Our workshop presentation at the ICT in Education conference; " Effective Ways to Involve and Engage Students with Videos" by Amer Yacoub & Ismail Fayed. http:/ (PPT 4 Exploring ICT n Ed conf at CNAQ . Via Susan Bainbridge 
Expanded learning time schools, after-school and summer programs offer the ideal time, places and conditions to equalize and advance technology-enabled learning. Community organizations such as Y’s and Boys and Girls Clubs typically operate these programs or partner with these schools, which overwhelmingly serve students with great academic and economic needs. Via Dennis T OConnor 
#GA-repost: Educational Technology Guy: Lesson Plans using Google Apps in ... http://t.co/vNmpa8tr #googleapps: ... Via William Cunningham 
Robin Good: Speechpad Transcription is an online service that provides professional text transcriptions of video and audio files at reasonable rates.
You can either a) upload an audio file, b) record a phone call with the service or c) call-in and record a text that you want to be transcribed.
Pricing starts at $1/min with a 3-5 day turnaround time and goes as high as $2/min for a 24-hr transcription time.
Find out more: http://www.speechpad.com/ Via Robin Good 
Food has a special meaning to the Chinese people. The "waste not, want not" ethos means that a surprising range and variety of plants and animals, and every part of a plant or animal is used. This has given rise to a remarkable diversity in... Via Frank Kusters 
Capture anything you see on your PC screen with SnapIt. It is convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click. 
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Import your slides into Prezi, one at a time or all at once, with or without a path, with just a few clicks. Via Baiba Svenca 
Windows application called Screen Video Recorder lets you record screencasts with audio and visual effects. Free download. Via Baiba Svenca 
Digital Storyteller is a Web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Via Eva Buyuksimkesyan ![How to create and share digital flash cards on your iPhone and iPad [App for that] | iMore | Online Chinese Teaching | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/EAstdZ-pRNbLFFoY0a-6TTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Our challenge this week was to find an app that would allow my parents, who are taking a Spanish class together, to create flashcards of vocabulary that could be shared on two iPhones and one iPad. Via paulinobrener 
In this episode, we show how you can create a document camera using an iPad and some common school materials. Via William Cunningham 
If we were really serious about educational technology, we would… show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups in (RT @Nunavut_Tweeter: If we were really serious about educational technology Via William Cunningham 
"Having been on both sides of online learning has taught me a few lessons about how best to help students learn in an environment that provides as many challenges (if not more) as face-to-face teaching." Via Dennis T OConnor Last week I attended the first Moodle User Group London meeting at City University and sat in on an interesting breakout session with James Ballard (ULCC) as speaker. It was useful stuff and I thin... Via Moodle News |
