Education 2.0 & 3.0

In Canva there are lots of templates for making posters for all kinds of purposes. There is also a massive library of drawings and clipart that you can use in those templates. I chose not to use a template and instead chose one of the drawings that I found to be the background image for my poster. I then inserted a drawing of woman wearing a backpack and looking through binoculars. Finally, I used one of the text templates to add "Explore America" to my poster. You can see my finished product below. 

Free Technology for Teachers

I am a visual leaner and I find that it is easier and more efficient for me to get a message across. When another teacher might show their students a bullet points I like to show an infographic or poster. This blog post will focus on some of the tools that I like to use…

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by Peggy Reimers

 In honor of Women’s History Month, Rise Vision has released 9 FREE Women’s History Month posters for schools to print out, share on their digital signage, websites, and social media, or use i…

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Ditch That Textbook Printable PDPrintable PD helps you share the ideas you find through Ditch That Textbook with those that aren't subscribed to the blog. Want to provide ideas to the teachers you serve? Want to help out your fellow colleagues? Educators are printing these pages out and hanging them in staff break rooms, copier …

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Students at our public, urban community college were experiencing difficulties finding correct, consistent answers to their questions about navigating college processes, information students needed to succeed in school. These difficulties were fueled not only by our students’ backgrounds—they are often the first generation in their family to attend college, may require additional academic preparation, or lack support for their higher education dreams—but also by the siloed information environment prevalent in academia. When our college president realized the extent of student challenges in this area, she looked to the college’s librarians, campus experts in knowledge organization and provision, for direction with a knowledge management initiative to support our students.

Knowledge management can be broadly thought of as the ways institutional knowledge is gathered, organized, and made available in coordinated ways that are useful to the organization. Along with Student Affairs, the Library co-led the development of a collegewide knowledge base, the goal of which was to provide students and other users, including college faculty and staff, with the correct answer to common questions. The Library hired a part-time metadata librarian originally just for this project, but that librarian was later appointed full-time faculty while continuing to manage daily operation of the knowledge base.

Now in its fifth year, the collaborative Ask LaGuardia knowledge base has become an institution at the college. Usage has grown. Librarians involved in knowledge

At the end of Nevertheless Season Two, we commissioned another four female illustrators from South America, Africa, the Middle East and China to produce a new set of posters. We now have eight beautiful posters in our collection for you to download.

The women featured serve as amazing role models in their fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM as it’s often referred to). You can listen to our episode on STEM Role Models here.

Designing digital posters can provide a quick, creative, and engaging way for students to show what they know. DesignCap is free and easy to use.