Microsoft has developed a deepfakes detection tool to help news publishers and political campaigns, as well as technology to help content creators “mark” their images and videos in a way that will show if the content has been manipulated post-creation.…
Video Puppet is Now Narakeet – Still Turns Slides Into Narrated Videos
Narakeet is a service called Video Puppet that turns PowerPoint presentations into narrated videos. The new features include greater control over the voice-over. You can now have multiple voice-over voices in your video and you can now control pauses in …
Creating a sense of presence in synchronous online courses
In an online course, many students may experience a sense of anonymity. How do you encourage them to participate, to interact?
Canadian and International Experts Weigh In: An Annotated List of AI-Related Resources for College and University Students with and Without Disabilities
On May 1, 2020 the Adaptech Research Network held two Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meetings via Zoom. Participants from Canada, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the USA shared AI-related apps and devices as well as projects and articles. The …
A Handy Tool to Help You Create Educational Apps to Use in Your Instruction
AppSheet is a platform that allows you to easily create various types of mobile apps without the need for any coding knowledge. As a teacher, you can use this service to design apps to help you enhance your teaching and …
Online Learning Student Experience is the New Climbing Wall
What will distinguish an online MIT education from OpenCourseWare or an MIT MOOC micro-master’s degree in a way that will justify a substantial price premium.
https://eliterate.us/online-learning-student-experience-is-the-new-climbing-wall/…
TeacherMade – Quickly Create & Share a Variety of Online Activities
TeacherMade is a new tool that lets you tick both of those boxes. With TeacherMade you can quickly and easily convert some of your favorite “old standby” activities into online activities to share with your students.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/teachermade-quickly-create-share.html
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Virtual Icebreakers for Remote Classrooms
Preparing for the fall 2020 semester and looking for resources to support online learning, teachers have been reaching out on various online teacher communities. One topic that kept popping up was icebreakers and especially what icebreakers worked well in an …
The role of Centres for Teaching and Learning during Covid-19 – and beyond
CTLs report a shift in faculty attitude; faculty pay more attention to their recommendations now than in the past. While they used to ignore the CTLs’ emails and invitations, now they appreciate them.
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Analysis: Top Tools for Learning 2020
Here are my observations on this year’s list(s) together with some infographics that visualise the state of play as well as some thoughts on what this means for the “new normal” for personal learning, workplace learning and education.
Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Lessons for COVID-19 Era
The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence.
Google Lens Features Students Should Know about
Lens users now are able to scan documents or images that includes text and with a single click have the text copied to their computer. You only need to make sure that you are signed in to your Google account …
Breakthroughs with Breakout Room Recording in ESL during the Pandemic
Profweb Editorial team alumnus and retired teacher Norm Spatz was called back to the classroom during the Winter 2020 semester. Like many other teachers, his class was thrown a curveball by the worldwide health emergency. When the semester resumed, Norm …
We are already at a disadvantage’: Indigenous college students concerned about online learning
Students don’t want the pandemic to add to pre-existing inequities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-college-students-montreal-1.5706707…
Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word
Microsoft just launched Transcribe in Word, its new transcription service for Microsoft 365 subscribers, In addition, Word is also getting new dictation features, which now allow you to use your voice to format and edit your text, for example. As …