A challenge of raising a connected generation of students is figuring out how to be a connected learner yourself. This requires learning about the tools that support connections and connected learning, and to accomplish this goal you may want to …
Grab a GIF from a video with new YouTube GIF creator
Instantly create and share a looping clip from your favourite YouTube video with the new tool.
http://www.cnet.com/news/grab-a-gif-from-a-video-with-new-youtube-gif-creator/
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Duolingo For Schools Is Free, And It May Change The EdTech Market
Duolingo for schools offers a window into the future of education technology. It shows us how interactive digital technologies can be used to create a more equitable educational landscape, not just in the U.S., but globally.
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Skype’s newest app will translate your speech in real time
Skype Translator Preview works on Windows 8.1 or preview copies of Windows 10, and it works by translating voice input from an English or Spanish speaker into text and translated audio.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/15/7393665/skype-translator-features
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Free Book: How to Use Moodle 2.7 (360+ pages of Moodle)
This digital text created by Jaswinder Singh based on Jason Cole & Helen Foster’s Using Moodle 2nd Edition is available for free to Moodlers who are using 2.7. The text is 350+ pages and focuses on all aspects of Moodle’s …
Useful Regular Expressions for Validating Input in Google Forms
When you are expecting dozens, or even hundreds, of responses in your Google Forms, it is always a good idea to have some rules in place and respondents data should be matched against these rules even before they submit the …
How to Build a Successful School Technology Program
Technology is a catalyst. Certainly, it has the potential to make good instruction better, but it can quickly make bad instruction even worse. As any good technology director, curriculum director, or superintendent can tell you, instruction begins and ends with …
Best Education-Related Videos of 2014
They all, in some way, address the mind, heart, and spirit of education. Each touched me in some way to help illuminate the purpose and core of education.
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/best-education-related-videos-of-2014/
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Presentation of the Week: Future Of Learning And Technology 2020: Preparing For Change
Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits
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Google to revamp its products with 12-and-younger focus
Beginning next year the tech giant plans to create specific versions of its most popular products for those 12 and younger. The most likely candidates are those that are already popular with a broad age group, such as search, YouTube …
A Great iPad App to Turn Physical Notes into Digital Notes
Post-it Plus is a great iPad app that you can use to digitize your physical sticky notes. The way it works is pretty simple: install the app in your iPad and then use it to snap an image of the …
Microsoft’s presentation app Sway gets Bing Image Search to help find content and offer suggestions
Microsoft has integrated Bing Image Search into its Office presentation app Sway. The addition not only lets you search for images and add them to your Sways without leaving the app, but it also improves the app’s Suggested Source feature.…
HSTRY – Create Multimedia Timelines in an Online Classroom
HSTRY is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or tablet.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/hstry-create-multimedia-timelines-in.html…
Gmail now lets you edit Microsoft Office documents from your inbox
Google has added a new feature to Gmail inboxes that allows users to edit Microsoft Office documents sent as email attachments.
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