A Collection of The Best Web Tools and Apps for Creating Educational Screencasts
August 9, 2015 A screencast, also known as video screen capture, is a great way for teachers to create and share instructional videos and explanatory step by step tutorials with students. regardless of the purposes for which you are creating a screencast, the quality of your video screen captures can sometimes impede the communicative intent of your message. Therefore, knowing what tools to use to create educational screencasts is as important as the content of the screencasts themselves. To this end, we have curated for you this collection of some of the best screen casting tools out there. We have divided them into four major categories: Mac apps, web tools, Chromebook apps, iPad apps, and Android apps. Mac Users: For Mac users, check out this short visual guide to learn how to create screencasts using Quick Time Player
25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers
The folks at the BOOK-IT! Program have given permission for Education World to reprint 25 great ideas from teachers -- ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading. The BOOK IT! Reading Incentive Program, sponsored by Pizza Hut, has motivated millions of young readers over the years.
eduCanon: Interactive Video. Unleashed. - The EdTech Roundup
eduCanon is a free service that is designed to help educators flip their classrooms by adding interactive questions to videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Teacher Tube. It has a lot of potential to help teachers improve flipped lessons and it's incredibly easy to use. Let's take a closer look! Now, I know you're probably ready to jump right in and start exploring eduCanon in detail, but let's slow down for a second and check out a quick overview video from the team. As you can see, eduCanon makes it easy to attach questions to videos and get feedback on how your students are doing. Now that you have some background on the service, let's examine the site in more detail.
Librarian Approved: 30 Ed-Tech Apps to Inspire Creativity and Creation
Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. Luckily, several tech-savvy librarians have been curating the apps their colleagues find useful and sharing the all-stars with one another through personal learning communities (PLC) and edWeb webinars. These educators are paying attention to their own working habits, as well as those of students, to figure out which technology products and trends are here to stay. Michelle Luhtala, a school librarian in New Canaan, Connecticut, has noticed that much of her own work has transitioned from the computer to her smartphone.
20 Amazing Sites to Get Best Free Stock Photos
Finding the right photo to use for your website or blog can be challenging considering that almost every image is now copyright protected. Copyright grants the original owner exclusive legal rights to use and distribute their creative work. The good news is that, there’s a growing number of websites that share visually-appealing stock photos that are not only beautiful, but most of them are free to use. Today’s post will focus on the 20 websites that offer the best free stock photos you can find to add to your websites, blogs and social media posts.
37 Ways to Help Kids Learn to Love Reading
Posted 03/26/2015 9:46AM | Last Commented 07/05/2015 8:43AM “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R.
How do I create a lesson page on TED-Ed?
TED-Ed offers a set of tools that allow you to create interactive lesson pages around great YouTube video content. Follow these three steps to create your own! To get started, visit our video search page to select a video. You can search by keyword, or paste in a YouTube URL.
Math 101: A reading list for lifelong learners
Ready to level up your working knowledge of math? Here’s what to read now — and next. Math 101, with Jennifer Ouellette
