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25+ Ways to use Canva to create teaching resources

25+ Ways to use Canva to create teaching resources | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"There are so many ways to use Canva to create and design resources for the classroom. Here is a list of 25+ ways teachers are already using Canva to make design as easy as drag and drop...."

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Research posters are a staple of academic conferences. Could a new design speed discovery? | EdSurge News

Research posters are a staple of academic conferences. Could a new design speed discovery? | EdSurge News | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Scholars around the world share their latest research findings with a decidedly low-tech ritual: printing a 48-inch by 36-inch poster densely packed ..."

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Mock it up! Nine tools for learners to design, blueprint, and visualize their innovations 

Mock it up! Nine tools for learners to design, blueprint, and visualize their innovations  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"One way to truly inspire innovation is to send students on learning missions or challenges to invent or imagine a new app, vehicle, machine, building, or ..."

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Defining the modern learner experience

Defining the modern learner experience | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"When designing and delivering content, we need to balance five elements of the learner experience: technology, design, people, place, and time. In order to achieve this balance, we need to focus on the learner experience ..."

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Twelve good tools for creating educational games

Twelve good tools for creating educational games | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"While there are tons of websites and mobile apps that offer pre-made educational games to use with your students in class, it happens sometimes that you can’t find the right game that addresses the specific learning needs of your students. In cases such as these, you will need to design your own games and yes you can do that without the need for  prior game design knowledge ,..."

Paula Arango Castañeda's curator insight, May 24, 2018 7:19 PM
Avoid thinking too much about your lesson plans. Here you can find 12 tools for creating the most enjoyable classes with some purpose-added games. Minecraft, puzzles and purpose games. 
 
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A web-based expert system for designing instructional scenarios from Université de Montréal, Québec | teachonline.ca 

A web-based expert system for designing instructional scenarios from Université de Montréal, Québec | teachonline.ca  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Faculty and instructors in post-secondary education are facing increasing challenges from new learning technologies, larger classes, greater diversity of students, and an increasing focus on skills development. This in many cases requires instructors to take a more design-oriented approach to teaching ..."

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How a transformational CIO can help your institution grow

How a transformational CIO can help your institution grow | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The future of higher education depends largely on innovation and transformation. Any college or university that is not able to innovate and reinvent itself will cease to exist. It’s as simple as that. A more difficult task is how to create a culture of innovation and transformation not by serendipity, but by deliberate design ..."

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A non-designer’s guide to creating memorable visual presentations [free e-book] 

A non-designer’s guide to creating memorable visual presentations [free e-book]  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A free 120-page illustrated guide for non-designers on how to create stunning slide decks, with dozens of visual examples, cheat sheets, and step-by-step ..."

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Moodle 3.3 improvements that empower educators in their online classrooms infographic - e-Learning Infographics

Moodle 3.3 improvements that empower educators in their online classrooms infographic - e-Learning Infographics | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Moodle’s mission is to empower educators and the Moodle 3.3 improvements have been designed to give teachers better control over their learning environments ..."

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Six domains of cognition: The TeachThought learning taxonomy

Six domains of cognition: The TeachThought learning taxonomy | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How can you tell if a student really understands something?

They learn early on to fake understanding exceptionally well, and even the best assessment leaves something on the table. (In truth, a big portion of the time students simply don’t know what they don’t know. ..."

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The art of MATHS: Bizarre scenes built by algorithms revealed 

The art of MATHS: Bizarre scenes built by algorithms revealed  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Santa Clara University mathematics professor Dr Frank Farris has developed an algorithm to visualize mathematical ideas that have one dimension too many to see in 3-D space ..."

Belinda 's curator insight, May 14, 2017 8:36 PM
Linking maths with Art - I think the visual aspect will appeal to a lot of students and change their perception about conventional maths.  
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Five tools that will increase productivity for teachers

Five tools that will increase productivity for teachers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"This list contains a few tools to help teachers become a little more productive day by day, ..."

  1. Animoto: Create instructional videos
  2. Typeform: Turn quizzes into a conversation
  3. Canva: Be your own designer
  4. MindMeister: Design beautiful mind maps
  5. Paper.li: Beyond normal presentations
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Rawpixel - beautiful design + inspirational images

Rawpixel - beautiful design + inspirational images | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Rawpixel - Be Inspired, Be Raw. We’re all about beautiful design + inspirational images. Sign up now to get your free images ..."

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Six book ad design tools authors can use

Six book ad design tools authors can use | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Your book ad image plays a huge role in driving readers to click (and buy!). Here's a list of book ad design tools you can use to spin up a great design ...."

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Web tools for creating educational games

Web tools for creating educational games | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"While there are tons of websites and mobile apps that offer pre-made educational games to use with your students in class, it happens sometimes that you can’t find the right game that addresses the specific learning needs of your students ..."

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Fifty sites to download free 3D models - Best Of - Hongkiat

Fifty sites to download free 3D models - Best Of - Hongkiat | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"3D printers have immensely revolutionized the art and manufacturing industry. With advancements in the 3D printer technology, it is now not very difficult to own one, even in your home or office. Moreover, you don’t have to be an AutoCAD engineer to design a 3D model for your needs, as this job is taken up by numerous 3D model websites ..."

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CompetencyWorks releases 'Levers and logic models: A framework to guide research and design of high-quality competency-based education systems' 

CompetencyWorks releases 'Levers and logic models: A framework to guide research and design of high-quality competency-based education systems'  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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Six factors of academic performance

Six factors of academic performance | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"First, a definition. An academic classroom is one where the primary goal is to promote proficiency of academic standards. Everything else, while appreciated and winked at, comes after. The class, curriculum, and instruction, by design, are built to move students in their academic proficiency ..."

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Winter Olympics: Five rings, five events, five engineering challenges 

Winter Olympics: Five rings, five events, five engineering challenges  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How can we teach students to embrace the engineering design process using the Winter Olympics as a vehicle? Find out ..."

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Designing for presence in VR, Part 1: Introduction –

Designing for presence in VR, Part 1: Introduction – | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I strongly believe that presence is the quality that makes Virtual Reality unique as a medium. Yet, analytical approaches to presence from a creative standpoint have been lacking. Let’s fix that …"

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Seven best practices for using digital manipulatives in the classroom

Seven best practices for using digital manipulatives in the classroom | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Based on embodied cognition research, these guidelines help educators design instructional experiences for mathematical understanding ..."

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Learning spaces - from monofunctional to multifunctional

Learning spaces - from monofunctional to multifunctional | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Redesigning learning spaces is one of the hottest ..." 

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Print custom sticky notes with Google Slides

Print custom sticky notes with Google Slides | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Google Slides is a handy design tool, and you can copy my template to print  your own design on sticky notes. I've got directions, a video, and loads of examples for you ..."

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The best free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud 2017

The best free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Adobe is increasing the cost of CC subscriptions, but this top-quality creative software will always be completely free ..."

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Seven educational games that every developer should study

Seven educational games that every developer should study | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We reached out to some game devs who are also educators, or who work in educational software, and asked them to name some of the educational games that are most instructive to designers ..."

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