A Very Useful Tool to Create Educational Animated Videos on Google Drive December 21, 2014 PowToon is a very powerful web app which you can use on Google Drive to create beautiful animated videos and presentations. PowToon provides you with all the necessary animation tools you’ll need to immediately begin creating your own professional-looking animated explainer videos and animated presentations. It has an easy to use interface with pre-designed templates and a variety of style libraries to choose from. The videos you create in PowToon can also be easily converted into animated presentations with each slide representing a scene in the storyline of your presentation. To create your videos, simply drag and drop characters and props then assign them animations. Watch this short video to learn more about PowToon
STAR - Software Tools for Academics and Researchers At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ Kenneth Goldsmith stands in front of 10 tons of printed paper from his exhibition “Printing Out the Internet” at a Mexico City art space in 2013. (Janet Jarman/For The Washington Post) Lucky creative writing students in a University of Pennsylvania seminar will be able to earn academic credit for wasting time on the Internet next spring. The instructor, Kenneth Goldsmith, tells The Washington Post that he will strictly enforce “a state of distraction” among the students — exactly the sort of thing he and virtually every other professor on Earth spends time trying to eliminate from their classes. The purpose, Goldsmith says, is to have the students write something good at the end of the course, as a result of all that forced distraction. “We do it, but we’re not really thinking about what we are doing,” Goldsmith says of digital distraction. The conventional wisdom is that all that Internet time is making us as a society stupider.
SuperKids Educational Software Review. Office of Digital Learning Educational Software for Schools Core Learning publishes educational software specially designed for learning needs in important skill areas. Software programs are available as instructional aids to present curriculum in the classroom but also to supplement in-class instruction with self-paced learning programs used at school or online as after-school software programs. Core Learning publishes software for K-12 and has all major subject areas represented for K-8 curriculum. Core Learning offers five different types of educational software: Self-paced courses Skill builder programs Tool-based programs Reference software Educational games Self-Paced Courses Course-based software programs, or courseware, present lessons organized to help students learn an important and discrete body of knowledge in important subject areas. Skill Builder Programs Skill builder software programs use practice environments to develop specific skills and cognitive powers. Tool-based Programs Reference Software Educational Games
The 18 Best Free Web Tools Chosen By You It’s the start of a new year and that means there’s infinite possibilities that lay before you. But you can’t move forward without arming yourself with the best free web tools and apps. I was perusing some of my favorite education blogs, social networks, and other time-sucking online spots when I came back to the Edublog Awards . I’m proud that Edudemic was nominated for a bunch of awards (didn’t win but what can ya do) but more importantly I’m impressed with the amount of effort put forward by the Edublogs team. They’ve rounded up some of the best education and technology resources on the planet. Below is the list of finalists for the best free web tools. Claco Find, build and share resources with teachers across the hall or across the world — aligned with Common Core ClassDojo Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback.
Top 10 Most Downloaded Educational Software [Movers & Shakers] Advertisement These are applications that students can take advantage of or anybody for that matter. These are tools that help us study. The top 10 is made up of language software, dictionaries and even some religious applications. Let’s see what they have for us today: Ela-Salaty Another Muslim application calling you to prayer time.MecaNet Want to learn to type better? Do you have other educational applications that you use regularly? 51 Things every game student should know | Zero G: Games, Edu & WIG 100 things every game student should know (.pdf download) With another round of assessments and marking finished and all the comments from well wishers, Grammar Nazis and the much better informed, I can now unleash the promised “100 Things” version of my pdf. Some notable corrections include caveats about the whole “mobs” debacle, “vertexes” being Kosher after all, a response from Notch (NOTCH!!!), as well as lots of great additions inspired by and coming directly from comments on this blog and via my twitter feed. As usual, I make this .pdf open an available via Creative Commons to all who want to share it, use it, print it, make something new out of it. The original “51 Things” archive is listed below, which has spawned an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live and an article for a game career guide (more details as I get them). thanks, Kaye 51 things every game student should know (.pdf download, now updated and fixed. It’s finally here. Like this: Like Loading...
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Google for Educators - Resources for using Google in school I am a huge proponent and user of Google tools, both for myself and in my classroom. Here are some great resources for educators who want to learn more about using Google's many tools in their classroom. Last week, Kathy Schrock posted a great interactive image of Google tools listed by Bloom's taxonomy levels. Google for Educators Mind Map is an interesting site that has resources for educators for using Google tools in the classroom. Google For Educators - Google's official page for educators. Google Accessibility - Google's page with tips, links and resources for using accessibility features in Google tools. Google List of Tools - this page has a listing of the major Google tools available. Google Tools for Schools - tutorials, links, resources, and tips on using Google tools in the classroom Google Tutor - how-to's, tech tips, and more on Google tools Guide to Google for Educators - free 33 page guide on Google for Educators from Richard Byrne.
Technology and Education | Box of Tricks The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates.
7 Apps for Special Needs Students | Getting Smart By Jana Rooheart As a special needs teacher, you face new specific challenges with every fresh student. Whether you work in an inclusive classroom or in specialized groups, each child is unlike any other. They have different needs, different behavioral patterns, different challenges and different talents. 1) Learn With Rufus (Social Cues, Basic Competencies) Compatibility: iOS and Android tablets This is a series of tablet apps for young learners and special needs students. 2) Montessori Numbers (Math) Compatibility: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) This app is for students who have difficulties understanding the relationship between quantities and the numbers that signify them. 3) Proloquo2Go (ACC aid) This app is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication solution for students who suffer from speech difficulties due to autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, apraxia, aphasia or traumatic brain injury. 4) Pumpic App (Monitoring) Compatibility: iOS, Android (smartphones and tablets)