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Reanimating Student Learning With Student-Created Animations

I want to use this at Edcamp Hershey! Bright colors and fun animations. No account necessary, just type in the keyword or hashtag you want it to search for.

Tumult Hype is the HTML5 creation app for Mac OS X. Animations and interactive content made with Tumult Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required. The results are stunning.

The random fact of the day came from the Opening Keynote speaker Dr. John Medina. A question was posted from the audience if technology is changing our minds. His initial obvious answer is how can we know? There can not be long term studies about the changes occurring if the technology is still in development. However an immediate change to the mind is the endless blue screens are eyes are used to seeing. There is a relationship between blue light and cryptochromes. Because this was an unknown word, I felt obligated to look it up. "Cryptochromes are photoreceptors that regulate entrainment by light of the circadian clock in plants and animals. They also act as integral parts of the central circadian oscillator in animal brains and as receptors controlling photomorphogenesis in response to blue or ultraviolet (UV-A) light in plants." Circadian is defined as "Adjective: (of biological processes) Recurring naturally on a twenty-four-hour cycle."