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"You can use Vyou embed a video booth that students can go at any time of day to ask you questions. The video booth gives the impression that you are always available and builds some presence on your course. The messages students send you are delivered to an inbox and you are notified so that you can answer them. Vyou also has a very handy mobile app so you can answer the questions where ever you are on your iPhone or other mobile device. "

"it's simple and free to send voicemails over the internet, and record your voice without using any software. All you need is Vocaroo. Vocaroo makes recording your voice simple. To use Vocaroo you don't need to download any software, pay any fees, or even sign up for anything. Vocaroo gives you the option to download your recording so you have it anywhere. There's also an embed code for each recording, so you can embed it in your blog, web pages, slide shows and other presentations. Vocaroo is all you need to create a voice recording - and it's Free!"

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. (There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. (There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)

23 "Techy" Tips for Not so "Techy" Teachers A collaboration of ideas for quick and simple ways to use technology in the classroom - ANY classroom!

"Evernote is a cloud-based service that allows you to save anything you want and then easily find it. But there are a lot of cloud services that allow you to save stuff, so what sets Evernote apart from the rest? Well, there really isn't one clear-cut answer to that, but there is one clear-cut article."

The Best Free Portable Apps for Your Flash Drive Toolkit Large capacity, small-sized, affordable USB flash drives provide us with the ability to easily carry around gigs of data in our pockets. Why not take our favorite programs with us as well so we can work on any computer?

Apple made mention of a standalone podcast app earlier this month, but most figured it would arrive with iOS 6 this fall. Not so. Earlier this week, Apple released Podcasts. It's free and universal, designed for both the iPhone and iPad.

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

Download 50+ MakeUseOf Guides on a wide range of subjects. More than a million downloads so far. All free. Enjoy and share!

""Visiting Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is like drifting into a bizarre and fascinating dream" - What's on in London What is it? Well, it's not a theatre or a cabaret for a start. It's a kind of exhibition or museum (but we don't like those words). So, what is it? It's a collection of contemporary automata, which is a kind of mechanical sculpture. Nearly all of the work in the collection is humourous."

"SpeakPipe voice recorder allows you to create an audio recording directly from a browser by using your microphone. The recording is produced locally on your computer, and you can record as many times as you need. There is the option to save your recording on the SpeakPipe server and get a link to it, so you can send it via email or use on the web. Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android devices."

"Evidently studying and iPods go together like peanut butter and jelly. So if you want to get in on the latest technological-educational craze, check out the following iTunes apps. These are the top free apps that are beneficial for high school and college students."

"Use your PC long enough, and it will get littered with duplicate files of all kinds. Graphics files, .doc files, media files, .dll files, you'll be amazed at how many duplicates you have. They clog up your hard disk, take away precious hard disk space, and make it hard to find the files you want. This simple freebie will find duplicate files, then let you delete the ones you don't want. Point it at your hard disk or selected folders, and it goes to work, finding duplicates. It then gives you a full report, and lets you clean them en masse, or just selected ones. There's some nice intelligence built in as well. It tells you how much disk space duplicate files take up, for example, and lets you protect system files so that you don't accidentally delete any important files your PC needs in order to run properly. "

"Bookmark? Picture? Take a quick note? All of the above? Now you can. All in one place. And all easily accessible. Whether on your computer or from your phone, Springpad is a free app that helps you remember stuff today - places, websites, books, recipes, ideas, anything - so you can make better decisions tomorrow. It's called springing."

Karl Fisch adjusts his instruction methods so students observe lessons at home as homework then homework is the actual in class collaboration.

"Wildlife films and photos are vital weapons in the battle to save the world's endangered species from the brink of extinction. So with the help of the world's best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists, ARKive is creating the ultimate multimedia guide to the world's endangered animals, plants and fungi."

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. \n\n(There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)