Ideas for using Linoit (sticky notes online) in your classroom

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A linoit board is a virtual free bulletin board which can be populated with online stickies. These stickies can have resoeurces such as videos, weblinks and images added as well as text. You can organise the board in any way that you want. The board can be public or private and stickies can be moderated before being published by the creator. Only the creator of the board can delete stickies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTrrbOh97XO0Q5sonCkrm5e2n2z-RdbIrs-H-5xk4DJH5dbKGGlFnnNRo6CxOLYoZBp1jx_Ys0yvOfH2735lk3vocm7VHCkZasSeco7S6pKxe6LpVFLBtW2_zMsHDQQdp3mQSYGe1xvQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How to create a Linoit Board</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My presentation on how to create a Linoit board</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11fYZSo0ZaDTSQD5M6yCN_S5hpiIQP5NShkvRoN8CyBU/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>A tutorial</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a great YouTube tutorial on using Linoit from 3 Minute Tech.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yexl8kmUoPA" width="420"></iframe><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classroom uses</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Great for student discussions – student opinion can be collected <a href="http://goo.gl/qcNGK3" title="http://goo.gl/qcNGK3">http://goo.gl/qcNGK3</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. It is a great way to share resources and links</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. A great way to check for understanding when a topic has been taught.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. A great place to store personal and class notes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. A classroom bulletin board—putting up assignments, class announcements, links that are of interest, pictures from class or from projects, etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Writing responses</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. As a KWL chart using different colours for the categories</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Analysing a character in Literature or History</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. You could post a video on the board with a task underneath and let the students add their comments on the board. <a href="http://linoit.com/users/seburnt/canvases/Job%20Interviews">http://linoit.com/users/seburnt/canvases/Job%20Interviews</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. A collaborative birthday greeting</span></div>

Linoit Web tools Ideas for using Linoit (sticky notes online) in your classroom

A linoit board is a virtual free bulletin board which can be populated with online stickies. These stickies can have resoeurces such as videos, weblinks and images added as well as text. You can organise the board in any way that you want. The board …

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Try using this very useful tool, Padlet, to collect student responses

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea-QFwmeLN_ssrt7J8wkpR83EN0VbDyqTqy7p0MVstCBHhlC6BeJVpqOB3L22gSQdJRvU97nRgo_ToWMrXyIyn3q7bWSv1IFS0J0Lh91lY_aFZ_ii13ItAvAyh1G7CydAXwH8Ypllgr0/?imgmax=800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img alt="image" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiea-QFwmeLN_ssrt7J8wkpR83EN0VbDyqTqy7p0MVstCBHhlC6BeJVpqOB3L22gSQdJRvU97nRgo_ToWMrXyIyn3q7bWSv1IFS0J0Lh91lY_aFZ_ii13ItAvAyh1G7CydAXwH8Ypllgr0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="190" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the past I loved using Wallwisher for students to write responses to various questions in various lessons. The creators of Wallwisher recently felt that the name Wallwisher did not live up to their mission of having an online virtual surface that has all the benefits of being digital and the simplicity of a notepad. So the name was changed to Padlet (<a href="http://padlet.com/">http://padlet.com</a>) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Padlet can be described as an ‘<i>online graffiti wall where teachers and students can have discussions, share web links, post notices, collect feedback, or watch and share videos</i>’. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(</span><a href="http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Padlet" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://classroom21.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Padlet</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A teacher poses a question or thought on the padlet they have created, and students’ responses appear like little sticky notes scattered around on the padlet.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The biggest plus is that students do not need to sign in to write on the wall.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to create a Padlet for your class to write on (by Fiona Beal)</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some step by step instructions to help you get started.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qxZvVSu_M-vuiRYB1UgM2C18gf5CxvFBI69XZOnQw1E/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Great new features in  Padlet</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Byrne on Free Technology for Teachers points out some great new features:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. You can moderate all notes before making them public</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. A new <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/padlet-streams-simple-way-to-create.html">group blog option was added</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Padlet offers an option to download the contents of your walls as PDFs, images, Excel, or CSV files. Once downloaded you can print the contents of your walls. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/padlet-wallwisher/ppckapbnfhikdajgehibjapcohbaomhd?hl=en-US">Padlet has a Chrome app too</a>.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How can a Padlet be used in a classroom setting?</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. <u>Use Padlet for introductions</u><br />I recently used Padlet for students to introduce themselves and say what they are hoping to learn. It worked really well.  There are a myriad of uses for this application.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. <u>Use Padlet as a KWL chart</u><br />Ask students to share anonymously what they know and what they want to know about a topic.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. <u>Use Padlet for group research</u><br />Let the students add videos and notes about their research on a particular topic.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />4. <u>Use Padlet as a showcase of your students’ work</u><br />Let your students add links to their various online creations</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. <u>Use Padlet as a book review platform</u><br />Let students write their comments on a chapter they have read. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. <u>Use Padlet as a thankyou wall</u><br />Let your students thank speakers or a special teacher or anyone you choose to and email them the link. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact here are 32 ways to use Padlet in the classroom (started by Jen Hughes). This was created when Padlet was still called Wallwisher. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="429" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tJ9TjzQGGiVWjiSrW9RZJhTupqkVXPqPbFWle4ovHa4/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="533"></iframe></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try Padlet - you'll love its simplicity and versatility. </span></div>

Padlet Web tools Try using this very useful tool, Padlet, to collect student responses

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Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s1600/symbaloo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s320/symbaloo.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my favourite people to follow is Matt Gomez who has a Kindergarden blog </span><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. He shares amazing ideas for the Foundation Phase classroom on his blog.   Through him I was introduced to the potential of using Symbaloo in the classroom. Last year I wrote a post entitled ‘</span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-symbaloo-symbaloo-is-great-free.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ which explained how to create a Symbaloo mix.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this post I want to highlight some of my favourite Symbaloo mixes for Foundation Phase learners. I found these wonderful Symbaloo collections on the Kinderchat Symbaloo webmix site. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat">http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this site you’ll find great selections of free e-books, online stories, songs etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just click on the image (or the link) below to be taken to the actual mix where you can listen to or watch the various media. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) National Geographic e-books</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQEJ0H4Jb56at4Txzz7adX-UQmoyMHdACuv6VkvfnQUs59vVGZ_xzPuCZlaz3_vgvmb2tsWGSTvdAeSRSCgXnXR7qZQh6y2QLyGY9F3x9MILdUlO0GYkUefr07yTRI5fiaxPUOO-BWB0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) Online stories</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJMr1BE6L9d6IvYB9PtHCTp7ZBud0BinVoNb3EsnycIKEYHuh2y2neNsujOqzcIP8b3Cbv5XU4LRVF5N_yYFlPved8WpPYVVKqaIo0uItfmi9IdXdTk_nM6b1ZaVySpOcJuN5kkeaij4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3) Sesame Street popular videos</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpEmz3rwWXAkyAVOerKF9MKk6GWXQ-GOcOh-FAZumiXV9zLBf0IrUXFQMFpg-cZ_rcQD8_-4wnytYvlHlnqaadeHFxGnuT166XfSM7OFQmxsj77n9Dd-7i-_-5cAOL4d3KuvWvxL7eHY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4)  Letter sounds</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds"><img alt="image" border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QjdjCVNKVBEHn_8twX8NpRfDBudI56TE0m1iAorpETkWsPZC5Ihq_yH6BhFLbReywLt7S_XzGWupqh8VPlDbnzIQEV3Q4Z_J82O1uTPc6Q3oaUfslwIvbUiaSKMFBtRgzyLyhRlipAc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uses for Symbaloo in the classroom</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) You can find out what other Symbaloo users are doing and learn from them using the easy Share and Gallery options.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) You can create a starter page of Intenet sites for your students to use on a project – or your students can create their own.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) Symbaloo opens its tiles in a new window so that the original always remains as a reference point. It can be used really well with webquests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) As a teacher you can save your favourite tools so that they are always handy for you to use.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) You can use it an Index post for a number of blog posts you have created around a topic. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) I love the way this teacher uses Symbaloo in his kindergarden class. </span><br /><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7) Listen to this Grade 7 student from the post <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does with Symbaloo <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/" title="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does using Symbaloo</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YEls3tq5wIY" width="420"></iframe> </div>

Symbaloo Web tools Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

One of my favourite people to follow is Matt Gomez who has a Kindergarden blog http://mattbgomez.com/. He shares amazing ideas for the Foundation Phase classroom on his blog.   Through him I was introduced to the potential of using Symbaloo in the cl…

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Download any web video as an MP3 or an MP4!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEYp8HXfISZ8G3xsMg9VpWUBvigfjmSI3y5NQtJiVmtDqbBJtHDi_O-KVMqZtJ7dwOcGMP_dkhvl-XX01CW41n43FeDyXJs-zNfcghvWYXYcHLTj0yn5xwRyM4e-jEIjsvBFGSwcemYU/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh3YBQNas6e6-VguF_faaWX2h3mzYVy-Lab5OKDzdZab9oLC1uxkDu3kAEQUBJGvIeBepfIoos0NrAxHshVkMKwttJzLp6luHsPxivTEDYowcXg5rycRRbamTgkv-3wMbGjlag4y_csBo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="140" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I discovered this Freemake video converter by accident the other day, tried it out and really, it is amazing. You can download any video in a number of different formats. Thank you Freemake! Up to now I have been using Keepvid to download YouTube videos, but this Freemake application goes further in that you install it on your computer and you can download any web video (not only YouTube videos) it seems in a number of different formats depending on what you choose.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the example below I chose to download a YouTube video as an MP4 and also MP3 to get to grips with Freemake. Once Freemake is installed on your computer and you use it for the first time, it gives you the option for installing an audio converter where, once again, you can choose various options. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must say that I got a bit confused with names at times…sometimes Freemake calls this video converter a YouTube Downloader, sometimes they refer to it as a MP3 Downloader and sometimes they call it a Video Converter. Whatever the name confusion – it works well!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/26274688" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/download-web-videos-with-freemake-video-converter-free" target="_blank" title="Download web videos with Freemake Video Converter (free)">Download web videos with Freemake Video Converter (free)</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </div></div>

Freemake Video Converter Web tools Download any web video as an MP3 or an MP4!

I discovered this Freemake video converter by accident the other day, tried it out and really, it is amazing. You can download any video in a number of different formats. Thank you Freemake! Up to now I have been using Keepvid to download YouTube vid…

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SchoolNet webinar recording (12/09/2013) 'Let’s create a Learnist Board' (by Fiona Beal)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbC5q-AbtwoeSTldBEF5qs2O6Nd9nEBVfQXPWIDnka7CTlme3BhnW0SUtT8rn-GuGptiLtWVmZAe5F3vmO1ETpXKadsEN-aLle1R7uUmLKnI6YSjaxpsUY3ogiYX9LFqRD-fgdvGRWWNg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday 12th September we held a SchoolNet webinar presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet entitled ‘<i>Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating on</i>e...’. The webinar took place at 3:30pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Presentation</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fiona’s presentation is given below via Slideshare and you can download it if you wish to. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/26223172" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/lets-create-a-learnist-board" target="_blank" title="Let's create a Learnist board">Let's create a Learnist board</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Summary of the webinar</span></strong><br /><u><b>Name</b></u>: Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...<br /><u><b>Summary</b></u>: With the Internet being so HUGE these days educators have to become master curators of content. A Learnist Board is a really useful way to curate and keep a record of the information that you need. I love using Diigo, Pinterest and Scoopit for curation purposes, but Learnist has its own unique properties that sets it apart as a useful way of collecting the sites you want to keep<strong>.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Webinar recording</span></strong>If you wish to listen to the presentation the recording link can be found at <a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9tg7wom9gp/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p9tg7wom9gp/</a></span></div></div></div></div>

Curation tool Learnist Web tools webinars SchoolNet webinar recording (12/09/2013) 'Let’s create a Learnist Board' (by Fiona Beal)

 On Thursday 12th September we held a SchoolNet webinar presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet entitled ‘Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one...’. The webinar took place at 3:30pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.Presentati…

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Schedule your emails using Boomerang for Gmail

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii2FMBg6vlTeVWXH8cQPMatb6-EsBw2LzOs-2TnNkEal687eIn90cFBXUzg5-3QzmVlFxfztGjuPCdAaGUOSOYHM2kA4NCOa709au2l2lAupc84cqPY4kyvgtOpvg8QozXx107v_XlK_Q/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6keN2Qi-ydI3bmA5yrOuXHHXp2sPB1ob1WNEdC1Kgcr9DXRjO_TxH2q8niIBcwdD7dhyphenhyphenqP-HVaAsfPUDsGWA9e45mfIXbtim6_DAtZxfNp4g_eiVEqLSU-bS6lHcqXTKgS35NPFaUrOg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you sometimes just feel like writing a particular email to get it done even though it is only due to be sent in a few days time? I often land up in situations like that and I have discovered a really great Chrome extension that facilitates this. It is called BOOMERANG and it works with Chrome or Firefox.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">What is Boomerang for Gmail</span></strong><br />This is a gmail inbox management tool that not only allows you to schedule the sending time of your emails but also has a number of other features:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With regard to scheduling your outgoing emails Schedule you can preset Boomerang from an hour to a month, and you can choose the time and date.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also send follow up reminders to yourself. For example you may receive n email which you only want to work with in a few days time. if you set boomeragng fr that articular time the email will appear at the top of your inbox again. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boomerang can also remind you to follow up with people who haven’t responded to your email. </span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tutorial</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4KmsqYjB9j4" width="420"></iframe> <br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Limitations</span></strong><br />Since starting to write this email, <a href="http://www.boomeranggmail.com/" target="_blank">Boomerang</a> has introduced pricing and the basic free version only allows 10 messages per month sadly! However there is a 30 day free trail so I am going to try that in any case!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

google Web tools Schedule your emails using Boomerang for Gmail

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What is a credible webpage? Let Easybib help you decide!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3G8xrySFQo5LSJ-D07Aq8ouLlmVB21XQXAgG3c_IVWzb2l4A9NG2TDjZUyydI4cZGg9e6PmG_kTjcss0sC2n3RD7K_wv3fLHC5sZ3W_OiTL4virET_AbzNUFCM5yjWe7cO3ZEl3SkvDk/s1600/Easybib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3G8xrySFQo5LSJ-D07Aq8ouLlmVB21XQXAgG3c_IVWzb2l4A9NG2TDjZUyydI4cZGg9e6PmG_kTjcss0sC2n3RD7K_wv3fLHC5sZ3W_OiTL4virET_AbzNUFCM5yjWe7cO3ZEl3SkvDk/s1600/Easybib.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easybib is a free Chrome extension that has two useful functions:</span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first is to tell you whether a website is credible or not. If the source has not yet been evaluated Easybib will let you know.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its second function is to enable to to provide a quick citation of your sources in a bibliography. The bookmarklet will create a properly formulated citation for you.</span></li></ul><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really like the <a href="http://content.easybib.com/students/research-guide/website-credibility-evaluation/">Easybib website</a> that gives a clear description of how to evaluate a website. It has been embedded belo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">w. The website gives a lot more useful information for students and teachers. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Visit the Easybib website</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span>Click on the bottom right hand corner of this image to be taken to the original enlarged PowerPoint web app for easier viewing</span><br /><br /><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="560px" src="https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=105696C4BC0FB6D1&resid=105696C4BC0FB6D1%21191&authkey=ANv5jvFTIyM7LFw&em=2&wdAr=0.75&Embed=1" width="406px">This is an embedded <a target='_blank' href='http://office.com'>Microsoft Office</a> presentation, powered by <a target='_blank' href='http://office.com/webapps'>Office Web Apps</a>.</iframe><br /><a href="http://content.easybib.com/students/research-guide/website-credibility-evaluation/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://content.easybib.com/students/research-guide/website-credibility-evaluation/</a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find out more about Easybib in this YouTube tutorial</span></b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pOL43ggmivs" width="420"></iframe></div>

Chrome extensions Easybib Web tools What is a credible webpage? Let Easybib help you decide!

Easybib is a free Chrome extension that has two useful functions:The first is to tell you whether a website is credible or not. If the source has not yet been evaluated Easybib will let you know.Its second function is to enable to to provide a quick …

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Introduce your class to Edmodo – a great Learning Management System

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzk7e8buCf1OB4g4gEQRW38L1EfxyyFcKHZtCzNGTYB7CxKnld8YumzfabgEqrl-RE24byAyP9mO6lSQvfcRUFtMCQWsFDSaHQL6xrrtpd3x-fhL8-Y6OnEqJsOLFFEzfSqssK7RndkiY/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwRr1bgg7JL5VQbC-4UEAlvvY5qATedvXrpFWZfEHyQH0_0KPt39C_5yhHOzUoiPCnMEr850EkoKEWgm7Mwbm7PZsd6XIyyvbdv3dV_4YAGaUyJpPKkYgl9KXnAFjkcNGg9AbP1aEZO60/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.edmodo.com/home"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has become the Learning Management System (LMS) of choice for many teachers around the world. Edmodo is one of those Learning Management Systems that every teacher can successfully use in their classroom whether they have PCs, a BYOD classroom, an iPad/tablet classroom or just one computer/tablet in the classroom. It works across the board. Best is, that if a teacher so desires, he/she can even invite the parents to join  the class Edmodo group as well. All Edmodo needs, really, is an enthusiastic teacher that has access to a laptop. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcNjztKijsMXnTLnhj-10TiJNmoFJCcGJ_OJmf-ULSKHRGD3bEIijFZbsiEz21ceF3h6vgkddmIDU7z4SxexJIF2mpmEhUvZKma2A4XmXfKwcyvL-83UnQpEsadg54aooUi9LyVD_QhM/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Wx5Ji6aY7ddjjF5L0Pq0VfaCPB8V0sy9bEbQu3mD3Xem11fy-hy8xXCb_0hfQZzP4zSXR2HRj6X6cnSGSVjhk7gCm0HHwgeRuxjNr_uafX31KPMTCjZr0EgBLq5-aHVqODB1TDeVN1U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Edmodo</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.edmodo.com/">Edmodo</a> is a free web-based platform that teachers can use to manage their class, share content, access homework and other school items. It is also a safe social networking place for the students in the class to connect and collaborate with one another.  What the students like about Edmodo is it’s Facebook-like appearance. Students don’t need email addresses – they sign in via an access code. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Edmodo’s features</span></strong><strong></strong></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> collaboration feature</strong> where the teacher and students can add comments and share files such as PowerPoints, Word documents, videos etc can be shared.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> ‘folders’ feature which </strong>enables one to organize documents in a folder and share that folder with a class.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has an<strong> assignment feature</strong> which allows one to post an assignment with a due date and a task sheet, see who submitted it and when, mark it using a PDF annotation tool, grade/assess it and give feedback all in one neat place. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> quiz feature which enables on to</strong> create really quick and simple quizzes to use in class. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a <b>poll feature</b> which allows on to create quick survey polls in class. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> note feature</strong> where, for example, the students can write a reflection. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> members feature</strong> which enables on to manage one’s students in each class or group. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> small groups feature</strong> which is great for managing group work. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a<strong> discussion feature</strong> which enables an online discussion to take place</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there are more features that I haven't yet got to know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Using Edmodo in the classroom</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a Slideshare entitled ‘20 ways to use Edmodo’ </span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10110267" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="427"> </iframe><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/seyfert6/20-ways-to-use-edmodo" target="_blank" title="20 Ways to Use Edmodo">20 Ways to Use Edmodo</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/seyfert6" target="_blank">seyfert6</a></strong> </span></div><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A cheat sheet that summarises Edmodo</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This useful cheat sheet summarises Edmodo. Click on the image to be taken to the enlarged image</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqngDlwIG55g0KNj2xx19Z5IyZ1iPWaEnICbZemdGJCJCr1O9eCaZo38gCumT-7ecVk31G7i8fHuHJwfscwK2nor26AMYCSXftaxU5f4dGmenYLF-OjPD2GS1uqDjhtLuplk9Cjf1baYk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="260" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A full introduction to Edmodo provided by Russel Stannard</span></b>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is is an excellent video tutorial created by <a href="http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/">Russel Stannard</a> in which he walks teacher through a step by step guide on how teachers can get started using Edmodo together with all of its features such as creating a group or class for  students, uploading files, adding comments...and many more.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DZHB6FfRjnQ" width="420"></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHB6FfRjnQ&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHB6FfRjnQ&feature=youtu.be</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edmodo Help Centre</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edmodo has a great <a href="https://support.edmodo.com/home#teacher">Help Centre</a> that has screencasts and tutorials to help you with any problem. See </span><a href="https://support.edmodo.com/home#entries/22460840-quick-guides-to-edmodo" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://support.edmodo.com/home#entries/22460840-quick-guides-to-edmodo</a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Wonderful blog posts on using Edmodo</span></strong><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></u></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) <a href="http://reflectionsofeducator.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/edmodo-evernote-my-ideal-ipad-classroom-workflow/" target="_blank">Using Edmodo in the ipad classroom</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) <a href="http://reflectionsofeducator.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/10-reasons-i-love-using-edmodo-in-my-ipad-classroom/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">10 reasons I love using Edmodo in my iPad classroom…</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) </span><a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/08/a-great-edmodo-cheat-sheet-for-teachers.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">A great Edmodo cheat sheet </a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) <a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/a-handy-guide-to-everything-teachers.html" target="_blank">A handy guide to everything a teacher needs to know about Edmodo</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) Russel Stannards two training vidoes on Edmodo</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) <a href="http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo1/index.html">http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo1/index.html</a><br />b) <a href="http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo2/index.html">http://teachertrainingvideos.com/edmodo2/index.html</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Conclusion</b></span><br />Why not try out using Edmodo as soon as possible? You'll be pleasantly surprised at how user-friendly it is.</span></div>

Edmodo Learning Management Systems Web tools Introduce your class to Edmodo – a great Learning Management System

Edmodo has become the Learning Management System (LMS) of choice for many teachers around the world. Edmodo is one of those Learning Management Systems that every teacher can successfully use in their classroom whether they have PCs, a BYOD classroom…

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Creative Writing #14: Have you explored using Kerpoof for digital storytelling?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kerpoof as a writing tool was brought to my attention by one of our SchoolNet members, Warren Sparrow from Rondebosch Boys Prep. He has a post about Kerpoof on his blog (<a href="http://wsparrow.blogspot.com/2013/06/kerpoof.html">http://wsparrow.blogspot.com/2013/06/kerpoof.html</a>) and he has even created the first part of his own fairytale.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Kerpoof?</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what it says on the Kerpoof website </span><a href="http://www.kerpoof.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.kerpoof.com/</a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Kerpoof's multimedia software is used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more. The site is meant to be fun, but we're serious about its educational value. Elementary and middle school teachers can use Kerpoof in many ways to enhance classroom activities while meeting a range of educational standards.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrWriKMBGJt6ix4jrQUtG41_HsBrz7KT-0OwrC2XG_z1qizkcSRPh2LtKmW9DudgPPa77TGQ-T-1hbKcl5fWo7cvbWe561WNXkYJimenQQFix13OBZLYkie04PsYchOccc5iCu_boMNu9/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What does a Kerfoof video look like?</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what Warren Sparrow writes on his blog. “<i>Make your own animations. This is SUPER COOL and easy to use.Ideal for younger learners! Click below to see my start of a fairytale</i>”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wsparrow.blogspot.com/2013/06/kerpoof.html">http://wsparrow.blogspot.com/2013/06/kerpoof.html</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for this Warren. I have put this into a Screencastomatic video for easier viewing on the blog. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="498" scrolling="no" src="http://screencast-o-matic.com/embed?sc=cI16Q4VwjA&w=420&v=3" width="420"></iframe></span></div>

30 Days of Writing Creative writing Web tools Creative Writing #14: Have you explored using Kerpoof for digital storytelling?

Kerpoof as a writing tool was brought to my attention by one of our SchoolNet members, Warren Sparrow from Rondebosch Boys Prep. He has a post about Kerpoof on his blog (http://wsparrow.blogspot.com/2013/06/kerpoof.html) and he has even created the f…

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Web Tools #30: Add speech bubbles to a photo online and then download the photo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSslAbAfX36gre4ursOB9zaLFkfKFLo-G2Br-QsIrPJhYlW-pCA4mUgFFvHiMZbgDfu5ZADpSixaRGBUwNvPetIajfuL4RyA7Xq5IHeqskTx7GZ3Y_aMxJG2JpZRcJSl78QPO86nnyrw/s1600/phraseit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSslAbAfX36gre4ursOB9zaLFkfKFLo-G2Br-QsIrPJhYlW-pCA4mUgFFvHiMZbgDfu5ZADpSixaRGBUwNvPetIajfuL4RyA7Xq5IHeqskTx7GZ3Y_aMxJG2JpZRcJSl78QPO86nnyrw/s320/phraseit.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal. </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the last in my series of 30 Days of Web Tools series - but of course I continue adding many web tool posts in the days to come</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came across the coolest website today called Phrase.it (<a href="http://phrase.it/">http://phrase.it.</a>)  It is a very easy to use tool where you simply upload your photo (or select it from Facebook), add your bubble and text and then save it.  Let’s go through it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1. Open Phrase.it</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-uq8myMbPAl9t_WIpLxWK9Ub43lQ7-aW1Hgjm2etsday3_LKB58OTAITmCCi4ijcN3s2A6suD3QuhxE-8wuu9nm1GmwabOkTqE7q-puA5Ejz26WnVG_JoTgT-UVhwBZq0kRsy95_gwI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2. Add your photo</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can import from Facebook, upload one or use a random stock photo. I added one from the TeachMeet in East London on Tuesday. I notice that the image must be over 400kb. Phrase.it gives you little messages as it uploads – it goes very quickly. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am using a photo from the TeachMeet at East London on Tuesday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYrK_wg0puoaQ7GdXYYeOm7VImGhNKm0y0OGjnDzZ0KzFLyhm6I5_RSx9MGbBgE-QytSb9C1on8f6L6nqXTIWkFbdsNXYqm5x3aoulmUJb14auEF2v4etDcuwNnw1Gd9DiIrkBkRWdC8U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3. Add your speech bubbles</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiES3C7hLjKjuakabFxMPDCHn5zN5BH6d8evLP4DSlrLnFVJgzqnIcL4VZ6NEr9qV0WtzWi9xUARnzC11EYWT69oQ_ahZiDAG0UCjXAtDI-JROn90kTG2gxT0OfWdNuBTJA0gKz3MWSJq8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>4. Preview what you have done</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnYMcVS3RFsfFC0eozlfypmqnbj3M3DN-17Gr2uuL75p1xHAbbRRNKtzxaQAQr6u2IWP5KKKby6dl67QScieIyoHo1vGkgbB9-McLq8Z8EjaGDV45hZxlVRQzeekSi-_XbLefLesS8Nzo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5. Save and download</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have various options. One is to email it. I chose download. A little box comes up as you download to see if you want to display it on any social media.  There is also an option to make an optional monetary donation. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA0NKmfycLieTsSei6vZ7Wo6SNjCGCpJCG6LhP3JYhigSUaQYZAaUPNT4_U2H8GLTPUWzE-rdhtMy-pVXNZKkvM1uI3IIAromZloBfvSaOsj12GENI4f1FnMl3UJ_T5pu2ELF2RiYexEM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="77" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6. View the final result</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="qvc9fq" border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKtQDvluGaICh9jOwtysy82nvIL5FmBay02i7tDcITPiCN_6-o0g7uFj30wASoFzVvB1Qk1DuP_RT7uUL4l5Gz5OtrbPtoYyY0aaTbV5NQ1qo-V0Z0wYFtkwSSjmdkb3qyPKiG4Ma13A/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="qvc9fq" width="400" /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must confess, I need to play around with it a bit. I couldn’t get the speech bubbles to go any smaller, for example. I also couldn’t raise them so that the end bit didn’t overlap with a person’s face. But I love this idea of adding speech bubbles to photos quickly. Phase.it is quick and easy. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Classroom use</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Use this in the classroom for a board display. <br />2. Let your students upload a photo of themselves and add something that says something about themselves, their charactger, their opinion etc. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Just have fun with it.</span></div>

Phrase.it Web tools Web Tools #30: Add speech bubbles to a photo online and then download the photo

Submitted by Fiona Beal. This is the last in my series of 30 Days of Web Tools series - but of course I continue adding many web tool posts in the days to comeI came across the coolest website today called Phrase.it (http://phrase.it.)  It is a very …

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Why not turn your tweets into a digital newspaper!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I was reading an article called <i>‘3 tools to turn your tweets into a newspaper</i>’. <a href="http://goo.gl/aWHMd" title="http://goo.gl/aWHMd">http://goo.gl/aWHMd</a>. I have already experimented with one of the tools mentioned, <a href="http://paper.li/" target="_blank">Paper.li, </a>and created one called ‘Fiona’s Technology Times’ which is a collection of tweets from people who I follow in the form of a weekly newspaper. In the process of doing that I created a Paper.li blogpost for the Schoolnet blog ‘<a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/30-days-of-web-tools-day-4-curating.html">Curating with Paper.li’</a>. Today I thought I would create a different kind of weekly newspaper for SchoolNet with mainly SchoolNet tweets featuring on it. Let’s get started…</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Join Paper.li and sign in</span></strong><br /><a href="http://paper.li/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Paper.li</b></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a free curation tool that takes Twitter etc links from the people you follow on Twitter, and it organizes those links into a virtual paper for easy reading on a daily or weekly basis.   What happens is that you tell Paper.li which sources to use. After you have signed in you will be asked to </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start your paper</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I chose <i>Custom paper</i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh56L3rFF3JdBahqcslJnQejlChrHwnROsUbo7v2kgUsGjxFlnZQnw1jqnvQ7kP0nxFzqNaWSY4zHrgAqLMVxvUaIxmob-QtsIB_F-6TFlPVXtXe8jF3igtkQixXRBk-CxpdQEaAL1PrZw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From then on it is very much a case of following the prompts. When it came to choosing sources I just added two – SchoolNet’s tweets and the tweets from the weekly South African chat for teachers <i>#edchatsa</i> started by Arthur Preston of Elkanah House in Cape Town. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background photo</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The idea of having a background photo came from Linda Lindsay from Hawaii who was with us on the Google Teacher Academy, New York last year in October. She started a Paper.li called <i>#GTANY Daily</i> with tweets from those of us that attended the Academy. You can read her current one at  <a href="http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613" title="http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613">http://paper.li/mauilibrarian2/1354660613</a>. Linda got her background photo right but I am still experimenting! Here is an image from Linda's Paper.Li</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJQ4O3gI5l4znmWSgWyZcEnm7hDEc-a3OBwe5KPHFyDk2SB4CEBKfqyPzUlOs47LGF6foP6QzT_DDlOlMk1_AjDhO4cTEpeeTLd-3CD4LJOW1fIr8SjyT23ImV5RPj_wvZsYV3Qk7TXY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#GTANY Daily</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The SchoolNet Weekly Times is created</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, here is the finished result. The photo part is still to be worked on – but I think a newspaper like this is a great way to summarise one’s weekly tweets. If you would like to see our first edition of the SchoolNetSA Weekly Times here is the link: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://paper.li/SchoolNetSA/1358329701">http://paper.li/SchoolNetSA/1358329701</a>.  Enjoy the read</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrfDMkHlVYHdg0k1lqOHP3_6zRJSUTeBSvK-pywbey6mlUZkAgaJ51GXrI5uophJQrROrEMFwat4TCpq8eDfeCl4wNgjLmNscwMeM9gTpXPTTB3Ej_HDndruzPudqThRYMQoyzguf2KU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SchoolNet SAWeekly Times</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div></div>

PaperLi Web tools Why not turn your tweets into a digital newspaper!

Submitted by Fiona BealToday I was reading an article called ‘3 tools to turn your tweets into a newspaper’. http://goo.gl/aWHMd. I have already experimented with one of the tools mentioned, Paper.li, and created one called ‘Fiona’s Technology Times’…

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Using a Learnist board to curate information about the iPad Summit in Boston

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JEa3HCsLPQVep79qHy4_oCcbBsK3J5vEwdsHvzqdpyfESKSoIKJCToQmDy3VQbb4kFUam_JXLwwfHViHWyVjrqbUj2HXMAj3LQAdSNsjATiLWEzc4jA7AEnvTS00bQ4ZCOzRCmiEft8/s1600/learnist2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7JEa3HCsLPQVep79qHy4_oCcbBsK3J5vEwdsHvzqdpyfESKSoIKJCToQmDy3VQbb4kFUam_JXLwwfHViHWyVjrqbUj2HXMAj3LQAdSNsjATiLWEzc4jA7AEnvTS00bQ4ZCOzRCmiEft8/s1600/learnist2.JPG" /></a></div><i>submitted by Fiona Beal</i> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a while now I have been wanting to learn how to use Learnist for curating. I have tried (and LOVE using) Pinterest and Scoopit and today it was Learnist's turn. </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">Learnist</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> makes it very easy to share what you know by curating the web. You can use videos, blogs, books, docs, images or anything on the web to explain </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">. In my first attempt I used blogposts and a Google Docs presentation. Perhaps in my next Learnist I'll get more adventurous!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A Learnist board about the use of tablets</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I am very interested in the use of  tablets in the classroom I thought a worthy topic would be to find out more about the recent iPad Summit which was held at Harvard in Boston earlier this month. I did an Internet search of relevant posts and was delighted with what I found.  So please take a look at my embedded Learnist. In one of our following Schoolnet blogposts I'll relate how to create a board using this great curation tool - Learnist.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simply click on the heading in this image to be taken to the completed Learnist board called 'Ipad Summit posts'.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="456px" scrolling="no" src="http://learni.st/users/36830/boards/7817-ipad-summit-posts/embed?o=v" width="300px"></iframe></div>

Learnist Web tools Using a Learnist board to curate information about the iPad Summit in Boston

submitted by Fiona Beal For a while now I have been wanting to learn how to use Learnist for curating. I have tried (and LOVE using) Pinterest and Scoopit and today it was Learnist's turn. Learnist makes it very easy to share what you know by curatin…

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30 Days of Webtools #27: Discover the benefits of YouTube in the classroom

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDyurW9NxVG-eIJi0F5fp7Y70mGQFc1SlwOFOIl_AP7zHcDyTWNCpDymlzbA4ea3LsCL6bvtSlJOD4yNGM47tuIYQQljXt4AnN8L3JwlUgeGZCyCEj_HtNnkcmjUpSwrcO-v1XreIXzk/s1600/YouTube.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDyurW9NxVG-eIJi0F5fp7Y70mGQFc1SlwOFOIl_AP7zHcDyTWNCpDymlzbA4ea3LsCL6bvtSlJOD4yNGM47tuIYQQljXt4AnN8L3JwlUgeGZCyCEj_HtNnkcmjUpSwrcO-v1XreIXzk/s200/YouTube.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently I have become very aware of the benefits of YouTube for an educator. There are amazing resources for the classroom - one can so easily start making a collection of useful clips that can add spice to your daily lessons. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are some ideas:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. Chop videos using TubeChop</span></span></b><br /> (<a href="http://www.tubechop.com/">http://www.tubechop.com/</a>)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIaT6wtQHV7-hIQjE8ktPgmxgPhiEH1sxbndlIcD9k28PiXtgmmWARg67Nnqc2OFUcHjWqCsdvpX_EnG7L6oOdsXYVL4G9cOhSxtYI2d04AAO9Rd5dyw51mQZQT7S8vvxe1ck8sESZ178/s1600/TubeChop.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIaT6wtQHV7-hIQjE8ktPgmxgPhiEH1sxbndlIcD9k28PiXtgmmWARg67Nnqc2OFUcHjWqCsdvpX_EnG7L6oOdsXYVL4G9cOhSxtYI2d04AAO9Rd5dyw51mQZQT7S8vvxe1ck8sESZ178/s200/TubeChop.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Using TubeChop you can cut interesting bits out of a YouTube video and keep the link. (If you wanted to download it you would probaby have to use Screencastomatic to record the clip)</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. Use KeepVid to download YouTube movies<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://keepvid.com/">http://keepvid.com</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://keepvid.com/">/</a></span><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpW42BDCJpIuBHXjZtTezdKAfhGeQQyJi0FgPWnr8J-wRCuRjB-Rxz7AWUZ1Hf67S7aEH1Tmpz57H5YdSTk_6LPRwduKlFWoh6qz4A10Zv4QcrzoEBJjn_KF8u1Mh1rsyR-m1EYAnCa8/s1600/keepvid.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpW42BDCJpIuBHXjZtTezdKAfhGeQQyJi0FgPWnr8J-wRCuRjB-Rxz7AWUZ1Hf67S7aEH1Tmpz57H5YdSTk_6LPRwduKlFWoh6qz4A10Zv4QcrzoEBJjn_KF8u1Mh1rsyR-m1EYAnCa8/s200/keepvid.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">KeepVid is amazing for downloading a movie as an MP4 and then renaming it and storing it on your computer. You could go the extra step and use Windows Movie maker to chop the piece that you particularly like and store that clip on your computer. </span></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. </span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Make your own instructional videos with TED </span></span></b></span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://ed.ted.com/videos">http://</a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://ed.ted.com/videos">ed.ted.com/videos</a></span><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5p8BHCTchcGZFHjFWd-EC3EZsxK8GFFTRw1m5udNuQnwD-aRWWoyTaUSrnE8hXB6iGzJSSoA0rOVjkhzL5PpZkPezv-ZAZijogS4n1oIqV-VMvR7l3RZ91ZD5gF8LpcBsXOtcdt1TIFo/s1600/Teded.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5p8BHCTchcGZFHjFWd-EC3EZsxK8GFFTRw1m5udNuQnwD-aRWWoyTaUSrnE8hXB6iGzJSSoA0rOVjkhzL5PpZkPezv-ZAZijogS4n1oIqV-VMvR7l3RZ91ZD5gF8LpcBsXOtcdt1TIFo/s200/Teded.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">TED has a great service for educators where you can make a video using online material and create a lesson around it.  This is very useful for the flipped classroom approach. </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />4. Create a free SchoolTube channel or TeacherTube channel</span></span></b></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">If you create videos with your class, either a School Tube or Teacher Tube channel will be a great way to you to store all your videos in one online location for easy access. </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">So, the above-mentioned applications provide just a few ways that you can make YouTube a great classroom resource. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Please take a look through the Slideshare below for more detail. </span></span></span>Perhaps you know of even more applications or ideas that you can share with us? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14312719" style="border-width: 1px 1px 0; border: 1px solid #CCC; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/discover-you-tube" target="_blank" title="Discover you tube">Discover you tube</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></b> </div></div>

30 days of web tools Web tools youtube 30 Days of Webtools #27: Discover the benefits of YouTube in the classroom

Recently I have become very aware of the benefits of YouTube for an educator. There are amazing resources for the classroom - one can so easily start making a collection of useful clips that can add spice to your daily lessons. Here are some ideas:1.…

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30 Days of webtools: #26 Use Slideshare to share online PowerPoints

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slideshare (</span><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" title="http://www.slideshare.net/">http://www.slideshare.net/</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) is one of my favourite free programmes. It is a way of easily presenting information online.  It could be really useful if you have a classroom blog or wiki because you could upload all sorts of different information for your class to access at home.  It is also a way for your students to present their information online if they are collaborating with another class. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Basically, with Slideshare you can upload and share (publicly or privately) PowerPoints or PDFs for online viewing. Slideshare says you can also upload Word Documents but I haven’t tried that yet! To date I mainly use SlideShare for uploading PowerPoints and PDFs that I want to share with others. I see now that file formats that are supported by Slideshare are ppt, pps, pot, pptx, ppsx, potx, OpenOffice, and Keynote. Document formats supported are PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel sheets, OpenOffice files and text files. The maxmum allowed file size is 100 MB. There you have it! I see you can also create Slidecasts using voice but I haven't tried that yet!</span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SchoolNet’s Slideshare account</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To show you what a Slideshare looks like I have given the links to Schoolnet’s Slideshare accounts.  Every time you make a presentation and upload it to your account, your account keeps a record of it. This account tells you a lot about your SlideShares – how many you have uploaded, who is following you, how many downloads and embeds have been made by others etc.</span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="133"><br /></td> <td valign="top" width="133"></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11">http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11</a></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="133"></td> <td valign="top" width="133"></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWkOfMOwJmHk9i0sjpTzvIdZBZm6kA01Qh7ChEmg6ej1t2jYqc7CUhtKc_cXx6WXU69OwismsZi3wJbz-mEwGcsGnS-__hbNqc9I8RzZ09rnXHoneTHbHtqY_Gurn8_ispLOuGjLRc_WC/s1600-h/image9.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZIKrSHkXkTPqb7agIactRFuXZUC36NTWFgx91isRdQh6NHSDJ8KO3idrL06OangZFG3Q0B2GDddQP308sUP1KVqxzxSR5q4ywYI_1jlSBN8EY-hZ_7Et7WjsQEh2pzvnGEx5eFdpkEOSP/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="280" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to join Slideshare and create a Slideshare presentation</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a really good video from Teacher Tube called 'Slideshare for teachers'  that seems to give a good explanation about Slideshare. It gives an error message when I embed it, so let me rather give the link.. It can be accessed at: </span><a href="http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=100970&title=Slideshare_for_Teachers">http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=100970&title=Slideshare_for_Teachers</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before you start you need to create a PowerPoint presentation on your topic offline. This can then be converted to a PDF OR it can be uploaded just as it is to SlideShare. I also found this tutorial on YouTube giving a step-by-step approach but haven’t had a chance to evaluate it properly yet. </span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M91903Q-CQQ?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br /><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why use Slideshare?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this Slideshare in Slideshare giving some tips on how it can be used! It lists some exciting uses that I confess I haven't yet tried - but will in the future!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/380816" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/AmitRanjan/quick-tour" target="_blank" title="SlideShare 101">SlideShare 101</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/AmitRanjan" target="_blank">Amit Ranjan</a></b> </div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using Slideshare to include videos</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many ways to use Slideshare that I haven’t explored yet. One of the things I HAVE used though is combining videos with a SlideShare. This works really well.  In fact, I absolutely LOVE this feature of Slideshare where you can embed YouTube videos within Slideshare instead of having a string of them one under the other on your blog page. One of the ways I did this was to gather a collection of Google tutorials - 12 videos - to see if adding a large amount of videos would work. Well, it was a lengthy affair because I first got all the URLS incorrect. You have to use the URL that shows under the video after clicking on <i>'Share'</i>. Two of the videos would just not take! So, instead of redoing the whole thing and replacing my Slideshare, I thought that I would post it for now...so you could see the problem that occurs when adding the wrong URL. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/all-things-google-a-collection-of-tutorials" title="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/all-things-google-a-collection-of-tutorials">http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/all-things-google-a-collection-of-tutorials</a><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11657693" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/all-things-google-a-collection-of-tutorials" target="_blank" title="All things Google - a collection of tutorials">All things Google - a collection of tutorials</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></b> </div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uses of SlideShare for teachers</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Have you ever plugged your flash drive into a laptop, opened a PowerPoint presentation and it doesn't work? Have your students ever done the same thing and then been relieved that they can get out of presenting? Well, if your PowerPoint is uploaded to Slideshare you’ll never have that problem! Before I give a Conference presentation or do a workshop at a school I upload the PowerPoint to Slideshare and then refer everyone to it afterwards in case they would like to have access to it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Have you ever wanted to embed your PowerPoint slides on a wiki to share with students and parents? You can do that so easily with Slideshare. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. You could have your lesson planned and outlined on Slideshare and as you go through it your video clips and even your Screencasts (if it was a technology linked lesson) could be right there. If this was placed on your classroom blog the students could access it that evening to review.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Your students can use this site to communicate with different audiences around the world.  Slideshare allows students to share their work, view other students’ work and make comments.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. The Slideshare site is a treasure chest of resources for teachers to use since presentations on many different topics can be found using their search feature. There is an Education category in Slideshare where you can view the most popular shared <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/popular?category=education">education slideshares.</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. This is an interesting Slideshare shown below. (It is actually given on Authorstream which is another way of presenting PowerPoints but it allows voice in its paid version). This teacher is setting a Slideshare presentation task to his students using his voice as well. Take a listen.</span><br /><br /><div><h3 style="margin: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/mrplough07-176896-slideshare-lesson-final-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/" style="font: 18px ,arial;" target="_blank">Slideshare Lesson Final Draft</a></h3><object height="354" id="player" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?fb=0&nb=1&pl=as&ap=0&c=#dfdfdf&p=176896_633755835874741475" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?fb=0&nb=1&pl=as&ap=0&c=#dfdfdf&p=176896_633755835874741475" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="354"></embed></object> <br /><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;">More <a href="http://www.authorstream.com/" target="_blank">PowerPoint presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.authorstream.com/mrplough07/" target="_blank">cory plough</a></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Try opening a Slideshare account and upload a PowerPoint or a different type of document to it to see what happens!  I am sure you'll start to love using Slideshare.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Please share your link with me!</span></div></div></div></div>

30 days of web tools Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of webtools: #26 Use Slideshare to share online PowerPoints

Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/) is one of my favourite free programmes. It is a way of easily presenting information online.  It could be really useful if you have a classroom blog or wiki because you could upload all sorts of different infor…

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30 Days of webtools: #25 Create a Prezi

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsmVT34TLz5Jh4H3BFVSmr_f9KTSSxDUfVzKDYsXu1g8ZI9TRgAi_YExF5UdQQ1Kc9NDkq-bOmiuv5g4tO8ivRB3GJ-z-czS_QHjEexesL6Fnyi2t3XYkmf91C1MaFyj2DNDNzyY8AxnZ/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNTxE07Mm0mcD42ZAWUFdI0T_bS5mf7mccR3-NbRjXqe9GMp030SE8dn8CHX8yCT25R6oEsh6pRQ_HviN5uQLcR-iDWDmu-04Xclr5IeUJ-RwOjJFjsAfJRXJFTkCNT0PAqXfGa5Azrii/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is a Prezi?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Prezi is another presentation tool that is fascinating to use.You will find Prezi at <a href="http://prezi.com/">http://prezi.com</a>. It is a zooming digital presentation editor that holds the attention of students possibly more than would a PowerPoint.  (Last week I attended a primary school ‘Technology Show’ at Micklefield Primary – totally amazing! One grade demonstrated the use of Prezi and their comment was that they think ALL the teachers should use Prezi!) With Prezi you can type text, embed pictures, and insert video in very creative ways! I doubt if anyone would fall asleep during a Prezi demonstration!.  Because it's web based, <a href="http://www.prezi.com/">Prezi</a> can be created and shown on any computer with web access. If there is no web access available during your presentation, a downloadable version can be obtained to show offline anywhere. No other software is needed, not even flash!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />How does Prezi compare to PowerPoint?</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prezi differs from PowerPoint in that it is a web-based program that allows you to create more of a canvas presentation instead of a sequential slide presentation. You have to think non-linear! It allows you to incorporate text and pictures,  videos and other presentation objects which is what PowerPoint does as well. You can create your presentation online and then download the final product so that you don’t require an internet connection to display the presentation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Examples of prezis</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />This example is from Martin Burrett in England who presented his TeachMeet presentation on useful classroom tools using a Prezi.</span><br /><br /><div class="prezi-player"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="400" id="prezi_vskppld5jufb" name="prezi_vskppld5jufb" width="550"><param name="movie" value="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowFullScreenInteractive" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=vskppld5jufb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0" /><embed id="preziEmbed_vskppld5jufb" name="preziEmbed_vskppld5jufb" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowFullScreenInteractive="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=vskppld5jufb&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0"></embed></object> <br /><div class="prezi-player-links"><a href="http://prezi.com/vskppld5jufb/teachmeet-cambridge/" title="TeachMeet Cambridge">TeachMeet Cambridge</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where does one start?</span></b><br /><b><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get to know Prezi terminology</span></b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="prezi-player"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="400" id="prezi_ystpnaz3oiom" name="prezi_ystpnaz3oiom" width="550"><param name="movie" value="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowFullScreenInteractive" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=ystpnaz3oiom&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0" /><embed id="preziEmbed_ystpnaz3oiom" name="preziEmbed_ystpnaz3oiom" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowFullScreenInteractive="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=ystpnaz3oiom&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0"></embed></object> <br /><div class="prezi-player-links"><a href="http://prezi.com/ystpnaz3oiom/copy-of-techguru-project/" title="Copy of Techguru Project">Copy of Techguru Project</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div></div><div class="prezi-player"></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. Let’s start by viewing a step by step tutorial on YouTube</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><a href="http://youtu.be/MAloWJiCQ-o" title="http://youtu.be/MAloWJiCQ-o">http://youtu.be/MAloWJiCQ-o</a><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MAloWJiCQ-o?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. If you find you learn best from videos there’s a lovely site called ‘Undertenminutes’ and he has two excellent  videos on how he introduced Prezi at his school.</span><br /><a href="http://www.undertenminutes.com/?p=173">http://www.undertenminutes.com/?p=173</a><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What else can you do with a Prezi?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />You can download your completed as a PDF. Use the “Print” option in the middle of the editor screen to create handouts for your audience. In PreziDesktop, there is a "print" option in your window menu bar as well under “File”. When you click Print, your prezi will be converted to a PDF document, where every path step will be one document page. The exported PDF will also include an overview page of your whole prezi.</span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classroom ideas</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. This Prezi puts forward a case for using Prezi. I like the way he adds YouTube videos in his Prezi.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="prezi-player"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="400" id="prezi_gjcaodop9is1" name="prezi_gjcaodop9is1" width="550"><param name="movie" value="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowFullScreenInteractive" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="prezi_id=gjcaodop9is1&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0" /><embed id="preziEmbed_gjcaodop9is1" name="preziEmbed_gjcaodop9is1" src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowFullScreenInteractive="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=gjcaodop9is1&lock_to_path=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0"></embed></object> <br /><div class="prezi-player-links"><a href="http://prezi.com/gjcaodop9is1/the-21st-century-learner-and-prezis/" title="The 21st Century Learner and Prezis.">The 21st Century Learner and Prezis.</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div></div><b></b> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Make a group presentation on a project. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Prezi could be used as a getting to know you tool. Students could write their first name and tell us about themselves and their family. There are numerous charts (timelines, flow charts, etc.) that could be utilized in the content areas as well.”<br /><br />4. Here is a Prezi giving some thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool.<a href="http://prezi.com/rfsnedhqmhqa/thoughts-on-using-prezi-as-a-teaching-tool/"><br />http://prezi.com/rfsnedhqmhqa/thoughts-on-using-prezi-as-a-teaching-tool/</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. This is a presentation in Google Docs showing 17 interesting ways of using Prezi in the classroom. Unfortunately this doesn't give an embed code, but just click on the link to get to the original. </span><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd</span></a> <br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/schoolnet.org.za/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_238djxmbfhd&pli=1"><img alt="image" border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43B4SPKgmzgk-YIqop-RqAORPNfgYOEHeKEQbNx7ImHCVoElzNLVI6gux9UjBz4YOQamVI9hLGtljDMdU_KQTgsz0BTZAakcLCG8NhbxFQ2Kdm2GGa-lKBjdAegO0fwdeeYvJLDrKJ-Hh/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Other ways to use Prezi </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a) Zoom into details of a picture<br />b) A way of embedding a number of relevant YouTube videos<br />c) You could build up a Prezi over the duration of a topic<br />d) Use a Prezi as a mind map<br />e) You could us a Prezi to learn vocabulary <br />f) You could use a  Prezi to share information in a global class project </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Optional task</b></span><br /><br />Make a Prezi and share the link with me<br />  <br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Further Reading</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />1. <a href="http://www.emergingedtech.com/2012/01/teachers-recommendations-for-academic-uses-of-5-fun-free-presentation-tools/">http://www.emergingedtech.com/2012/01/teachers-recommendations-for-academic-uses-of-5-fun-free-presentation-tools/</a></span><br /><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/02/prezi.html#.UDlh9NbiZSg"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/02/prezi.html#.UDlh9NbiZSg</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Here are some prezis that one could re-use and just add one’s own information. <a href="http://prezi.com/learn/selection-great-reusable-prezis/">http://prezi.com/learn/selection-great-reusable-prezis/</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/">. http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://prezi.com/ystpnaz3oiom/copy-of-techguru-project/">5. http://prezi.com/ystpnaz3oiom/copy-of-techguru-project/</a></span></div></div>

30 days of web tools Prezi Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of webtools: #25 Create a Prezi

What is a Prezi?Prezi is another presentation tool that is fascinating to use.You will find Prezi at http://prezi.com. It is a zooming digital presentation editor that holds the attention of students possibly more than would a PowerPoint.  (Last week…

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30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What are Edmodo and Obami? </span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s1600/edmodo2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s320/edmodo2.JPG" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s1600/obami.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s320/obami.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classroom uses of Edmodu and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Both have a user-friendly interface which is easy and simple for all to use<br />*There are easy-to-use wizards for creating calendars, pages and managing documents<br />*Teachers can set up and manage small groups for students projects <br />*Students can post notes, files, links, and discuss.<br />*Teachers  can post spelling, maths, research and other homework on Edmodo so that  parents can access it <br />*Students can help each other with homework tasks through using Edmodo <br />*Reading groups could use Edmodo or Obami to role play characters in the book they are reading.<br />*Students can ask questions they may feel silly about voicing in the classroom. <br />*Students can contact the teacher and send messages about homework they might forget to ask during the day. <br />*Edmodo is useful for project-based learning (see Further Reading post below). This would also be the case for Obami.<br />*You could post a document, students could download it, complete it and send it back to you, then you could grade it right online. Students could get instant feedback on graded materials.</span><br /><b><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SchoolNet webinar on Edmodo and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the recording for the the webinar that took place on Tuesday August 14th at 6pm. Lisa Gair from The Rock Academy spoke about how she uses Edmodo in her classroom, and Siobhan Louw from Somerset House spoke on how she uses Obami in her classroom. NO: There might be  slight gap in Siobhan’s recording as my internet dropped and I had to log in again. Apologies for that.  Here is the link:<br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Slideshare on Edmodo</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Gair has kindly allowed me to share the PowerPoint she used with you.</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14008475" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/introduce-your-class-to-edmodo" target="_blank" title="Introduce your class to Edmodo">Introduce your class to Edmodo</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11" target="_blank">Schoolnet SA </a></b></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><a href="http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/">http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/</a><br /><a href="http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies">http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies</a> </div>

30 days of web tools Edmodo Obami Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

What are Edmodo and Obami?  Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to po…

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