IWitness: A Free Way To Bring Educational Videos Into Your Classroom Figuring out the best way to bring video into the classroom can be tough . There’s YouTube EDU, TED Talks, TeacherTube, and a slew of other video sites. But none are dedicated to helping bring first-person stories into the history classroom. That’s where IWitness comes in . It’s a free educational website / web tool developed by the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute’s Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities. Get First-Person Perspectives IWitness provides access to nearly 1,300 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. The IWitness video editor gives students the freedom to integrate testimony clips together with footage from other sources as well as photos and maps, voiceover audio, music, and text. Being Tested Around The World
Wikispaces SMART Notebook App for iPad Newest features New Dropbox integration Keep your SMART Notebook files up- to-date across multiple devices with Dropbox integration. One tap on the Dropbox icon in the SMART Notebook app for iPad file manager and you can quickly login to your Dropbox account to import and export SMART Notebook files. New shape tool Insert shapes with a custom fill color, line color and line thickness. Improved text feature Create a text object by tapping once in the software’s interface. Support for SMART Lesson Activity Builder View, interact with and reset activities that were previously created in the full version of SMART Notebook software. New line tool Insert a line and change its color and thickness. New object properties Double-tap or tap-and-hold to lock and unlock an object, or to change the order of an object. More pen properties Change the color and thickness of the pen. More system compatibility Supports iOS 6, in addition to iOS 5, for iPad and iPad mini New language support All features Zoom and Pan Text
The iPad as a research tool | Mr G Online I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog lately reflecting on Big Education ideas. During that time, my little buddy the iPad has felt a little neglected and unloved. So I thought I’d get back to talking about everybody’s “favourite little tablet that could”. One criticism of the iPad is that it has the “one app open at a time” limitation. WikiNodes is a different way of browsing and collecting information from Wikipedia. A welcome extra feature is how WikiNodes allows the user to save, store and organize information from the Wikipedia article. Notability, which I’ve mentioned in previous posts, is a versatile note taking app that I think has some useful features for research. An additional feature of Notability is the ability to browse the Internet within its own browser. Often research involves using specific articles that are given to us to read. finding news reports, web sites and blog posts that are tailored to your interests. Diigo’s strength is its social bookmarking capabilities.
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