Collaborize Classroom | Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students Magnify the Cursor with Cursor Effects Cursor effects focus viewers' attention on the cursor movement or mouse clicks within a video. Cursor effects can only be applied to Camtasia recording files (.cmrec). Apply the Cursor Magnify effect when: Recording a full screen application with a lot of small or unlabeled options. You need to clarify what options are clicked within the recording. Click the Cursor FX tab. Drag the Cursor Magnify effect onto a Camtasia recording (.cmrec) on the timeline.
Favorite Web Tools Schoology– Learning management system with an online discussion capability perfect for extending conversations beyond the walls of the physical classroom to give every student a voice. Evernote – Capture, index and remember information using a computer, phone, and web. Students can take notes, capture favorite videos, save webpages, and collaborate on projects using Evernote. Padlet – Virtual post-it note board. Diigo – All-in-one research tool. Google Apps – Make collaborative writing & group work online easy. Animoto – “Automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music.” Socrative – Student response system for quizzing & gaming in the classroom- use laptops, iPads or smart phones. StudySync – This progressive tool helps students develop 21st century literacy. QR Stuff – Design colorful QR codes and choose from a variety of printing formats. EdPuzzle – Great tool for flipping your classroom!
25 iPad Apps MBAs Are Using Right Now We’ve partnered with OnlineMBA.com to periodically bring you interesting educational posts about things you might not normally see on Edudemic. For example, this article is a fabulous list of useful iPad apps being used by MBAs right now. There’s plenty of ways to incorporate these apps into K-12 classrooms so enjoy! A master of business administration is looking more attractive to many white-collar workers today as a way to take their game to the next level, and app developers are taking notice. Business applications for the iPad are becoming a huge section of the market, as the tablet grows in popularity as more than just a vehicle for Angry Birds. If you need a tool to enhance your MBA instruction or to clue you in on a subject the curriculum never covered, here are 47 great apps with a AAA investment grade. All-in-one Apps Don’t think of these comprehensive MBA apps as exorbitant for tablet programs, but mind-bogglingly cheap business school tuition. Business Publications Money Matters
The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection Part 2 reflective student Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! At best, students can narrate what they did, but have trouble thinking abstractly about their learning - patterns, connections and progress. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. 1. See my Prezi tour of the Taxonomy 2. Each level of reflection is structured to parallel Bloom's taxonomy. taxonomy of reflection Bloom's Remembering: What did I do? Bloom's Understanding: What was important about what I did? Bloom's Application: When did I do this before? Bloom's Analysis: Do I see any patterns or relationships in what I did? Bloom's Evaluation: How well did I do? Bloom's Creation: What should I do next? Image credit: flickr/Daveybot Trackback URL
Why I Love Infographics. Back in 2010, Jeff Dunn wrote an article about how infographics can accelerate learning . Their popularity has not lessened since then; in fact, I think their popularity has only grown, if this Pinterest page is any indication. In this post, I am going to share the reasons I love infographics. They Are Concise They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s nice to have that information chunked into pictures once in a while. They Are Creative Most infographics are highly creative, an amazing blend of statistics and art. They Are Educational In education circles, there is still a lot of talk about teaching kids to think critically, to elevate learning to the higher-order Bloomerian (yes, I just made that up) skills of evaluating and creating instead of hovering instruction around basic recall and comprehension tasks. I think that asking your students to create an infographic of a concept or text might be one of those higher-order tasks teachers strive to add into their lessons.
5 Free Snagit Alternative Snagit is a screen capture program that allows you not only capturing of images, but it also allows you to edit, organize and share instantly to the web. It’s both available for Windows and MAC OS and can be used to take a snapshot of your computer and even long webpages. It can also easily create demo videos, enhanced images with its effects like adding time stamps or callout texts. It can organize screen captures with its tagging features and able to share all the images and demos it crated to social media sites. However, as ideal as it may seem, Snagit is not for free. Let’s look at these 5 Free Snagit Alternatives: Ezvid Ezvid is a screen capture & screen recording program made for Windows which is 100% free. It runs in a wide variety of Windows platform including XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Snipping Tool Snipping Tool is a screen capture Windows 7 feature. However, this is only available when you are running a Windows 7 or Windows 8 version. Jing Shutter
Docentes y TIC (Teachers and ICT) tutorial: the photoessay | FLOW MEDIA Today i wanna give you a short introduction on how to do a photoessay, based on my experiences, so as always there might be better or more compelling ways. So feel free to add those in the comments. The photoessay is also, when it comes to multimedia productions, the body of it as it tries to tell a story, so it is interesting to get a bit into that. Here are some ideas to think about. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The establishing shot gives you an introduction and shows you where the story is taking place. The medium shot is leading into the subject. The close-up is a classic detail shot, giving you important single parts of the story. The portrait is bringing the subject close and personal. The moment is giving you special moments of the story. The closer is the shot that sums up the essay and leaves you with a thought or a conclusion. This different parts don’t have to be in every photoessay in general. 6. 7. Check more tutorials here .
CiteLighter – Handy online research, citation, bibliography, sharing tool Yes. I admit it. I watch the Food Channel. It’s not like I’m addicted or anything. But I don’t watch as much since Alton Brown’s Good Eats was moved to a weekday morning time slot. The only one-task item you need in your kitchen is the fire extinguisher. His argument? Yeah. I had a flashback to Alton Brown and Good Eats this morning while reviewing a new online tool I recently ran across called CiteLighter. CiteLighter is a browser plugin that gives users the ability to collect online information, store it online, make comments on that information, add auto-researched Knowledge Cards to your project, automatically create a formatted bibliography from all of that information, edit that bibliography, share your project via email, export your project to Word, and learn tons of stuff / get an A in the process. It’s the ultimate Alton Brown multi-tasking tool. I’ve attached a PDF saved from the Word export option to give you an idea of what the final version might look like. Like this:
Works Cited, References, and Bibliography - For a detailed treatment on citing sources using MLA style with many more examples, please use the official MLA Handbook: All information relating to MLA style as presented in this Web site has been based on this authoritative publication from the Modern Language Association of America. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003. Works Cited is sometimes referred to as References. Works Cited and Bibliography are not the same. Entries in Works Cited, References, or Bibliography are put in alphabetical order by last names of authors, editors, translators, etc. or by first words of titles. If the first word of the title is "The", "A", or "An", and the word is being used as an article, e.g., in the title: The Little Book of Irish Clans, the entry is placed under "Little" and the article "The" is ignored. Sometimes the article "The" is used as part of the name of a company or magazine or journal for emphasis, e.g., The Champ, or The Sports Network. Remember: 1. 2. 3. 4.
iPad As.... iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. In other words, begin with.....