Create videos of drawings & animations with narration on iOS devices. Record audio as pupils move elements of the picture on the screen and then share the videos.
Top 10 Free Online Tutoring Tools for 2012
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The Internet provides a wealth of resources for teachers, tutors, and students to go well beyond classroom learning. Whether you're a teacher preparing for tomorrow's lecture, a professional tutor working with one or two students, or you just want to help your cousin in Alabama with some trig homework, these free tools will help you interact with your student(s) sans the confines of the classroom.
Skype with Idroo
Idroo is an online educational whiteboard used in combination with Skype. Use it with as many students or fellow teachers as you want for tutoring sessions or meetings, as the whiteboard's "only limitations" are Internet connection speed and how fast everyone involved absorbs the material. All writing and drawing done on the whiteboard is visible to participants in real time, making it a true virtual classroom. It also allows for remote math tutoring with its professional math typing tool.
Gchat
Anyone with a gmail account can access Gchat. Teachers, tutors, and students can talk to one another in real time, as well as send and receive files instantly. Save chats for referral purposes in your gmail account, or download the Google Talk application for voice conferencing with multiple parties.
WizIQ
Teachers, students and organizations can create free accounts on WizIQ, another online education portal. Students have the option to attend online classes, download free tutorials, use free practice tests, or find teachers with certain expertise. Online classes are not free, however. Teachers and organizations can offer recorded classes through WizIQ or those in real time, create online tests, use live audio and video chat, and distribute course work in any standard format. Teachers must pay per month for this service, though WizIQ offers easy teacher payment collection from stu
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Text-to-speech and presentation voiceover, what is the real question?
As eLearning professionals we need to build an arsenal of tools and the competence for choosing which ones are best suited for each project. When it comes to publish presentations online, Voice talents, home-made recording, Text-to-Speech voiceover, silent and self-explaining pictures are all tools at our disposals. We must learn how to use each one of them.
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While we all agree that the five-year-old unnarrated PowerPoint is a dangerous and ineffective piece of content in an online course, we would also all agree that we can’t redo each narrated piece of content each semester. How do we strike a balance between creating content that is fresh (more on that in a moment) and being able to reuse content that is valuable?
For teachers it makes them participate in the content, revisit the content they created in the past, and make it delivered in a “present” time for the students. For students it tells them that the teacher “was just here,” and that this stuff is happening now. It makes the content seem more relevant, and helps build a sense of community in the course.
By creating content that has elements of real time associated with it, instructors can generate a sense of presence and freshness that are often missing in online courses.
A sense of time is created in discussion boards because they have only that
week to complete the work and there is an understanding that the conversations
happen in time. But often asynchronous discussions have wide gaps of time
between student interactions. One way to bring time closer to the students is to
allow them to subscribe to forum threads they are involved in. You can do this
in most LMS solutions. Students get an email alerting them to activity in the
thread they are active in and it brings them closer “in real time” to the events
happening in the class. While this can be overwhelming in larger courses, in a
class of 20 or 30 students it usually does not amount to an unreasonable amount
of email notifications.
One of the most effective ways to bring timeliness to an online course is do
a quick recap of previous week, as well as provide a preview of what is expected
for the current week. Using screen capture software to go through the course and
set expectations is a great way to not only share a bit of yourself with
students, but it is a pre-emptive way to answer questions students commonly
ask.