eLearning vendors want to please. That can be a great thing for you, the client, in many respects. It can mean a sincere dedication to meeting your needs and making you happy. But it also comes with a downside: Vendors may not be willing to give you the real news or the hard news when it comes up.

Freerice.com is a website that provides a free education and their mission is to end world hunger. Check out the show to see how!

New Year’s resolutions often fall by the wayside. But this one is critical. Source: www.inc.com See on Scoop.it - Leadership Style & Teaching Methodology

Learn how to use Flubaroo in Google Docs for easy grading

As social media become more and more predominant as platforms of connection and collaboration, the need for creating and maintaining a PLN ( Personal/Professional Learning Network ) becomes more pressing. As teachers and educators we are expected to be on top of the latest trends that can inform and enhance our classroom teaching as well as our professional growth.We are also expected to know the web tools that our students use and the new ones we can use with them in the future;  but this is not always possible and  because not all of our time constraints it becomes difficult to keep up the the new releases . It is at times  like these that you can call upon your PLN. Source: www.educatorstechnology.com See on Scoop.it - Educational News and Web Tools

We take a look at Jing, a free screen recording software!

Screen casting apps for the iPad

Training, done well, should help people do what it takes for their organization to reach its strategic goals. Otherwise, why would training exist? Once an organization knows its goals and knows what people will need to do in order to get there, the next step is pinpointing the performance gaps. It’s the role of good training to swoop in and close the gaps that are most crucial to success.

Use Shutterlyfly.com as a source to house pictures and video by creating a simple to use website. Use this site to communicate your school year in images and also a good way to document field trips.

The connection to our electronic devices is stronger than ever before, and that bond will only grow as technology continues… Source: www.keloland.com Local story about social media "dark side". We used this as a digital citizenship topic on our blogs. See on Scoop.it - FootprintDigital