You don’t have to download an office suite to build great-looking presentations for work, a talk, or school. There are plenty of online options that work well from any computer with a web browser, whether it’s your desktop, a PC …
SignEasy’s iOS extension lets you sign documents without switching between apps
If you deal with paperwork often, you’ll love this: SignEasy just launched an extension for iOS that lets you sign documents and send them out without having to switch between apps.
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How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures
Presentation of the Week: Enhancing Your Ed Tech Superpowers
How to Avoid Malware When Viewing Videos on YouTube
Just because a site is reputable doesn’t mean you’re completely safe on it – and YouTube is no exception. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, a staggering statistic. Combine this with the over one million advertisers …
How the iPad is changing the way we learn
Can issuing students with iPads instead of textbooks make a difference to their education? Rhiannon Williams visits the Danish institutions looking to the future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11470850/How-the-iPad-is-changing-the-way-we-learn.html
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How To Organise Your Entire Life With Trello
Trello is an awesome project management tool that makes collaboration easy and, dare I say, even fun. But this visual list tool can do so much more, whether you’re organising work projects, family chores, travel plans or just about anything …
Get your copy of the Book Creator Teacher Guide
The book contains 47 pages of lesson ideas for using Book Creator for iPad, divided into 8 subject categories.
http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2015/03/get-your-copy-of-the-book-creator-teacher-guide/
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7 Awesome Website Tools for Students
The following 7 online website builders are my favourite picks, in no particular order. As you may expect, they are advertised predominantly with business owners in mind, but they will all work superbly as immersive classroom applications.
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/7-awesome-website-tools-for-students
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Teaching with Wikipedia? The Wiki Education Foundation Wants to Help!
One of the biggest obstacles most instructors report facing, however, is simply learning how to use Wikipedia to the point where one feels comfortable enough to teach with it.
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A Guide to Google Tools – Tips & Tricks You Can’t Live Without
The following is a comprehensive guide of tips, tricks and hacks that’ll help you make better use of Google services you use. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned expert, you’re likely to find something here that you can add …
Five Ways Students Can Share Videos Without YouTube
Creating videos is a process that students enjoy because the final product is something that they can share with a potentially large audience. If your school doesn’t block it, YouTube is a good way to share (depending on your situation …
Yahoo’s new on-demand passwords mean never having to rely on your memory
Yahoo just launched ‘on-demand passwords,’ which it says will eliminate the need to ever have to remember your email password; it gets sent via SMS to your mobile phone whenever you need it.
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Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand
While Microsoft has dropped hints that the Internet Explorer brand is going away, the software maker has now confirmed that it will use a new name for its upcoming browser successor, codenamed Project Spartan.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8230631/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-internet-explorer-brand
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15 Gmail Productivity Plugins that will Save You Hours
While some of the plugins I’ll discuss apply to a range of email clients — and browsers in some cases – the focus is on how they apply to Gmail and how these plugins can help you to make the …