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"You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. "

OMG Kids building real Apps! You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone. But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud. Greg, this is for you.

"The LCB question this month is, What Tools Should we Learn, or: The question is really about the specific tools that would make sense to learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015?"

The LCB question this month is, What Tools Should we Learn, or: The question is really about the specific tools that would make sense to learn today in order to be a valuable eLearning professional in 2015?

"Fix8 is a unique interactive communication application that allows people to customize their on-screen virtual appearance in real-time using avatar technology and creative accessories. Fix8 integrates human expression analysis and rendering capabilities, avatar/facial sculpting and animation technology, voice manipulation, and one click 3D facemaker design capabilities in one package. Fix8 can create live streaming enhanced video to integrate into IM or other broadcast (such as TV) experiences, or record still images and fully-rendered videos."

Fix8 is a unique interactive communication application that allows people to customize their on-screen virtual appearance in real-time using avatar technology and creative accessories. Fix8 integrates human expression analysis and rendering capabilities, avatar/facial sculpting and animation technology, voice manipulation, and one click 3D facemaker design capabilities in one package. Fix8 can create live streaming enhanced video to integrate into IM or other broadcast (such as TV) experiences, or record still images and fully-rendered videos.

"What's the Point Of School? Click the link here to visit this page to view Prof Guy Claxton as he shares ideas on how schools and teaching need to change in order to prepare children to become powerful lifelong learners, with the capabilities to meet the challenges of a changing world."

What's the Point Of School? Click the link here to visit this page to view Prof Guy Claxton as he shares ideas on how schools and teaching need to change in order to prepare children to become powerful lifelong learners, with the capabilities to meet the challenges of a changing world.

"How are we creating learning which is transformational? What role are ICT tools playing in achieving this? What Is 21st C Pedagogy? How Is It Different? These are all wonderful questions that are being asked. Understandings generated through such questions can only inform and improve our practice. "

How are we creating learning which is transformational? What role are ICT tools playing in achieving this? What Is 21st C Pedagogy? How Is It Different? These are all wonderful questions that are being asked. Understandings generated through such questions can only inform and improve our practice.

"We can't change anyone else. We can only change ourselves." ~ unknown If we are continually doing the assesssing for our learners, how do they develop the skills as life long and independent learners? Where and how do students learn the skills to reflect, discern, to recognise achievement levels, to create and continue to the next learning step?"

We can't change anyone else. We can only change ourselves." ~ unknown If we are continually doing the assesssing for our learners, how do they develop the skills as life long and independent learners? Where and how do students learn the skills to reflect, discern, to recognise achievement levels, to create and continue to the next learning step?

S.O.L.O. Stands For: S tructure of O bserved L earning O utcomes It is a taxonomy - a collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure. Each term in a taxonomy is in one or more parent/child (broader/narrower) relationships to other terms in the taxonomy. et.afsnet.org/glossary.html It was developed by Biggs J and COLLIS K,1982. It describes 5 levels of increasing complexity in a student's understanding of a subject, through five stages, and it is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.

"This video discusses multi-sensory approaches to teaching and learning. Presenters returned six months later to find out how teachers and pupils from Charing School near Ashford were inspired."

This video discusses multi-sensory approaches to teaching and learning. Presenters returned six months later to find out how teachers and pupils from Charing School near Ashford were inspired.

In the video below, a group of teachers model literature circles, the roles and practice involved. Well worth viewing if you are going to use these in your class learning programme.

Marvin blog

The software, created in Australia by the Northern Territory government, local software developers and Microsoft, is an avatar-based animation tool allowing users to design animations in minutes. Adopting a multi-sensory approach through the integration of real voice, computer generated voice, written text, images, video and Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations, users can quickly and easily create or customise presentations that accurately reflect the cultural, lingual and social attributes of target audiences.

MARVIN is an multimedia and animation authoring platform for the rapid production of animated messages.