Presentation of the Week: Horizon Report 2017 – Higher Education Edition
My Five Most Frequently Recommended Google Forms Add-ons
The right Add-on can go a long way toward streamlining your process for completing common classroom tasks like keeping track of supplies or organizing classroom volunteers. Here are the five Google Forms Add-ons I refer people to more than …
12 Good iPad Apps for Visually Impaired Students
Here is a great selection of some very good iPad apps to use with blind and visually impaired students. While some of the featured apps are free, others are are not. You may want to go through the collection …
Sentiment analysis in the age of Digital Transformation
Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether an information or service provided leads to positive, negative or neutral human feelings or opinions.
https://simplified-analytics.blogspot.ca/2016/05/sentiment-analysis-in-age-of-digital.html…
10 Trends That Are Reshaping Edtech
Trend usually implies that something is short term, like a one-hit wonder on the radio, but when we talk about educational technology, these trends are here to not only stay, but grow. While it is hard to choose the …
How to Protect Your Digital Privacy in the Era of Public Shaming
We are facing unprecedented threats to the digital safety of our personal information. Here are nine tips to foil hackers, ransomware, online trackers, data brokers and other menaces.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-protect-your-digital-privacy-in-the-era-of-public-shaming…
5 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2017 Edition
Should you pay for all those features you’re never going to use, or should you find yourself a free alternative to Microsoft Office? You can use other great office software like LibreOffice and Google Docs, and save lots of …
Vocaroo and You: Easy Classroom Uses of Audio
Vocaroo.com is a website that allows you to record audio and share it in a BUNCH of different ways. It even houses the recordings for you, though not permanently. Think of the possibilities here!
http://www.thepaperlesstrail.com/2015/08/09/vocaroo-in-the-classroom/…
How To Download YouTube Videos, Software, Music, Docs To Google Drive Directly?
You can download YouTube video or any image, audio, video, software directly to your Google Drive. To do this you’d require a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive. This extension, developed by Google, allows users to save anything …
The Internet Of Things 2017 Report: How The Iot Is Improving Lives To Transform The World
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world. Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years — and the proliferation …
NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition
The NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 14th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to …
10 Tools For Student Voice
My story of using tools for student voice begins with listening to my students. I try to provide them with as much input as to how they will be educated as possible, and it’s no different when it comes …