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Parents are getting increasingly creative with how they share images of their children online. But does covering or blurring our children's faces in images posted to social media achieve what we think it does?
Via Peter Mellow
"Digital poverty comes in many forms. Access to good tech and devices, support to use the technology, and the cost implication of this, all affect a student’s learning experience and their future career ...."
Via Leona Ungerer
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Dennis Swender
from The Curation Code
December 30, 2024 12:54 PM
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To gain readers’ attention and trust it is evidently not enough to create a top 10 tools list by searching on Google and then picking the best items from existing lists, or to pull together a few interesting article titles on a topic with their introductory paragraphs.
Unless your readers are not very interested themselves into the topic you cover, why would they take recommendations from someone who has not even had the time to fully vet and verify his own suggested resources?
Picking what superficially appears to be interesting content just by reading titles or curating and suggesting content to your readers by leveraging tools that do this automatically is like recommending movies or music records based on how much you like their trailers or their cover layouts.
By using this approach how many times are you going to recommend truly valuable resources versus how many times is your recommendation going to lower your credibility and authority just because the content you have recommended is actually quite shallow, provides no new insight, or it is even copied from somewhere else?
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:50 PM
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For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is a handy visual that features some our favourite web tools for creating and sharing digital quizzes. You can use them to design a wide variety of quizzes including gameshow-style, PlayBuzz and Buzzfeed style, jeopardy games style, and game-based quizzes. The features provided differ from one tool to the other but all of them are easy to use, learner friendly and work across various platforms. We invite you to check them out and share with your colleagues.
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:45 PM
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Google makes the Chrome browser and Google makes Gmail. Naturally, the Chrome Web Store has some excellent extensions to improve your Gmail experience. But it also has several that you don’t need. Let’s sift the gems from the mud.
Note: The extensions in this list work only with Gmail. If you prefer the time-saving Inbox by Gmail, there are separate extensions for that.
Inbox by Gmail is Google's most recent approach to email organization and management. It can give you a simpler email workflow. Find out if Inbox by Gmail can be the better choice for you.
ActiveInbox: Send Mails Later and Manage Email Tasks
If you’re a Gmail power user, this is the best extension you can install. But be warned, ActiveInbox is free for a one month trial, after which it costs $50 per year....
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:44 PM
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:43 PM
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Social media platforms continue releasing tools to generate and distribute videos, to help users reach new followers and build their communities. Here is a list of new and updated video tools for social media. There are tools for live streaming, collaborating with others, distributing content, editing, and shooting 360 degree video.
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Anat Lechner's My 2 Cents
December 30, 2024 12:19 PM
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Weather forecasts will get smarter, EVs could get pricier, crypto will be for everyday investors and AI will be everywhere
Via Anat Lechner PhD
Insights from ~300 instructional designers who have taken my AI & Learning Design bootcamp this year
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Dennis Swender
from Educational Technology News
December 26, 2024 1:15 PM
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"Over the past two years, generative AI has dominated tech conversations and media headlines. Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney, and Sora captured imaginations with their ability to create text, images, and videos, sparking both excitement and ethical debates. However, artificial intelligence goes far beyond generative AI—which is just a subset of AI—and its associated models."
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Dennis Swender
from Digital Delights for Learners
December 8, 2024 11:38 AM
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In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Dennis Swender
from Edumorfosis.it
December 8, 2024 11:32 AM
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As a New York Times article on the paper reported: “doctors were treating [the AI] like a search engine for directed questions: ‘Is cirrhosis a risk factor for cancer? What are possible diagnoses for eye pain?’ It was only a fraction of the doctors who realized they could literally copy-paste in the entire case history into the chatbot and just ask it to give a comprehensive answer to the entire question.” This is not just an issue for doctors. In every classroom I teach in or organization I speak with, the vast majority of people have tried AI, but are often struggling with how to initially use it. And, as a result of that struggle, have not put in the 10 or so hours with AI that are required to really understand what it does.
Via Edumorfosis
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Dennis Swender
from Nik Peachey
January 9, 9:42 AM
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The aim of this book is to enable you to use AI prompts to rapidly generate course materials that are specifically designed for your students.
This is done through a collection of prompt templates that help you to create the different types of materials that are commonly produced by materials writers and designers when producing lessons and courses.
By working through the lessons in the book, you should be able to develop your knowledge of AI prompting to a level where you are able to rapidly produce core content and edit and fine tune it for your students.
Via Nik Peachey
The internet is overloaded with content. Even if you only set out to read the most important articles and watch the top videos, you'll never get done.
Just staying up-to-date and informed is a challenge. You have news to read, blogs to check, and YouTube hits you've got to watch. But instead of opening each site a half-dozen times a day, you can use an RSS app to curate your content automatically.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a file that most websites update with their newest blog posts, videos, deals and more, so you can "subscribe" to sites and have new content automatically pushed to you. Instead of checking the 40 websites you follow, you can just open an RSS reader app and see what's new on all of those sites together.
In the years since Google Reader died, a wide range of RSS feed reader apps have come and gone. Today, there are still a number of great RSS tools that are actively being improved, apps you can use to follow your favorite sites—from powerful crowd favorites like Feedly to simple Chrome extensions like Feeder. Whether you want a simple app for consuming news on the go, or a powerful tool that archives the best content from hundreds of sites, there's an app here for you.
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:52 PM
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It was recently announced that Instagram has doubled its monthly active user base since 2014, which means a lot more people are viewing and sharing photos. Plus, visual content is 40X more likely to get shared on social media than other types. In other words, people like to be shown, not told -- and in turn, they share. For that reason, it's important for marketers to know how to create compelling visuals for their business' social networks and blogs. And while it can be worth putting the investment of time and money into photo editing software on your computer, many of us are exclusively using our phones to take pictures and could stand to edit them without uploading them to a desktop. That's especially true when you're posting in real time, like at an event. Luckily, there are tons of great photo and video editing apps out there for mobile devices -- some of them even cost a few bucks. But which are the best, free or paid? Check out our shortlist below....
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:48 PM
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Designing for the web, you must keep up-to-date with the latest trends and tools. For trends, it’s fairly easy to know what’s going on, but it can be hard to keep up with the latest tools. Let’s look at ten web design tools you can add to your toolbox.
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:45 PM
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Images are a vital component of any website, and using the right ones can enhance both your content and design. The problem lies in finding the right graphics without resorting to the same free stock images everyone else uses. If you really want to set your site apart, there’s an alternative to stock images – you can create your own. The best part is, you don’t need to be a designer to get it done. Nowadays, there are plenty of tools that can help you create stylish graphics with only a little practice, and they’re a great option if you don’t have the budget to hire a designer. In this article, we’ll talk about why images are so important for any website, then we’ll introduce you to three tools that can help you create your own custom graphics. Let’s get started!...
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:44 PM
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If you own an Amazon Alexa device, you can use Alexa Skills to be more productive; keep track of your day, finances, and calls; make travel easier; hear the news you care about, and more. Alexa Skills are built-in capabilities activated by your voice. New ones are added to the Alexa Skill library all the time. Here are the top 30 best Alexa skills for Professionals...
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Top Social Media Tools
December 30, 2024 12:43 PM
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Four years ago, FiftyThree—the team of ex-Microsoft creatives who launched a wildly popular iPad sketching app called Paper—was flush with venture capital and full of expansion ideas that they put into action. They started producing hardware: an iPad stylus called (unluckily) Pencil. They expanded the app to work on iPhones as a Post-it-esque idea jotter. They experimented with in-app purchases and a patronage model. They even soft-launched a whole new app called Paste, which lets Slack users pass visual materials back and forth with ease. But all this activity had a somewhat flailing feel: What was Fiftythree’s core business? Was it about productivity software, or creative apps? Now, with a relaunch of both Paper and Paste, the company seems to have its story straight again. And that story is . . . they’re about productivity and creativity. And making great slide decks....
Via Jeff Domansky
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Dennis Swender
from Educational Technology News
December 26, 2024 1:32 PM
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Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they're on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by teens.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Dennis Swender
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
December 21, 2024 12:23 PM
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Forgive me if you think these are badly-framed questions. Asking whether ChatGPT enhances learning is no different from asking whether technology more generally will enhance learning (a question that is fundamentally unanswerable), something that I had hoped we had moved on from some time ago. But please bear with me. Such questions matter (not because…
Via Vladimir Kukharenko, Yashy Tohsaku
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Dennis Swender
from Digital Delights for Learners
December 21, 2024 12:22 PM
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Create, edit and save notes instantly with our free online notepad. Features plain text, rich text, and markdown editors with auto-save. No registration required. Access your notes from any device.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Dennis Swender
from Digital Delights for Learners
December 8, 2024 11:38 AM
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Experience seamless editing in Google Workspace products with Pointer AI. Enjoy AI-driven updates and automatic formatting preservation for maximum productivity.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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