How to combine two DVDs into a single movie. Macworld commenter Lisban Osorio has a multimedia problem that faces a few of us.
He writes: My copy of the Godfather II comes on two DVD discs. I’d like to play it on my Apple TV as one continues file. How can I do that? First, you’ll have to rip each disc, a process we’ve described many times. Once you have the ripped versions of your two movies you must find a way to join them. Launch MKVToolNix and in the window that appears, drag your first movie file into the Input Files area (or click the Add button, navigate to the file, and then add it). Web 2.0. iPad workflow with Edmodo. Workflow seems to be a continuous topic for discussion with the introduction of iPads into the classroom.
How best to distribute work to students, receive it back once they have completed it and then mark it and return it to them using only iPads? Can it really be that difficult? It certainly isn’t overly straightforward. Dropbox, Evernote and several alternatives are great, but they don’t offer the personalisation of a tool like Edmodo. Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods. Today's students will enter a job market that values skills and abilities far different from the traditional workplace talents that so ably served their parents and grandparents.
They must be able to crisply collect, synthesize, and analyze information, then conduct targeted research and work with others to employ that newfound knowledge. In essence, students must learn how to learn, while responding to endlessly changing technologies and social, economic, and global conditions. But what types of teaching and learning will develop these skills? And, just as important, do studies exist that support their use? A growing body of research demonstrates that students learn more deeply if they have engaged in activities that require applying classroom-gathered knowledge to real-world problems. Research shows that such inquiry-based teaching is not so much about seeking the right answer but about developing inquiring minds, and it can yield significant benefits.
Project-Based Pathways Good Signs. Dashcode Tutorial: Linking Buttons To Webpages. Send your iPad Pages Docs to Your Google Docs Account. DAV Pocket - upload from iPad to Google Docs. Notability - Unleash Your Note Taking Ability. Jackpot: iPad Lessons. iPad for Teaching & Learning. iPads changing the game for learning at Longfield. Longfield Academy takes schools ICT to a new level, and the implications for other schools are important Longfield Academy: game-changing ICT Longfield, in Kent, gets its first official mention in records in the Domesday Book and in Saxon Charters more than a thousand years ago.
But in 2011 it has been setting new standards for learning and teaching with technologies. iPads in Schools. The History 2.0 Classroom: Paperless Research Paper X iPads. Ed.VoiceThread. Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo. Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool.
Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer.Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes. "View any annotations made by others on any website visited.Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network.Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks. iPads in Education. A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - Online Learning. By Derek Bruff Last fall, for my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography, I posted my students' expository-writing essays on our course blog.
Why Kids Can't Search. Illustration: Tymn Armstrong We’re often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us.
But just how savvy are they? A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing Pan tried to find out. Specifically, Pan wanted to know how skillful young folks are at online search. Apps in Education. Guide to iMovie. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
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This is an example of “quick-edit” videography, which can compliment “no-edit” videography in support of the “ethic of minimal clicks.” This final video, “Learning About NASA Mission Control in Houston,” is available on YouTube. After recording a series of videos using an iPad, the iMovie app ($4.99) can be used to edit and combine the videos into a single file. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.