Creating Social Polls and Questionnaires Using Urtak

I discovered Urtak a couple of weeks ago and took an instant liking to it. Urtak is a web based social polling application that enables you to very quickly and easily create online polls and questionnaires.The only thing you require to get started is an email address to register as it is completely free. Here’s a short tutorial showing how it’s done.Watch or download a higher quality video: Urtak tutorialThe polls it creates are pretty simple. You...

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A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers

I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45 of them.What's striking for me about this is:few of these skills will have been taught to anyone who trained as a teacher longer than 5 years ago.few of these skills are being taught to teachers training now.the 21st century teacher needs to be a pretty amazingly skilled professional.Please look through the list and...

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