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More Coverage... Watch this two-minute video to learn about VisualCV and how it can help you today. Watch full size video here... Tune into the latest VisualCV webinars to learn how to get more out of VisualCV.com. Unpacking Personal Learning Environments - Digital Education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Create a personal learning environment with Symbaloo. Symbaloo is a visual, social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to access your personal knowledge management tools. The technology (or what are my powers) The Symbaloo interface When you register to use Symbaloo, you gain access to a slick user interface that allows you to create webmixes of your favorite Web sites.

The Symbaloo interface looks a bit like a high-tech Scrabble board with movable “tiles” on it. These tiles give you access to Web pages or other webmixes. The Symbaloo folks have kindly provided a number of tiles to get you started, giving you access to YouTube, Flickr, Google, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and even the Yellow Pages. When you view a webmix, you’ll see a centerbox in the middle of the page. The tour widget is specialized. Creating and editing tiles You can personalize tiles that link to your favorite Web sites to create visual cues that are meaningful to you. This video provides more information on creating and editing tiles. Instructional strategies Symbaloo EDU. Search Results.

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Jing, instant screenshots and screencasts, home. Empowering Next Generation Teaching. The Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and our Emerging Technologies steering committee welcome you to the 7th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium (ET4Online), which will be held in Dallas, TX on April 9-11, 2014.

Empowering Next Generation Teaching

This year, we move the conference to Dallas, a central location for those of you located in North America, which also provides an opportunity to visit the birthplace of the integrated computer circuit which made the information age possible. As we prepare to convene in the cradle of the digital era, it seems hard to believe that how swiftly society has been transformed by emerging technologies.

More than half of U.S. adults have become smartphone owners in just over six years, allowing most of us to stay connected, seek answers to our pressing questions, document our surroundings in photographs, record video, and share these media files instantly with a global audience -- from anywhere at anytime. We’ll see y’all in Dallas! Chapter 7.

Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. ProfHacker. I’ve never been one to make use of slide-based presentations when I teach or when I present at conferences or other events. Why? For one thing, Microsoft PowerPoint — perhaps the most commonly-used software for such tasks — just seems too complicated. Of course, I realize that another word for “complicated” is “sophisticated” or “powerful,” and PowerPoint allows a presenter to do all kinds of advanced things. However, if I want to create a simple slide deck for a presentation, I find the interf… [This is a guest post by Caro Pinto, the John Hay Whitney Family Papers Processing Archivist at Yale University Library. Many archivists spend their professional lives working in basements preparing diaries, letters, and photographs for use by students and faculty.

Many people have developed a quasi-instinctive shudder at the mention of PowerPoint. [This is a guest post by Amanda French (@amandafrench), THATCamp Coordinator at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. Shareable sticky notes web-app. Web Tools A to Z: A and B. Animasher is a site to make animations by using pictures from the gallery or you can use your own pictures too.

Web Tools A to Z: A and B

You can add music, some sound effects, text or record your own voice for your animation. You can get a link or publish your video on the site. is a similar site to Prezi. It’s a way to create a presentation that transforms your layout into a zooming experience. Is a site where you can find ready flash animations to reuse by customizing them. Is the easiest way to highlight texts on web pages.