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Ushahidi :: Home Jonny Wathen: The Great Wall! #artistic... Make a comic out of any image online with the CHOG IT! Bookmarklet - Chogger The CHOG IT! bookmarklet lets you make comics from any website with images. See a comic-worthy picture while browsing? Click CHOG IT!, choose your comic images and with one click they're imported into the chogger comic creator! Firefox Be sure the toolbar for "Bookmarks" is visible. Google Chrome Be sure the toolbar for "Bookmarks" is visible. Internet Explorer Be sure the toolbar for "Links" or "Favorites" is visible. Safari Be sure the toolbar for "Bookmarks" is visible. Yenka Pretty Graph - Make professional charts online timetric Understoodit - Measure Students' Understanding in Real-Time Plant a Question, Grow Answers Topic (required) Type the topic of your new AnswerGarden. This can be a question or a topic, such as: "What do you think of my website?" More options (optional) For your convenience, you can change the following settings for your new AnswerGarden. AnswerGarden Mode In Classroom Mode respondents can submit an unlimited number of answers, but may only submit each answer once. Answer Length (New!) You can set the answer length to 20 or 40 characters. Admin Password You can enter a password that enables you to edit this AnswerGarden (such as the topic, unwanted answers and mode) afterwards. Show password Reminder Email Enter an email address and you'll receive an email containing the AnswerGarden link and admin password. It's ok to send me very occasional news about AnswerGarden. Spam Filter Filter that detects and removes common unwanted answers is now turned off. Broadcast on your current local network

Selecting the Right Technology Tool: Wikis, Discussion Boards, Journals, and Blogs (Essays on Teaching Excellence) Part Two Selecting the Right Technology Tool: Wikis, Discussion Boards, Journals, and BlogsTami J. Eggleston, McKendree UniversityThe POD Network Teaching Excellence Essay Series, 2010-11 In this essay, Eggleston discusses how daunting many faculty find selecting the right technology tool can be. To help with this task, she compares common electronic tools and uses Bloom’s Cognitive Domain Taxonomy (1956) and Chickering and Ehrmann’s Seven Principles of Good Teaching (1996) to connect these tools with skill development teaching goals and effective teaching practices. In this blog post, we’ll expand on Eggleston’s essay and offer you an overview of blogs. What is a blog? Blogs are part of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call “social pedagogies.” In “7 Things You Should Know about Blogs,” Educause describes blogs as: An online collection of personal commentary and links. When to use a blog Blogging can be incorporated into the classroom in many different ways.

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