21st Century Icebreakers: 11 Ways To Get To Know Your Students with Technology
In honor of the start of a new school year, I am sharing one of my popular posts again with you with a couple of new additions! On Monday I will begin my new job. As I’ve mentioned before, I will be working as a Technology Resource Specialist as well as teaching a couple of classes. As always, I am nervous and excited for the first day of school, and eager to meet a new group of students. As an educator, I often find myself repeating the same icebreakers each year, trying to quickly get to know my students through “Two Truths and a Lie” or a “Getting To Know You” fact sheet.
Old Film Effect Tutorial: How to Create the Old Film Look for Video
Hey I’m Stephen Schweickart with this episode of the Reel Rebel. Until now, our mantra has been “don’t overdo it. A little bit goes a long way.
Top 10 Best Presentation Software That Are Great Powerpoint Alternatives
Ideally, when a person thinks of presentations, they think of Powerpoint. But there is now a new world that may be explored. There are presentation software that can offer a wide array of templates and effects, which are not available in Powerpoint, so access to these can bring better results. If you want to offer something fresh and new on your next presentation, consider downloading one of these: 10. Dryfork Dryfork introduces an innovative presentation software through ExpressIt3D.
Hacking Prezi as a Platform for Visual Composition and Design Experimentation
[This is a guest post by Kimon Keramidas, Assistant Professor and Director for the Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center. Kimon teaches about the design and material culture of technology and is tasked with integrating and implementing digital media within the curricular and research goals of faculty and students. He also leads the development of digital media and interactives for the BGC's Focus Gallery exhibitions. Find him online at and follow him on Twitter at @kimonizer.
29 Tips to Make Your Video Marketing Easy
Are you using videos to market your business? Are you wondering how to get started? Do you need some ideas to improve your videos? We asked our writers to share their best tips on how to make video marketing easy for you.
Recording and Hosting Podcasts Using the Internet Archive
[This is a guest post by Chuck Tryon, an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University, where he teaches first-year writing, business writing, and media studies courses. He is the author of Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence and the forthcoming On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies. He also blogs at The Chutry Experiment and tweets under the handle @chutry.
YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor
The YouTube Blog announced they have adjusted their ranking algorithm to include the time a video was watched. YouTube said they experimented with this ranking factor with suggested videos and it lead to “less clicking” and “more watching” and thus feels it is a good idea to add to the overall YouTube Search ranking algorithm. Part of this announcement, YouTube also added the time watched statistics to video producers YouTube Analytics dashboard. You can access the time watched statistics under the “Views” report.
Blubbr - Create Interactive Quizzes Using YouTube Clips
Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Danny Nicholson's blog. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip.
YouTube Quietly Launches InVideo Programming: Apply In-Player Branding Across All Your Videos, Instantly
YouTube keeps adding cool stuff out of nowhere and not announcing the changes. I get this odd feeling that the YouTube staff gets very excited about releasing a new feature and taking bets on how long it takes before someone notices. Within the last 24 hours, YouTube has just added a feature called "InVideo Programming" under the Settings tab.
The 15 best free images websites on the Internet
With the revamp of Google Images, there's a big temptation to dive on in there and start picking out photos and graphics willy nilly. The sad truth, of course, is that you can't just download any image you like and use it on your website or blog because Google found it. There is that rather annoying thing called copyright. You're welcome to have a go, but there's all sorts of internet tools out there to let photographers know what's happening to their shots.
Author Rich Snippets for YouTube Video Content - SwellPath
We’re moving beyond text-based content; Google Authorship is now for YouTube videos as well! In this post, I’ll take you through everything you need to know about Author Rich Snippets for YouTube content. The ability to get your picture in Google search results was the big thing last year. With the rollout of Google+, the world’s leading search engine started promoting a simple(r) way for people to link their online identity to their digital content. This lead to the rise of Author Rich Snippets!
