Writing Tips & Practice With Dragon Dictation Mobile Apps [iOS] Nuance’s iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon Search have been available for free download for over a year now. Since then, the company has added a few other similar voice to text apps to its line of desktop and mobile applications. It’s even rumored that Nuance has partnered with Apple to infuse voice commands within the next iPhone. On top of all that, PC users have enjoyed the power and effectiveness of Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking for writing dictation for several years. These voice recognition programs have come a long way, but before you spend the money on a computer version of Dragon Dictate, you might want to practice the art of writing dictation using one of the mobile iOS versions of Dictate, especially the app optimized for the iPad. I’m actually dictating this article using Dragon Dictate for the Mac.
Incredible Helmet Design Incredible Helmet Design Fun | December 19, 2010 / views: Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/weirdex/public_html/includes/functions_core.php on line 260 31,851 Do You like Spiderman, Ironman, Sponge Bob, or You just like some weird design like skulls, horns, or animals, or... Maybe You just want to stand out of the crowd and be unique with Your helmet - well, we think that these artists can draw anything that You can imagine! 10 Tech Tools for Teacher Training Courses Over the summer I was running a number of two week ICT in language teaching courses for teachers from around the world. The courses were part of the Bell summer campus at Homerton College Cambridge. This was the first time in a while I had been asked to teach such long courses and i thought it was a great opportunity to see if I could fundamentally change the way the teachers related to technology, not just in the classroom as a tool for teaching learners, but as a tool within their everyday working practice.
Street fighter characters by Doe Stunning Street fighter characters artwork by Doe. Doe is a Toronto, Ontario based artist. How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning Sharebar The most efficient way to achieve consistency in visual design for an eLearning course or presentation is to write a visual style guide. It’s nearly a necessity when working on a team and it’s also valuable when working solo (though a shorter guide may suffice). 10 Amazing ‘Draw Something’ Movie Illustrations Posted: May 15th, 2012 | Author: Martin Delaney | If you are a smartphone or tablet computer owner you may be one of the 50M+ users that have downloaded the extremely popular Draw Something app [if you are not familiar with this game just think of it as a one-to-one electronic version of Pictionary]. Those who have spent more than just a few minutes playing this addictive app will appreciate the skill level involved in producing a picture that looks anything like a representation of the word provided to you. Thoroughly impressed, we found the below Draw Something illustrations to be nothing short of amazing! Our favourites are the Stormtrooper & Edward Scissorhands. Stormtrooper
10 Principles of Successful E-Learning In 2005, Professors Anderson and McCormick wrote A Common Framework for E-learning Quality and Ten Pedagogic Principles of E-Learning, describing an approach to the development of effective e-learning programs. According to Professors Anderson and McCormick, the Ten Principles may help designers to construct pedagogically sound e-learning materials and related activities. The principles may also help teachers to choose resources; design teaching and learning activities based on those resources; and support such activities while they take place. Explore the Ten Pedagogic Principles of E-Learning as defined by Anderson and McCormick and see how they are applied through the itslearning platform. Anderson and McCormick state that there is an implicit assumption in their approach that the more of the ten principles are embodied, the better the quality of the pedagogy; and the fewer embodied principles, the lower the quality.
YouThumbs - controversial news topics and odd news headlines opinion polls - You Thumbs ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ or PETA for short has a distinct way of getting its message across – sex! There have been a top number of PETA sexy celebrity ads and banned commercials by the non-profit organization during the past a few years causing lots of controversy. Here is a collection of PETA’s most controversial PSA’s (WARNING: 18+)! PETA has tapped into the power of celebrities and sex to sell their message. What’s the message? Why You Need To Use Storytelling For Learning SumoMe I’m sure you’ve heard by now that storytelling can make learning more effective. Stories help us process and remember information. Perhaps they even touch a part of our consciousness associated with the magic and creativity of childhood.