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Pappas proposed six "budget-friendly ... open source web conferencing software tools to consider" (2016.05.27).

Guidelines for making instructional videos

Saikat Basu proposed seven features to consider when selecting mind-mapping tools (app's or services):

Cost
Off- or on-line affordances,
General usability,
Aesthetics,
Template availability,
Portability of your work, &
Affordances for collaboration.

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An illustrated guide

"ImTranslator offers a natural sounding text-to-speech system with translation capabilities that quickly translates text and reads it aloud at one click of a button."

In this teacher training video, Russell Stannard introduces an easy-to-use audio recording tool, and demonstrates how to sign up, record and upload audio files, add written comments to them, and embed them in a blog.

"It's 2012[,] the Age of Information[,] and we're STILL using PowerPoint Wrong" (The Presentation Designer, SlideShare, 2012.11.14).

Shame I've only tried the first one so far!!!!

In this post Tony Vincent outlines ways to evaluate a wide range of educational application. His Education App Evaluation Rubric focuses on relevance to users and their purposes, customizability, provisions for feedback, promotion of higher order thinking skills, potential for user engagement, and the exportability of performance summaries or products of use.

Links in this post enable you to download his rubric and a related checklist. There also are links to checklists and rubrics that other educators have created.

Antoinette Spiegel's "curating niche to catalogue and share neat tech ideas, tips, techniques and favorite tech resources for teachers" (Home, para. 1, 2012.09.08).

For Windows, "Free Sound Recorder is a perfect audio recorder to record your own voice, music or any other sound by working directly with your sound card. It supports the record input/source from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, external input devices (CDs, LP, music cassettes, phone line) as well as other applications like Winamp, Media Player" (Publisher's Description, From CoolRecordEdit, ¶1, 2012.08.31).

This About Binders page comprises links to a 90 sec. intro. video, a page with additional explanation (Learn More), and exemplars (View Great Binders).

Kharbach introduces easy to use tools for creation and sharing of videos.

Jeff Dunn (2012.07.24) posted "a new list for 2012, featuring the very best tools available to Twittering teachers today" (¶1).

In July 2011, Larry shared his choices, "[starting] ...off with posts from educators" that he recommended reading, along with the comments that followed. A note at the head of points out news of update as of Sept. 2011.

Video introducing Russell's website and the various types of videos it provides for learners of English and teachers interested in using technology in ELT and other areas

The information explosion brought about by the Internet and other modern technological tools has undeniably had positive influences on society. "These are enabling technologies," said Friedlander. "I think their greatest power lies in their ability to enable people to reach out to a world that is much greater than what any child is likely to get in their home or school environment. That's all good and positive."

The trick, he said, is knowing where to draw the line. "It gets down to a quantitative question: how much is too much? That's where the rubber really meets the road for most people, and that is a really tough question to answer."

The responsibility for making such decisions often falls on parents, but they may not be equipped, able, or willing to do so. "We always hear the same thing, that it's up to parents to control the use of these things and teach kids how to manage it all," said Grafman. "But in order for them to do this, they have to understand better themselves what they are creating with their children. Many parents today just say, 'here's your computer, put it in your room and do your homework on it,' and that's the last they see of the kid. If that's the case, how much are kids going to listen?"

"Introduction to and directions for using Google Drive and Google Documents" (deck, 2012.05.08)