Tricks that will save you time in School - updated is an article that has, as it's title suggests, some great tricks for using different Google apps and resources in education.
Presentation on Google for Educators
Why I use Google's Products as an Educator (and how)
Discovery Education announces updates to it's Science Techbooks
Discovery Education has a lot of great resources for educators, many free (over 30). They also have fee-based services such as DE Streaming with thousands of videos, audio files, images, lesson plans, and much more.
The Discovery Education Science Techbook is more than a digital textbook. "It’s a different way of thinking. Thinking outside the box, perhaps. Or more appropriately, thinking outside the book." "The Techbook not only provides awesome content aligned to each state’s standards (there are currently Science Techbooks available for most grades K-8 in 30 states across the U.S.), but includes a model lesson for teachers to use with every concept, assessment questions for each standard, a teacher’s guide, and DVDs for when the Internet is not available. Resources such as the virtual labs, reading passages, video segments, science sleuths, explorations, and interactive glossary, etc., are packaged together to follow the five E model of instruction. Teachers have found an easier and creative way to build lessons using technology resources and content, as well as differentiating their classroom."
They have just announced Techbook 2.0 is available. This is an update to the Techbook based on feedback and suggestions from educators, including a group of well known and well respected educators who reviewed Techbook at a summit Discovery Education hosted. You can Register to attend a webinar to learn about the new layout, features, and enhancements.
links.discoveryeducation.com/sciencetechbook
Related:
25 Free Resources from Discovery Education
Discovery Education’s Science Techbook: Scientific Explanations in Action
What I Want from a Digital Textbook
TechBook Extravaganza
Apple Announces iBooks2 E-Textbooks - my initial thoughts
What I use with Physics classes instead of textbook
Resources to Replace Textbooks
Free Textbooks - online, download, iPad, Kindle
Gooru - collections of free study guides and resources
Gooru is a site I wrote about this past February that was in private Alpha. I just received notice from them that they have now launched their Beta site and it's open for use.
Gooru is a search engine for education and learning. It contains study guides, aligned to standards and personalized, on topics in 5th - 12th grade math and science. Resources include videos, animations, links, digital textbooks, and more. All of the resources have been organized and reviewed by teachers or content experts.
Here's a small sample of what a search for "physics" returns:
It also contains a social aspect with a community to discuss topics and ask questions. There are also self-assessments that Gooru suggest resources and study guides to help you.
Check it out and share with your students: http://www.goorulearning.org/gooru/index.g#/home