Category: Edtech

Microsoft is adding voice capabilities to its Outlook mobile app that will let people write emails, schedule meetings, and search using their voice. The new Cortana-powered voice capabilities will be available first in Outlook for iOS, with Android support coming …

A good set of reflections on teaching online. They capture what really works online instead of trying to force an offline mode of teaching into an online format.

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/tylertennant09/2021/04/19/10-reflections-online-teaching

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Here are a few recommendations for annotating PDFs. The one you pick may depend upon whether you prefer to use tools that work with your Google account or ones that work with a Microsoft account.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/06/three-good-options-for-annotating-pdfs.html

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Microsoft is preparing to launch two highly anticipated options for collaboration platform Teams that will give presenters the ability to flex their presentation style to the occasion. As per a new entry to the company’s product roadmap, Teams users will …

iSLCollective is a “free web-based tool that allows teachers to create interactive video quizzes around YouTube and Vimeo videos. This is how it works: First, teachers choose videos from YouTube or Vimeo. Next they write questions that will pop up …

We can put together great courses, but we can’t guarantee a person learns from them. Learning requires some level of interest and motivation from the person taking the course. The good news is there are things we can do to …

Modernizing infrastructure, developing skills-based curricula and broadening interactivity tools are among the steps recommended by experts.

https://www.protocol.com/braintrust/technical-steps-for-education-edtech

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We have witnessed how healthcare, education, mass media and finance are benefiting from conversational AI. But how about the education sector?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/372397

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Are you an educational advisor in the college network? Then the I-mersion project is for you! As part of this project, Performa has been mandated by the ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur (Ministry of Higher Education) to support the development of …

As universities prepare a return to on-campus activities, many are hoping to keep the advantages of remote teaching.

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/how-lessons-learned-in-delivering-courses-last-year-may-affect-the-mode-of-course-delivery-this-fall/

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for a teacher to teach, “put on a performance” and deliver the content effectively at the same time. The presence of a teaching assistant can make all the difference. Far from being superfluous, the …

Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your online (and also face-to-face) classroom teaching? The list below has you covered. It features a collection of  some popular web tools you can use to perform a …

Learn how you can move your files from Google Drive to OneDrive. Like most processes, there is more than one way to do this. In the video I focus on using Google Takeout which is probably the easiest way to …

Barbara Oakley PhD and Olav Schewe wrote Learn Like a Pro because they both struggled with studying and learning in the past. This excerpt describes the “Pomodoro Technique,” a mental tool you can use to boost your concentration.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/learning/how-to-focus-intently-and-beat-procrastination

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You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities

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