ePub documents are everywhere now. But if you don't have an ereader, you might feel like you're missing out on something. Fortunately, there are some tools that you can use to read ePub documents on your laptop or desktop. Here are two tools that ... read more

Solve For X is a series of TED-like talks that appear to be sponsored by Google. It’s described as “A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork.” Here’s a sample. It’s a talk by Nicholas Negroponte on … C... read more

What is digital storytelling? Rather than bore you with a rather lengthy history of the term, and how it has been applied in the past to both the realms of education and entertainment, allow me to illustrate how I see it with a highlight from Wiki... read more

Copyright British Council 2012 Giffen is an unpleasant man who is always on the lookout for ways to trick money out of 'suckers' and his amazing glue seems to be the perfect way to do this. Until he come across Flinty, that is.Strap Box Flyer is ... read more

Ian Pryer has some great ideas for using this amusing ad with business studies students on the tutor2U Business Studies blog, but there are also a lot of cultural and linguistic points (all those abbreviations, for example) which could be exploit... read more

Here is the new post for the A to Z web tools series with the new letter: L LittleBirdTales is a site where you can upload your drawings and record your voice for each picture to create your story. ListenandWrite is a dictation tool where you hear... read more

In the last couple of weeks prior to restarting classes, I've been watching a lot of television. The weather's not been particularly nice and I'm too poor to do anything else.  That's the downside to being a student at my age, I guess.&nb... read more

Pinterest has had the tech scene sizzling lately, especially over the fact that it is a platform mostly used by women. And according to these stats, it is true. I actually couldn’t care less about who’s using it by gender. If you aren’t usi... read more

What it is:  The higher up I got in math, the less connection I could make back to it’s usefulness in real life.  I had math mastered in school, I could memorize the formulas and spit back out the steps to get straight A’s in algebra, geometry, ca... read more

In honor of President's Day, I am providing you with some interactive sites that you can use on your Smartboard to teach about US Presidents and the presidency: Our Nations Leaders: Dynamite Presidents: The American Presidents: Find the Data: US P... read more

Hi there!Create your own Monster High dolls  and write a short profile about them.It would be nice if  you share on your blogs or in Google Docs.Name.Age.Origin.Type of monster doll.Likes and dislikes.Favourite colour, food, activity, sc... read more

For long, we've been talking in our circles of students as producers, not simply audience, and students finding their own voice. Educators know how important it is to move from our classrooms industrial production-like type of education. We've... read more

Apple recently announced the launch of its free iBooks Author desktop application, which – they claim – “allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive... read more

Autonomous personal learning networks for language teachers (aPLaNet) is a two year EU project funded by the Life Long Learning Programme designed to encourage language teachers who don't normally use social media in their professional life to see... read more

This weekend The Chronicle of Higher Education published an opinion piece by Michael Morris arguing that in the name of campus security campuses should start data mining all student internet traffic. Or as the not so subtle, fear mongering, almost... read more

Citizen science projects enlist everyday citizens to collect or analyze data for real-world research studies. This article suggests that bringing citizen science projects into the classroom can help students understand the relevance of curriculum ... read more

Translation can be a very useful tool in helping you to learn a language. It can make you think much more closely about the relationship of your language to the language you are learning. Translating also makes you think very carefully about the m... read more

I'm delivering an IWB in Science day in London tomorrow and I have been looking around for any new science websites that I might have missed. So I was really pleased to have stumbled upon Physics Games.net this morning.Physics Games.net provides n... read more