GIF Maker - Video to GIF Creator Tools | Giphy GIF MAKERCreate animated GIFs from video files and YouTube links. Have you ever watched a video online and thought, "Man, this cute cat video would be SO much better in GIFs!" Well, GOOD NEWS! Choose video by entering a YouTube or video URL, dragging and dropping a video file, or clicking the blue search button to browse your files. Use the two sliders to capture your GIF. and the bottom slider controls how long the GIF's duration will be. Optional: Enter your caption in the Caption field and click + button. Optional: You can add relevant tags to your GIFs, separated by commas, and add a Source URL to give credit to the original source. Hit the Create GIF button to finish.
Using Voice Comments with Google Docs for End of the Year Projects by @CTuckerEnglish I had a “just in time” professional development moment thanks to Jennifer Roberts and her video titled “Docs Voice Comments.” I wanted to share it with other educators as I know many of us are planning end of the year projects, assignments, and written pieces. These culminating assignments are incredibly time consuming to grade. Lastly, these end of the year projects are finished products, so covering them with comments or editing directly on them may not be the most effective way to provide feedback. My students are currently working on a Digital Portfolio Project to share the work they have created in our class. I’ve decided to use the voice comments app instead of typing out all of my comments. Because their projects will take the form of a website, I’ve decided to have students “make a copy” of the assignment description, which I created as a “view only” Google document and “share” it directly with me. Follow the steps below to enable the Voice Comments app.
How to Use Guided Access on iPad, iPod and iPhone | Voice4u Apple created a lot of wonderful features in iOS 6. One of them is Guided Access (single-app mode), which you can lock down into single app only. It makes your iDevices far more useful at school, therapy, and home. Enabling Guided Access Launch the Settings app. Tap “General”. Scroll down and tap “Guided Access”. 1. Type in a 4-digit passcode. Using Guided Access Launch ANY app that you want to use. Triple-click the hardware Home button of iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (press the home button 3 times very quickly). After triple-clicking the home button, you should see a screen shown like below. iOS automatically defines a nice controlled box. Keep tracing boxes if necessary. Guided Access is enabled on Voice4u. The hardware Home button and Sleep button will automatically disabled. Exiting Guided Access Triple-click the hardware Home button. Enter your 4-digit passcode. Tap End to exit Guided Access. iPhone & iPod touch iPhone and iPod touch also support Guided Access.
Be Ready When New Technology Appears While we cannot predict what educational technology will look like in the next 10 years (or even the next 3 years) there are ways to anticipate technological change and be ready when new technology appears that can benefit your classroom. By planning for these technological changes in advance, you will be good to go when you find the next best tech tool on Twitter. Here are some suggestions to be ready when that new tech tool appears: Design lessons that are adaptable. Developing a lesson based on the functionality of one tech tool is extremely limiting. New technology tools are released daily, which makes it difficult for educators to keep up with everything that is available to use with students. Tags: New Technology About the Author
gradelevelinfo.pdf Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! | the spicy learning blog Do you want to use social media, web 2.0 tools, and/or a learning management system for your class or course program? Do you feel overwhelmed with the absurd amount of choice, and those ‘techie’ annoying types that make you feel like a Super Noob? I’m hoping this post can help you out. Every year around this time I reflect on the tools and spaces we’ve been using throughout the year. Device agnostic: I have a multi-device environment in which mobile dominates. Simple, elegant, minimalist design: ‘Nuff said. Engineering: It’s fast, and it works. Used by people outside of education: This isn’t because I have some bizarre inferiority complex with apps and LMSs, feeling like it’s illegitimate if someone else doesn’t use it. Easy privacy settings: Because if it’s complex, then it can’t be trusted, especially for school. I’ve created the matrix below to help you should you need it. Click here for the native Google document. Like this: Like Loading...
7 Best iPad Handwriting Apps Our best iPad handwriting apps roster will ensure that you do not have to struggle with tiny keys of the device’s keyboard when taking down notes in lectures or meetings. They let you jot down memos naturally like you would on a notepad using a pen and automatically create digital text, thus allowing you to edit the notes later on any other compatible device. The list has been laid down below in no particular order, so take a look at these options and choose the one that you think has all those features which you require. 1 – Notability: Besides taking down notes naturally, you can carry out a number of other functions on Notability which include PDF annotation, typing and audio recording amongst others. It features retina ink for capturing information and the zoom window comes in handy for drawing detailed sketches. Price: $1.99 2 – CaptureNotes 2: According to the developers of this alternative from our compilation of iPad handwriting apps, it can be used for capturing everything.
eduClipper Enables Social Resource Sharing Inside and Outside the Classroom Educators are embracing social media inside and outside the classroom but sometimes platforms created for the consumer market do not meet all their needs. Adam Bellow, founder and president, explains the origins of eduClipper is and how it helps educators optimize how they consume massive amounts of content coming their way on social channels to improve their lessons and better engage learners. The need for school-friendly social curation Adam Bellow first began finding and sharing free web tools six years ago with eduTecher. What’s eduClipper? “eduClipper is a visual curation tool that allows you to share and display content on eduClipboards. Sharing resources inside and outside the classroom Educators also told Adam there was a great need for a social platform designed for educators that was safe for use inside the firewall of a school and enabled sharing without people necessarily following each other. Social classrooms Enabling better PLNs Did you like this?
Mozilla Webmaker Teaches You to Build Web Sites, Apps, and More Create a Narrated Slideshow on an iPad with Haiku Deck and Explain Everything <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> This week I’m leading a 3 day iPad Media Camp in Oklahoma City. On day 1 we learned about creating 5 photo stories and narrated slideshows with the iPad apps Educreations (free) and Explain Everything ($3). On day 2 we learned how to create “Quick Edit Videos” using the iMovie iPad app. Here is the Haiku Deck presentation I used for my slides. Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad iPad Media Camp FAQ (June 2012) On this day..
iOrganized: How a teacher can use the iPad to stay organized? I bought my iPad about eighteen months ago. I have said it before, and will say it again: it has changed my life! As an eLearning leader, one of the most common complaints I receive from staff is that “it is really hard to stay organized with the iPad! Everything is all over the place!” 1- Curriculum-design (unit-planning): I use Pages to help me stay on top of curriculum design. 2- Lesson-planning: I use Evernote to plan my lessons. 3- Documentation: I use Evernote to document evidence from my lessons. 4- Reflection: I add a very short reflection to my Evernote lesson-planning after every lesson. 5- Attendance and Assessment records: I use Numbers to keep my attendance and assessment records. 6- File-sharing and printing: many teachers initially complained that the iPad does not have a USB port. 7- Marking and grading: when the students send me work, I often ask to receive it as a PDF (most apps allow exporting as PDFs). Like this: Like Loading...
Using the SAMR Model in Educoaching 20 Must-have iPad Apps for Student Researchers and Academics March 25, 2014 As a post-graduate student researcher I find myself spending more time using iPad for doing many of my academic related work.When I first bought iPad my goal was just have a mobile reader for my PDFs and never thought that this little machine would be of so much help to me in my studies.That being said, I want to share with you some of the important apps that every student researcher should be able to use. I featured under each category a few options for your to choose from. Productivity apps 1- Google Drive Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. ToDo for iPhone and ToDo for iPad has a beautiful, simple interface and is full of features (projects, sub-tasks, due-dates, categories, etc), while remaining simple to use. 3- Evernote Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. 1- Kindle
Initiative and a $15 iTunes Card "Wa'sup Lisa?", asked Tyler. "Not much. "I just got a $15 iTunes gift card from my grandma for getting good grades on my report card last semester." Lisa said, "That's cool. Tyler said, "Maybe. Lisa explained, "Well, our teachers encouraged us to use free stuff that could be used on any device, not just the iPad. "Really? Lisa said, "Early on, we all bought Notability. "That seems reasonable. Lisa pointed to her iPhone screen, "Notability let's you type or write notes on your iPad. "No more paper?" "That's right! "That's cool. "My biology teacher, Mr. Tyler said, "This sounds good too. Lisa said, "I think it was about three bucks, but it was worth it. Tyler made a mental note, "Alright. Lisa thought about Tyler's question for a moment and said, "iMovie!" Tyler asked, "There's an iMovie app for the iPad?" "Yep, it's not cheap, actually around five bucks, but we had so much fun making movie trailers and short films about what we learned in class. "Definitely. Additional Resources