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 …
10 Reflections from Online Teaching
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…
Three Good Options for Annotating PDFs
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…
Microsoft Teams update will make your next presentation less of a snoozefest
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 – Easily Create ESL Popup Quizzes from YouTube Videos
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 …
Three Ways to Motivate Your Online Learners
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 …
What technical steps should the education industry take now to prepare itself for another pandemic-like event?
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…
How Conversational AI Is Shaping the Future of the Education Sector
We have witnessed how healthcare, education, mass media and finance are benefiting from conversational AI. But how about the education sector?
Developing the Digital Skills of Educational Advisors with the I-mersion Project
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 …
How lessons learned in delivering courses last year may affect the mode of course delivery this fall
As universities prepare a return to on-campus activities, many are hoping to keep the advantages of remote teaching.
The Role of Assistant in The HyFlex Classroom
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 …
12 Good EdTech Tools to Use in Your Distance Education
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 …
How to Move from Google Drive to OneDrive
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 …
How to Focus Intently and Beat Procrastination
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.
You are a network
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…