Google apps dominate the higher education sector

 

After six years targeting the education sector, Google says it has more than 20 million students, faculty and staff around the world using Google Apps for Education.
The search engine giant made the announcement in a blog post overnight, adding it had 72 of the top US universities using Apps for Education, and more than 400 universities posting lectures or courses online using YouTube Edu.

Edutopia: A guide to mobile devices for learning

Edutopia is a part of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and it has developed a new, free guide with Google to help teachers use mobile devices, including cell phones, tablets and e-readers, to engage students – and to help parents wrap their head around how mobile technology fits into their child’s education.

STEM Educators… Explore This Amazing Free Physics Site For All Ages

Welcome a post that will allow STEM educators to discover an amazing free website filled with a

goldmine of resources. It’s called Physics Central and I am sure you will find material that will become central to your STEM instruction. First,  please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS  to my 21centuryedtech Blog and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans.  I promise you will find some great information coming your way through out the school year. In fact, get ready for new articles on PBL, STEM, technology integration and a continuation of my Word Cloud Series that included “108 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom“. Again, take a moment to share and retweet this article. Your effort is appreciated… Please enjoy this post filled with STEMtastic ideas. – Mike Gorman (http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com)

11 Reasons Every Educator Needs a Video Strategy

Any company, organization, or individual hoping to take advantage of digital video to educate or entertain the populace or promote a product should have a video strategy in place before springing for the time and equipment involved. Educators, of course, are not exempt from the core tenets of solidifying a viable video strategy — especially when it comes to how exactly they plan to take advantage of everything the medium offers.

How the Flipped Classroom Is Transforming Education

As educators continue to search for ways technology can better engage students, few tactics have received more interest than the flipped classroom.
Spend a few minutes talking to students and it’s easy to see why the concept, in which educators record traditional lectures that students can view at home on their own, while using class time for collaboration and discussion, has garnered so much interest from schools.

5 FREE IPAD EDUCATION APPS

 I know we regularly take a look at great educational apps at Edgalaxy but the vast majority of those apps do come at some expense.  Se here is our list of the top 5 free educational apps.

10 IPAD TIPS EVERY TEACHER SHOULD KNOW

Over the last couple of months I have just about switched from my trusty old laptop to the iPad as my primary work computer. Basically, the iPad does everything I could do on my PC and a great deal more through all of the apps available specifically for teaching.

As a result of this, more of our staff are fronting up to work with iPads as they can also see the benefits in using a tablet for conferencing with students, checking email and using with their interactive white boards.

The first questions I get from new users are generally "What can I do with it?"  And "What apps should I have on it?"