Free RPG/Fighting Game App Using Math. Math w/ Amigos is the brand new game from Yogome that is a blast to play and great for Game Based Learning. This free iOS multiplayer game lets players take on villains w/ other players from around the world in this turn-based RPG/Fighting style game. Students must answer basic Math questions (i.e. addition, subtraction, etc.) correct in order to attack and defeat their enemy. The faster a player answers the question the more points they receive.
Also, they can earn currency to buy in game items and unlock other worlds/boards to increase replay value. I highly recommend checking out Math w/ Amigos by clicking here!!! To check out other great games by Yogome click here. For my Pinterest board on Educational iOS Apps click here. Create stop action movies with free Lego Movie Creator app. MORFO: Free/Pay App That'll Convert A Picture Of A Face Into A Talking 3D Character. A Wonderful Interactive Whiteboard App Is Now Free - Grab It.
This Free App Uses Your Smartphone's Camera to Do Your Math Homework for You - Cool! Your smartphone’s camera might fall short of the typical DSLR in just about every respect, but there is one thing it now do that not even your ultra-portable mirrorless camera can handle: your math homework. No, we’re not talking about shutting down the camera and opening your calculator app, what we’re talking about is PhotoMath, a new app from MicroBLINK that uses your smartphone camera to solve equations for you. Either a great study aid, or a terrifying new cheating tool that teachers the world over will now have to contend with, PhotoMath is no slouch.
Check out the demo below if you don’t believe us: Of course, if you don’t plan to use it for evil, this could turn your smartphone’s camera into a very useful studying tool. And that’s the point. The free app is currently available for iOS and Widows Phone at their respective stores, with Android in the works for an ‘early 2015’ release. (via Engadget) An Excellent iPad App for Taking Notes and Annotating PDFs is Now Free (Was $6) October 12, 2014 Margin Note Reader is definitely a must have app for teachers, educators and more specifically for student researchers. The app is free now for a limited time (used to cost $6). As always, when I say free I mean in the iTunes store here in Canada and the USA, not sure if it is free in other corners of the world. Margin Note Reader allows you to annotate and take notes on on the margins of your PDFs, ePub and saved documents. You have the choice to use three different note taking styles: handwriting, typing, and highlighting.
The power of Margin Note reader for student researchers like myself is that it lets you pull out citation, summary and mind map altogether so that you can easily quote articles while doing your research writing. Some of the features that I really love about Margin Note Reader include: seamless syncing with your accounts on Dropbox and Evernote. A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness. A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness by weareteachers.org New free app for kids teaches fire safety with creativity and compassion The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) children’s website, Sparky.org, has launched a new app for kids in honor of Fire Prevention Week October 5-11, 2014. Sparky and The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms aims to both educate and entertain children as they learn fire-safety skills. The premise of the story-based app: Sparky the Fire Dog and his pals discover that the Best Beepers Smoke Alarm Factory is missing its essential products.
Children follow the story, encountering fire safety messages while practicing literacy and math skills. Amusing tappable interactions on each page help kids’ engagement in the story. The story has two modes: narrated and highlighted text, and soundless read-to-self to accommodate both emerging and strong readers. Suggestions for educators’ incorporation of the app in the classroom are included. Art History Interactive iPad App Is Now Free ( Was $3,99) October, 2014 Art History Interactive is a wonderful iPad app that has gone free today (used to cost $3,99). Free at least for us here in Canada and in the States. This is an app that I have repeatedly featured in previous posts. Art History Interactive brings art history to life using a wide variety of features such as 3D imaging, audio guides, insight essays and many more. It takes students on a virtual journey into the history of western art from prehistoric sculpture to modern art.
Art History Interactive features fifty masterpieces highly celebrated in western art history. Watch the video below to learn more about Art History Interactive. Courtesy of Learning in Hand. Microsoft Adds to Office Line With Sway Storytelling App. Before Windows Phone and the Windows Store, some of the software most associated with Microsoft was Office. But though the Office portfolio has undergone several updates and refreshes over the years, the lineup itself has remained relatively unchanged — until now. Microsoft rolled out a preview version of Sway, its new storytelling app, which will be added to the Microsoft Office family.
Like other apps in the Office line, Sway is about creation. It essentially turns any browser into a "digital canvas" that can be filled with text, images and videos. But unlike Word, Excel or Powerpoint, Sway is not limited to a single file type or format. "It’s a new way for you to create a beautiful, interactive, web-based expression of your ideas, from your phone or browser," the company wrote in a blog post. Sway is a bit like an automated storytelling template. Once created, users can share Sways with anyone via a web link. You can see a sample, below, of the app in action. Level It Books: App To Determine Reading Level On A Book And More. Apple patents smart pen for capturing digital copies of handwritten notes. Apple was granted yet another stylus design patent on Tuesday, this time coming in the form of a smart pen capable of detecting hand movements for translation into digital line drawings and text.
Source: USPTO A number of companies have created similar products, the most relevant being Livescribe's "smartpen," though few boast the complete complement of advanced technology set forth by Apple's design. The Livescribe 3, for example, uses an infrared camera located in its tip to capture handwriting, which is then stored onboard or offloaded via Bluetooth. The process requires specialized paper, a relatively large chassis and a copious amount of power. Apple's stylus is based on efficient accelerometers or other motion-sensing hardware. The stylus can be configured to transmit movement data after a certain amount is collected, at predefined intervals or continuously, depending on user need.
9 Traits of Good Digital Citizens. Diehard Microsoft fans abandon Windows Phone for iPhone. If you needed any more confirmation that Windows Phone is dead in the water, two of its most high profile supporters have abandoned it for the iPhone. Veteran Microsoft journalists Ed Bott and Tom Warren both published essays this week in which they criticized Windows Phone for its shortcomings and announced that they’ve stopped using Windows Phones personally. Citing a lack of carrier and third-party app support, both agreed that Windows Phone has missed its shot at being a real competitor in the smartphone market. Over at ZDNet, Bott explained that a lack of support from Verizon is the main reason he ditched his Lumia Icon for an iPhone 6 Plus. Because of Windows Phone’s almost nonexistent market share, he argued that carriers have no reason to negotiate with Microsoft and maintain a good experience for its users: Thanks to Microsoft’s minuscule market share (small single-digit percentages in the U.S.), the carriers have almost no interest in collaborating with it on mobile devices.
Simmons Classroom: Free Holiday Unit from eduCanon. I first found over a year ago when I was looking resources for classrooms (moving lectures to home and then work to school). Their claim to fame is the ability to add questions to YouTube (and other) videos and have the students answer while watching. If the students are watching it at home, or even in the classroom, asking questions can help boost engagement and test for understanding at the same time. just sent me out an email with a free Holiday Unit that has five free lessons in it. Given how brain all seem to feel this time of year, especially with the icky weather, I thought that everyone would enjoy checking them out! "Holiday Break is just around the corner. As a thank you for your support as a premium user, the team has been hard at work to provide you with some fun class activities to get you there!
We've created a free Holiday Unit for you to download. How to Revise Effectively Over the HolidaysTED Talk - Don't eat the marshmallow! Protecting your child's digital identity | Net-Security. By Chase Cunningham - The Cynja - Friday, 5 December 2014. Each day, as infosec professionals, we dedicate ourselves to protecting our client’s most valuable assets. We spend countless hours focused on keeping data, intellectual property, systems and files out of the hands of cyber criminals. Our clients win and we win—at work. But what are we doing about protecting our most valuable assets at home—our children’s digital identity? Child identity theft is considered to be one of the fastest-growing crimes. Kids’ identities are stolen over 50 times more than those of adults!
We’re often so focused protecting our kids from so many threats in the real world; we forget that in cyberspace bad guys are stealing children’s identities to open credit cards, apply for loans, rent homes and even receive health care. Why is this important? Unlike our clients—who have budgets, IT managers, lawyers and executives demanding attention—children only have us on their side. Using the webcam to develop pronunciation | EnglishUp. Developing students’ pronunciation is vitally important to help them achieve a good communicative speaking level. The best time to work on pronunciation is when we first introduce new language items such as grammatical structures, vocabulary or expressions. This should ensure that they learn them from good clear models and are able to include references to pronunciation features in their notes.
The webcam can be a vital tool in helping to support our students’ pronunciation habits and helping them to ‘see’ how words and expressions are pronounced and what particular pronunciation features they need to be aware of. So here are a few tips and examples to help you use your webcam to help with your students’ pronunciation. Find out about Aptis for Teachers Syllables on fingers When learning new words and especially longer words, students often have problems identifying how many syllables the word contains and which syllables are stressed or emphasised.
Showing contractions and catenation Best. Check Out These Technology Integration Scenarios. So let’s get something straight: There REALLY ARE right and wrong ways to drive technology integration efforts in schools — and there REALLY ARE schools and districts wasting tons of time, cash, and political good will by “investing” in digital tools and services without ever changing learning spaces in a meaningful way. That’s sad, y’all. Not only do we lose credibility in the eyes of the general public when we botch technology integration efforts, we lose credibility in the eyes of the kids in our classrooms. Can we REALLY be surprised when critics openly question our profession when they pony up tax dollars for tools that have almost no perceptible impact on the kinds of outcomes that our communities care about? More importantly, can we REALLY be surprised when our students openly question the value of school when the work we do IN our classrooms rarely resembles the kind of learning done OUTSIDE of our classrooms?
Handout – Technology Scenarios Related Radical Reads: Like this: Related. Is praise counter productive? I had an interesting discussion with Tim Taylor this morning. He said, “At best, praising effort has a neutral or no effect when students are successful, but is likely to be negative when students are not successful.” But what could possibly be wrong with praise?
Surely praise is one of the most fundamental way to motivate pupils? Teachers are, generally, keen to praise pupils, and pupils , generally, welcome and expect it. We use praise to reward or change pupils’ behaviour, and to that extent it may well be effective. But could this praise also be diluting learning and effort? Various research seems to indicate that contrary to popular belief, praise does not help students learn. But although there are some who cast aspersions on the concept of engagement, we all want our pupils to make greater effort, don’t we? When students were praised for effort, 90 percent of them wanted challenging new tasks they could learn from. ” This is pretty clear, isn’t it? What are we to make of that? 5 Min Video Tutorial on Using "Showbie" Via @syded06: The persistence of distance (learning) | Learning with 'e's. Stop Ignoring Google+ | A Principal's Reflections.
How to Explain Net Neutrality to Your Relatives. The Future of Work: The Mobile Worker. The current boom of digital-savvy-employee has changed the way people work. Business users are turning to software and applications that enable them to work from anywhere, and reap the benefits of increased mobility. This movement is radically altering the types of applications that enterprises need to provide for their employees. The younger generations’ mobile-first approach is fuelling an explosion in mobile working – to the point where it is now an integral part of most businesses.
Recent research by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and Workshare revealed that more than four out of five workers (81 percent) now access work documents on the move. Enterprises that fail to embrace this cultural shift towards mobile document collaboration and file sharing will find themselves tiptoeing through a compliance and security minefield.
BYOD strategies Recommended for YouWebcast: Performance Breakthough: Increasing Passion, Productivity and Profitability. 10 Keys to a Successful Tablet Adoption -- THE Journal. Mobile Learning 10 Keys to a Successful Tablet Adoption By Tanya Garza11/25/14 Cedars International Academy in Austin, TX, is an open-enrollment, tuition-free public charter school serving pre-K through eighth grade. One of the school’s stated goals is to provide “technological proficiency and global awareness for all students.” Two years ago, the school invested in 178 tablets, and third-grade teacher Tanya Garza has used the devices in class on a daily basis ever since. Here, she offers ten tips to help make tablet adoptions run smoothly. 1) Conduct a product review. 2) Play around before you train. 3) Use the available learning content. 4) Consider levels of freedom. 5) Maintain control. An appropriate management portal should enable the teacher to see a thumbnail sketch on her own computer, showing what each child is doing on his tablet. 6) Don’t forget about your wireless infrastructure.
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