Snagit, screen capture software, home page Context is everything. Recording a video lets the person on the other end actually hear your voice. So the next time a webpage, PDF, or video edit is sent to you for feedback, consider dropping the red pen and record a video instead. With Snagit, there’s no waiting. You can record your video, and share it within seconds. Who’s Best Suited to Teach and Learn in Virtual Schools? Teaching Strategies Flickr:UTC Library Online learning is not easy, says Maureen Cottrell, a science teacher at iHigh Virtual Academy, a fully-accredited virtual public high school in San Diego, California. “Many students fully expect it to be easy and then bomb out.” Cottrell, who’s been teaching for a decade, has spent the last two years at iHigh, the first completely online, diploma-granting school in the San Diego Unified School District.
MOS Solo MOS Solo is simple yet powerful: it requires none or minimal training but offers the power of a sophisticated multimedia tool. It lets you create highly interactive, graphically appealing, and media-rich eLearning modules, with ease and efficiency: courses, quizzes, evaluations, demos. The content created and edited in MOS Solo can be uploaded with just one click onto a SCORM 2004 compatible LMS / LCMS. Designed by trainers for trainers, MOS Solo is ideal for travelling authors who are interested in creating and editing content, even when they are offline.
Memonic Class work The Challenge Preparing and distributing lesson plans day after day, year after year, can become exhausting and costly. Your time is too precious to spend on bookmarking tons of sites, copying & pasting into Word docs, and xeroxing stacks of papers. Plus, how do you keep track of your students' input?
Step 1: What is a PLN? Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN.Help you understand why educators create their own PLN. The following information on PLN was co-written by Michael Graffin, a relief/substitute teacher and blogger from Western Australia. You can check out Michael’s original “What the heck is a PLN” post here.
Digital posters: Composing with an online canvas “Are we Glogging today?” It’s a typical New England morning and our sixth grade students are all dutifully lined up in the fading autumn sunshine beneath the trees. Most schools typically have a series of fire drills toward the start of the year, and my school is no exception. I keep an eye on my class and chat quietly with my colleague who teaches science down the hall.
Create online courses and Silverlight Learning Snacks with LCDS Q.Why do I see a script error when I try to open a localized course by using the LCDS? When you localize a course in the LCDS, the language string must be correctly specified in the imsmanifest.xml file. Look for the following code string: <imsmd:langstring xml:lang= For non-English courses, the attribute should read the two-letter language code. Kaltura Video Creating Value with Video With 150,000 publishers worldwide who have integrated Kaltura’s open source video platform, Kaltura is revolutionizing the industry by providing organizations flexible and future-proof video solutions to fit their needs. Kaltura provides the world's first and only Open Source Online Video Platform. Our platform includes industry leading media management applications as well as a framework for developing custom applications. That basically means that Kaltura provides you with flexible video solutions to cover all of your needs both now and in the future. But don’t take our word for it – listen to the industry.
RealizeIt Can Make Your Program Adaptive Imagine a platform that would turn static content into an adaptive sequence, and would get smarter the more it was used. RealizeIt, based in Dublin and Chicago, can semi-automatically ingest almost any form of learning content and, with a little coaching, can identify prerequisite relationships and build a competency-based sequence of granular learning nodes with assessment gateways. Founder David Collery spent 14 years teaching Mathematics in inner city Dublin schools. His first startup provides scheduling software still used by all of the schools in Ireland.
Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War: The History of World War 2 This collection of more than 140,000 clippings, arranged by subject and date, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war. The English-language clippings are from the archive of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper, while the French-language materials are from a collection of the newspaper Le Devoir. You are invited to explore the online database using either the Basic search or the detailed search, which includes a date searching feature. Short historical articles on key topics from the time period, along with sample clippings from the collection, supplement this impressive resource of news information "as it happened". A glossary of terms, highlighted in red throughout the historical articles, provides definitions for technical terms and abbreviations.
Main Page This is not an in depth review. Download and try it for yourself. It is free and does not tax your system. 100 Incredible YouTube Channels YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! News. But for every participant liberally dishing out misspelled racist, sexist and homophobic talking points, there is at least one whose channel genuinely offers something provocative and educational. For teachers hoping to infuse multimedia into their classrooms, YouTube makes for an excellent starting point.