Coach Jeffery's: Teaching with Technology

All files on this website are completely free, practitioners & learners can use them anywhere in their projects.
However, if they are looking to re-post any freebies on a website, they should link back to the blog.
Wassim, who has provided the resources, prefers an Anchor text link to specific pages and asks users NOT TO LINK DIRECTLY TO THE DOWNLOAD LINK.

Openclipart is a place for high-quality free clipart. In their words they "create high quality clipart for fun". Anyone may use their clipart for any purpose.

A MUST read!!!

Sometimes learners get lazy and use the web in ways that are inappropriate in an academic setting - i.e. by plagiarising work from web sources.
Even though the benefits of the web far outweigh the risk of inappropriate use, as educators, we should strive to train our learners on acceptable web behaviour.
This includes the habits of summarising, quoting, and citing sources. Despite our best efforts, some students choose to bend/break the rules of fair use.
"The Plagiarism Checker", from dustball.com, is a free, simple, program for practitioners,learners. other stakeholders.

Practitioners: Just...
- paste in text from a suspect paper and The Plagiarism Checker will quickly perform a Google search of multiple portions of the submitted text in an effort to find matches.

Learners: Just...
- paste in text from your paper, before submission, and The Plagiarism Checker will quickly perform a Google search of multiple portions of the submitted text in an effort to find matches.

NOTE: The basic service is free to use. A more advanced and, in their words, accurate checker is available for $8/month.

NOTE: Papers are not be stored for any purpose. Some other sites do make a copy of the paper.

=> Of course this only works if exchanges of information takes place. <=

Check also:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=PLN

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Sharing+to+Evolve

Richard Byrne shares alternatives to PowerPoint with a twist. He includes additional tools that help students outline their stories; find high quality images that are public domain and/or Creative Commons; and a variety of web-based presentation tools as well as Haiku Deck, and app for the iPad.

In total he shares eight resources providing links to all as well as short descriptions. 

This isn't directly related to film production. Still, we all are called upon to make presentations. Some great resources here. Perhaps even helpful for producers, directors, DoP's. 

Good ideas to help students add interest.

Start uploading, converting, and streaming your audio files absolutely free. Just follow these simple steps to generate your first playlist or convert your audio files.

Note: there is a maximum audio file size of 15MB and currently it is unable to provide a service for converting M4P files.

ExamTime, currently in beta, helps learners to prepare for assessments.
Learners sign into ExamTime accounts using either an email or their facebook account.
When signed in they can create...
- flashcards,
- mind maps, and
- practice quizzes to help them study.
Learners can also arrange their materials into topics.
All materials can be shared with other Examtime users (their peers).
As practitioners you also have an opportunity to encourage your learners to...
- create accounts and to share review materials with each other.
- share their review materials with you to ensure they're on the right track in their preparation for any assessments.

Great new photo editor which is free to use and requires no registration. Excellent for preparing your images for a presentation. It lets you edit photos, make photo collages and cards.

Works on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. Available in 4 languages (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish).

Love that it doesn't make one sign up.

Take a look at this infographic that was created by surveying over 1,000 students in grades K - 5. They were asked to identify their favorite fictional characters, the easiest and hardest subjects in school, what they want to be when they grow up, reading preference - tablet or book, top three favorite things about school and more! Drawing on the infographic were also drawn by kids.