Screen Recording and Screencasting Software - ScreenFlow Overview - Telestream Highest Quality Recording ScreenFlow has the best screen recording available – whether you are recording multiple screens at once, or using retina displays. Built in Stock Media Library Spice up your videos with access to over 500,000 unique images, audio & video clips and more directly from within your ScreenFlow projects. iOS Recording Record your iPhone or iPad screen for high quality app demos. Easy to Learn, Easy to Use ScreenFlow’s intuitive UI allows everyone to create amazing content in minutes. Powerful Video Editing Tools Add pro touches to your videos with transitions, text animations, video animations, freehand annotations, multi-channel audio and more. Professional Animations & Motions Graphics Animate graphics, titles and logos with built in video and text animations. Better Tools for Software Tutorials Use Styles and Templates to make editing a series of Software tutorials quicker and easier. Streamlined Media Management Closed Caption Support More Publishing Options
Picfull - Free and Easy Online Image Editing Picfull is a free online photo editing service that I just learned about last night. To use the service just upload a picture and select an effect to add to it. Picfull offers eighteen basic sets of effects. After you select an effect you can customize it to your liking. Applications for EducationPicfull could be useful for students who have taken their own pictures to alter them to match the theme or purpose of a multimedia presentation that they create.
Redsn0w 0.9.9b8 Released Published on 11-03-2011 02:49 PM Redsn0w 0.9.9b8 is fully compatible with the iOS 5.0.1 Beta released to developers yesterday. Yesterday, Apple pushed out the iOS 5.0.1 Beta to developers which has fixed numerous bugs in iOS 5 and brings the beloved multitasking gestures back to the original iPad. Originally Posted by Dev-Team Blog Redsn0w version 0.9.9b8 will natively recognize the 5.0.1 beta that Apple let developers start testing this week (so you don’t have to play the “point at 5.0 IPSW” trick). For those iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users who preserve their baseband, the Mac version can also produce the NO_BB_* custom IPSW's for 5.0.1. This is still a tethered jailbreak for all except old-bootrom 3GS users. This new update brings support for the iOS 5.0.1 Beta. iPhone 3GS users can still have the untethered jailbreak if they have the old bootrom, and Mac users can still make their special baseband custom ISPW files using this redsn0w for iOS 5.0.1. Sources: Dev-Team Blog
News Microsoft Office for iPad: Early Reviews of the Word, PowerPoint & Excel Apps Yesterday Microsoft announced the long-awaited release of Microsoft Office for iPad. You can install the individual apps for free. You’ll need to pay to get the full capabilities of these mobile versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel for the iPad. Here are three early reviews: Gizmodo Microsoft Office for iPad: Full Video Walkthrough and […] Continue reading... Important Security Update for Apple iPad & iPhone – Directions for the Fix Apple recently announced an important security update for iOS on mobile devices. Continue reading... Free Holiday Gifts from Apple Apple wants to add a little joy to your holiday celebration. Continue reading... Holiday Greetings from iPad Academy I know you’re busy making the holidays merry for family and friends so I’ll keep this note short. Continue reading... Buying a New iPad Air or iPad mini? Continue reading... Continue reading... Continue reading... Continue reading...
7 Tools for Collaboratively Creating Image Galleries This morning I received an email from a reader who had taken a group on a tour of historic places in Boston and was looking for some suggestions for ways to create a collaborative image gallery. Writing a response to that email got me thinking about some ways to collaboratively create image galleries. The following tools could be used by you and your students to create galleries of images captured while on a field trip. These tools could also be used to collaboratively create galleries of Creative Commons and Public Domain images. ZangZing is a free service for creating collaborative online photo albums. Drop Event is a free service for creating public and private group photo albums. If there is such a thing as "old and reliable" in Web 2.0 tools, Flickr qualifies. Drop Mocks just might be the simplest tool for constructing an image gallery and slideshow that I've come across. Create a collaborative Google Map and have students geo-locate images on the map.
Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students' Reading Habits - Wired Campus Denver — Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too. CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials. When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. But as learning shifts online, everything students do in digital spaces can be monitored, including the intimate details of their reading habits. Those details are what will make the new CourseSmart service tick. The idea is that faculty members can reach out to students showing low engagement, says Sean Devine, chief executive of CourseSmart. Three institutions—Villanova University, Rasmussen College, and Texas A&M University at San Antonio—plan to run pilots of the product, called CourseSmart Analytics. But reading surveillance raises privacy issues. Mr. Return to Top
How To Flip Your Classroom Using Lecture Tools In the contemporary world, lecture capture technology is one of the latest inventions being used by many education systems. It has drastically improved teaching and has taken learning into a new dimension. Literally moving lectures out of the classroom has appealed to a broader range of people across the globe. Lecture tools have also enabled lecturers to interact more with the students. Classroom flipping has taken learning to a whole new level and the gains made so far bear witness to the whole process. Change Gradually Creating materials for flipping your classroom can be a daunting task since it demands a lot of time especially if you are doing it for the first time. Discuss with Your Students before Implementing If students have just been used to lectures, they might resist change especially if it is imposed on them. Monitor the Students Closely Monitor the Progress Davis Miller has authored this article.
16 Companies Working On E-Textbooks Of The Future This article was originally posted on Education Dive by Roger Riddell and is republished here with permission. The e-textbook movement stands to reshape instruction as new education technologies continue to fill classrooms via tablets and other mobile devices. Meanwhile, the e-textbook market continues to evolve, and though many of the publishers’ names have remained the same, new players have emerged, and old companies are adopting new strategies. Here are 16 names in e-textbooks that you should know about, as well as what each of them are doing to set themselves apart in a competitive new area of education: 1. KNO (Publisher) College e-textbook provider Kno expanded their market to the K-12 audience through a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who previously offered K-12 social studies e-texts through the iPad. 2. CourseSmart—whose catalog includes over 30,000 e-textbooks from 40 publishers—announced a new e-textbook pilot program last year withInternet2 and Educause. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
'Our School Would Be Better Off Without iPads.' We go on and on about iPads, tablets, phablets, and just about every other piece of technology out there. But the discussion is slowly changing. It’s becoming less and less about how to deploy as much technology as possible. So that’s why it was interesting to see a comment pop up on a recent post here on Edudemic about iPads . The comment is below. NOTE: Since a teacher’s name and school was included in the comment, I thought it might be useful to remove any personal or identifying information from the comment before raising awareness of it. I get that iPads can help students learn and it can open up new opportunities to learn.
Lecture Engagement System | LectureTools LectureTools is a web-based presentation tool that minimizes distractions in the classroom. Upload presentations to improve student engagement, attentiveness, and participation during lecture by providing students with an interactive learning environment. Students become organized and engaged in your presentation, all while learning from their peers. It's a lecture engagement system like you've never seen. Presentation Tool Present and create interactive slideshows. LectureTools allows you to import any existing PowerPoint® slideshow and enhance your presentation with interactive activities. Learn more about the Presentation Tool Student Inquiry Empower your students to ask questions. All too often, either your students are afraid to ask questions during lecture or there is simply no time to spare for Q&A. Learn more about the Student Inquiry Tool Student Response System Deliberately engage student laptops and cellphones. Learn more about the Student Response System Student Assessment
Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps I am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric, and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine. (Read Harry Walker's paper Evaluating the Effectiveness of Apps for Mobile Devices.) I kept in mind that some apps are used to practice a discrete skill or present information just one time. My rubric also emphasizes the ability to customize content or settings and how the app encourages the use of higher order thinking skills. Here's what I chose to spotlight in my rubric: Relevance The app’s focus has a strong connection to the purpose for the app and appropriate for the student Customization App offers complete flexibility to alter content and settings to meet student needs Feedback Student is provided specific feedback Thinking Skills Engagement Student is highly motivated to use the app Sharing
4 Great Rubrics to Help you Select Educational Apps As iPads are increasingly infiltrating our educational systems the question of the pedagogical implications ensuing from the use of these mobile gadgets in the classroom come to the surface. Some do look at them as an added distraction and that learning can be more focused without students having access to them during the class. Traditionalists do advocate this view and are , in fact, against the " over-digitization " of education. To these people I say what John Dewy once said " If we teach today as we thought yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow ". I am strongly in favor of the use of mobile gadgetry for educational purposes. I am talking here specifically about iPad. 1- BVLS iPad App Evaluation Form Click Here to download it. 2- iPad App Evaluation Guiding Question Click Here to download it. 3- Mobile Application Selection Rubric Click Here to download it. 4- Critical Evaluation of Content-based iPad/iPod App Click Here to download it.
Assessment & Rubrics A common question that we get with regard to technology projects is "how do I grade it?" The 21st-century communication and collaboration skills which are used with most technology based projects are, in many ways, real-world problem-solving skills. The standard, multiple-choice type tests simply are not going to be able to assess students' learning. Instead of thinking of the assessment itself as the measurement, we are going to need to examine our students' performances of understanding. Performance is most often viewed in the form of formative and summative assessment. Rubrics to Measure Student Learning Providing detailed explanations of an assignment using an online rubric, such as Rubistar or Digial Media Scoring Guides, can assist students in both completing tasks and improving future performance. Fundamentally, assessing multimedia projects is no different from assessing a traditional project, writing assignment or presentation. General Multimedia Assessment Tools Assessing Wikis
Thanks for your comment. Just ordered the long Nomad Brush. The Nomad "Compose" looked interesting but there were some negative comments about the angle of the very short tip. Anyway, Amazon removed it from their site before I returned to order. It was not to be available until the 17th. Perhaps the reason for removal. Have learned to order from Amazon when you find something. Usually when you return the price has increased. I did say "usually". :-) Thanks again. by iquitoz Dec 15
Yes, it was the Nomad. It is a fun gadget that looks the part, so maybe there is some psychological benefit, however, it really just comes down to which program you are using and which brushes you use, if it detects angles or not, etc...don't you think? I like the feel of it in my hand. by lkatmat Dec 2
Hello, lkatmat. Was the "brush" like stylus a Nomad? If it was, I would like to know which model you ordered and how you like it. Thank you. by iquitoz Nov 21
Have used the Pogo Sketch for about one year. The tip material eventually became compressed and began falling off. It became nearly unusable but that be expected with use. Now trying the Kuel H10 with a hollow "rubber" tip. A little short even when barrel is extended. Response is nice. by iquitoz Nov 21
Good review, great examples, we understand in a short time. by sandrarlockwood Nov 20
I have the Wacom Bamboo and I agree it is the best. I haven't tried the Adonit Jot Pro. I googled it and it does seem interesting. I just ordered the one that is like a watercolor brush (I forget the name) but haven't received it yet. I am interested in the feel of this one. by lkatmat Nov 18
Good review, great examples and descriptions of how they performed under use. Would have liked to see the Adonit Jot Pro included. I like the heft and feel, but the Wacom Bamboo might still be best. by kenkiyomi Nov 3
Review of 12 touchscreen stylisuses by maptheweb Nov 3