Educational Technology and Sustainability

The Movenote app lets you record video alongside documents or pictures to create an integrated video presentation with slides.   

Creating presentations is easy and fast. Simply record video with your device and swipe to synchronize the slides to the video. Presentations are shared by sending a link to the recipient and can be viewed without the app.

Online education has been around for a long time. But massive open online courses are finally making it respectable. Maybe even cool. Let’s not forget, though, that they are still experiments.

Our Question How might we interpret the gaps and opportunities given the core needs, communities, and actions that have been collectively surfaced about what motivates people to learn webmaking and...

Google est incontestablement le leader de la recherche sur Internet, de la gestion des emails ou encore de la cartographie via Google Maps. Mais il est un autre domaine où la firme de Mountain View domine l’ensemble de ses concurrents : le partage de vidéos. Les chiffres sont plus qu’impressionnants :

- YouTube accueille 800 millions d’utilisateurs uniques mensuels,

- 4 milliards de vidéos sont visionnées chaque mois,

- 25% des vues sont effectuées sur un mobile,

- Un milliard de vues mobiles sont comptabilisées chaque jour,

- Chaque minute, 72 heures de vidéo sont ajoutées sur le service.

Si l’outil est bien pensé et très facile à prendre en main, de nombreuses astuces plus ou moins techniques permettent d’améliorer YouTube, que vous soyez créateur ou simple spectateur.

Spice up your presentations by going 100% mobile and allow your audience to follow in real-time on their own devices.

Excerpted from the article:
"Sharing good content shows you understand what’s interesting and valuable to your target markets. It will help you increase your followers and establish your credibility.
A good content curator has to sift through tons of content, quickly and efficiently, finding what is both relevant and good quality.

So what does a good content curator look like?
1) Really Long Arms:
You have the expanded reach to know the smaller players with a unique perspective, the powerhouse publishers, and all of the niche players. This allows for a healthy variety of content, with differing perspectives.

2) Super Fast Scanning Eyes:
An efficient content curator knows how to scan an article for legitimacy, value, and relevance to their target market.

3) A Raised Eyebrow:
Each time you come upon something new, your eyebrow is already up, because you’re there to sniff it out to make sure it’ll pass the test. People will lose interest in what you share and you will hurt your credibility if you share content that isn’t high quality.

4) A Belly Full of Hunger:
Good content curators love what they do and are passionate about traversing the wide expanse of the web to find the best content possible."

Read full article here:
http://socialmediatoday.com/parkerwhite/1236016/what-makes-good-content-curator

I sift through reams of words and worlds of pedagogy. I blink through bytes of pedagogy and educational concerns. May 2013 and still the drums beat on about 21st Century Learning. May 2013, and one...

Why are all these students falling asleep, virtually, in their online learning classes? Because the people putting education online are still in classrooms.

Si pendant vos heures de boulot, vous écumez le net à la recherche de .torrent sympathiques, mais que vous ne pouvez pas les télécharger depuis votre lieu de travail, voici une petite astuce.

Il suffit d'installer le logiciel Phrozen DropBox Torrent sur votre ordinateur à la maison, puis de glisser-déposer dans votre dossier Dropbox (ou n'importe quel autre dossier Skydrive, Owncloud, FTP...etc. qui se synchronise avec un dossier à la maison) depuis un endroit distant (votre lieu de travail) vos .torrent.

Read more at http://korben.info/dropbox-torrent.html#OKRuwZiTZUVqms3l.99

A personal learning network is a method of linking kids and adults to major sources of information on the Internet. It is like choosing your closest friends that you want to listen to because they keep you up
to date, you trust what they have to say, and it is your method of keeping current on what is going on. Will Richardson has created a very very important book here that every teacher  should read and
implement both in their own lives and in the lives of their students. Will provides a number of tools that help all of us link to our favorites and even provides directions for getting started with each tool he recommends.
More importantly, he describes and promotes the idea of the classroom (and we can say Learning Commons) where PLNs are as natural as plugging in and turning on.  The book is entitled : Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education 

Here are some great video tutorials on how to create and use your own PLN

Qu’est-ce qu’un réseau social ? Comment définir ce type de plate-forme qui marque les pratiques contemporaines en ligne du grand public et de l’univers professionnel ?Comment catégoriser les différents services par objectifs, caractéristiques et enjeux d’usages. Le siteSavoirs CDI offre une typologie des réseaux sociaux avec des éléments de synthèse, des infographies, une définition formelle précise et plurielle ainsi que des ressources en ligne.