5 Ways for Students to Create Audio Slideshows
For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for a few days, I'm re-running some of the most popular posts of the year. Somewhere between a PowerPoint presentation and a full-fledged video is the audio slideshow. Creating audio slideshows can be a good way to add meaning to slides that otherwise might not mean much without a presenter. Here are some ways that students can create audio slideshows. Narrable is a neat service for creating short narrated slideshows.
How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube
We’ve been getting a lot of questions ever since our GMAT Choose Your Own Adventure video went up. Well, one question, really: How can I make one for my students? Answer: It’s easy! Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive.
Mastering Google Search Operators in 67 Easy Steps
See Also:• Google Search Operators - Best Practices• 25 Killer Combos for Google's Site: Operator Any SEO worth their sustainably harvested pink Himalayan salt knows that Google offers a variety of advanced search operators – special commands that take you above and beyond regular text searches. Learning search operators is a bit like learning chess, though.
GoAnimate for Schools
Easy learning curve. Low budget. Simple do-it-yourself tools. Powerful Tools at the Click of a Mouse Add a character, swap a background, or start a scene just by dragging and dropping. Videos for a Wide Range of Uses
Interactive Video- Turn Your YouTube Video Into an Interactive Video or Ad For Free
Brand your video Make it your own! Add your logo and contact info. Personalize your video player and deliver the experience you want your viewers to have. Build brand equity.
How to Bypass Paywalls at Popular News Sites
Here's how to quickly bypass paywalls at popular news and magazine websites. If you've tried to read an article at sites like Washington Post, Medium, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Wired, Vanity Fair or the Wall Street Journal, you've probably run into a paywall. A paywall restricts access to content by requiring a paid subscription, but there are a few ways around them. Information is increasingly fragmented and many of us use a multitude of sites to access information. In this day and age, it's not economically feasible for most individuals to pay for several subscriptions to view sites you visit occasionally. If you visit a news or other site regularly at work or for personal use, it makes sense to pay for a subscription.
10 Awesome Web Tools Teachers should Be Using
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is back to you with another list of some great educational websites. We have meticulously handpicked this compilation and we want those of you who, because of their time constraints or any other reasons, could not keep up with the sweeping influx of the web tools to have a chance to get to know some useful tools to use both for their professional development and with their students as well. You can also check our archive for other compilations.
100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers
YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! News. But for every participant liberally dishing out misspelled racist, sexist and homophobic talking points, there is at least one whose channel genuinely offers something provocative and educational.
How to Bypass Blocked Sites and Internet Restrictions
It doesn’t matter where in the world you live; there are times when you’re going to come across blocked sites and a restricted internet. If you come across an internet block, don’t panic. Keep reading to find out more how to bypass barred sites and internet restrictions. The possible reasons for the blocks are numerous.
21 Grab-And-Go Teaching Tools For Your Classroom
21 Grab-And-Go Teaching Tools For Your Classroom by Lynn Usrey Every teacher wants to be able to make his or her classroom environment the optimum place for learning, interacting and engaging. Today, there is a wide assortment of free technology options available to enhance your instruction. The tools are changing… quickly. So making the best choices, based on the resources available in your school, or through your board, is critical.
5 Reasons To Use YouTube In The Classroom
If you like to bring multimedia into your lessons (and who doesn’t?) then you probably use YouTube in the classroom from time to time. But there’s a lot to the mega-video site and it’s getting a bazillion hours of video uploaded every minute nowadays.
Music App
Music that reflects your mind as a mirror MindFeedback Music is a popular name for RT-ISMF (Real-time Indeterminate Synthetic Music Feedback). A RT-ISMF system produces unique music at the same moment one is listening to it.
20+ Google Forms Teachers should not Miss
After "The 10 Google Forms Templates Every Teacher Should Know About " that we have posted here a couple of months ago, today we are providing you with another great set of forms created by Kern Kelley who is one of the most reputable guys in the field of educational technology. Kern has really invested a lot of time and effort in creating these forms and on behalf of all you , we send him a big thank you for this work and don't forget to have a look at his fabulous blog The Tech Curve. Kern Kelley has divided these forms into categories as you can see below. Just click on any title and it will automatically copy into your Google Docs board if you are sign in to your Google account.
Google Reverse Image Search
Know more about any photograph with Google Reverse Image Search Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web. Upload a photograph from your desktop to Google Images and it will show you related images used on other websites and also different sizes of the same photo almost instantly. Journalists can use the reverse search option to find the original source of an image or to know the approximate date when a picture was first published on the Internet. Photographers can use ‘search by image’ feature to know about other websites that are using their photographs. Google’s ‘search by image’ feature is only available for desktop computers and not on mobile devices and tablets.
