"Google offers a ton of solutions for students, teachers, and classrooms. Some products are intentionally designed for classrooms, others just happen to work well for that setting as well as many others. The Google Apps For Education and Google Play for Education are two tools built for teachers and students that encompass a ton of different solutions for different types of work. The handy infographic below takes a look at some usage statistics on Google tools in the classroom along with a few tidbits about Apps for Education if you're not familiar with them. Keep reading to learn more."
Some ideas around why we created @motmedu
Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.
APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
The use of word clouds in the classroom is quickly gaining pace because of the number of different ways in which they can be used to promote student learning.
A widget that aggregates a bunch of different twitter conversations that teachers are having on twitter. It's a great way to display what your PLN is saying right from your blog.
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
File-sharing is a complicated beast. Some files are too big to send in emails; some need to be seen by a lot of people; some need to be private; some should be public. There are a ton of different applications that want to be the host for all of your files, but drop.io stands ahead of the pack.
With sunglasses companies like Oakley and Maui Jim already dominant, it seems Callaway has an uphill battle. Top-quality sunglasses and technology will make a difference.
This looks amazing, 3d photo environments, can you imagine children making a virtual field trip out of this to share as a project with kids overseas or ina different part of the country???
We all saw a huge influx of cases and accessories when the original iPhone launched last year, so we can hardly expect anything different with the release of the iPhone 3G. ezGear has just announced 2 new ezSkins for the forthcoming version of Apple s hot phone.
Ok, so I like this link because it emphasizes one often ignored point about "powerpoint" and similar softwares ... they're PRESENTATION tools, not online tools per se. I am rather surprised to find that many faculty are still loading publisher or home-grown Face-2-Face slide presentations into online courses and calling it engaging content... no, clipart is NOT engaging!
This ZaidLearn article is a good primer for anyone preparing a F2F presentation that is not intended for Web distribution... opinion alert! Seems we should respect these as two different mediums!
EffectGenerator makes it relatively easy to add different effects to your photos, and best of all you don't need to register with the site to use it. Select a template and start creating your slideshow. You can upload the photos from your computer or add by URL. Flickr search is integrated into the application.
Some times being old school is not that bad, especially you own an old car and want to listen your tunes on the road. Then, you need to think about this - IPod cassette adapter. It takes a shape of the cassette tape but different technology. Convert digital music to analog and play it in your car cassette player. To be more convenient, it allows SM card reading and mp3 files.
It is fun to use Flickr to find pictures that people post for others to use. Or use FlickR to post your own albums. Here's a site (Spell with Flickr - http://metaatem.net/words/) where you can have any word spelled with different pictures that have each letter in the word.
Erik Kastner used the letters from the One Letter group with the Flickr API and is making the Source Code available for free.
Switch is a sound file format converter for Windows or Mac. Convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3, wav or wma. For example convert wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wma to mp3 or many other formats. Just add the files you want to convert, select the output format, and then click convert.
More and more internet users are getting familiar with the concept of RSS feeds and its uses. This has resulted in number of online and offline services to help in better RSS Management. Feedburner and Feeblitz lead the way in RSS Management services. Many a times you want to read content from different sources. While there are tools to filter RSS feed content, tools to mix, blend and Mash-up multiple RSS feeds are more important. They help you grab multiple RSS feeds and create a single customized RSS feed. Here are 10 tools worth checking out…