100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss
By Katheryn Rivas One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.
Video Creation Resources
This page is designed to introduce and show you how to use various free video creation resources. The process of creating and publishing videos can be a great way to get students excited about researching, storytelling, and sharing their work with an audience. For teachers who have never facilitated video creation projects in their classrooms, choosing the right style of video and the right tools can be a bit confusing at first. To help bring clarity to the styles and tools, I have a rather simple outline that I use in my video creation workshops. That outline with suggested tools for creating videos in each style is included in the PDF embedded below. You can download the PDF here.
10 Newly Tools Online Availble for everyone
In this round up of 10 we look at some really cool newly discovered websites for you to try out, so that you don’t have to wander to look for them, and they are just not cool they live up to the purpose they are built for. You are welcome if you want to share more new and useful websites that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com, just subscribe to our rss feed and and as well to get updated. Do you want to know if you are getting the internet bandwidth that you were promised by your ISP?
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom
Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1.
How To Make A Video - Video Maker Tips
So you want to make a video. That’s great! Video is huge these days and with GoAnimate, video making is easier than ever. Let’s take a look at how it works! Tutorial: Quick Video Maker Quick Video Makers are perfect for getting started quickly.
How To Trace Your Emails Back To The Source
Most people won’t notice this, but emails actually arrive in your inbox with a “˜receipt’, which contains a lot of information about the sender. In order to find the sender’s identity, we only need to retrieve an IP address, but inside the email header we can also find the originating domain, reply-to address and sometimes even the email client, for example Thunderbird. Why would you want to find out the identity of the sender? Well, you may have heard of shady email scams or emails supposedly from Paypal inviting you to re-enter your personal information. Now, you can determine if an email is truly from the authentic source.
ZaidLearn: 102 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course!
"Engage Me or Enrage Me" - Marc Prensky (2005) "Never play a video game that's trying to teach you something." - Justin Peters (2007) Terms like educational games, game-based gaming, and social impact games don't sound too bad. But, Serious Games sounds awful! I mean, who wants to get serious about playing games (I want to relax and have some fun!)?
Mozilla Popcorn
About Mozilla Popcorn Mozilla Popcorn supercharges web video. Popcorn adds interactivity and context to online video, pulling the rest of the web right into the action in real time.
20 Top Social Media WordPress Themes
There seem to be millions of WordPress themes floating around the web, however not all of them have social media integration. Whether you are looking for social media icons in your header bar or social feeds embedded within your site, finding the right WordPress theme can really grow your social media presence. Here are the top 20 Social Media WordPress Themes:
Make Money Online 100+ Tools and Resources.url
Making money online is a dream for many, but the simple fact is that it's often just as tough as making money offline. Due to requests, we've put together a list of the most popular money making methods today, many of them focused on blogging and peer production. A word of caution: for the sake of completeness, we've included a small number of sites that have been criticized for their ethics. If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.
Multimedia Seeds: Collection Production: Planning and Producing Audio and Video Materials
There are many uses for video production in the classroom. Students love to develop informational, instructional, and persuasive videos. With careful planning, video production can be lots of fun.
100+ Professional Social Media Business Tools for Brands and Marketers
This post is #7 in DailyTekk’s famous Top 100 series which explores the best startups, gadgets, apps, websites and services in a given category. Total items listed: 125. Time to compile: 8+ hours. Follow @DailyTekk on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss a week!
