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One True Media makes video creation fun, easy and free. Mix your video and photos with our effects, text and music and post to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
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April 22, 2014 1:03 PM
Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.
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Compelling words from Dr. Samona Tait, Head of School at the Bronx Preparatory Charter School, a public charter school serving students in grades 5-12 in the South Bronx. Dr. Tait was formerly an instructional superintendent for the NYC Board of Education.
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Stephen Heppell is at the heart of a global revolution in learning space design. In this ULearn11 EDtalk Stephen explains why he believes that the 'structures and strictures of education will be swept aside by the engagement, seduction, delight, passion and astonishment of a new learning world'. Uploaded by EDtalks, Oct. 28, 2o11
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Top Scoop.its in ed tech, libraries, and curation by Chrissy Sirianni via Joyce Valenza. Links and brief descriptions of more than 50!
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Garr Reynolds on a great presentation:
If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters
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While there are several options available for converting a PowerPoint presentation into a format that can be watched anywhere, probably the best option when dealing with a presentation containing animation, video or sound is to convert the entire presentation to a video file. Via Baiba Svenca
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This website enables you to create short video conferences with upto 10 people. It also records them so you can watch again afterwards. This can be really useful for recording tutorials or collecting interviews for research. Via Nik Peachey
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"These films look specifically at ways in which school leaders and educators are testing and proving project-based models for a new, student-centered model of learning." Via Kathleen McClaskey
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Just-published policy brief on this pressing topic from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. Many other research publications available here.
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Very nice collection of web 2.0 resources for teachers to use anytime, not just the summer. Each selected resource is described in a paragraph. From the very resourceful Richard Byrne and his award-winning blog. |
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Links to 7 online polling services by AC Prater.
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Cloud-based video converter that gives you one short URL for delivering the right video format for any device. Encode your videos online instantly! Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Browser logins and the built-in save password features in them are not enough these days when users have multiple accounts from the same service providers. Having the ability to login to each of these services without having to re-type passwords is now possible with the OurPad solution.
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TED Talks We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong.
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EDtalks is a collection of video interviews, discussions and presentations featuring thought leaders, innovative educators and inspirational learners. From New Zealand, featuring speakers from all over the English-speaking world.
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About curation of knowledge via one of the world's great librarians, Joyce Valenza, with a big assist from Howard Rheingold.
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Treshr is a brand new site project by S7 Labs that makes it easy to give things away, or, the other way around, find free stuff.
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These resources provide over 110 ideas for incorporating Twitter in the educational/instuctional process. Via Miss Noor , João Greno Brogueira
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Several professionals in the Learning industry want to convert their f2f courses into an eLearning format. However, several of them do the same mistake again and again. They believe that by simply moving their content such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, audios, and documents to a Learning Management System that they have converted their face to face courses to an eLearning format. In my opinion, they have convert their traditional courses to an electronic format. Via Nik Peachey
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Ahead is a non-linear presentation tool similar to Prezi. You can load just about any type of content, then move and resize it. Via Baiba Svenca
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Hewlett-Packard Co. will keep making personal computers after all.
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Very handy service that lets you type in anyone's Twitter screen name (including your own) and get back a very informative profile summary including key tweets and top people following you. Easy to spend a lot of time with this one. |
