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My Cadie - 0 views

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  • All in one place Capture your world of information - notes, pictures, events, reminders and just about anything with Cadie
  • All in one place Capture your world of information - notes, pictures, events, reminders and just about anything with Cadie. You will be proud of how your stuff transforms into neatly organized visual mosaic.
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  • Sync your information with Dropbox and make it available across devices. Share your notes, reminders etc thru email or as PDF documents.
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    'Freedom to Forget. Capture and retrieve your stuff along with recommendations precisely when you need where you need without hurting your grey matter.
Heidi Wright

Do Ink Animation & Drawing - 0 views

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  • Do Ink Animation & Drawing for the iPad lets you create your own library of drawings and animations, combining and remixing them in an endless variety of ways. Great for beginners and pros alike. Use it to share your ideas with the world, use it for school, or use it just for fun!
  • Create custom artwork with our vector drawing tools.
  • Choose from among thousands of free reusable art props.
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  • the iPad
Heidi Wright

Healthcare & medical icons | Iconfinder - 0 views

  • Latest healthcare & medical icons
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    There is a section for medical icons and a variety of other topics that could be used for prezi's, PP and any online presentation! Unfortunately, they must be purchased. Pricing from $4-$20 per section--see below for example
Heidi Wright

Alpoy: Avatar Creator and Animator - alpoy.com - 1 views

  • Alpoy is a site where you can easily create and animate avatars. Create avatars from your photos, resize and rotate images . Then, edit your avatar, make them personal.
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    We each created our own avatar in Jenny Fogo's Juried Project Prep class and it was a unique and exciting new way to introduce ourselves to fellow students!
Heidi Wright

GRAZEit - Students, Instructors & Publishers - 0 views

  • GRAZEit is a retention tool for website owners of any type - publishers, bloggers, eSellers or webmasters of any kind, searching for innovative ways to communicate with their users.
  • Our engine performs a strong contextual analysis of the page the user is currently viewing - and supplies the best matching related-content from the web. These content recommendations will enrich your users' Snippet, with fresh and most up-to-date posts, news and articles, accompanying your content notifications.
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    This is an excellent site to add to your current browser the supplies the best matching related content from the web.
Heidi Wright

UnHub.com - You Are Everywhere | Visit unhub.com - 0 views

  • If you are a truly active part of the social web, that means your online identity is spread over several locations – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn spring easily to mind, and these are just the tip of the
  • iceberg.
  • UnHub does – it fits your web presence into a single and centralized URL.
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  • Such an approach is also useful for businesses that want to consolidate the services they provide. For instance, a restaurant can let people make reservations through a service like OpenTable, and also gather together customer reviews for all to read on the spot.
  • Why UnHub.com It Might Be A Killer It goes somewhere towards solving the common problem of people having vital information spread all over the web.
Heidi Wright

on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Video demonstrating how to get an unhub account. Your webpage behaves like your personal website. Teachers could post information on their unhub page for students--information, articles, TEDTalks to name a few...
Heidi Wright

Articles 2/163 Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • how they help instructors select communication tools to suit the situation.
Heidi Wright

Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? - 0 views

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    We're all born with deep natural capacities for creativity, and systems of mass education tend to suppress them. It is increasingly urgent to cultivate these capacities and to rethink the dominant approaches to education to make sure that we do. I watched his first famous video and this is a follow up...will make you pause and worthwhile to introduce to students.
Heidi Wright

Brain Rules video | Brain Rules | - 0 views

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    Brain Rules by John J. Medina is a multimedia project explaining how the brain works. It includes a book, a feature-length documentary film, and a series of interactive tutorials. I explored these in 2011 when I took Julie's course on Instructional Design & Delivery. These videos have extensive applications on how the brain functions and takes in information--applicable to all ages!
Heidi Wright

A List of the Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers | Fluency21 – Com... - 0 views

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    Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field. Over 20 different websites listed to use as tools.
Heidi Wright

Digital and Virtual Field Trips - 1 views

  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on
  • virtual field trips
  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my
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  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my
  • can I integrate virtual field trips into my
  • How can I integrate virtual field trips into my classroom
  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on a virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google for topics such as "wetlands virtual field trip".
  • Although you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic. Instead, take your students on a
  • you'd love to take your class to Antarctica or Hawaii, it's not realistic
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google for
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google
  • virtual field trip. Use the following resources to locate virtual field trips. You can also do a search in Google
  • integrate virtual field trips
  • locate virtual field trips
  • virtual field trip.
  • Many websites provide panorama images or other ways to fly over places. Explore examples below:
  • There are lots of cool ways to use virtual field trips in the classroom. Apple Learning Interchange has lots of great examples.
Heidi Wright

11 Free Tools to Teach Human Anatomy in 3D - 1 views

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    11 different websites are listed to explore teaching various aspects of human anatomy in 3D.
Heidi Wright

Teacher World Virtual Fieldtrips - 0 views

  • Digital and Virtual Field Trips
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    Locate virtual field trips for your college students on a variety of topics
Heidi Wright

NEA - Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning - 0 views

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NEA - Higher Education Best Practices - Teaching & Learning - 0 views

  • Getting Students to Do the Readings Few things are more frustrating to a college teacher than to begin a discussion of the readings assigned during a previous class and discover that a significant number of students haven’t done the readings. This issue’s Thriving in Academe offers encouraging news: There are classroom strategies for ensuring that students keep up with class readings—and students actually welcome them
  • Getting Students to Do the Readings
  • Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning The concept that one size fits all doesn’t have much of a place in education since we’ve begun to understand better how brains work and people learn.
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  • Teaching Context--A Map for Course Design The classes we teach don’t exist in a vacuum, argues the author of this issue’s Thriving in Academe, so it makes sense to pay attention to the world around you as you plan your semester’s work. You can create a better
  • Mentoring: Functions, Roles, and Interactions The world of academe can be a bewildering place for new faculty members. When it is, they often look to their senior colleagues for help. This time-honored practice—mentoring—has both formal and informal aspects, and, when done right, benefits both mentors and their protégés. This issue’s Thriving in Academe looks at the rewards and requirements for both parties.
  • Rethinking Expectations About Assignments It's frustrating for professors when students haven't done their out-of-class assignment. Too often, the students just don't take their homework seriously. But there's hope for frustrated professors, this issue's Thriving in Academe authors claim. Make sure your students know why the assignment is important and try to connect it to their lives.
  • Clickers in the classroom?
  • We're used to engaging students in the real world, now it's time to engage them in social online spaces like Facebook and Twitter
  • environment for learning when you consider institutional and departmental characteristics in making plans.
  • Even more important is to share control of the course with your students.
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    There are over a dozen articles to access on the home web page which pertain to teaching in higher education. Check out the topics and then read one of the articles. The article titled, Helping students embrace deeper learning" is interesting.
Heidi Wright

Wimba Classroom for Higher Education - 0 views

  • virtual classroom environment with robust features that includes audio, video, application sharing and content display. Its pedagogical design and ease-of-use ensures that educators and students engage as if they were meeting face-to-face.
  • Wimba Classroom has been carefully architected to give learners access to teachers, courses, and content beyond the four walls of a physical classroom or campus.  Learning objectives are in fact enhanced when teachers enrich their content by using interactive features like instant polling, application sharing, or the electronic whiteboard. 
  • Wimba Classroom provides a flexible venue for instructors to meet, learn and collaborate online. 
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  • appealing to different learning styles
  • Any camera your computer supports - so does Wimba. 
  • Wimba now offers advanced security capabilities
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    Wimba is the leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Wimba is a virtual classroom environment.
Heidi Wright

MindGenius - Colleges and Universities - 0 views

  • aids the brainstorming process at the start of any project or piece of work offers a dashboard to gather and collate research data create skeletal frameworks for essays and reports and easily identify any gaps helps improve memory recall for study visualize stages and tasks required to successfully deliver projects produce presentations, essays and reports directly from MindGenius maps offers a visual focus for class discussion and encourages peer-to-peer learning helps develop creative thinking skills 
Heidi Wright

MIndGenius - 0 views

  • MindGenius is the ability to brainstorm and capture ideas, either individually or in class, and create a visual representation.
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    MindGenius Mind Mapping Software for Education is used in universities and colleges, schools, assisted learning and by students for collaborative learning, study, research, projects and thesis planning. Excellent tool for brainstorming to capture ideas! Link specifically for educators. Free download-30 day trial
Heidi Wright

Creating a Learner-Friendly Online Course | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • The way a course is organized can have a dramatic effect on how much time students spend just
  • accessing its various pages.
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  • Schmitt recommends putting everything associated with a given unit on a single page.
  • small bits of time
  • feature tasks that can be
  • completed in relatively short periods
  • to 20 minutes.
  • conduct synchronous sessions
  • Having a responsive instructor
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