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All of the resources on this wiki have been created in Inspiration, Word, Pages, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs and Inspiration Maps for iPad. If you have Pages, Keynote or Inspiration Maps on your iPad or Android, then you will be able to use most of these Graphic Organisers.

A recent new and relatively little-known feature was added to the Keynote and Pages apps that makes removing the background of any image an easy task.

"iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately, creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it is. Back in June I shared a free 110 page book about using iBooks Author . However, if video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you should look at."

Sometimes you may want to embed just a portion of a YouTube video in your web pages. For instance, you are embedding a movie from YouTube but want the viewer to focus of one particular scene that begins at 'x' seconds and ends at 'y' seconds. When the scene has finished, the embedded clip should stop playing irrespective of the length of the video. Well, here are two simple ways to help you embed a part of any YouTube video:

""I wanted to make sure people would find the actual me and not these other people," she said. Syracuse, Rochester and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are among the universities that offer such online tools to their students free of charge, realizing ill-considered Web profiles of drunken frat parties, prank videos and worse can doom graduates to a lifetime of unemployment - even if the pages are somebody else's with the same name."

The Evernote Web Clipper allows you to save anything you see on the web quickly and easily straight into your Evernote account. You can clip a full page, single article or just the URL and save it to a designated Notebook and add tags. Your web clips then become searchable within your Evernote account. Doing this allows me to have all of my information at the tip of my fingers, right when I need it and across my multiple devices.

"In the process of writing and finalizing the chapter on "Visual Notetaking" for my forthcoming eBook, "Mapping Media to the Common Core," I found Giulia Forsythe's blog page "Visual Practice" and her WONDERFUL presentation a year ago for the 2012 University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy. Her presentation slides are available on SlideShare, and the entire 68 minute, recorded presentation is on Vimeo. I highly recommend you watch this entire presentation if you're interested (as you should be) in learning more about visual notes."

"When my students wanted to do a project using social media to bring awareness to human trafficking and the problems. They had a wordpress blog, a Twitter account (we set up twitter feed to send the posts there) and a Facebook page. We tracked engagement levels and things that created likes. What stimulated engagement. Now, this was part of my social media module for 3 weeks but it wasn't just your average "post on facebook." "

Way Back Machine, accessing history of web content; nternet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

If you are thinking about or have stepped into using iPads this Pinterest page iPad support for teachers may be of some value to you or your staff. Visit http://pinterest.com/audreynay/ for other iPad boards that I have created : iPad apps-Apps in education 213 pins iPad support 4 teachers 158 pins Numeracy Apps 1 pin iPad apps 4 school -literacy 146 pins Toddler apps 35 pins iP*ds in class 170 pins iPad apps -CAPA 12 pins Early Literacy 19 pins Students with special needs 77 pins

The Home Page for the Purdue Online Writing lab highlight in my previous post.  Resources here can be adapt for school use.     

A recent new and relatively little-known feature was added to the Keynote and Pages apps that makes removing the background of any image an easy task.

"SAN ANTONIO - Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks." They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes - or simply not opening the book at all.

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.

If Wikipedia were made into a book, it would contain over 2.25 MILLION PAGES!! It would take almost 123 years to read and would be around 180 Meters high!!!

Good example of how to use Ipad for class workflow

Hey Mark Thanks for the article. It is very informative. Mike

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