Animoto is a video creation technology that takes stills images, text and music and creates short length (30 seconds – free) of full length ( > 30 Seconds at a subscription) It is simple straight forward and easy to use.
This starter sheet looks at this adaptable and easy to use tool. The “In the Classroom” [...]
This is the latest of the starter sheets – this one focuses on using the Google Advanced search to refine a search. The focus is humanities/social studies in the “In the Classroom” exemplar.
Click here to link to the PDF
Here are the images shots of the file.
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Wow, Educational Origami – my wiki has been nominated for the Edublogs best wiki award.
The company is brilliant – Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis’s Flatclassroom project, just to name one!
have a browse and vote – http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-educational-wiki-2008/
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One of the main mediums we use for conveying information is the visual medium. Many of use are visual learners or multi-modal learners where one of our modes are visual. Many of use produce documents, websites, wikis or blogs but do we consider the principles of design.
This is a really good website that provides us [...]
Even if you have a 21st Century classroom, flexible and adaptable; even if you are a 21st Century teacher ; An adaptor, a communicator, a leader and a learner, a visionary and a model, a collaborator and risk taker; even if your curriculum reflects the new paradigm and you have [...]
I have been foraging around for audio tools and I have found 2 text to speech tools that are free. One is an installed tool and the second an online one
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
This is a download for windows, this tool will allows you to convert any written text into speech, it also converts text to MP3. They [...]
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53243
This is an interesting article. The research is commissioned by Cisco systems and says (not that its surprising) that multimodal teaching – teaching that includes visuals and auditory input have better learning outcomes.
“An analysis of existing research supports a notion that already has begun to transform instruction in schools from coast to coast: that multimodal [...]
