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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Simple Tool to Create Stunning Video Animations for Your Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Simple Tool to Create Stunning Video Animations for Your Class
September 19, 2015 Biteable is a web-based tool that allows you to create beautiful explainer videos to share with your students. Explainer videos are short animated clips that make use of a wide variety of visuals and multimedia materials to communicate a message in a concise and comprehensible way. You probably have already seen some examples of Explainer videos on ads played on YouTube, several companies use this kind of videos to advertise their products. However, as a teacher, you can create explainer videos to explain key concepts, create instructional guides and tutorials to share with students and many more. You don’t need advanced video editing skills to use Biteable. The process is simple and easy. Watch the video below to see Biteable in action Another great feature of Biteable is the Infographic Video Maker which allows you to make animated infographic using Biteable video maker software. Biteable is free to use. Related:  Apps IImobile learning

12 must-have apps for supply teachers What are the essential resources for the supply teacher? Sharon Wood, founder of National Supply Teacher Week, takes a look at her absolute favourites. On supply, normal rules don’t apply. You may be left a set of plans, fully resourced, for the day. Or you may turn up with five minutes (10 minutes after you received the call to go) before the children arrive, to an empty desk, a missing laptop, and no password for the photocopier. You don’t know that the children have some work to finish off in any spare five minutes. ClassBreak Class Break features over 200 different activities and games that are outside the traditional PE class games of kickball and volleyball. Twitter Twitter is more than just a social media site. Undecided Undecided is a free app that is intended to help make decisions easier. BrainBreak BrainBreak is a great way to motivate, re-energize and refocus students at any stage of the day. Toontastic Toontastic is a free app, but upgrades can be made for a small fee. ClassDojo

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Eight Free tools for Teachers to Make Awesome Infographics 1- Easel.ly This is a great tool that allows users to create visually rich infographics from pre-designed themes. It is very easy to use and only drag and drop. It actually supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. 2- Stat Planet This one here allows users to create amazing visualisations and share them with others. It can be used either within your browser or download the software for free. 3- Hohli This is an awesome chart maker. 4- Creately This is also a great tool in creating diagrams and flow charts. 5- Many Eyes This is one of the easiest of them all. 6- Wordle This is a text based visualisation tool. 7- Tableau This works just on Windows. 8- Inkspace This is also a free infographic creation tool.

10 Educational Web Tools That Support Inquiry-based Learning September , 2015 As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today’s post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. 1- VideoNotes VideoNotes is a free web tool that allows students to take notes on a video they are watching. Edpuzzle allows you to use only what you need from any video, insert audio notes or record over a video with your voice, and add questions at any point in the video .3- PixiClip This is by far the most popular of them all. 7- YouTube Video Editor 9- Prezi

SAMR Model Explained for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Below is a great video explaining the SAMR model in 120 seconds. SAMR is a framework through which you can assess and evaluate the technology you use in your class. Here is how the video below shared by Candace M explains the SAMR's four levels: Substitution In a substitution level, teachers or students are only using new technology tools to replace old ones, for instance, using Google Docs to replace Microsoft Word. the task ( writing) is the same but the tools are different. Augmentation Though it is a different level, but we are still in the substitution mentality but this time with added functionalities. Again using the example of Google docs, instead of only writing a document and having to manually save it and share it with others, Google Docs provides extra services like auto saving, auto syncing, and auto sharing in the cloud. Watch the video to learn more about SAMR

Step 8: Cools tools to embed Welcome to the seventh step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging! The aim of this step is to introduce you to a range of easy to use online tools that you can embed into posts and pages. We’ve embedded examples of each tool in this post to help you work out how the tool could be used with your students. Back to Top Why enhance posts with interactive tools If you look closely at class blogs you’ll notice many of have cool interactive tools embedded in posts and pages. There’s a gazillion online tools nowadays and most of them provide code that you can use to embed what you’ve found or created into your posts or pages. Below are popular tools used by educators by activity type to help get you started. Tools were chosen on the basis of their popularity, easy of use and being able to be embedded into posts/pages.Back to Top Audio Hosting Websites AudioBoo AudioBoo is a website, and a smartphone and tablet app, which allows users to post and share sound files. Voki

form@re » n. 73 gennaio n. 73 gennaio » Cos’è il mobile learning a cui è dedicato questo numero di Form@re? I lettori troveranno diverse definizioni offerte dagli autori dei vari articoli che pubblichiamo. Del resto, non sarebbe univoca nemmeno una definizione di learning. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. A Great App to Create and Edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel Docs on iPad September 10, 2015 WPS Office Free is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip. Some of the features WPS Office provides for users include: supports wireless printing and Bluetooth keyboards, allows you to share presentations and documents with other devices using AirPlay, AirDrop, DLNA or WIFI, open and edit documents directly from popular cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and WebDAV, export office documents and presentations to a PDF and many more. WPS Office supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese. And just recently, WPS Office becomes available for Apple Watch and even supports remote presentation control right from the Apple Watch!

A Portrait of Smartphone Ownership As smartphones have grown increasingly common in recent years, these devices have taken on a central role in the information lives of a substantial number of Americans. And yet, those Americans who rely most heavily on their smartphones as a gateway to online services and information are often the ones whose connections to their devices are most tenuous. This chapter of the report examines the general state of smartphone ownership in America today, with a focus on how these devices fit into the digital access options available to their owners. 64% of Americans now own a smartphone, up from 58% in early 2014 Nearly two-thirds of American adults (64%) now own a smartphone of some kind, up from 58% in early 2014. As in past surveys, smartphone ownership is highest among younger Americans, as well as those with relatively high income and education levels. Ownership levels remain particularly low among seniors, as just 27% of Americans 65 and older now own a smartphone.

9 iPad Apps that Assess Student Learning | Educational technology | Learn2Earn By Katie Chirhart As an iPad Lab teacher, I work closely with the classroom teachers to deepen and assess their students’ understanding of the material taught in the classroom—oftentimes, teachers ask that I spend additional time in the lab covering material that they’ve already taught. The apps listed below are some of my favorite apps to use in these instances. Technology allows students opportunities to demonstrate and engage in learning in ways that go beyond using paper and pencil. A tedious review session, suddenly becomes a something to look forward to. Completing a project that demonstrates the child’s knowledge about a topic becomes a task to be enjoyed and flaunted. Use these apps to take your classroom learning environment and assessment to the next level. Formative (Real-Time Assessment) EdPUZZLE If you’ve ever wanted your students watch a YouTube video, with questions and comments spread throughout the video, this app is for you. Socrative PickMe Buzzer Plickers Kahoot! AutoRap

Pillole 2.0 – Tricider – Seneta.it Tricider è un’applicazione Web gratuita per la realizzazione di indagini, questionari e sondaggi, in maniera semplice e con pochi passaggi. L’utilizzo, oltre che attraverso il browser, può avvenire tramite dispositivi mobili, sia Android sia IOS. Una discussione può essere generata anche senza registrazione, ma non è consigliato in quanto, registrandosi, le discussioni possono essere salvate e recuperate per 15 giorni. È possibile condividere, senza limite al numero di partecipanti, l’attività attraverso il link associato: gli utenti hanno la possibilità di aggiungere ulteriori opinioni o dare un parere positivo o negativo su quanto proposto. Tricider risulta molto utile per insegnanti per discutere con gli alunni su un argomento, per esprimere opinioni o cercare soluzioni condivise. Visite: 10

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