Is Your Relationship With Technology A Bad Romance?

Ajit Johnson, a Ph.D. student working in cancer genetics and genomics uses art posters to comment on “the invasion of tech addiction without even being aware of it”.  He has created a series of “some minimal posters describing our present generation and tech addiction”. Read more about it at boredpanda.com and discuss…

Are These Back-To-School Tips Good Enough For You?

  photo credit: pixabay.com Happy or not, the new school year is starting soon and all kinds of tips and advice on how to prepare best for it swarm in mind. From back-to-school essentials to organizational skills or strengthening of social life all contribute to a hopeful and exciting school year.…

Poster Prompt for Teenagers About Digital Responsibility

This poster is so capturing! It’s not just the message, but its clever illustration as well, which generate ideas for the teenager ESL/EFL  classroom. So here are a few suggestions on how to use it. Students can EXPLAIN what the poster is about DESCRIBE any personal experiences, their thoughts and…

Aid Spatial Intelligence In Your Class: Make A Digital Collage

I came across this resourceful article about creating digital collages in the classroom at technokids.com and I thought how beautifully this idea can promote spatial intelligence, one of the neglected intelligences as we move up towards higher school grades. If we wish to implement Gardner’s theory in our classroom and enhance the opportunities…

Visual Webpage Search Engine/Μηχανή Αναζήτησης με Οπτικά Αποτελέσματα

“A picture is worth a thousand words” may have been the idea behind oolone , the visual website search engine, that results into web previews instead of text. Inspecting the actual image of a site before selecting it, makes searching easier and more effective. Το ρητό “Μια εικόνα, χίλιες λέξεις” ίσως κρύβεται πίσω…

Top 100 Tools for Learning-2013

A presentation of the Top 100 Tools by Jane Hart at c4lpt.co.uk . By clicking the name of the tool, you can find out more about it. What do you think of the list? Which do you use? Which do you consider to be really helpful?

Where Can I Find Free Public Domain Images?

Either creating worksheets, constructing games, enriching presentations or writing in blogs teachers and students need to use images for their projects.Today there are numerous public domain image galleries online that offer royalty free digital pictures. Here are some which I have often found handy when I need free copyright images…

Attribute CC Photos Properly

According to a survey that foter.com conducted the vast majority of Creative Commons photos are not attributed at all, while a very small portion of the photos that do credit the original work are attributed properly.  Because of this, the following  infographic was created showing the research findings, details of Creative Commons licenses and…