Innovate education

Are you an #INNOVATOR?
Are you either #Lebanese or #Syrian studying at #University in #Lebanon?
Do you have an #innovative idea on how #technology can improve access to #Education?
If yes - Apply NOW on www.innovate-education.com

You are the perfect candidate for our upcoming #social_entrepreneurship competition “innovate education” on the 6th to 8th of April at Beirut Digital District!

#innovedu #Lebanon #Syria #technology #education #innovation

For more details visit : www.innovate-education.com

- Social Media: Like & post on facebook: FNF Lebanon and Syria (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/FNFLebanon/?fref=nf) 

Twitter: @FNFLebanon and the hashtag is #innovedu

May the best win!

Preparing Students for College and Career

Teachers Research

Teachers Research is a free e-book that contains teacher-researcher stories connected to ICT. 

The following link allows you to download it:

http://resig.weebly.com/teachers-research.html

UNESCO Institute of Statistics

UNESCO Institute of Statistics has very interesting website that we can use for our courses and researches. This website can be accessed by clicking here.


All the best!

http://uis.unesco.org/

Infographics

• Do you want to create  interesting  visuals?
• Do you want to share powerful infographics?

Easel.ly  is the answer!!!

It is  a simple web tool that empowers us.
No design experience needed!

Ted Ed Lessons

Ted Ed: a creative way to teach
Try it, your students will love it.

Podcast!

Interesting article about educational podcast prepared by the team of  Fusion Yearbooks. This article could inspire teachers and educators to use podcast as an effective and highly-engaging teaching strategy through the usage of   various resources and podcast.

This article is accessible by clinking here.

http://www.fusionyearbooks.com/blog/educational-podcasts/

Simulateur Photographie

Cadrez-moi est un simulateur très interessan.

A vos appreils de photos .... virtuels !

Pour y accéder cliquez ici. 

http://www.utc.fr/~wlabwlab/francais/connaissances/outilspedagogiques/cadrezmoi/files

Canada's vision of public education

A 21st century vision of public education for Canada published on May 2012. This study is very interesting. 

Enjoy reading it!

To read it click here.

Learn a language

This website will help us to learn a language and to become fluent in any language:
https://www.italki.com/home

Wikiwiki

Creating video

Online tool to create video:

• Pearltrees: http://www.pearltrees.com/
• Thinglink (interactive images & videos): https://www.thinglink.com/
• Glogster (interactive multimedia posters): https://www.glogster.com/

Blogging: An Adventure in Professional Development

Great blog!


http://aslisaglam.edublogs.org/

Trello

Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.

Trello works in real-time, real fast. When somebody moves a card, it moves on your board instantly, no matter what device you use. You can keep your tab open all day and never have to refresh. Plus, Trello opens and loads so fast you won’t even notice.

EDpuzzle

EDpuzzle is an interesting tool for teaching and learning while engaging student.
You have open access video which you can easily crop. It is also possible to create electronic questionnaire and supervisor the students' activities. 
Don't hesitate to use it!



https://edpuzzle.com/

Internet Governance Forum

Internet Governance : Internet Governance Forum (IGF) established as per the resolution issued in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005, the Arab Internet Governance Forum (Arab IGF) was established in 2012.

• Internet Governance Forum (IGF): http://intgovforum.org/cms/
• Arab Internet Governance Forum (IGF): http://igfarab.org/En/index.jsp 

The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF-IV) was hosted by Ogero Telecom and under the joint patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of
Telecommunications, on December17-18, 2015.

Word Cloud

Toys for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide:

•  TagCrowd

• Wordle

Calaméo

Calaméo - Publishing Platform for Documents and Magazines

www.calameo.com

Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide.

 Let's publish!

Sites

To create animated videos and presentations: PowToon
To create videos for mobiles that will be seen only once! Snapchat

Unesco Articles

A Review of Education and ICT Indicators in Southeast Asia

New Learning Technologies

Media and Information Literacy 

Global MIL Week 2015

 MIL Curriculum for Teachers

Foliospaces

FolioSpaces is a free ePortfolio platform.

"Students, teachers, career professionals and others find electronic portfolios are the best way to:

• showcase achievement
• provide proof of learning and experience
• give and receive feedback (in private or public)
• reflect on learning and critical incidents
• help get jobs, project funding, promotion, and much more..."

To access to FolioSapces click here.

Engaging Every Learner Everytime

I found the following amazing presentation on Slide share "Engaging Every Learner Every time", LA Congress Workshop 2015, by Charlotte McCorquodale.

Engaging Every Learner Everytime LA Congress Workshop 2015 from Charlotte McCorquodale

I loved watching it and it helped me restructure my teaching.

Memrise

Memrise website 

allows us to 

learn vocabulary, languages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else

Amazing website which I have discovered in Bett Show 2015. 

To use this website click here.

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl is an award-winning website to help support children’s learning, both at home

and at school. To use this site :Click here 

Educational technology strategic plan

Lebanon has a national educational technology strategic plan. [...]

This strategic plan establishes a vision, set of goals and objectives, and recommendations that government, donors, private- and public-sector implementers, schools, principals, and teachers must address so that every stakeholder is working from and toward the same vision, goals, and outcomes. The strategic plan covers the period of September 2012 to September 2017.

To read the strategic plan click here
Or click here. 

SoundCloud

Searching for a social sound platform? 

Wish to share a sound file?

SoundCloud is there for you!

SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.

To access it click here.

Did You Know 2014

Network

Network in the Arab Countries for ICT integration in education : ARAIEQ-APIQIT

Tracking Online Education in the US

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United States is the eleventh annual

report in this series on tracking online education in the United States. It was

originally known as the Sloan Online Survey, in recognition of our founding

sponsor, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To download this report you have to click here.

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Sisyphus - Journal of Education

Sisyphus – Journal of Education is a place for debate on different aspects of education. 

Enjoy reading and why not publishing!

Wordle

Do you want to remember words easily? Wordle is the answer.
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. 

To use it click here.
Enjoy!

Science simulators

• Phet phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new  

• Virtual Bouyancy www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/buoy_exp/buoyancy.html

• Roller Coaster http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/coaster/

• Windward: Outsmart the Weather in a Race around the World  www.ciconline.org/windward 

• Commercial Fishing www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/anim/toc/index.htm
• SimSci Simulation Software http://software.invensys.com/simsci/  

• Wetland Exploration  net.unl.edu/wonderwise/16urban/kidsactivity/index2.htm

• Virtual Microscope www.udel.edu/Biology/ketcham/microscope/scope.html

• Cost one- Explore Learning www.explorelearning.com

Educational podcasts

Do you want to get smarter?
Who doesn't!
Julie DeNeen presents on the informED blog "50 Educational Podcasts"

Check them out !

Free cultural & educational media

Open Culture suggests a "free cultural & educational media on the web". On the menu :

• Audio Books
• Online Courses
• Certificate Courses/MOOCs
• Movies
• Languages
• K-12 Resources
• eBook

Over a million images!

December 2013 the British Library announced the following:

We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of.

Let's have a look!

ICT tools

Electronic Village Online 2014 gives a list of ICT tools that could be used in education:

Tag cloud generator (wordle): http://www.wordle.net/
Photostory3: http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/
Exelearning: http://www.exelearning.it/mindmapping generator: http://popplet.com/
Timeline generator: http://www.dipity.com/
Poster generator: http://www.glogster.com/
Geolocalisation tool: http://www.communitywalk.com/
Sticky notes generator: http://en.linoit.com/
A  voice-based elearning tool: http://www.voxopop.com/
Slide-show generator: http://slide.ly/?tid=1620

Thanks to EVO 2014 we can be more creative in our classrooms!

Top 100 tools for learning

Would you like to know about  the "Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013"?

The 7th Annual earning Tools Survey gives us the results for 2013 and the following website allows us to compare those relults with those of 2012.

Enjoy reading the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013
 

Shamaa (arabic)

Are you searching for an online database that documents educational research carried out in Arab countries in all fields of education?
If yes the Arab Educational Information Network (Shamaa) is the answer.

Proprofs

Proprofs allows you to build and test Knowledge for businesses, educators, and students. You can create a quiz, a training, a survey... Enjoy Proprofs www.proprofs.com

ICTs for persons with disabilities

UNESCO publishes a global report entiteled "Opening new avenues for empowerment: ICTs to access information and knowledge for persons with disabilities". The introduction of this report could be accessed by clicking here.

To read the report click here

Enjoy reading!

New version of OpenEMIS

UNESCO launched a new version of OpenEMIS, a generic and open source Education Management information System (EMIS) software package issued without conditions or restrictions for use by countries.

To access the resource click here ttp://www.openemis.org/

Digital Culture

The Unviersity of Edimbourg suggested a course (between January 28 and March 3, 2013) on Elearning  and Digital Culture (EDC MOOC). To access it click here.

Enjoy reading!                                                 

iLearn Website

Do you want to explor how the iPod Touch can be used to enhance effective teaching and learning?

This website gives you the answer, click here.

Mindmap

The following websites allow you to text your mindmap.

• To enjoy Text 2 Mindmap click here
• To enjoy Mindmup click here 
•  To enjoy Minsmeister click here 

Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum

Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum A Massive Open Online Course 10th January to 13th March 2013 http://www.olds.ac.uk/ The bigger picture: What's the purpose

The conversation prism

Do you know the conversation prism?

Visit it by clicking here.

Enjoy!

A new dudle

Do you need to create a poll ? Whether it's a  poll to schedule an event or a poll to vote for the coffee you like most here is the solution.

Technische Universitat Dresden has created a dudle for this purpose.

To access the dudle click here.

Special Educational Needs

Did you know that 1 in every 5 children is considered to have special educational needs (SEN)?

It is either because of greater difficulty in learning or because they have a disability (Hall, 2010)

For details about SEN you can visit the following websites:

• Special Educational Needs
• Asperger's syndrome

Hall David, (2010). The ICT handbook for primary teachers, A guide for students and professionals, A David Fulton Book, Routledge, 242 pages.

Software for children with learning difficulties

HelpKidzLearn suggests a collection of software for young children and those with learning difficulties to play online.

The software is split into five sections:

• Early Years
• Games and Quizzes
• Stories and Songs
• Creative Play 
• Find Out About (HelpKidzLearn, 2012 )

Click her to access the website.

Have  fun!

Relate, create, donnate

Would you like to share creative ideas for integrating ICT in education?
All you have to do is to post a link on the following wall: click here
You can also use Wallwisher to build your own wall!

Padlet

Are you searching for a new tool that could be used to somehow innovate the teaching and learning process? If yes, Padlet (Known previously as Wallwisher) could be the answer.

It is so easy and you don't even need to register. To start your wall click here.

To visit my Wallwisher and add a sticky click here.

Thanks to the stuff from the head of Sean Banville we can read "Wallwisher – 105 Classroom Ideas" by clicking here.