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...Speaking of the spell, do you remember the scene when Harry wished he knew a good Vanishing Spell to escape his fan Colin’s photograph-clicking spree? Or the time when Bill Weasley used this incantation to make a stack of scrolls disappear while cleaning up after a meeting of the Order of the Phoenix during Harry's first night at number twelve, Grimmauld Place? Via Baiba Svenca
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Free & Easy Digital Image AWESOMENESS by The Daring Librarian. What's your favourite digital imaging site? Slideshare Tip: Why the "All Pics" in the title?... Via Baiba Svenca 
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
March 18, 2014 2:46 PM
A great slide presentation that focuses on images in your presentations - how and where to get them, how to enhance them, how to work with fonts and colors. Finally, there is a long list of image editing sites which will help you do the job. 
David Baker's curator insight,
April 3, 2014 1:48 AM
one more good resource of practices and resources to make presentations, classes and professional learning pop! 
Kate JohnsonMcGregor's curator insight,
April 17, 2014 10:40 AM
Excellent slide show provides suggestions and tips for students and instructors - no more death by powerpoint!
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Dave Wood's curator insight,
April 18, 2014 3:41 PM
Some really useful tips about structuring information and the impactful use of visuals. I haven't been a huge fan of Prezi because they can be just too "busy" and disorientating when they incorporate too much spin as they move from image to image. These tips give good advice about how to keep it simple for best effect. I've used Prezi as a way of presenting the notes from a visual group coaching session back to the participants. 
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November 27, 2023 11:01 AM
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Lydia Gracia's curator insight,
March 27, 2014 4:32 AM
quelqu'un l'a essayé? ça semble intéressant...
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein Via Jon Samuelson
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by Jill Celeste
"Are you including images in your social media content?
"Looking for easy-to-use tools to help you create images for your content strategy?
"If the idea of using Photoshop makes your head spin or hiring a graphic designer isn’t an option, there are many easy-to-use, low-cost alternatives available to you to create social media graphics.
"In this article, I’ll show you 6 easy tools that will help you create compelling graphics for social media."
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These great tools aren't just for social media; you can use them whenever you wish to compose interesting graphics, posters, invitations, flyers, etc. Students will love them too. Via Jim Lerman
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Google on Thursday announced drastic price reductions for its paid Drive subscriptions, with 100 gigabytes of cloud storage now costing just $1.99 a month, and 1 terabyte of data available for $9.99 per month, significantly undercutting the prices of rival Dropbox. Via François-Xavier Schaeffer 
François-Xavier Schaeffer's curator insight,
March 19, 2014 4:36 PM
New prices for the Drive suite of apps and services will make the market for cloud storage all the more competitive -- if Google can stay reliable. On monday, many people who use Google apps for work experienced a disruption to service of Google Chat, Hangout and Sheets. Just two months ago, a technical problem left users without Gmail and Google Talk for 15 minutes...
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With SlideShark Anywhere, a unique feature of SlideShark Team Edition, team members can access approved PowerPoints and present and broadcast directly from their PC/Mac computers or Windows 8 tablets through an intuitive web-based interface. Via Baiba Svenca
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
March 19, 2014 4:23 PM
SlideShark which previously worked on iPad and iPhone have released a new feature SlideShark Anywhere that lets you now present from your browser using PC, Mac or Windows 8 tablet. For individual users SlideShark is free, but there are also several paid options with greater possibilities.
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"Today while I was browsing through my Twitter feeds I came across this fabulous Bloom's Taxonomy wheel of apps shared by Anthony. If you still recall, some previous versions of this wheel have already been featured here in Bloom's Taxonomy for Teachers section . Via John Evans 
Jon C's curator insight,
March 27, 2014 7:33 PM
This could be useful resource to connect the old Bloom's taxonomy to new resources out there on the iPad. And a nice visual to boot. 
Daniel Stebbins's curator insight,
June 19, 2014 12:49 AM
These app guides are very useful to all teachers from the newbie to EdTech in the classroom, to the theoretical teacher to the 21st Century ESL Digital Classroom Practitioner.
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Doctopus is truly the educator’s virtual personal assistant.
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Dictation is a free online speech recognition software powered by Google Chrome. You can use Dictation to write emails and documents in the browser with your voice
"Speech Recognition in the Browser With Dictation, you can use the magic of speech recognition to write emails, narrate essays and long documents in the browser without touching the keyboard. To get started, just connect the microphone to your computer and click the Start Dictation button. Dictation uses your browser's local Storage to save all the transcribed text automatically as you speak. That means you can close the browser and it will resume from where you left off. The app internally uses the built-in speech recognition engine of Google Chrome to transform your voice into digital text. Speak in your Native Language You don't have to speak in English as Chrome's engine can recognize quite a few languages including Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Malay, Indonesian and more. Dictation will automatically determine your browser's default launguage and uses it for subsequent transcriptions. Hindi and other Indian languages aren't supported at this time. Written by Amit Agarwal for Digital Inspiration."
Jim Lerman's insight:
This app works very well. It's not quite up to the standards of Dragon Naturally Speaking, but then again, it is free. Via Jim Lerman 
Luz Marina Martínez Peña's curator insight,
March 31, 2014 5:27 PM
Esta herramienta es muy útil, cuando se está escribiendo un texto científico, pues nos permite ir desarrollando una idea de manera muy rápida, sin preocuparnos por tener que escribir. 
Thierry Ruissy's curator insight,
April 11, 2014 10:17 AM
Marche correctement et permet de dialoguer en français
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80 Ways to Use Google Forms to Support Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on EDUCACIÓN 3.0 - EDUCATION 3.0 curated by Javier Sánchez Bolado (80 Ways to Use Google Forms to Support Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile ... 
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April 11, 2014 12:08 PM
80 Ways to Use Google Forms to Support Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on EDUCACIÓN 3.0 - EDUCATION 3.0 curated by Javier Sánchez Bolado (80 Ways to Use Google Forms to Support Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile ...
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In an earlier column, I made the prediction that by... |
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Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
March 15, 2014 3:20 AM
Even though Adobe is not a free software, their product InDesign lets you stand out by creating stunning presentations. Watch the tutorial that will give you an insight into the creative process. InDesign is aimed at academics but in my opinion it can successfully be used in general education as well. 
Mr Tozzo's curator insight,
March 17, 2014 10:20 AM
Create a striking slide presentation - Adobe for Academics
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After cutting prices on storage for Google Drive and delivering new features on the Spreadsheet app (which are now available for everyone), Google has now turned its attention to the Presentation and Drawing apps. Since images are a big part of those, a new update brings simple image editing tools, like cropping, shape masking and… Via Baiba Svenca
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
March 28, 2014 10:53 AM
Great news for Google users! Now you can edit your images or drawings in Google presentations using shape masks, i.e. crop images in different shapes instead of just a rectangle. This feature will let you produce even more exciting stories. 
Paris Stephane's curator insight,
March 29, 2014 1:10 PM
For my Director who said that cropping an image with Google apps is not possible like Microsoft Word or Excel....
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This is a method of constructing effective PowerPoint presentations in a way that helps your audience pay attention to you and understand your ideas more fully. With Attention Method, the slides are designed to add power, emphasis, and deeper understanding to your well-scripted speech. You flip slides often so that, at any given time, your slides always support only what you're saying and contain no distracting information. Instead of one slide with several bullets, each slide should contain one idea expressed in vibrant images and minimalistic text. Via Baiba Svenca 
Ruby Day's curator insight,
April 2, 2014 8:41 PM
Now i think of it, I have seen people use this method, very effective
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Because online courses have fewer opportunities for the spontaneous, real-time exchanges of the face-to-face classroom, online instruction requires a deliberate approach to design and facilitation. As Bethany Simunich says, “Online, learning doesn’t happen by chance.” In an interview with Online Classroom, Simunich, associate director of online learning at Kent State University, offered the following techniques to improve an online course:
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Exposure enables photographers to easily tell vibrant stories with their photos. Assemble a more complete narrative than you could with a feed or lonely photo on a permalink page. Via Nik Peachey 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
March 25, 2014 2:27 PM
A lovely tool, but the free version is really just a trial. Not too expensive, though, at only $5 a month for anyone who has need of it. 
flea palmer's curator insight,
April 7, 2014 11:35 AM
This looks a really good way to create a photo story - nice layout too...
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Brisbane Times
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As an instructional designer, your primary goal is to develop effective eLearning courses. You should address the objectives for each lesson, use the
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Strengthening Geographic Content in the Classroom South Carolina GeoFest
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Creating engagement in the virtual classroom is easy when you design effective whiteboard activities. Here are some tips to get you started. Via EDTECH@UTRGV 
Claudia Estrada's curator insight,
March 23, 2014 11:17 AM
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Use the “Vanishing Spell” in PowerPoint
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A cautionary note on special effects in PowerPoint: special effects, including music and videos, in a PowerPoint presentation can add energy BUT if not used well, they can be distracting, or worse, appear unprofessional and immature. When my daughters first started using PPT in middle school, their reports were full of figures dashing in with screeching sounds and words appearing with flashing lights and drum rolls. I have seen far too many 'grown-ups' add those and a myriad of other special effects as if they were the cure to death by PPT. (They aren't.) You may have heard the term 'font abuse' that comes from having so many choices and results in a sense of exploration and new found font freedom that drives restraint out the window. Don't fall prey to 'special effect abuse' in your enthusiasm. Some good rules to follow: 1) Draft your ENTIRE presentation before you even put it in PPT. 2) Use special effects ONLY when they reinforce your message, make your idea more understandable or facilitate the flow of the presentation. Remember that a presentation is for your audience, not to entertain yourself or demonstrate your special effects prowess.
a cool trick. easy to use.