After reading this. I dont suggest you install dropbox or login dropbox at shared or non private computers.
Please take note if you are using dropbox for important files.
Fascinating demo of Google+ features... one of the neatest features I've seen in there is the "Hangouts" feature.
Then Google+'s tagline caught my eyes. "It doesn't matter WHAT you do. It matters WHO you do it with." Reminded me about the power and priority of building closer relationships with your students (akin to Socrates and his disciples) to help make them more receptive to what you want to share with them.
So just thinking: How can we help teachers tap into the trend of Google+ and other social networks to help their students in their learning and education?
Named Apple's iPad App of the Year and one of TIME's top 50 innovations of 2010, Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read.
Share articles and photos, comment on posts, and like or favorite anything. Customize your Flipboard with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics.
Reviews:- "Flipboard is a fantastic iPad app that makes everything you read on the Web better than it is by itself. I can't recommend it highly enough." Macworld- "Flipboard offers iPad users an entirely original alternative to browsing the Web for news; its magazine-style layouts and breathtaking use of photos and white space show the way forward for digital media." PCMag.com- "Flipping for Flipboard: The brilliant iPad app that has changed the way I read the news." SLATE- "Flipboard begins to imagine an entirely new way of accessing the social Web." New York Times- "Stop. Put down this computer, go pick up your iPad and come back here. Now go get this app: Flipboard. Why? It's pretty awesome." Wired.com- "I am thoroughly impressed from our first run with Flipboard. It is simply gorgeous and a pleasure to browse." Mashable - "Flipboard turns Facebook updates, tweets into digital magazine" USA Today
What if I could link my e-portfolio to Flipboard? And even view others' e-portfolios for a given topic on my Flipboard - all automagically arranged to look like a glossy magazine? How would that inspire our teachers to update their e-portfolios accordingly?
Shared during lunch with IDs
Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android. We deliver the story straight to your headphones through orders and voice recordings - and back home, you can build and grow your base with the items you've collected.
An example of a webservice for automatically backing up Google Apps domain. Reliable (and restorable) basic infrastructure is important for ensuring smooth transition to using e-learning tools in daily usage.
Both the tools you shared look like very useful considerations. Work with Sally to implement the free tools if we need them. Monitor the paid tools and our usage patterns to see if we need to use them later.
It's really useful, and I tried the voice feature - it converts my speech into text accurately most of the time! The nearest thing to a mobile universal translator now... Great for helping you learn new languages on the go.
Students can easily download a document from Edmodo, use it in another app (like a PDF annotation app) and then upload it again onto Edmodo to submit it as an 'assignment'. This solves the whole 'work-flow' problem that many teachers faced upon the introduction of iPads into the classroom. Worksheets, handouts, task sheets, graphic organizers, anything you want the students to work on, just upload it into your library, add it to a folder that you share with the students or attach it to a post, then they access it and open it in another app. Once they have finished, they need to upload it into their 'backpacks' and then submit it as an attachment to an 'assignment' that you posted.
encourage a Twitter backchannel discussion, in which quiet, shy, and unable-to-get-a-word-in-edgewise students are able to speak up in class without actually speaking up in class, sharing their comments, insights, and even relevant links through Twitter as the discussion goes on
Educators have found that Twitter backchannel discussions provide for more interaction not just in the classroom, but beyond, as students often enjoy further carrying on the conversation even after class time is over.
This quick exercise allows students to further digest and understand the material at hand, while at the same time creating a great resource for future review.
Dr Ashley, I agree with you and posting a question at the beginning of the video is an excellent strategy. That is how I learn. I need to know the question upfront so that I know what to pay attention to in the video.
Embed short graded or self-assessments either in the video itself, or at the end of each video. Including one or two multiple-choice questions or requests to post to a forum—either between scenes (using a post-production editing tool such as Camtasia or Captivate) or after the video—alerts students to the “take homes” they should be getting from the material. It also helps teachers assess, at point of contact, whether students understand the major concepts.
This (self assessment) is absolutely necessary to give learning a chance to happen, as we develop open learning courses. This applies to Google Sites training resources out there.
For IDs and VCDs!
Quote: "there's a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it"
Article goes on to suggest strategies for incorporating videos into lessons.
Recent efforts by organizations like Coursera, edX, Udacity and Khan Academy have produced thousands of educational videos logging hundreds of millions of views in their attempt to make learning freely available to the masses. While the presentation style of the videos varies depending on the author, they all share a common drawback: videos are time-consuming to produce and cannot be easily modified after release.
With that in mind, we present VidWiki, an online platform to leverage the massive numbers of online students viewing videos to iteratively improve video presentation quality and content, similar to other crowdsourced information projects like Wikipedia. Through the platform, users annotate videos by overlaying content on top of the video, lifting the burden on the instructor to update and refine content.
Useful resource on leveraging on FB!
Here is what I learnt from these companies use of FB:
From Amazon: Converse with your audience
From Dell: Provide useful how-tos
From Samsung: Show specific uses of edtech
From MS XBox: Provide teasers, trailers, previews, updates
From YouTube: Share viral videos