This content could be really helpful for a workshop on digital photography. Especially if we're going to be doing any instruction for students using digital cameras and PhotoStory. Going over the "Rule of 3s" and white balance are really powerful before the students start collecting digital images.
a list of 20 skills that "every" educator should have and links to the sites and tutorials related to those skills. Great set of basic skills for 21st Century teachers and administrators
You can insert sound in prezis in FLV flash video or SWF flash format. Why do you need to insert sound in video format to prezis? Since Prezi doesn't currently have direct sound file support, you should convert sound files to FLV or SWF format to upload in Prezi. Please read the step-by-step description on how to do this, and when to choose which file format.
You can insert sound in prezis in FLV flash video or SWF flash format.
Prezi eats sound in FLV format. Sound files cannot be converted to FLV, since it is a video format. Solution: convert your sound file to a video file. Then you can easily convert your video file to FLV.
Great idea. Last week I was at Stone Ridge in Bethesda where the teachers in 7th grade got iPads. They were asking exactly how to do this. I'm trying it now.
NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
Take a collection of web sites, images, and videos and package it into a nice "all in one" presentation. Sort of like Share Tabs but a little more feature filled.
The benefits of active learning are widely acclaimed in higher education. According to Guthrie and Carlin,1 modern students are primarily active learners, and lecture courses may be increasingly out of touch with how students engage their world.
Clickers help instructors actively engage students during the entire class period, gauge their level of understanding of the material being presented, and provide prompt feedback to student questions.
Another benefit of clickers over traditional active learning methods is that they follow the principles of game-based learning.
Best Practices for Implementing Clickers in the Classroom*
The best way to help instructors is to provide mentoring and support from other instructors using clicker systems.
Interesting study about the use of Clickers in the classroom. This study does not show statistically significant differences between Clickers and Traditional Discussion but the perceptual survey indicates students prefer using the SRS system.