Course 3 Articles

By CoETaIL

Articles to ponder as you go through course 3 of COETAIL

U.S. Dept. of Education
OER reaches ‘inflection point,’ and states are leading the charge
edscoop.com - Emily Tate
After years of dabbling with open educational resources (OER), educators have finally begun to embrace the concept as a legitimate alternative to …
Literacy Through Photography for English-Language Learners
edutopia.org
• It is an excellent way to provide differentiation for English-language learners. • It relieves pressure from reluctant students or striving readers and …
Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling
MIT Technology Review - by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave …
Why The Art of Speaking Should Be Taught Alongside Math and Literacy
kqed.org - MindShift
Classrooms in the U.S. often focus most attention on literacy and math, largely because those skills are considered foundational and are tested. …
GIF Animations
Do You Pronounce it GIF or GIF?
www.youtube.com
Podcasting on a Chromebook
havetechnologywilltravel.blogspot.com
Podcasting is much more than just audio recording. A podcast is an episodic series of audio recordings that are published to the web for a global …
5 hidden iPhone features only power users know about
techinsider.io - Corey Protin, Alex Heath and Matthew Stuart
Your iPhone has a lot of hidden features you may not know about, like the ability to make custom vibrations and the ability to let you control your …
How to Make Your Google Presentations Shine
shakeuplearning.com - Kasey Bell
Pinterest I create almost all of my presentations in Google Slides. Google Slides gives me the flexibility I need to be creative, add my own branding, …
Photojournalism
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
The New Yorker - Om Malik
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1977 book “On Photography.” This was something I thought about when I recently read that Google was making its one-hundred-and-forty-nine-dollar
9 Ways to Become More Creative in the Next 10 Minutes
medium.com - Larry Kim
Modern culture often labels creativity as natural gift. Artists get showered with praise and proclamations of “you’re so talented,” but truthfully, …
You Can Use a Picture If: Guidelines for Image Copyrights
thevisualcommunicationguy.com - Curtis Newbold
A couple years ago, I published a flowchart on image copyright best practices that followed the question, “Can I Use that Picture?” While that chart …
The World Wide Web: A Breakdown of Internet Users by Country
visual.ly
The Internet is a global community. People from all different countries and cultures can meet each other on public websites to share stories, dreams, …
5 Creative Digital Tools That Bring Visuals and Writing Together
globaldigitalcitizen.org - Lee Watanabe-Crockett
Digital storytelling in the classroom requires creative digital tools that truly stand out. There’s lots to choose from out there. Some tools, …
TED Talks
10 tips on how to make slides that communicate your idea, from TED’s in-house expert
ted.com - TED Staff
When your slides rock, your whole presentation pops to life. At TED2014, David Epstein created a clean, informative slide deck to support his talk on …
50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
tutsplus.com
While many of us can create something that looks good in Photoshop or attractive when spliced into CSS, but do we actually understand the design …
Want to know how to design? Learn The Basics. | JUST™ Creative
justcreative.com - Jeffrey Way Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 12:08 am ·
Want to know how to design? Then you should learn the basics of design. The basic elements of design include colour, line, shape, scale, space, …
Codes
The Key to Media's Hidden Codes - Ben Beaton
www.youtube.com
😀 – Emoji as Evidence of Student Learning in MYP Individuals & Societies
wordpress.com - alexguenther
Can you read this?⪫ ▼℄＝⇰⾕ or +⎚♚▲9←9①532➤➤↓↓➤↓Viceroyalty①9⑪▲Or maybe this?a,ta→a,+,→(English “translations” will be revealed later) I’d like to share …
Education Technology
24 Ways for Students to Showcase Their Best Work (With Tech)
opencolleges.edu.au - Saga Briggs
One of the most important parts of assessment is deciding how to organise student work. A great way for students to be more involved in the …
Stock photos that don’t suck
medium.com
A list of places to find the best free stock photos Finding great stock photos is a pain. You’re left with either low-res amateur photos, people …
Margaret Atwood joins story-sharing website Wattpad
The Guardian - Alison Flood
As of today, there's a new member of the social-reading website Wattpad, alongside the likes of misstwinkletoes, bacutie4eva and xoStardust: the Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has
Everything is a Remix: The Full Series, Exploring the Sources of Creativity, Released in One Polished HD Video on Its 5th
openculture.com - by DC
Our veteran readers will perhaps remember Kirby Ferguson's four-part video series Everything is a Remix. Created between 2010 and 2014, the series …
San Mateo County
The Scientific Reason Why Bullets Are Bad for Presentations
SlideShare
You've probably heard this advice before: Don’t use bullet points in your presentations. But do you know why presentation design experts are so adamantly opposed to the bullet point format? Here's the
Hung Up
100 Cameras Were Given to the Homeless in London. Here’s What They Captured.
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Cafe Art is a UK-based initiative that aims to connect the homeless with their wider community through art and photography. The project was founded …
Writing
How Coding Can Improve Your Child’s Writing Abilities
tynker.com - Tynker
How Coding Can Improve Your Child’s Writing Abilities Developing strong writing skills—especially when paired with technical abilities like …
Can Project-Based Learning Close Gaps in Science Education?
kqed.org - Ingfei Chen
Putting kids to work on meaningful projects can transform classrooms into beehives of inquiry and discovery, but relatively few rigorous studies have …
The 1931 Histomap: The entire history of the world distilled into a single map/chart.
slate.com - Rebecca Onion
The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space …
YouTube Offers Free Music for your Classroom Videos
classtechintegrate.blogspot.com
One of the things that teachers and students often want to add to a video presentation is background music. Of course, this can become difficult when …