academic technology

"Why Open Badges Could Either Kill or Cure Learning? "

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"Just this week I was getting the lowdown on Smart Lenses, something a lot of people were buzzing about at CES earlier this year. And now…voila. They're here, courtesy of our friends at Photojojo. And yes I am getting one. Because, wow."

QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free.Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java).Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard!This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA. 

Studymate by Respondus allows you to input terms once and get a number of study exercises from it.

Copy and past long articles to get a nice summary. Free and easy to use: buff.ly/18VzpK5 #edtech via @nwick

Getting Started with Google Docs Purpose Understand how to use Google Docs in the classroom to create, share, collaborate and publish works. In this tutorial sheet you will learn how to: Create a Google Account Create a New Document Save a New Document Rename a New Document Upload an Existing Document Basic Editing Tagging a Document Collaborating and Sharing a Document Revise and Add Comments to a Document Publishing a Document Copying a Document

"Faculty Competencies for Online Teaching Teaching in an online environment can be considerably different in nature from teaching face-to-face. The competencies listed on this site are intended to provide faculty and administrators with a better understanding of the instructional requirements of online teaching. Pedagogical Competencies Technical Competencies Administrative Competencies"

Here's a very slick new tool that allows students and teachers to share a Google Doc or Presentation, record themselves along side the presentation or doc and email or embed the video on a blog. It's called Movenote, and it's free.

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a collection of instructional strategies that illustrate how the principles of positive psychology might be applied in the classroom. ( - See more at: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/two-activities-that-influence-the-climate-for-learning/#sthash.ABCJKqB0.dpuf

Multiple Submission Quirk - and Work-Around We've learned recently that there is a quirk with Crocodoc when there are multiple submissions. When a student submits more than one assignment attempt, you can choose which to grade from SpeedGrader. If you grade an earlier attempt and provide feedback via Crocodoc on the assignment, the student can only view the latest submission, thereby missing any feedback you provide. There is no way for the student to choose which assignment submission to view. As a workaround, you can annotate on Crocodoc and then download the annotated document to attach to your comment. A PDF version of the assignment file (with annotations) can be downloaded by both student and instructor.

Montage of pictures (a la Moldiv) but also videos! Could create a short story here!

Search, create, edit and share files and documents quickly and easily. hopTo® lets you be productive with Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your iPad, no matter where you are.

doesn't work on Ipad 2