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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Rapid eLearning
July 17, 2014 5:33 AM
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The Edublogger has just published a very useful post: Our 3 Favorite Free Online Image Editors For Education.
Via Elke Höfler, Juergen Wagner, michel verstrepen
Instructional designers, trainers and educators have long realized the true value of animated videos as one of the main techniques that should be used to increase the audience’s engagement and retention during an eLearning course. Would you be interested in a list of the top animated video software in the eLearning market?
Via Marcel Lebrun
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Tice & Co
July 16, 2014 12:25 AM
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Content marketing comes in many different shapes and sizes. Creators like you have a lot of options: blog posts, social media updates, visuals, video, slide decks, and even more. You can even add podcasting to this mix. Audio is being used in clever ways to fit into the content plans of some of the top forward-thinking websites and blogs.
Via Kamal Bennani, Vincent Martinet
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Bhushan Thapliyal
July 14, 2014 7:12 AM
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The feature-rich e-reading app Mantano has just received its biggest update yet. Released on the last day of last year, Mantano has just been updated to version 2.0 with support for a new e-book format and other enhancements.
"If you don’t have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there’s a good chance you’re behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons. These channels allow instructors to share information and blend media in unprecedented and exciting new ways. From teaching Mandarin Chinese to busting myths about Astronomy, the educational possibilities are virtually endless pun intended! Because we can now sift through thousands of resources while navigating a single repository, the potential for inspiration and growth in the field of education has reached a new height. Here are the top channels worth following based on views, subscriptions, and quality of content:"
Via John Evans
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from eLanguages
July 12, 2014 6:02 AM
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July, 2014 Instead of heading to the library to bury your face in the stacks, use these search engines to find out which libraries have the books you need, and maybe even find them available...
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Digital Storytelling
July 11, 2014 12:29 AM
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Eclectic Technology
July 11, 2014 12:27 AM
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So, you need an image for your blog? We’ve spent some time categorizing our favorite sources for free images and organizing them in such a way as to help you find what you’re looking for. Here are ...
Via Beth Dichter
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Rapid eLearning
July 11, 2014 12:18 AM
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The researchers found that "personal 'ownership' of the device is seen as the single most important factor for successful use of this technology." They found ownership is fundamental for increasing students levels of motivation, interest, and engagement. Personal ownership promotes greater student autonomy and self-efficacy. Best of all, ownership encourages students to take more responsibility for their learning.
Via John Evans, Ilkka Olander, Jenny Smith, Juergen Wagner
Here are five sites that will help you discover free icons to download.
Via Timo Ilomäki
This session takes you beyond "cool apps" for the iPad to how to best use the mobile device in your classroom for authentic learning. Participants will be imme…
Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Juergen Wagner
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"Teachers interested in trying the flipped classroom model often ask me for recommendations for video creation tools. They also often ask me for ideas on sharing videos without using YouTube. One answer to both of these questions is to useeduClipper.
On the free eduClipper iPad app you can create instructional videos on a whiteboard in the Khan Academy style. You can also use the app to create a video in which you annotate an image or document while talking about it. After creating your video you can save it to an eduClipper board that you have shared with your students through the eduClipper classroom setting. Your students can view the videos on their iPads or in the web browsers on their laptops."
Via John Evans, Jamie Forshey, GwynethJones, kathy pryor, Juergen Wagner
"Reading is just the communication of ideas through alphanumeric symbols. I’m not sure what this represents such hallowed ground for teachers, but it does. Personally I’d be more concerned with reading habits, reasons for reading, the quality of reading materials, etc. Symbols change, forms change, media change. See the gif animations that demonstrate how a student feels when “bae won’t respond to them.” This is your audience, and these are the symbols they gravitate towards. In the apps-for-close-reading post, I said that this “interaction” between reader and text during close reading “doesn’t require technology, but can be changed by it.” So it made sense, I thought, to guess at some ways this happens. Or should be happening, anyway. With more personalization, more access, and more connectivity, we should be creating a generation of close-readers that can’t get enough. So if we’re not, the question is, why isn’t that happening? The pieces are there."
Via John Evans
When they are directly involved in planning and steering projects, students are more invested in their learning. Get ideas for empowering your students to work independently.
Via Elizabeth E Charles
"Storybird is a great platform for visual storytelling. Students can easily use it to create visual stories in few steps. Storybird provides students with artwork curated from illustrators and animators from all around the world and invite them to use those images to create engaging stories. Besides being able to create their own storybooks, students can use Storybird library to access and read a wide variety of books written by others. They can also interact with these works through hearting and commenting on books they like."
Via John Evans
We are now in the age of visual information where visual content plays a role in every part of life. As 65 percent of the population is visual learners, images are clearly key to engaging people in eLearning courses. Moving and still images have been included in learning materials for decades, but only now has faster broadband, cellular networks, and high-resolution screens made it possible for high-quality images to be a part of eLearning visual design. Graphic interfaces made up of photos, illustrations, charts, maps, diagrams, and videos are gradually replacing text-based courses. In this post, we will dig deep into some statistics and facts to further convince of why eLearning developers should embrace visuals when creating their courses.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Adelina Silva, Michèle Drechsler, CECI Jean-François, Gust MEES
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from iPads in High School
July 12, 2014 6:00 AM
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"The camera is one of those apps on the iPad that we sometimes take for granted. We forget it is there or don’t always use it to its full potential in the classroom. This week I am presenting at iPadU: Slide to Unlock Learning, and I wanted to highlight some of the many ways that you could use the iPad camera, so I put some ideas together and added some I had seen on the web or learned from others. The result? iPadography: Photo Projects for the iPad Classroom. So, if you are looking for ideas for using the iPad camera in the classroom, take a look at some of the slides below, and feel free to share it with others who might be interested!"
Via John Evans, Suvi Salo, Timo Ilomäki
"iBooks Author is a powerful tool for creating interactive textbooks for your students. Whether you work together as a class to gather content or simply curate resources to share with a class, the possibilities are endless. If you’re looking to check out high quality content that is designed for the iPad, you’ll want to download E.O. Wilson’s set of interactive biology textbooks. You’ll see just how powerful an interactive textbook can be! These iBooks might supplement your science curriculum or just inspire you to dive into iBooks Author to create your own."
Via John Evans
More Fun Free Tools for Collaborative Classroom Assignments In May, we published the post, 20 Fun Free Tools for Interactive Classroom Collaboration. Given the
Via Luísa Lima, kallen214, Lynnette Van Dyke
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Eclectic Technology
July 11, 2014 12:20 AM
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At the 2014 ISTE conference in Atlanta, Georgia, last week, Common Sense Media staff and Graphite Certified Educators presented a series of engaging, informative, and hands-on lightning-fast sessions. These 15-minute workshops showcased practical and engaging ways to use specific...
Via Beth Dichter
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Bhushan Thapliyal
from Time to Learn
July 7, 2014 2:19 AM
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We all have to use a browser to surf the web. Regardless of which one you use, there are always shortcuts you can learn to become more productive.
Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL
Smallpdf - the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files. Solving all your PDF problems in one place - and yes, 100% free.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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