AirDroid makes your multi-screen life easier and more focused by helping you access and manage your phone from any computer, anywhere. You can send SMS, view app notifications, transfer files and fully control your phone on computer with AirDroid.
styleguide for Canvas including basic styles, scaffold/layout, components and design patterns - you can use the CSS classes in the code editor to jazz up the appearance of course pages without breaking baked-in functionality
"Canvabadges let you award badges to students in courses based on their total grade in the course and their completion of course modules. You can also put a manual approval step on as well that requires your final sign-off before they receive the badge. "
The fundamentals that define a great teacher don't differ much whether classes are taught in the online setting or off, but there are certain things that need greater emphasis and gain greater importance when a teacher is working with students who aren't in a traditional classroom setting. Knowing how to highlight these things to help students reach their potential and get more out of a course is what separates online teachers who are good from those who are great.
Choose one or two documents to quickly engage students, focus classroom activity, and spark conversations. Pick from one of five modes - Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, or White out/Black out - to frame documents and guide students as they analyze, focus on specific content, examine document details, and form hypotheses.
"Zentation combines video and slides to create online presentations that best simulate the live experience. Easily create high-end webinars, webcasts, elearning, training and virtual events."
"Create: bring "flat" PowerPoint® slides to life with your webcam, microphone
Edit: make changes, without the need for video editing software or skills
Share: publish instantly to private spaces or your social networks"
"Combine video clips, add text, and share your custom message via email, facebook, twitter and mobile text. SnapCuts is a place to create, communicate, and share your thoughts with video."
While you would usually need to go to a badge creating professional to design and create custom badges, now you can do it on your phone thanks to a tool called My Badge, a phone app for iOS devices. You can use the app to design 1-inch badges using photos and texts.
"Vook is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform. Quickly create, edit, style and publish your eBook-no special software required. You can use Vook to build an eBook out of a Word document or an existing ePub file. Once you've built your eBook to your satisfaction, you can distribute to our Vook Store - where we pay you 85% of the net royalty of any transaction - and, if you'd like, pay a one-time, $99 fee to distribute your eBook to Amazon, BN, and iBooks through our Vook account. For eBooks we distribute for you to Amazon, BN and iBooks, we pay you 100% of the royalties we receive back from the distribution channel."
Text to Speech (TTS) software allows you to have text read aloud to you. This is useful for struggling readers and for writers, when editing and revising their work. You can also convert eBooks to audiobooks so you can listen to them on long drives. We've posted some websites here where you can find some good TTS software programs and online tools that are free or at least have free versions available.