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“4 Stars and Editors Choice.” MacUser Dec. 2013 "Awesome!... It's intuitive and it has a wider selection of title treatments and templates - love the retro look!" Chris Shoemaker, Co-Founder of Freshi Media "Outstanding."
Web applications. Time for sound?
I’ve been thinking recently about reintroducing sound events into some of our web applications. The web has moved on from midi files as background music, and sounds on ever button with a web page. We’ve become more grown up when it comes to multimedia. But perhaps now is the time for adding complimentary sounds to a web application. Desktop applications have never really lost the sounds – particularly instant message systems such as MSN or Skype, to denote events. Perhaps event driven sounds are the way forward within a web app.
The Best Tools and Apps for Flipped Learning Classroom
July 25, 2014 Following the posting of "Managing iPad Videos in Schools" somebody emailed me asking about some suggestions for tools and apps to create instructional videos to use in a flipped learning setting. In fact, over the last couple of years I have reviewed several web tools and iPad apps that can be used in flipped classroom but the ones I am featuring below are among the best out there. 1- Educlipper Educlipper is a wonderful tool for creating video tutorials and guides to share with students. As a teacher you can create an Educlipper board for your class and share the link with them.
Presentation Software that Inspires
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Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers
Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said.
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If you are using the Google Chrome browser here are 5 more extensions that may be useful to you as a teacher. If you are fortunate enough to not have YouTube blocked in your school district you may want to try this chrome extension. When you watch videos on YouTube an ad will sometimes cover part of the screen.
AeroAdmin 3.0 Review (A Free Remote Desktop Program)
AeroAdmin is a portable and completely free remote access program for Windows. Unlike many other free remote desktop tools, there is no cost for commercial use as well as personal use. While AeroAdmin doesn't have chat capabilities, its small in size and can be started up in less than a minute, which is perfect for a remote desktop program. Download AeroAdmin Continue reading for a list of pros and cons, a quick look at how AeroAdmin works, and what I think of the program.
Mirroring PC: Diffuser le contenu de sa tablette ou de son smartphone sur un ordinateur
Pour compléter l’article Mirroring sur TV, je vous propose ici de faire un tour d’horizon des solutions techniques permettant d’effectuer du mirroring PC, c’est à dire : afficher le contenu d’une tablette ou d’un smartphone sur un PC. Cette démarche peut entre autre avoir de l’intérêt lors d’ateliers pédagogiques, pour de la démonstration client ou tout simplement pour diffuser sur un écran plus grand une application ou un jeu. A l’air du » tout sans fil », on n’y pense pas forcément du premier coup, mais il s’agit de l’une des solutions les plus simples pour diffuser le contenu d’un terminal mobile (tablette ou smartphone). La connexion filaire ou plus simple l’usage d’un câble adapté permet de rapidement partager le contenu de vos appareils.
