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Content Curation Tools Supermap by Robin Good. Tech Tip Tuesday Retrospective - Joel Speranza. Kalleo - eLearning and Talent Management South Africa and Middle East. Presto Create informal training on your iPad Preso makes it easy and fun to develop informal training videos on your iPad.

Kalleo - eLearning and Talent Management South Africa and Middle East

Narrate and annotate slides with simple swipes, taps, and gestures. Walk learners through slide content with audio. Adobe Captivate 9 - Features. Epilogue Systems ... Drive effective user adoption of your critical applications. Rapid interactivity for effective learning. PeerWise - Documentation. Welcome.

PeerWise - Documentation

Safe Exam Browser - About. Safe Exam Browser is a webbrowser-environment to carry out online exams safely.

Safe Exam Browser - About

The software changes any computer into a secure workstation. It regulates access to resources like system functions, other websites and applications and prevents unauthorised resources being used during an exam. SEB runs on a local computer and it is connected via the internet to a learning management system (LMS). 10 Alternatives to Articulate Storyline. Articulate Storyline is an e-learning authoring tool that allows you create polished interactive courses.

10 Alternatives to Articulate Storyline

It is a powerful tool for expert and experienced users yet simple for novices and beginners. Articulate Storyline is a simple-to-use apparatus yet intense. You can bounce into the activity and instantly you will have the capacity to make your first online course. However, likewise you can make exceptionally upgraded online courses with triggers and variables. The client group is exceptionally steady. iSpring Free is a tool that facilitates the integration of PowerPoint Internet by allowing conversion to Flash presentations created in this popular format Microsoft. Snagit is the ultimate screens capture utility allowing capture, edit, organize and share technology.

Adobe Flash Professional. Adobe Captivate 9-Buying Guide. How to Add a Narration to a PowerPoint Presentation. Can a presentation be a presentation without a presenter?

How to Add a Narration to a PowerPoint Presentation

It’s no secret that a spokesperson’s voice and movements draw attention better than static images and text. Luckily, modern technologies let us give asynchronous presentations a human face and voice. Read this article to see how to add an audio or video narration to PowerPoint presentations. Adobe Captivate Alternatives and Similar Software. 3D for Everyone. Image file formats. Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images.

Image file formats

Image files are composed of digital data in one of these formats that can be rasterized for use on a computer display or printer. An image file format may store data in uncompressed, compressed, or vector formats. Once rasterized, an image becomes a grid of pixels, each of which has a number of bits to designate its color equal to the color depth of the device displaying it. Image file sizes[edit] The size of raster image files is positively correlated with the number of pixels in the image and the color depth (bits per pixel). Understanding Multimedia For Rapid E-Learning. We’ve looked at understanding the customer’s perspective, how to jump start you project, what you should know about designing a course, how to build a project plan, and working with your subject matter experts.

Understanding Multimedia For Rapid E-Learning

Today’s rapid elearning tools make creating elearning courses so much easier. It’s possible to build good elearning courses with a limited understanding of the technology. However, you can really leverage the rapid elearning tool’s capabilities and make more engaging content if you have a basic understanding of the multimedia technology. In this post, we’ll take a quick peek at graphic, audio, and video technology. I’ve also included some additional resources and links to free software. Composica - e-learning authoring tools and e-learning software. Elearning software. Spiral - Free collaborative apps for 1:1 classrooms. Here's What Adaptive Technology Is Teaching Us About Learning - InformED. If you’ve ever created or assigned a PowerPoint presentation at some point during your educational career, take heed: the program’s founders never intended it to be used for educational purposes.

Here's What Adaptive Technology Is Teaching Us About Learning - InformED

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, founder Robert Gaskins said that far more people have access to the program than the relatively small group of salespeople for which it was originally intended. 7 tools to present a Twitter stream at your event. Comment 27 January 2015: This post is more than 3 years old, but it still gets many daily views.

7 tools to present a Twitter stream at your event

It’s great you guys still find it useful! Let me encourage you to check the comments section, too, because you’ll find many more services for streaming social media content at your event! Cheers, Michael For a number of reasons, Twitter and events are a good match: Before the event, it is a great tool to spread the word about the contents of your event (speakers, topics etc.), to engage and to connect with potential attendees.During the event, it is perfect to add a virtual component to your conference or meeting, by linking the real life audience with the tweeps out there.It is also great to collect feedback, questions, do polls during the event.After the event, it allows you to refer back to useful content like slides, videos, blog summaries etc.

Twitterfountain.com This tool can be customized regarding backgrounds, colors, pictures, speed of display. LibroEditing proofreading, editing, transcription, localisation. In response to a request for information*, today I’m going to be talking about Storify: what is it, why would you use it, and how do you use it?

LibroEditing proofreading, editing, transcription, localisation

I wasn’t already a user, so this post takes you through the stages of logging in and creating your first story through screenshots created as I did it for the first time myself!

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Fonts, Logos & Icons from GraphicRiver. Free Image Optimizer - Compress and resize photos. Smarter online research - annotate, organize & collaborate on web pages. Connect With Students and Parents in Your Paperless Classroom. Backchannel Chat on the App Store. The Backchannel - Help TodaysMeet. What is TodaysMeet? TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success. Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no registration, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.

Over the last month since I shared my positive experiences (here and here) of using a back-channel chat in my classroom, I've received quite a few questions about services that can be used for hosting back-channel discussions. The following are five free platforms that can be used hosting a back-channel chat. Overview of Edshelf. Research on multiple choice questions. Since my last posts on multiple choice questions (here and here), Kris Boulton and Joe Kirby have pointed me in the direction of Robert Bjork’s work on remembering and forgetting.

Here’s an extract from a paper titled ‘Multiple-Choice Tests Exonerated, at Least of Some Charges: Fostering Test-Induced Learning and Avoiding Test-Induced Forgetting’. The authors accept that multiple choice questions are often not good tests, but argue that this is because they are done badly rather than because of any intrinsic flaw. The present work demonstrates that properly constructed multiple- choice practice tests can be important learning events for students. Online Focus Groups - The Observer Experience. Backchannels - Richard Byrne. A backchannel is essentially a private or public chat room that you and your students can have conversations in while another activity is going on. For example, you can backchannel while watching a documentary film, while listening to a guest speaker, or as a place to record ideas and data during a class project. A backchannel gives students the opportunity to record their thoughts and ask their questions without having to wait to be called upon.

A backchannel also gives teachers the opportunity to hear from more students more often. Read about how I use backchannels during classroom viewings of films by clicking here. Here are some backchannel platforms appropriate for schools:1. Backchannel Chat - Safe Secure Classroom Discussions. Log in. Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies. But advanced economies still have higher rates of technology use By Jacob Poushter As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, both economically and socially, technology adoption remains one of the defining factors in human progress. To that end, there has been a noticeable rise over the past two years in the percentage of people in the emerging and developing nations surveyed by Pew Research Center who say that they use the internet and own a smartphone. And while people in advanced economies still use the internet more and own more high-tech gadgets, the rest of the emerging world is catching up.

In 2013, a median of 45% across 21 emerging and developing countries reported using the internet at least occasionally or owning a smartphone. For smartphone ownership, the digital divide between less advanced economies and developed economies is 31 points in 2015.

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Audio. Cartoon. Curation mapping. Video. SAM. MindTap by Cengage Learning: e-learning for college students. World's #1 Freeware for Windows and Mac. For Educators - TechSmith Blogs. The Guide to Pinterest for Educators. Gle URL Shortener. Anatoliy Gruzd. Keynote, “Public Diplomacy for the Social Media Age,” Workshop on #Diplometrics: Public Diplomacy & Advocacy for Effective Results organized by Global Affairs Canada and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD), Ottawa, Canada (April 20-21, 2016) Panelist, Workshop on “Diversifying Canada’s Economy Through Strong Digital Policy,” organized by Canada’s Digital Policy Forum, Ottawa, Canada (April 19, 2016).

Keynote, “Who Are We Modelling: Bots or Humans?” Workshop on Modeling Social Media as part of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, Montreal, Canada (April 12, 2016). A hands-on session on “Social Media Analytics with R & Netlytic,” Social Media Workshop, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China (December 3-4, 2015) Plenary speaker, “Studying digital narratives through the prism of social media data,” Symposium on Technology and Digital Narratives, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil (November 17-18, 2015) Invited talks at the University of Hong Kong.

SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds. Storify · Make the web tell a story. Create & Find Multimedia Lessons in Minutes. EdTech Quick Take: Educreations vs. Explain Everything. Welcome! EdTech Quick Take: Kahoot vs. Formative. Build an effective learning ecosytem.

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