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Meet some of the best Dropbox apps that add new functionality and extend the service beyond the realms of online storage. Dropbox has made our digital lives so much easier. You put a file in your Dropbox folder and it becomes available on mobile phone, your tablet and on all your other computers. If you have shared a Dropbox folder with another person, say your mom, any files that you add to the shared folder instantaneously appear on her computer. So useful! Dropbox has 50 million users worldwide and, because of such immense popularity, an entire ecosystem of apps has been created around Dropbox that add new functionality and extend the service beyond the realms of online storage.
The Best Dropbox Apps - Do More With Dropbox
Free Technology for Teachers
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. What that means is that instead of searching for images by keyword like you would on Yahoo Images you search for images by uploading an image or linking to an image. For example, if I have a picture of my dog and want to find more pictures of dogs like him, I simply upload a picture of my dog to TinEye and TinEye will search for images like mine. TinEye offers browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera. With the extension installed you can simply right click on any image and select "search image on TinEye" to quickly conduct an image search.
Like a lot of other people are, I'm taking this week to relax a bit and do some things that I haven't had time for lately. Therefore, all this week I'm rewinding the year with the 25 most-read posts of the year. I hope that those of you who are also on vacation this week, enjoy every moment of it. See you (virtually) in the New Year. Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube . However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms.
Free Technology for Teachers: Most Popular Posts of the Year - #3, 47 Alternatives to YouTube
This guest post is written by Stuart Ayres an ICT teacher at St Brigid’s School, a state secondary in Denbighshire, North Wales. As part of his own austerity measures, Stuart put together an interactive witeboard on a shoestring. Here’s how… A few months ago, I came across an internet discussion about using a wii handset (“wiimote”) to turn any projectable surface into an interactive whiteboard. The idea instantly appealed: Firstly it was cheap, secondly it appeared to be magic! Further investigation revealed references to the idea everywhere, just put ‘wiimote whiteboard’ into youtube.
Wonderful Wiimotes – how to create an IWB for £34 | The Creative Education Blog
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The field of social media is a burgeoning area of communication, and one that educators cannot ignore. Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , Diigo , GooglePlus – these platforms for communication are not going to go away; and while there is a great deal of negative media surrounding their use, they can be harnessed to create myriad possibilities for schools as learning communities. Current research only proves the dominance of Social Media as a modern communication medium: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/social/
This activity I created using LCD projectors to turn my gym into a obstacle course where players use their body's shadow to play the game. Students are about 4 feet from the 15 foot high projected screen. I used power point to make the animations. If you are interested in the powerpoint file then go to my blog kinesitechnology.blogspot.com for more information