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4 Tools for Building Academic Vocabulary - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad. There is a wealth of research to suggest that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of student academic achievement across all curriculum areas.

4 Tools for Building Academic Vocabulary - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad

Experts agree, if given the opportunity to receive effective vocabulary instruction, most students can acquire vocabulary at rates that will improve their comprehension and also their chances for success in school. Even the Common Core identifies Academic Vocabulary as one of the six big shifts. Purchase. Available Labs — Embodied Labs. Zoom vs. Skype for Business. Skype for Business Skype for Business has many of the same features as Zoom, however, where Skype for Business really excels is as an office communications solution.

Zoom vs. Skype for Business

Skype for Business allows you to connect easily and quickly with co-workers using instant messaging, screen and document sharing, and informal audio/video calls. Sending a quick message or file through Skype for Business revolves around the intuitive chat interface, familiar to those who have used Office Communicator, Lync or Skype, and can easily integrate video and audio from the chat window. Zoom Zoom is a cloud-based technology that offers a full spectrum of conferencing tools to help increase productivity and lower costs by reducing travel expenses and equipment purchases across your department. The Dark Side of Gamification: How We Should Stop Worrying and Study also the Negative Impacts of Bringing Game Design Elements to Everywhere.

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. 3D Immersive Human Anatomy App. 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017. Goniometer360. Plus.google. Engaging Ideas - UDL Resource. Connected Mind: Draw unique maps in the browser. Augmented and Virtual Reality.

The Promise of Virtual Reality in Higher Education. Virtual reality teeters on the edge of becoming mainstream, with software development outstripping the hardware and memory storage needed.

The Promise of Virtual Reality in Higher Education

Affordable Virtual Reality Opens New Worlds For People With Disabilities. Dale Garrett of Columbia, Mo., a 96-year-old World War II veteran, experiences a trip to a war memorial through virtual reality.

Affordable Virtual Reality Opens New Worlds For People With Disabilities

Courtesy of Honor Everywhere hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Honor Everywhere Dale Garrett of Columbia, Mo., a 96-year-old World War II veteran, experiences a trip to a war memorial through virtual reality. Virtual reality is catching on as a tool in medicine. 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo - Tagxedo Blog. I'm glad to announce that the first version of "101 Ways to Use Tagxedo" is completed!

101 Ways to Use Tagxedo - Tagxedo Blog

--> <-- Please be patient as it does take a while to load the document (10MB, over 150 images). A few slides: Each way to use Tagxedo is accompanied by at least one example. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. MultiModal Health. Toyra Introduces Virtual Reality to Occupational Therapy. Toyra is an advanced upper extremity rehabilitation platform that uses virtual reality, motion capture and healthcare information technology to deliver interactive exercises tailored to individual patients.

Toyra Introduces Virtual Reality to Occupational Therapy

Toyra is an innovative virtual rehabilitation platform designed to increase patient motivation and deliver a range of effective therapy exercises to patients with impaired function of the upper extremities. The system was designed to facilitate occupational therapy and improve the quality of life of patients with spinal cord injuries. The interactive exercises available with Toyra were developed by rehabilitation specialists to ensure proven results and recovery. The rehabilitation platform uses motion capture technology to collect key clinical data that helps therapists get objective insight into the patient's progress and rehabilitation status. Toyra consists of two sub-systems: the central server and the therapy stations. Occupational Therapy Evidence Based Practice; Virtual Reality.

Occupational Therapists’ Views on Using a Virtual Reality Interior Design Application Within the Pre-Discharge Home Visit Process. Enhanced Biofeedback with Virtual Reality - The MotionMonitor® Conduct motor-control and stimulus response studies with audio and visual cues using either a 2-D display or 3-D immersive stereoscopic display.Generate discrete or randomized targets.Provide visual and audio "pacing" signals for timed exercises.Encourage extended range of motion with "success" tones when target values are achieved.Monitor timing and existence of muscle recruitment with EMG feedback.Optimize balance strategies by tracking body segment center of mass and forceplate center of pressure.Record and save all data collected during the biofeedback trial.Display data selected from intuitive drop-down menus or defined by the user with standard math notation.

Enhanced Biofeedback with Virtual Reality - The MotionMonitor®

Export all raw or processed data for further processing in other software. Virtual Reality – Nevermind. Eight Great Apps for Educators to Create, Display and Share. Nancy White/Flickr By Kathy E.

Eight Great Apps for Educators to Create, Display and Share

Gill, PBS MediaShift For educators looking to integrate iPads, iPods and other mobile devices, here are eight must-have apps that will make life easier to do things like move files, capture lectures, read PDFs, and much more. 1. COPY, Freemium With cloud file storage, there’s no need to email yourself a copy of that Powerpoint lecture or video clip; just save it to the cloud and access it later from campus. In the U.S., our markets tend toward duopoly and oligopoly: FedX and UPS; Apple, Microsoft and Google; Facebook and Twitter. Bloomin' Apps. This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.

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Cogs of the Cognitive Processes. RFID Tags Past and Present - How RFID Works. RFID technology has been around since 1970, but until recently, it has been too expensive to use on a large scale.

RFID Tags Past and Present - How RFID Works

Originally, RFID tags were used to track large items, like cows, railroad cars and airline luggage, that were shipped over long distances. These original tags, called inductively coupled RFID tags, were complex systems of metal coils, antennae and glass. Inductively coupled RFID tags were powered by a magnetic field generated by the RFID reader. Electrical current has an electrical component and a magnetic component -- it is electromagnetic. Because of this, you can create a magnetic field with electricity, and you can create electrical current with a magnetic field. Socialmediaforeducation. Clarisketch. DePaul University Teaching Commons. DePaul University Teaching Commons > Teaching Guides > Technology > Desire2Learn > VoiceThread Main Content VoiceThread is an interactive, collaborative, web-based tool that that allows you to communicate through images, audio recordings, videos, and text.

Visual Dictionary, Visual Thesaurus. Create and share visual ideas online. SlidesCarnival, free presentation templates for Google Slides & Powerpoint. How to Edit Photos using Pixlr Editor - Part 1 (Basic Overview) Online Tools. Piktochart.

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Conferences, Webinars, User Meetings. Online Presentation Tools. Getting students active in the classroom is a tough task for any teacher. But there’s a silver bullet that is, quite literally, silver. It’s the Apple iPad and this expensive, silver, and engaging device is making its way into classrooms around the world. Since there’s such a push to bring apps into the classroom, it’s time to figure out which ones are right for you. I threw together this cheat sheet to choosing education apps that will hopefully help you quickly choose what works (and what doesn’t). Infographics. 5 Great Online Tools for Creating Infographics. Professional infographic designers rely primarily on a core vector graphics software program to create their infographics designs.

The main advantage is that all the icons, charts, images, illustrations, and data visualizations are treated as separate objects that can be easily moved, resized, overlapped, and rotated. No matter where you create the individual design elements, the final infographic design is usually put together in a vector graphics program. Creating infographics using online tools has never been easier. In the last few years a number of online tools have emerged that allow anyone to create great visual content. The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter.

Most educators who learn to use Twitter effectively say they learn more from their personal learning network (PLN) on Twitter than they’ve achieved from any other forms of professional development or personal learning. Unfortunately educators often dismiss Twitter, or fail to see the value of Twitter, when they’re first introduced to Twitter. Our aim of this post is to provide all the information you need to learn how to use Twitter effectively as an educator. We regularly update this post with new information. This post was last updated June, 2014. Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools For Teachers - eLearning Industry. Rubrics for Assessment. Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink.

Free Instructional Design Storyboard Template. We introduce several new templates each week but this template is especially awesome. Free PowerPoint Templates for eLearning. Adapt authoring tool - Adapt Learning.