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Create a Favicon for Your Class Site with IconJ
IconJ is a cool website that helps you to convert your pictures into icons. You can convert your pictures into Android, iPad, iPhone, Windows, or website favicon icons. I used this tool to create my EdTech website favicon. This 16X16 pixels icon is the image you see on your web browser tab when you open a website. Here are the steps you will need to take. 1. Click on the 'Upload' button and choose the image you want to convert. 2. Select the dimensions, file type, cropping, and sharpening level options. Click on 'Continue.' 3. If your icon has been successfully generated, click on the link to download the icon.
Minecraft Club to Teach Students Civic Competence Part 1
It all started with two passionate 5th graders who visited my computer lab during lunch recess. The two students were playing Minecraft to collaboratively build a small house. Their fervent conversation about the online game got my attention, and I saw an immediate potential in using the game in an educational setting. So I asked the boys if I could sit with them and ask them a few questions about the game. Click on the image below to see our conversation. After a week of thinking, I decided to create a unit on civic competence that would integrate Minecraft game play. Here is the unit summary : Students will learn to build constructions with digital tools and textured cubes in an online 3D procedurally generated world. This 3D world consists of the same properties that exist in the real world, such as weather conditions, natural resources, living things, habitats, and agriculture. The simulation also provides players with health bar and hunger bar that they will need to maintai...
[gallery] Dr. Jenny Lane discussed how #mobilelearning brings the world into the #classroom, takes the classroom into the world, and takes the #teacher into the home. She also mentioned TPACK Model (technological pedagogical content knowledge) that connects and uses the three types of knowledge together to create effective & engaging tech integrated instruction.
Tagxedo: Create Fun Word Clouds with Twitter ID, URL...
Tagxedo let’s you create word clouds out of your URL, Twitter ID, Del.icio.us account, news, search or RSS. Here is an example of a word cloud I created of my edtech blog: As you can see in the second image, you can customize the font, theme, color, orientation, and shape of your word cloud. Share your creation via Facebook and Twitter. Check out this video by eduTecher . It explains how to use Tagxedo very thoroughly.