22 Mar 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

March 20, 2015
Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. Check out the ones we have for you today and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list:

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– http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners

Source: www.educatorstechnology.com

22 Mar 7 Steps to Everyday Creativity

You can make creativity into an everyday thing in seven steps by focusing on the everyday.

Source: austindetails.me

22 Mar frog ideate and prototype concepts on the future of Media

On March 7, 2015 Google and frog partnered in Milan, Italy and brought together 80 talented creatives with a background in technology and design to ideate and prototype concepts on the future of Media.

Source: designmind.frogdesign.com

20 Mar 120 x Virtuoso Banksy Pieces You Seriously Can’t Ignore

An all-time list of the best Banksy graffiti art and street art pieces, all showing Banksy locations of his works with street map views where applicable

Source: www.canvasartrocks.com

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20 Mar How Fractals Bring Imaginary Cities to Life

Artist Emily Garfield maps places that don’t exist. “I think that’s related to the way cities grow in real life.”

Emily Garfield like to say that she grows cities. With pen, ink, and watercolor, the Boston-based artist creates maps of imaginary places that tap into the essence of urban form.

Garfield has long been interested by the presentation of architecture in visual art. The inviting, surrealist arcades and sidewalks of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico inspired Garfield to begin producing her own street-level dreamscapes as an art student at Brown University.

But it was when she created her first aerial view of a fantasy city—an abstract web of streets, bridges, and blocks—that she got a particularly positive response from other people. Even without any text, Garfield’s drawings were strongly recognizable as maps…

Source: www.citylab.com

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20 Mar 5 Things You’ll Learn In Ideo’s New Online Innovation Class

Build your creative confidence with the famous design firm’s idiot-proof plan.

Source: www.fastcoexist.com

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20 Mar 40 Uses For Smartphones in School | mLEARNing | eSkills

The purpose of this article is simply to remove some of the negative connotations around smartphones and to consider new possibilities which we have at our disposal. In order for students to use smartphones in school responsibly, it is important that we set limits and rules beforehand.

A MUST READ!

Source: www.examtime.com

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20 Mar An Interactive Flood Tool to Calculate Climate Change Risks

A new interactive tool estimates the economic, urban, and demographic risks through 2030.

According to the World Resources Institute, river floods affect 21 million people in the world every year. In 2030, that number could rise to 54 million, with climate change driving the increase and urbanization putting more people in harm’s way…

Source: www.citylab.com

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20 Mar 40 maps that explain outer space

From the moon to the cosmos, this is the universe we live in.

Source: www.vox.com

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20 Mar How can companies innovate through design think…

Design thinking is less abstract than it sounds and more organisations are using it to drive innovation and create winning solutions

Source: www.scoop.it

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