Record audio plugin allows users to simply record a snippet of audio (in MP3 format) instead of uploading (or choosing) a file, anywhere that Moodle provides access to the file picker.
3 Excellent Google Drive Apps to Remotely Present to Your Students
Below are three interesting Google Drive apps to use in your class to remotely present to your students. Check them out and share with us what you think of them.
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5 Classroom Problems I Solved by Creating My Own App
They offered me an iPad for the classroom, but the app I needed didn’t exist, so I said no. I needed to become an app developer. I teamed up with a programmer, and we created an app called Oncore. Here’s …
How to Share Videos Through Google Drive
Google Drive is an incredibly useful tool for storing and sharing files even if they have been created outside of the Google Apps suite. I use it to store screencast videos that I’ve created. I also use it to store …
From MOOC to Personal Learning
What makes a person able to function in such an environment? What constitutes the literacy that is missing in such a case? What type of learning design or learning technology is best suited to support learning in a free-form community-based …
10 Must Read Books for Every Teacher
Most of these books have been best sellers in the education section in Amazon.Whether you are a beginner teacher or a veteran, you will definitely find something interesting to enlighten your teaching and make you a better teacher.
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Four Ways Technology Is Changing How People Learn [Infographic]
To provide the best possible learning experience, we as learning professionals have to adapt and find new ways to meet the changing needs of our learners. We must understand and embrace the meaning and the implications of these changes in …
Useful Tips on How to Use iTunes U in Your Class
iTunes U is an excellent app to use in class to help you tap into the educational potential of iPad. It enables teachers to perform a number of instructional activities that include: lesson planning, collecting and grading assignments, annotating PDFs, …
Design at the intersection of technology and biology
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Presentation of the Week: Open Badges in Higher Education
Microsoft just unveiled a new Surface… that’s actually a laptop
Microsoft unveiled a new device: Surface Book. It’s a Surface Laptop, built by Microsoft’s Surface team with the help of engineers from the Xbox team. The Surface Book is encased in a magnesium body, all over the device.
6 of The Best Web Tools for Creating Educational Video Tutorials
You can utilize these applications to create instructional tutorials and explainer videos to incorporate in your teaching. Simplicity, ease of use and user friendliness are features in common among all of these titles.
Facebook to beam free internet to Africa with satellites
The social network is teaming up with the French satellite company Eutelsat to launch a satellite that will provide internet access to people in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/05/technology/facebook-africa-satellites/index.html…
Receive Files into Your Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive
Drop It To Me has recently been updated with some welcome improvements. It originally connected with only Dropbox. Now you can also choose to have your files sent to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive …
Top 10 Free Study Guides You Can Use for Writing
Here are 10 study guides that are sure to help you find the information you need to help get your writing back on track and your ideas clearly transferred from thoughts to ink.
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