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Campayn: Simple Web-Based Email Newsletter Manager. Campayn is a simple web-based email newsletter manager.

Campayn: Simple Web-Based Email Newsletter Manager

It lets you create, send and track newsletters and marketing email campaigns. It is free for life if you send below 1,000 emails per month. Its features include an email builder, contacts manager, autoresponder, tracking, deliverability compliance and other features. It is easy to get started. Simply sign in with your Facebook/Twitter credentials and provide your address. Features: Email builder – create stunning emails in minutes with pre-designed templates or build from scratch.Contacts manager – import contact list from CSV, webmail accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) or create manually.Autoresponders – set up series of autoresponder emails (5 minutes later, 1 day later, 10 days later etc).Drag and drop photos right into newsletter form.Social sharing – every email has built-in social sharing buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Google+).Reporting – track email responses.

Check out Campayn @ www.campayn.com. DOWNLOAD Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts. 8 Awesome New Web Tools Teachers should not Miss. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is back to you here with another list of some excellent web tools to try this week.

8 Awesome New Web Tools Teachers should not Miss

We have handpicked these tools from several blogs and websites over the last 10 days and we hope that you will find this collection useful to your teaching. As we always say in this section of web tools in review, our aim behind such lists is to provide busy teachers and educators with a platform from which they can discover and keep updated with the recent releases in the world of educational technology.

Check out these tools. 1- Gnowledge. Maily. SideVibe. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below.

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have

Links to Hundreds of Virtual Field Trips. WebTools4u2use. Earth for Educators. 10 Tips to Help Master Prezi. Last week, I spent two days teaching Prezi at the Langley Center for New Media.

10 Tips to Help Master Prezi

As the event came to a close, a few attendees asked if I could sum up more than 16 hours of teaching in a top 10 list. Well, here’s my first stab at 10 tips that should help you become a better Prezi presenter and publisher. 1. Work in 1024 × 768 Import assets (like screenshots) at the resolution you plan to present at, otherwise your imported assets will look awful. 2.

While we’re talking about the correct presentation resolution, it’s important to remember that Prezi is designed to help you easily present at 1024 × 768. 3. Working efficiently in Prezi, like many software suites, completely hinges on using the keyboard shortcuts. 4. When I set out to create a presentation, I think in 10-minute frames. 5. While I’m constructing my presentation (constantly adding elements and trying to work through the story and element organization), I work across a widely separated landscape. 6. 37 Ways Teachers Should Use Pinterest. Posted on Sunday February 5, 2012 by Staff Writers There are a lot of great technology tools out there for teachers that can make it easier to connect with other educators, get ideas for classroom activities, and find inspiration.

37 Ways Teachers Should Use Pinterest

One of the newest and best of these online tools is Pinterest, which has quickly become a favorite among educators. Multimedia Reference Stories with Qwiki Creator. Digital Tools for Educators. Discovery Education: Web 2.0 Tools. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Teachers Easy Guide to The Most Important Web Tools in Education. Free Technology Tools for Teachers. PicMonkey - Photo Editing. Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started. A mini-manual to Web readiness shows that immersion, with guidance, is key.

Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started

Credit: iStock Photo The culture of learning is changing, and technology is playing a major role in the transformation. Educators and students are altering the very nature of the classroom experience by increasingly turning to technology as an integral component of learning. The result is that school is beginning to more closely resemble the real world, thereby becoming more valuable, relevant, and useful for everyone involved. Sounds good, doesn't it? Ten Ideas for Teaching Teachers Technology. I had never been to an "unconference" before, but when I heard the organizer of SocialEdCon Unconference introduce the event, I knew I was in for something new: "Write your ideas that you want to discuss on the top of the poster board.

Ten Ideas for Teaching Teachers Technology

Each of you can look at all of the ideas and put check marks beside the ones that interest you, and then that will drive the topics that we discuss today. " I leaned over to my husband, Brad Flickinger, an "unconference expert," and whispered that I'd love to learn more about educating teachers about technology. He told me to go up and write it down. Fifteen minutes later after the milling crowds of educators thinned out from around the poster boards, I saw my idea surrounded by checkmarks. Sites Where Teachers Can Learn Tech Skills.

One of the obstacles that some teachers face when trying to use technology in their classrooms for the first time is lack of comfort and or confidence with technology.

Sites Where Teachers Can Learn Tech Skills

That's where folks like me can be helpful in getting teachers started on the path to comfort and confidence with technology tools to use in their classrooms. While it's great to be able to get some one-on-one attention, a person new to using technology in the classroom often needs some handy digital or print resources to consult when an expert isn't available. For those times here are three good places to look.

Think Tutorial is a site providing free, easy to follow tutorials on a variety of web services and software. On Think Tutorial you will find tutorials for taking advantage of the many features of popular email services like Gmail, Apple Mail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail.