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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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14 New Kidblog Features You’re Guaranteed to Love! | Kidblog

14 New Kidblog Features You’re Guaranteed to Love! | Kidblog | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Kidblog is thrilled to announce a massive update! We’ve listened to our users and made the world’s best student-publishing platform even better with a plethora of new features for teachers and students."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Do you want your students to have authentic writing experiences online that they may share with their classmates. Do your students blog? Do you blog? If you are not blogging with your class you should look at Kiddblog, a safe and simple location to set up blogs for your students. Kidblog has come out with 14 new features (based on user feedback). Accounts are free for students and you maintain control over every students' blog. Below are five of the new features.

* Are you a Google Apps school? If so you can sign up through Google and the student name and password will stay the same!

* Private comments - You may now leave a private comment for a student. That's right, no one else will be able to see it.

* "Comment for Me" - "Students now have a comment feed that displays all comments left for them across your entire Kidblog class community."

* Media Uploads - It is now easier to upload photos and videos.

* Student Dashboard - Students now have their own dashboard that provides stats about their posts and more.

An additional nine features are available if you click through to the site.

Yasemin Allsop's curator insight, September 3, 2013 4:04 PM

I love kidblog, so easy to use!

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From Technology Integration to Learning… by Design

From Technology Integration to Learning… by Design | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Beth Dichter's insight:

Check out this chart that looks at the progression of :"using technology" to "integrating technology" to "learning by design" (think Wiggins and McTighe). 

The chart looks at seven areas: Planning, Frequency of Use, Purpose, Content, Focus, Task, and Information-Knowledge-Understanding.

Consider how you use technology in your practice and see where you fall on the chart. Are there areas that you would like to shift?

Dean Mantz's curator insight, January 1, 2014 2:09 PM

This is a well developed table addressing the integration of technology into classroom instruction all while basing pedagogy via the Learning By Design framework. 

Rebecca Wilkins's curator insight, July 17, 2015 9:22 PM

This is a nice marriage of technology integration and UbD.

Jennifer McGuff's curator insight, August 1, 2015 5:56 PM

Really like this graphic of technology integration and learning by design.