A Few Tools That Make It Easy To Analyze Your Writing
One of the traps that many student writers fall into is overusing favorite phrases and adjectives. I've edited and graded enough essays over the years to confirm this. There are a couple of tools that can help students avoid overusing the same phrases and adjectives. WordCounter is a simple tool that writers can use to identify the words that they use most frequently in their text. To use WordCounter simply copy and paste text into Wordcounter then select how many words should appear in your "frequently used" list.
3 Powerful Web Tools to Create Whiteboard Animation Videos for Your Class
October 23, 2014 Whiteboard animation videos are videos that draw themselves. They involve an animated use of images, shapes, characters, sounds and voice-overs to create a clip. This form of video production has been very popular recently and is widely used by some leading educational YouTube channels such as TED Ed and RSA Animate. Creating a whiteboard animation video is no longer a graphic designer's job. There are actually several web tools that allow you to easily put together an animated video with as simple tools as drag and drop.
Exploring Life's Origins: Resources for Educators
Please note that animations and illustrations from the Exploring Life's Origins project are licensed under a Creative Commons License, and may be freely downloaded for non-commercial uses with proper attribution. See bottom of page for more information. DOWNLOAD MOVIES click to view movies in your browser, or right click to download movie. RNA folding movie, as shown in the "What is RNA?" section. - download Quicktime movie (9 MB) Movie of RNA polymerization on clay, as shown in the "Nucleic Acids" section
Instructions and Typing Tips
Please follow these simple rules: Place your hands on the keyboard appropriately, so that your left forefinger is on the ‘F’ key, and the right one is on the ‘J’ key. You should feel the bump at the bottom of each of these keys.
12 Tools To Create Powerful Presentations
About two weeks ago, I wrote an article about representing information in form of an infographic. You can read the article here: 17 Fantastic Infographic Generators! Today, in this article I would write about another form of representing information i.e. through a presentation. Presentations have an important place in the corporate world. Whether presenting product releases or quarterly year reports, a nicely designed presentation captivates the audience. It increases the audience’s interaction and interest.
Prewriting (Invention)
Summary: This section explains the prewriting (invention) stage of the composing process. It includes processes, strategies, and questions to help you begin to write. Contributors:Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2010-04-17 05:24:22 As a writer, you can begin by asking yourself questions and then answering them.
The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You
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? Likes?) and ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. This left me with 100 different Web 2.0 tools that are recommended by your peers.
17 visualisation tools to make your data beautiful
You don’t need to be a seasoned data scientist or have a degree in graphic design in order to create incredible data visualisations. It has become a lot simpler to mine your data and interpret your insights in an engaging, attractive, and most importantly easy to understand way. This is a list of various different free and premium tools and platforms available which will allow you to communicate data in a variety of different formats, from interactive charts, to infographics, to maps, to word clouds. Not all will be suitable for your particular data set or your audience, but its certainly worth experimenting with a few to seek out the most relevant. Hopefully you’ll not only learn some new skills and find some new creative tools, but also learn something about your own data.
