From Prezi to Google Docs to PowerPoint, there’s no shortage of ways for teachers to put together a dynamic presentation. But Klowd wanted to take a different approach to help improve the presentation experience for both the person at the …
Ways to Support Teachers with Google Apps for Education
See how Google Docs works and many concrete examples of how Google Docs can be used for student projects and best practices for maximizing their workflow as well as student workflow.
http://kylepace.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/ways-to-support-teachers-with-google-apps-for-education/…
The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks
Educators can point to many positives of digital books. Tablets can easily update information and assignments, high-resolution audio and video illustrate and reinforce concepts, and with online assignments, students gain the ability to interact with the material they’re learning.
Quickly Create Interactive Text Activities with Textivate
Textivate is a simple web tool which allows users to automatically generate a range of interactive browser-based activities based on any text of up to 500 words.
http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2012/10/quickly-create-interactive-text-activities-with-textivate/…
Montreal researchers seek to make music from raw emotion
Concordia art student Erin Gee and a neuroscientist in Australia have collaborated on a project that records emotional response in the body and turns it into music.
Dispelling the Myths About 1:1 Environments
Reflections on the use of iPad in Education.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/dispelling-one-to-one-myths-andrew-marcinek…
Classroom Game Design
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Presentation of the Week: The Connectivist Learning Environment
Claco, A Collaboration Network For Teachers
Find, build and share resources with teachers across the hall or across the world.
How to Be always Secured on Facebook – A to Z Security Guide
A great infographich showing the best practices to be always secured on Facebook.
http://allinfographics.org/how-to-be-always-secured-on-facebook-a-to-z-security-guide/…
Digital Curation Resource Guide
This resource guide presents selected English-language websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation.
Gmail vs. Outlook.com: Which offers the best email in the cloud?
A comparison chart between the two most used webmails.
Gmail adds support for search inside message attachments
If you use Google’s webmail service, Gmail, you can now search attachments in your e-mail messages that are in formats from popular programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and others.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010889/gmail-adds-support-for-search-inside-message-attachments.html…
30 Video Editing Software And Online Tools
Here we bring you 30 free web services and tools for video editing. You don’t pay a penny while enjoying the fun of video clips editing.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/video-editing-30-free-tools-and-web-services-to-get-things-done/…
10 Emerging Education Technologies You Should Know About
The emerging products, companies and high-tech tools on our list are all designed to make life easier for online teachers, students and researchers.
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/10-emerging-education-technologies/…