Getting started with Google Cardboard - CNET It sounds made up: Your smartphone, a couple of plastic lenses, and some strategically cut cardboard come together to form a virtual reality headset. Yet that's the, er, reality of Google Cardboard, which made its debut at last year's Google I/O conference and received a 2.0 update at this year's. Along the way, developers have cranked out some very cool Cardboard-compatible apps, while Google went so far as to create a dedicated Apps for Google Cardboard store. If you've been itching to try this for yourself, you have two options: Build a headset or order a kit. However, although the page itself makes reference to "the new Cardboard," the accompanying build-it-yourself images (and pop-up guides) still show the original Cardboard. Until Google updates all this, your best bet may be to simply order a Cardboard kit. Once you've equipped yourself with Cardboard, here's what you should know about using it. Where to find VR content Once you've got the hardware, you need content to view.
Curriculum Builder - OnCourse Systems for Education Get Started Generate and share online curriculum units and lesson plans The OnCourse Curriculum Builder equips your district to generate online curriculum units, align them to standards, and produce graphical curriculum maps. Watch Full Product Demonstration Video Software Overview The Curriculum Builder is a collaborative, permissions- based tool that equips your district to generate and share online curriculum units and lesson plans in an educator- friendly web workspace. Curriculum developers can access a searchable library of state and national standards included with the Curriculum Builder subscription and align each unit and lesson to its strands, standards, grade level expectations, etc. Also included is a Curriculum Map Builder, which automates the process of creating graphical, Gantt-style curriculum maps that help to identify continuity and gaps in standards coverage. Design & Features The Curriculum Builder comes with the following powerful features: Curriculum Developers Teachers
Screencasting and Video Editing Software | Telestream ScreenFlow | Overview Highest Quality Recording ScreenFlow has the best screen recording available – whether you are recording multiple screens at once, or using retina displays. Built in Stock Media Library Spice up your videos with access to over 500,000 unique images, audio & video clips and more directly from within your ScreenFlow projects. iOS Recording Record your iPhone or iPad screen for high quality app demos. Easy to Learn, Easy to Use ScreenFlow’s intuitive UI allows everyone to create amazing content in minutes. Powerful Video Editing Tools Add pro touches to your videos with transitions, text animations, video animations, freehand annotations, multi-channel audio and more. Professional Animations & Motions Graphics Animate graphics, titles and logos with built in video and text animations. Better Tools for Software Tutorials Use Styles and Templates to make editing a series of Software tutorials quicker and easier. Streamlined Media Management Closed Caption Support More Publishing Options
Productivity Archives - Teaching In Higher Ed A couple of weeks ago, I was the mini workflow guest for the Mac Power Users podcast, episode 240. Katie and David were in rare form. It was David’s birthday and perhaps nearly the last episode he recorded prior to announcing that he was going solo with his law practice… I spoke about how to use screencasting to give feedback to students in a way that students report seems more authentic, honest, and helpful. It’s the first 15 minutes of their live show, recorded live on February 7, 2015, episode 240. Listener Follow Up I heard from a couple of Mac Power Users, after the episode, which was so rewarding. David M. from Qatar wrote to say that he purposely doesn’t include a track changes document for his students, as he wants to be sure they listen carefully and digest more of the feedback that way. I hadn’t clarified on the episode that I don’t do track changes for the purpose of making corrections to the students’ papers, either. David described more of his process for me: Tom wrote: He wrote:
Planbook for Windows: Elegant Lesson Planning Software for Educators. Planbook has hundreds of features to help you get more organized, save time, and share your lesson plans Choose Your Schedule Planbook can accommodate schedules where you teach the same thing each day, your classes change each day but repeat weekly and rotating schedules (up to a 14 day rotation). Write your Lesson Plans Planbook gives you 6 customizable fields to hold your lesson plans. Attach Files and Links Planbook lets you attach any file on your computer directly to a lesson plan. Print/Email your Plans Planbook makes it easy to share your plans with your administrator, other teachers or students via print (or PDF, if you install a free PDF generator such as CutePDF. Adjust your Schedule When the weather gets rough (or any of the 100s of things happen that can affect your best laid plans), Planbook lets you quickly bump or pull back lessons to adjust your plans. Reuse your Plans Next term, or next year, don't recreate all your hard work. Share Plans on the Web Convert Days Track Standards
BoomWriter | Simply The Best Group Writing Site Photovisi Photo Collage | Free Online Photo Collage Maker | Photovisi Household Notebook: Use It To Organize Your Home Life A household notebook, also known as a home management binder or a homemaking notebook, is like a master planner for your home's needs and family's lives. One purpose of your notebook or binder is to get all that information you are trying to remember, like your daughter's soccer schedule and the last time you flipped the mattresses, out of your head, and onto paper, where you can more reliably review it when needed. If you're just beginning the journey of creating such a notebook, here are some general resource articles on the site for you. Each family's home management binder will be unique, just like each family is unique. However, there are some common parts of most organized family's homemaking notebook. Below is a pretty detailed list of items which could go into your household notebook. In addition, if you actually were to put all these things in one notebook it would be huge and unwieldy. Suggested Contents Of Household Notebook Schedules and Routines Cleaning and Chores Finances
untitled Information Fluency provides a model for educational activities; the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is the place where those activities happen. Just as learning activities and their products map to the three areas that comprise Information Fluency, those activities and their products can be mapped to different tools and resources. About the “PLE” Personal The PLE is personal because the people, applications, tools, resources, and services are chosen to match our individual, idiosyncratic needs. Learning Many have given up on the call to rename the PLE to the Personal Living Environment. Environment In practice, the PLE is an environment, not a network. Visualizing the PLE Visualizing the PLE has become something of a pastime for education technology geeks. Similarly, Martin Weller clusters tools and services around himself, clustered by (primary) function: Even this kind of visualization can grow complicated rather quickly, such as this example by Jared Stein: Parts of the PLE (for me)
Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles Raphaël—JavaScript Library Using Google Charts - Google Charts Google Charts provides a perfect way to visualize data on your website. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page. You load some Google Chart libraries, list the data to be charted, select options to customize your chart, and finally create a chart object with an id that you choose. Then, later in the web page, you create a <div> with that id to display the Google Chart. That's all you need to get started. Charts are exposed as JavaScript classes, and Google Charts provides many chart types for you to use. All chart types are populated with data using the DataTable class, making it easy to switch between chart types as you experiment to find the ideal appearance. Ready to create your first chart?