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Connect your classroom to the world | Skype in the classroom. Pastelink.me | the easiest way to share files online. StudyBlue Adds an iPad app. Conceptboard - visual collaboration on ideas and documents. I just found out about Conceptboard, a cool visual collaboration tool, from the company itself. Conceptboard is a cloud-based service that works on PCs, laptops, tablets, and more. It is basically on online whiteboard that allows you to create, review and discuss ideas and concepts and you can even upload a document (PDF, PPT, Doc, images) and share, comment, and work on also. You can also just draw and write on it. It features real-time, and asynchronous collaboration.

You can work with other people in real-time, or people can access the work space at different times and comment and work on the project. There is a moderation mode that allows you to use it as a screen cast and presentation tool and there is also a video conferencing tool. Here is an example of one with a screen shot of my blog with annotations and highlights on it. There is a free personal account available, as well as educational accounts for schools. Related: Dabbleboard - virtual whiteboard for online collaboration. Blogsy: A Better Blogging App for iPad. The lack of great blogging apps for the iPad always puzzled me as a strange inconsistency with a device — and overall, a platform — that in the past year has proved to be more than a simple ecosystem for games and utilities.

The iPad — and to an extent, iOS — has become more than a lightweight piece of glass and aluminum for watching movies and playing some Angry Birds. Sure it’s great at those tasks, but then I look at OmniFocus, Simplenote, iFiles, or LogMeIn and I realize there’s so much to do on this device than just consuming content. The iPad was indeed quickly dismissed by many as a “media tablet” when it came out last year: but think about the musicians, the writers, the designers and the movie editors that did all those amazing things using only an iPad. Clearly, this isn’t just about playing games anymore. But then I look at bloggers, people like me, and I don’t understand why it is so difficult to rely on the iPad as a tool for working purposes. EduClipper. Clipboard - Select. Collect. Reflect.

Using GarageBand as a Composition Tool. GarageBand for iPad is an amazing app for anyone with a stake in music at all. If you’ve never tried any sort of composition tool, GarageBand is the way to go. With its set of ‘smart’ instruments, it’s unparalleled in terms of ease of use. It has a drum kit/pads, a piano, guitar and an option to amplify your guitar when plugged in with something like iRig. In this tutorial, I’m going to run through all the steps you’ll need to start using GarageBand as an extra instrument for your musical piece or as a way to compose music solely by itself.

Starting Off Smart If you have something you already want to work with, great. Using the Smart Piano. When you’ve practiced the timing changes, record your idea by touching the record button and listening to the metronome. You can edit the songs tempo and key by press g the settings button (spanner) in the top right of the display. Always in Tune Garageband is an amazing app for melodic construction. Melody in arrangement view.

A Modern Touch One Amplifier. Sourcefabric. Interactive illimitably - Choose an unique writing style and paint chat on this online whiteboard. Kanban Productivity with kanban2go. Fetchnotes Makes It Easier to Share Task Management Duties. A couple of months ago I shared a new collaborative task management tool called Fetchnotes. Yesterday, Fetchnotes added a couple of helpful features. Fetchnotes already used hashtags like Twitter does for labeling and sorting notes. Now when you want to share a note with someone else in your group just add @ before that her name to have the task appear on your list and her's. Fetchnotes has a Android app and now has a desktop client too.

The Fetchnotes web version was recently updated too to make it more streamlined in appearance. Applications for EducationFetchnotes doesn't offer a lot of bells and whistles, but it is good for simple recording of notes. If I was a student taking notes in a history course I might use the hashtag "#revolution" for all notes related to revolutions. H/T to TechCrunch.

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The 5 Best Fact-Checking Websites. Fact checking has its origin in the early 20th century, when magazines began to verify statements made in non-fictional texts prior to publication. This practice increases credibility and trustworthiness of articles and documents. Today, fact checking is often associated with political journalism, but can of course be used in any field, including your homework. Using the following fact checking websites, you can verify factual assertions made in your own writings. Google & Other Search Engines Google can find the truth. If you need something to use for school, also have a look at this article – Where To Research Material For Your Homework Snopes Snopes is the best place to make sure you didn’t fall for an urban legend, folklore, myth, rumor, or other misinformation spread online.

It is worth noting that Snopes lists its sources at the end of every article. We have previously profiled Snopes for the MakeUseOf Directory. Similar websites can be found in these articles: FactCheck.org WhoWhatWhen. 12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation Tools for Teachers. There are many different sites on the internet that allow you to create your own puzzles and games to use either directly in class, or which can be linked to/embedded into your VLE. I’ve been doing some trawling ahead of a training session I am running soon, and here are a few of the best ones that I’ve found. There are others out there, but the focus specifically for my session was KS4 and 5, so these links are aimed at older students. If you have any other favourites, please add them to the comments! 1. Classtools Net Classtools is already one of my favourite websites, home of the Countdown Timer and Random Word Picker. 2.

Content generator’s templates allow anyone to generate their own e-Learning quizzes, games and applications through our custom software – no coding required. 3. SuperTeacherTools.com is dedicated to providing technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. 4. 5. 6. 7. Also worth a look: Searchy Pants - Safe Internet Search for homes & schools. Encalc - A Free Scientific Calculator. Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free. SoundCloud - Your Sound, At The Heart. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders.

Explore and Create Free Timelines. The Bump App for iPhone and Android | Bump Technologies, Inc. The easiest wayto share. Watch the video » Exciting news! We've joined Google. Read More. Edublogs Gets an iPad App. The popular student blog provider Edublogs released a new free iPad and iPhone app today. The free Edublogs app will allow you to write new posts, edit posts, upload images, upload videos, and moderate comments from your iPad or iPhone. You can even start a new blog from scratch using the app. One thing that I'm not sure of yet, is whether or not you can change themes or add widgets to your blog through the app.

Applications for Education If your school is using iPads and you're looking for a good student blogging platform give Edublogs and the Edublogs iPad app a try. 15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files. Six months ago I shared a list of good file sharing tools for teachers and students. Since then, I've come across some more tools to add to that list. Here is my new list of file sharing tools for students and teachers. Using these tools can help you avoid having an email inbox that is overflowing with file attachments.

The tools that I frequently use: I use Google Documents and Google Drive for nearly all of my document storage needs. Google Documents (now a part of Google Drive) is best known for document, presentation, and spreadsheet creation. But you can also use Google Drive just to upload and store files that you have created elsewhere. The other tool that I frequently use for collecting, storing, and sharing files is Dropbox. DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Dropbox to allow people to upload files to your Dropbox account without giving them access to the contents of your Dropbox account. Other file sharing tools that I have tried. Drop Canvas Provides Super Simple File Sharing. Free Plan! Big news: We're introducing a free plan! Here's a normal video we made that talks about the boring details ;) Why are we so excited to introduce something for free?

Back when Brendan and I started Wistia many moons ago, we set out to build a business that would help everybody more easily use online video. Over time, "everybody" has evolved from just filmmakers and a few medical device companies who wanted to share video privately to companies all over the world using video in every marketing and sales effort imaginable. Today we have many thousands of customers, many millions of monthly views of our customers' videos, and yet as a company, we feel like we're just getting started. The online video space has grown and shifted an enormous amount over the last five years, but one thing is still true: most people don’t harness the full power of web video.

If you've never experimented with web video, we'd love for you to give the free plan a spin. What does the free plan include? Thank you! InstaGrok | A new way to learn. Photo Measures and Measured for iOS Review. Your iPhone’s camera can do more than just take photos. It can also help you record measurements for do-it-yourself projects. I recently tested two apps—one that lets you record measurements on the photos you snap and another that also taps into your iPhone’s accelerometer to do the measuring for you. Here’s my look at how both these apps measure up. Photo Measures Big Blue Pixel’s Photo Measures is a handy productivity app that allows users to record measurements and dimensions directly onto their iOS device photos. The app has a clean look and feel that makes it well-suited to professionals such as contractors or real estate agents who need to quickly record, save, and share measurements on a regular basis.

Here’s how it works: Snap a photo of the room or object for which you want to record measurements (or grab a photo from your camera roll). In addition to recording measurements, you can insert text boxes to make notes and measure angles. Measured Bottom Line. Cool tools for school. Box. Free Printable Flashcards and a Free Flashcard Creator. Plagiarism Checker - the most accurate and absolutely FREE! Try now! Miro - Free, open-source music and video player. Copyright free images & sounds. Free Stock Photos, Royalty-Free & Unlimited Downloads | Free Stock Photos. eBook Browse - Search, Download, and Share eBooks. Cropp.me | The easiest and smartest online crop tool.

5 Great Sources For Free-To-Use Audio Clips & Sound Effects. When I was 14 years old, I bought a CD full of sound effects. I paid good money for it, too. The CD included around 20-30 sound effects of everything from a baby crying to ocean waves, and I would pop it in my CD player and listen to the sound effects. That’s about all I could do with them, except for recording them onto a tape, maybe. So why did I buy it? If you like or need to use sound effects, things look quite different now. Below you will find 5 great resources where you’ll be able to find almost any sound effect you can think of, available for immediate listening and download. FindSounds FindSounds is a great source of free audio clips, and offers pretty much anything you can think of in terms of sound effects.

If you’re looking for sound effects on your mobile device, you can try the mobile version of FindSounds, or the FindSounds Android app. FreeSound FreeSound is an online community dedicated to sound effects and audio clips. Sound Jay AudioMicro FreeSFX. SlideShare. Free Website Builder, Mobile Websites : Zoho Sites. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. Instant Grammar Check - Online Proofreading | Grammarly. DropEvent - Collaborative Photo Galleries. Photo Sharing - ZangZing. SharedCopy. Loves programming and has been doing that professionally for over 10 years - moving from C, Perl, Java to Ruby & Javascript. Choon Keat is curious about everything and is always thinking of ways to improve [his] life with better design, better software.

Sometimes, he even blogs about these things. Choon Keat is practical, delivers simple solution and executes iteratively. He has been practicing that on a startup he has founded, SharedCopy. Professional summary Choon Keat finds himself involved in startups most of the time. His hands-on experience range from (server-side) administrating Linux boxes, writing web apps & integration with SMSC, MMSC & Jabber, to (client-side) writing Eclipse plugins, Javascript, Flash ActionScript, to programming on various other devices like phones and the TV. His recent work revolves around email, Ruby, Rails and a lot of Javascript. Software passion Choon Keat loves open source. Choon Keat understands that experiments are a large part of learning. Contact. DotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book.