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6 Tips to Free Up Tons of Storage Space on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
Are you feeling the pinch of the limited storage capacity on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch? If you are running low on space, check out these tricks to greatly ease any potential storage squeeze you may be experiencing with your iOS gear. 1: Regularly Remove Photos & Video If you use iCloud and have Photo Stream enabled, every picture and video taken on an iPhone is going to sync to the iPad automatically, and vice versa. 2: Delete All Music Keeping Music on the iPhone and iPad in particular is unnecessary, so do yourself a favor and remove all the music and then take the time to set up and use iTunes Home Sharing to play music from a computer while at home or the office. 3: Find Where Storage is Being Used and Clean Up It’s easy to check how much storage is available in iOS, and the same screen tells you which apps are taking up the most space. 4: Delete Completed Games & Unused Apps Some apps are enormous, the popular game Rage HD for example takes up 2GB of space. All done?
Visual Storytelling 101 - SlideShare 3D
The SlideShare 3D tool transforms your presention slides into beautiful touch-enabled 3D slideshows written in pure HTML and CSS3. The presentations will work on all modern browsers including Android or the mobile Safari on your iPad and iPhone. Running the presentation Desktop users may use the regular arrow keys or the mousewheel to move between slides. The transformed SlideShare deck is touch-enabled and thus you can use gestures like swipe or pinch to navigate through the slides on your touchscreen mobile phone or tablet. Behind the scenes Internally, the tool uses SlideShare's oEmbed endpoint to get the details of the requested presentation which are then transformed into a 3D slideshow using the reveal.js library.
The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020
Gateway Episode: “William ‘Clyde’ Gibson” 20. The Chronicles of Now The writers of The Chronicles of Now satirize, applaud, and transmogrify the news of the day. The podcast, hosted by Ashley Ford, commissions famous authors (such as Roxane Gay, Ben Fountain, and Manuel Gonzales) to create short fiction pulled from the headlines. Some of the stories reach for high concepts; others are grounded and relatable. Gateway Episode: “Proof” 19. After reporting at the Standing Rock protests, veteran NPR environmental reporter Ashley Ahearn quit her job in Seattle and moved to rural Washington. Gateway Episode: “Grouse: Stranger in a Strange Land” 18. Last year, Broken: Jeffrey Epstein covered Epstein’s heinous crimes.
8 Steps To Great Digital Storytelling
Stories bring us together, encourage us to understand and empathize, and help us to communicate. Long before paper and books were common and affordable, information passed from generation to generation through this oral tradition of storytelling. Consider Digital Storytelling as the 21st Century version of the age-old art of storytelling with a twist: digital tools now make it possible for anyone to create a story and share it with the world. WHY Digital Storytelling? Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Movies, created over a century ago, represent the beginning of digital storytelling. 8 Steps to Great Digital Stories Great digital stories: Are personal Begin with the story/script Are concise Use readily-available source materials Include universal story elements Involve collaboration at a variety of levels In order to achieve this level of greatness, students need to work through a Digital Storytelling Process. 1. Resources 2. 3. 4. 5.
The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020
Gateway Episode: “William ‘Clyde’ Gibson” 20. The Chronicles of Now The writers of The Chronicles of Now satirize, applaud, and transmogrify the news of the day. The podcast, hosted by Ashley Ford, commissions famous authors (such as Roxane Gay, Ben Fountain, and Manuel Gonzales) to create short fiction pulled from the headlines. Gateway Episode: “Proof” 19. After reporting at the Standing Rock protests, veteran NPR environmental reporter Ashley Ahearn quit her job in Seattle and moved to rural Washington. Gateway Episode: “Grouse: Stranger in a Strange Land” 18. Last year, Broken: Jeffrey Epstein covered Epstein’s heinous crimes.
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36 Digital Storytelling Sites and Apps From edshelf
by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Once upon a time, there was a teacher looking for ways to help her students tell a story. She wanted to give them a variety of tools from which to construct their stories. At their school were computer labs, iPad carts, and a BYOD policy. Then she found K-12 technology specialist David Kapuler‘s collection of digital storytelling sites & apps. And they all lived happily ever after. What apps do you use for creating and telling digital stories? 36 Digital Storytelling Sites and Apps From edshelf Image attribution flickr users nmc-campus and mikegrenville
Yahoo acquires multimedia storytelling app Qwiki
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Qwiki, a storytelling app that integrates photos and videos. The company wrote in a blog post that Qwiki would be joining Yahoo’s New York offices and that it would continue to support the Qwiki app. AllThingsD reported that the purchase price was about $50 million. Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear recently under CEO Marissa Mayer’s leadership, from the $1 billion Tumblr acquisition to smaller purchases like the social recommendation startup Jybe, to the news summarization app Summly. While it’s not totally clear what Yahoo will do with Qwiki, it’s clearly interested in acquiring companies in the mobile media space. In a blog post, Yahoo explained the acquisition: “We’re excited to announce that Yahoo!
How To Help Your Content Rise Above The Noise
Whenever you talk about Content Marketing, you have to start by considering two main obstacles: There is an overload of information on the Internet. Virtually on any topicPeople are busier than ever in history and they are bombarded with thousands of messages each day With that in mind, you’ll understand that… Your mission is to cut through the noise to get the attention of your audience [Tweet this] I know, I know, easier said than done. LookBook HQ has published this useful infographic to help you understand how you can improve your content marketing strategy, I’ll summarize it and then I’ll leave you alone with the infographic. Showing instead of telling Implement different types of media in your content. How your readers are digesting your posts 79% scan rather than reading word by word. Make it easy to digest starting with a winner headline and a strong first paragraph to sell the rest of the post. Manage the information for them Storytelling Packaging
