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Steve Ransom

24 Essential Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 23 Oct 13
     
    Mindmaps/semantic maps/visual learning strategies are typically way underused in education. There are so many great new tools to make the process more efficient and powerful.
Steve Ransom

talking word processor | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner - 0 views

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tts text2speech msword word addin

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Sep 13
     
    WordTalk is a powerful free tool that ought to be on every computer in every school where Microsoft Word is installed on a Windows computer! This is a tool that has the potential to benefit ALL learners, especially any who struggle with reading or writing. I'm adding WordTalk to my list of Extra Special Learning Resourses.  WordTalk is a high quality free add-in that provides convenient, versatile and customizable text-to-speech for any document written or opened in Microsoft Word. It works in every version of MS Word, from Word 97 through Word 2010; and it's available to run on every version of Windows from Windows 98 through Windows 7.
Steve Ransom

Timeline JS - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. - 1 views

timeline.knightlab.com

timeline tool

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Dec 13
     
    Nice, interactive timeline tool.
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Blendspace - Create lessons with digital content in 5 minutes - 0 views

www.blendspace.com

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  • Steve Ransom on 06 Jun 14
     
    A great and easy tool to organize/package learning content for students. Allows adding all sorts of content, including your own text and simply quizzes. You can create "classes", too.
Steve Ransom

Welcome to the Next Golden Age of Animated GIFs - Medium - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 11 Sep 14
     
    Great examples of and free tools for making animated gifs
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Formatically- Automatic MLA Formatting - 0 views

formatically.com

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shared by Steve Ransom on 15 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 15 Aug 14
     
    Nice free MLA paper & citation formatting tool. Looks like APA not ready yet.
Steve Ransom

VideoNot.es - 0 views

www.videonot.es

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Sep 13
     
    A great tool to take notes on video content from popular video hosting sites and sync notes with the video itself as well as in Google Drive.
Steve Ransom

Noisli - background noise and color generator for working and relaxing - 0 views

www.noisli.com

writing distraction browser ambiance soundeffects

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Feb 14
     
    An interesting writing tool in the browser... supposedly to help with distraction and focus. It did the opposite for me.
Steve Ransom

Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online - Clipping Magic - 2 views

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Image editing masking backgrounds browser editor

shared by Steve Ransom on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 25 Feb 14
     
    Great online tool for creating image masks, cutouts, and more.
Steve Ransom

The Wejr Board - Why I Took Facebook and Twitter Off My Phone - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Sep 13
     
    Great post about one person being mindful of how hyper-connectedness was impacting him. We don't all need to do this, but we DO need to always be mindful of how our tools are affecting us.
Steve Ransom

SnapChat is less private than you think | ITworld - 1 views

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  • SnapChat is publicity ... with privacy
  • SnapChat isn’t really ephemeral – and the likelihood that SnapChat photos will get captured and stored permanently is growing each day.
  • Snaps for a time, contrary to its stated policy of deleting them once they have been opened
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • The bigger threat to SnapChat and its users, though, may come from third party platforms and applications, which can easily undermine the privacy protections that are seemingly built into the platform. Early releases of Apple’s iOS operating system changed the way in which screen shots could be taken, making it impossible for the SnapChat application to detect when screenshots of SnapChat images were captured.
  • SnapHack Pro, for sale on the iOS App Store. It allows users to log in using their SnapChat credentials and send and receive Snaps. The difference: all images opened and viewed in SnapHack are permanent.
  • claims to online anonymity and privacy are falling left and right.
  • The only way to win, then, is “not to play
  • Steve Ransom on 15 Nov 13
     
    Users, kids and adults alike, need to realize that even with tools like Snapchat, privacy is an illusion. Even Snapchat admits this in its own privacy policy.
Steve Ransom

No Child Left Untableted - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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1:1 tablets personalizedlearning critique debate Amplify joeklein

shared by Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Entrepreneurs
  • disrupting an industry
  • K-12 isn’t working
  • ...25 more annotations...
  • or just to profit from it
  • potential customers
  • Plenty of research does indeed show that an individual student will learn more if you can tailor the curriculum to match her learning style, pace and interests; the tablet, he said, will help teachers do that
  • commercial opportunities
  • looking for higher test scores
  • exploit
  • It provides immediate feedback
  • “Now your job is not to dispense knowledge,” Britt told the trainees. “It’s to facilitate learning. No longer is the teacher the bottleneck between students and knowledge. Rather, the teacher architects the environment — in the classroom, on the tablet, online, everywhere.”
  • The Amplify tablet helps make personalization possible.
  • “If it’s not transformative,” Klein told me, “it’s not worth it.”
  • The teacher’s tablet also has an app blocker and monitoring functions that can see and control what’s happening on student tablets
  • Companies with vested interests are pitching themselves as the solution to the country’s educational problems, he says, “but we don’t have research proving it’s true.”
  • magic bullets. “There are a lot of hucksters out there,” he said.
  • apostles of disruption,
  • depend on good teaching
  • it can be easier to find money for cool new gadgets than for teachers.
  • must equip our students to compete with counterparts in India and China
  • Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
  • Where technology makes a difference, it tends to do so in places with a strong organization dedicated to improving teaching and where students closely engage with teachers and one another.
  • for sale to schools
  • gaze tracking
  • For data to work its magic, a student has to generate the necessary information by doing everything on the tablet.
  • “We become smitten with the idea that there will be technological solutions to these knotty problems with education, but it happens over and over again that we stop talking to kids.”
  • “You learn how to broadcast, which is not the same thing as what you and I are doing now. Posting strong opinions isn’t a conversation.”
  • wouldn’t it make more sense to devote our resources to strengthening the teaching profession with better recruitment, training, support and pay? It seems misguided to try to improve the process of learning by putting an expensive tool in the hands of teachers we otherwise treat like the poor relations of the high-tech whiz kids who design the tool.
  • Steve Ransom on 24 Sep 13
     
    What a convoluted mess. Important to see what's happening, trends and initiatives, and the marketing/big business vs. learning in these issues.
Steve Ransom

Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 1 views

www.rewordify.com

comprehension reading level converter ability simplify

shared by Steve Ransom on 22 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Nov 13
     
    An interesting "converter" to simplify reading level of a passage that is pasted in to the text box. It doesn't always do an accurate job of simplifying, but it could still be a useful tool for those who may need such an accommodation.
Steve Ransom

Browse Topics/IWitness:Video Testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses - 0 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 May 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 May 14
     
    Witness Activities provide educators and students with tools to work with testimony. Educators can build custom activities to support learners at all levels, or utilize the myriad of prepared activities. Students can build their own videos, word clouds and much more.
Steve Ransom

IfItWereMyHome.com - 1 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 23 May 14 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 23 May 14
     
    Really interesting global data/statistics comparison tool for comparing key attributes of countries.
Steve Ransom

Keeping Teens 'Private' on Facebook Won't Protect Them | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 03 Nov 13
     
    As teachers and parents, we must never expect that our tools exempt us from raising and teaching our children/students well. Be involved. Be informed. 
Steve Ransom

#Education Tackkboard - Tackk - 0 views

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website author create webpage

shared by Steve Ransom on 24 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 24 Oct 13
     
    Nice tool to quickly create a single webpage presence without needing any software or hosting... sort of Glogster/Pinterest-like
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