Eclectic Technology

Are you looking for tips and resources that will make your students be more engaged with their textbooks? This post provides suggestions to help "bring this tool to life for more hands-on, student-centered learning." 
Along with a SlideShare on Bringing Your Textbook to Life 17 tips are listed with suggestions such as Tip #5 - Using Word Clouds (suggestions here include dividing students into small groups based on the number of sections in a chapter; have students create word clouds and have other students determine what section the words came from; and there is a link to Word Cloud tools and Pinterest. 

Through a combination of text, videos and images Ira Socol explores the issue of how we might envision a world that moves beyond textbooks, asking "are there better way to do things than textbooks, like free ways for teachers, or better, students to assemble information. And these should be allowing us to fundamentally consider new ways to assembel infomation, rahter than a pre-cooked, pre-arranged text." Ira Socol posts always challenge me to think, to scratch my brain...perhaps he will do the same for you.