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Phil Taylor

Using Images as a Powerful Gateway To Learning - iPads in Education - 5 views

  • Most of us grew up in an age where knowledge and information were primarily conveyed in textual format. Think of the encyclopedias we used. Photos were used but largely as an enhancement to articles that were text-based. Worse, the high cost of full color printing meant that the images that were used were usually in black and white.
John Evans

A Digital Diet: Drop (Calls, Texting, Web) and Give Me 28 (Days of Peace) | E... - 2 views

  • You’re having a lovely conversation, but think nothing of breaking the mood by grabbing your smartphone to confirm (more likely dispute) something. You’re having a lovely, relaxing cup of coffee at your neighborhood hangout, but can’t sit still when the WiFi dies.
John Evans

BrainFlips | Home of the world's smartest flashcards - 7 views

  • Create and share flashcards - including audio, text, images, and video!
Phil Taylor

Reports of the death of the whiteboard are much exaggerated.. « Education, Te... - 3 views

  • 1: Having an IWB in your classroom is about having a platform for content. Teachers need software to assemble content for lessons and increasingly this content is multimedia in nature with the need to integrate text, images, video, audio and flash type content.
  • address the root cause of why a teacher allows a particular instructional practice to dominate and then find a way for the  technology to serve pedagogical practice rather than driving it.
  • This is not normally the individual teacher’s fault, it was a systemic failure to address training and professional development when the boards were first going into UK classrooms
Phil Taylor

Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 2 views

  • Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.
  • "Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
John Evans

Poets' Corner - Home Page: Introduction, Overview, and Index Summary - 0 views

  • Welcome to Poets' Corner, one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this ongoing project is to develop a user-friendly library that is both a useful reference and an appealing place to browse and explore - and there is a lot here to explore. The collection covers nearly 7,000 works by almost 800 poets - ranging from some of the best known works in the English language to works that were never widely known or whose popularity has been obscured by time.
John Evans

ONLINE PRESENTATIONS: 30+ Presentation & Slideshow Services - 0 views

  • authorSTREAM.com - Users can present and share their PowerPoint presentations with others.
  • PresentationEngine.com - Create professional looking multimedia presentations by combining your text and media.
  • Zentation.com - Synchronize videos and PowerPoint files to create professional presentations.
John Evans

TextFlows: Reading Re-Invented - 0 views

  • TextFlows offer an entirely new way to interact with the written word. We use motion and light to present text as an animated flow on a simple, uncluttered screen. Reading becomes easier, more effective, and fun; writing receives an added dimension of artistic expression. Browse through some Flows, find one you like and play it full screen to get a sense of what we're all about! Then find out more:
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