15 Ways To Use The New iPad In Classrooms A Useful Twitter Cheat Sheet 3.97K Views 0 Likes Think you're supposed to actually type a full 140 characters for each tweet? Not quite. That's just one of the many handy tips found in this useful Twitter Cheat Sheet. How To Use Vine In The Classroom 6.84K Views 0 Likes Students can quickly create their very own six-second videos for free.
Home Online Research Writing - Tips and Tricks Before you can reflect on a topic you'll need to choose one. Inspiration can be found in graphics, songs, conversations, topic threads, blogs as well as daily news or radio shows. These are just some of the venues that may provide inspiration for you. Online magazines and news sites offer great ideas as well. Try to pick topics that you may be passionate about or at the very least interested in. Once you pick your topic - Topic Reflection - Jot down the following words; Who, What, When, Where, How and Why. Searching and Search Engines - Refining your search can be a bit daunting at times. Google Scholar - This particular engine should be bookmarked if you will be seeking credible sources. Evaluating Sources - The key to being a good source analyst is to be reflective. Is the source a primary or second source? TIP 1 - keep the "evaluating sources" in mind when writing your text. TIP 2 - Build your bibliography - As sources add up you will want to create a bibliography of source links.
Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro Advertisement Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fresh approach to content organization and a different UX, based on the Metro design language and principles that will be incorporated into Windows 8. It also targets a different market than its predecessor: instead of being designed mainly for business and technology workers, WP7 is targeted at active people with a busy life, both offline and online, and who use social networks every day, whatever their background. Why Should Designers Care? First, it’s a new interface, so you have space to create and develop some new ideas for it. We are still at the beginning of its growing curve, so it’s an interesting challenge. Secondly, Metro design is a market reality that we can’t ignore. A New Approach To Design The Windows Phone team was inspired by the typography in way-finding design1. Grid Systems in Graphic Design, by Josef Müller-Brockman A New Content Grid Milano subway map (Image: Wikipedia5) Panorama
OS X Lion - The world’s most advanced OS. The Must-Have App Review Rubric Added by Jeff Dunn on 2011-11-22 So you just downloaded a few educational apps that you think might be useful in your classroom. How do you accurately compare and contrast them? On a related note, the Edudemic Directory features many educational apps and lets you quickly compare them to see how they stack up. I’ve rewritten the original rubric from eMobilize and tailored it to fit all school districts. Download The Rubric Here (PDF) Overview of the App App Title: App Publisher/Developer: Version: Link to App Store: Curriculum Compliance Yes/ No – Is it relevant to the curriculum framework? Operational Yes/ No – Is navigation easy? Pedagogy Yes/ No – Does the material accommodate diverse ways in which students learn? Comments are closed.
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us Demonstrations, videos from our research, videos of us speaking, etc. Dan's YouTube Channel includes most of these videos as well as favorites from around the web that are related to or mentioned in our book. You can view more videos on his personal website The original selective attention task This video is the one that started our collaboration and inspired the book. You can read more about it here. The Monkey Business Illusion This was Dan's submission to the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year contest. A movie perception test - conversation This video illustrates how movie perception works and is from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin. A movie perception test This video illustrates how movie perception works and was from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin. The original "door" study This video shows a subject in a person-change study conducted by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin. Dan's presentation at TEDxUIUC 2011 Dan's talk entitled "Seeing the world as it isn't."
Colors And Emotions -Color Psychology Pablo Picasso once said “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions” It has always been thought and analyzed that colors leave an impact on your moods; so much so many people conceive colors and their effects as influential forces on our lives. They truly leave an emotional impact and it is not just a thinking only. Psychologists believe that colors effect human moods and emotions. From brightening up your day to making you feel down, colors do have some important role to play. Below we will look at some of the very basic, important and the most common colors used and their individual effects on the general human attitude, moods and emotions. Blue is a color that belongs to a category of cool colors and is widely used and liked by many people no matter of what age. The color blue is so much popular and admired that many interior decorators also apply the color theme of blue to what they design. However yellow is a beautiful color that can lift our spirits also in a good way.