iPadtacula, Podcasting Apps, Hyperphotos. Today I Learned about iPadtacula, Podcasting apps, and Hyperphotos – Friday, October 5 If you live in Illinois, consider making a trip to Downers Grove Middle School for their big iPad conference for teachers who are teaching with iPads. If you don’t live in Illinois, consider being a virtual presenter! Educators using iPads … Come share with your colleagues at DG58′s iPadtacula … dg58.org/ipadtacula and docs.google.com/a/dg58.org/spr…— Scott Meech (@smeech) October 5, 2012 According to Gigaom, Apple’s podcasting app is top of the charts. Podcasting 101: The best of the rest of iOS podcasting apps zite.to/PXYbgQ via @zite #ipaded #edapp— Kathy Casey (@KathyCasey22) October 5, 2012 I also learned what a hyperphoto is. This Picture Is Worth 1,000 Pictures pulse.me/s/dYhwm via @slate— Pulse (@pulsepad) October 5, 2012 Tags: hyperphotos, ipadtacula, podcasting About the Author. Technology Masters, Cheap iPad Cases, Doxie Go. In a new post segment titled “Today I Learned,” or TIL for short, I will be sharing the instructional tech wisdom I obtain each day from my daily work or through my PLN on Twitter or via my website.
Most of the posts will be posts others made on Twitter or quotes from those who have shared the info with me – gotta give credit where credit is due! Today we start with an idea about technology masters, where my original question was how to get students more involved in managing tech responsibilities. @insttechtalk I have 2 “Technology Masters” who man the computer cart, take care of chargers, check in on tech tickets. It’s a favorite job.— Sarah (@NoDenouement) October 3, 2012 I had also asked about iPad cases and had the following response: OK, so this one was from yesterday, but it is really good. Tags: Doxie Go, iPad Cases, Technology Masters About the Author. Doxie Go – Scan to Collect Assignments. I am always looking for ways to streamline the daily classroom chores – and today I am sharing an idea that was passed on to me by @thenerdyteacher on Twitter. Recently, I have been in the market for a document scanner for my desk.
I love Evernote and am really trying to reduce the clutter on my desk and in my filing cabinet. One of the only ways that I have been able to keep up with that goal is to scan and recycle almost everything that comes in. It has done wonders for my productivity and for my ability to recall information in an almost immediate manner. That said, having to leave my office to scan a document reduces the likelihood that I will actually do it and not just shove the paper in an empty drawer. That is where the desktop scanner comes in. OK – so the main idea of Doxie Go is that it is a mobile scanning station.
I’m sure there are 1,001 more uses for the Doxie Go in education – but this suggestion stuck out as being an awesome one. About the Author. Use Your iPad as a Document Camera. How To Published on January 14th, 2013 | by Jeff Herb The iPad has found yet another great use in the classroom – as a document camera to record and/or project just about anything. Either by using a homemade rig or one purchased through this website, the iPad is a great device to achieve one of the following great things: Annotate over the projected image (use a great app called Board Cam)Record your lessons to post for the class laterRecord a dissection or science experiment and annotate over the video (apps such as Coaches Eye)Project and annotate textbooksCreate and discuss mind maps and graphic organizers (several apps do this) The nice thing about using the iPad as a document camera is that it has several options to project the screen.
The first way is through the dock connecter into a VGA port (or HDMI). The second way is via AirPlay wireless streaming. Have great uses for an iPad as a document camera? Tags: Document Camera, iPad About the Author. Convert PDF to Word. There are plenty of times that we get a PDF version of a document sent to us through email and could really stand to either utilize only a section of text or modify a section to better suit our needs. The great thing about PDFs can also be a curse if you are interested in changing something of which you were not the original creator . I also find that while I tend to keep PDF files as a backup, I sometimes misplace my original Word document that I used to create the PDF. This handy tool will allow you to get the Word document back by converting the PDF into an editable format. Before you get too excited, some formatting usually gets a little wonky in the conversion process. If there are a ton of tables and graphics it may not convert to an exact replica.
If what you are converting is just text, however, expect to see a near perfect converted document. Here are the easy steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. That’s it – easy, isn’t it? Questions? Tags: PDF to Word About the Author. Screencasting, iBooks, Audio Recording Apps. Today I Learned the following great things from my PLN: I was lucky to sit down with Jeff Bradbury (@TeacherCast) to record the next episode of my podcast.
We discussed screencasting and Jeff was able to give a great description of how to be a great screencaster and he also provided some great ways to use screencasts in the classroom. I am excited to release the podcast – it will be available this Wednesday as Episode #5. Jon Samuelson shared a link on Twitter that discusses how to create classroom eBooks using BookCreator. There are so many great and relevant uses for this in the classroom – and having students curate and produce content for a class textbook is just the beginning. Creating a Classroom eBook with BookCreator | sco.lt/7BfTAf#ipaded #iosedapp— Jon Samuelson (@ipadSammy) January 21, 2013 Susan Bearden shared a link to a great post about great audio recording apps for iOS devices. 5 Useful Audio Recording iPad Apps zite.to/XpmQMt via @zite #edtech— Susan M.
About the Author. ELA Talk Bubbles. EducationOnAir. How To Decide Which EdTech Resource Is Right For You. I’ve spent many years analyzing, understanding, and deploying education technology. As Edudemic grows up into a more professional site (slowly but surely), I’ve noticed that I get pitched a lot of products in hopes that I write a review / share it with you. Terry, Edudemic’s editor, and I routinely go through pitches and submissions to see if they have some worth. We’ve been using a rubric that I thought teachers around the world might benefit from. Basically, here’s the workflow we use: 1) Someone trying to sell / announce an education technology product contacts us. 2) We do some brief research on the product and try it ourselves (if possible) 3) We run it through our ‘review rubric’ to see if it should be added as a product we recommend on Edudemic.
Simple as that! Click here to download the PDF version of our rubric! Gliffy. Quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses. Transfer notes and files using ‘Self Destructible Text Notes’ by @insttechtalk. I found this very simple site that allows you to share text notes or share attachments that automatically destroy themselves (delete) after viewing or downloading. There is one distinct use I can think of for the classroom: students submitting work without the need to have an email address. As soon as the teacher downloads the document, the server deletes the online note. It seems like a pretty cool tool that educators will likely find some pretty great uses for – let me know what you come up with.
Here is a quick screen shot of what it looks like: Enter your note, attach your file (if you want) and share the link. Here is the process, as defined by their website: 1. Khan Academy.