Tools & Tips

A Dozen Favorite Technology Tools for Lifelong Learning

November 3, 2011

I put the following together as a sidebar for the eBook I am creating from the How to Be a Better Learner series. Thought I’d go ahead and share it here. Feedback welcome. – JTC The range of technology tools you can use to support and enhance your learning is truly amazing. The following list [...]

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Zeroing in on Learning with Zite

September 8, 2011

A while back I wrote about my some of favorite iPad apps for lifelong learning. A new one (for me) has come along that is quickly moving to the top of my list: Zite. In a nutshell, Zite enables you to put together a “magazine” on the iPad that focuses on topics in which you [...]

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10 Education Resources and Games for Autistic Students

September 7, 2011

This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer Autistic students typically require a much different learning structure and environment than students who are not on the autism spectrum. This can cause challenges for both educators and parents of autistic students as well as the students themselves. Fortunately, there are many different education resources and games [...]

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Learning Apps – SpeedUpTV

July 6, 2011

A while back I wrote about how useful I was finding the iPad for lifelong learning. It occurred to me more recently that I should start featuring “apps” that readers might find useful. So, consider this the official launch of a new Learning Apps tag here on Mission to Learn. The first post is from [...]

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Collaborating to Learn with Popplet

February 25, 2011

I’ve decided to focus on note-taking for the next post in my “10 Ways to Be a Better Learner Series,” and in the process of digging into the topic more, I came across Popplet, a tool described in a Media Commons Project post as an “application for individually or collaboratively “curating,” or spatializing the relationships [...]

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