Featured: 9-25-2013 Kaizena

 

Kaizena reinvents the teacher feedback process. It’s as easy as highlighting and speaking. Voice comments make your feedback personal and engaging.

Giving feedback with Kaizena is faster than using a word processor, or even a red pen with its negative connotations. Kaizena is built to save you time, allowing prompt, useful feedback.

Other features of Kaizena:

• Students can respond to your feedback with a voice comment of their own.
• Support for text comments.
• Attach a resource.

Common problems can be taken care of with reusable mini-lessons. Add a link once, and reuse it every time you encounter that same problem.

 See a video demo of Kaizena by Greg Mcverry

Kaizena works seamlessly with your Google Drive workflow. No new usernames or passwords are needed.

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Featured: 5-21-2013 RealtimeBoard [Tools]

RealtimeBoard is an online tool for creating and implementing real-time visual presentation and collaboration.

RealtimeBoard online whiteboards can enrich your lessons:

• Use whiteboards to dynamically draw your lessons.
• Discuss the tasks with students either in or out of the classroom.
• Access boards any time from everywhere.
• Make a rich presentation to share with your class.

Create a new board from a template or from scratch. You can upload your own images or use images from the RealtimeBoard library of vector images. Add videos to your boards by pasting YouTube or Vimeo links. Use the mark-up tools to draw, create text, and make sticky notes.

RealtimeBoard works with Google Drive, too. Drag-and-drop files from Google Drive onto your boards. With a Chrome extension, grab images from websites and web searches right to the RealtimeBoard library.

 Watch a video demo of RealtimeBoard

Share your RealtimeBoard public boards, or keep boards private. Invite colleagues to share boards. Set access rights: editors can make changes to your boards, viewers cannot.

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COD - 9/24/2012 - CloudOn [Documents]

CloudOn is a free tablet app that lets you work directly in Microsoft Office, edit & store your information online, and share files with your colleagues.

As well as being able to format text, change fonts, and correct  typos, CloudOn enables you to track changes while editing Word documents, use pivot tables and insert formulas in Excel,  present your PowerPoint slides complete with transitions, and more.

Key features of CloudOn:

• You work in the real Microsoft Office.
• CloudOn delivers your Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive files to one place.
• Open email attachments directly in the workspace or send files to anyone, even if they don’t have a CloudOn account.
• Use the file viewer to open and view PDF, PNG, EPS, or virtually any file type.
• CloudOn automatically saves any change you make.Watch a video introduction to CloudOn

CloudOn is available for iPad from the iTunes App Store and from Google Play for Android tablets.

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COD - 8/6/2012 - Lectrio [LMS]

Lectrio is a free and simple way for educators to share course materials with students. Upload almost anything you like to this intuitive LMS. 

Lectrio can be used to link content on the web, integrating online multimedia like videos or presentations into materials. View documents within Lectrio with its internal document viewer. The file types that can be viewed in Lectrio include Word, Excel. Powerpoint, Pages, PDF, Photoshop, and many more. It also works with Google Docs.

Create attractive calendars for your courses. Lectrio will automatically notify all your students of any changes you make to important dates, such as deadlines for assignments and test dates.

Create assignments and grade student submissions, including Pass/Fail. Easily track which students didn't submit their work, and what needs to be graded.

Teachers and students can participate in group discussions. Students can leave comments for lecture materials, so you can be sure they understand the content.

Lectrio helps you easily follow students' progress. Track attendance, record students' grades, and make notes about their performance. Information about students' submissions, grades for assignments, and their attendance is aggregated on one page.

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COD - 4/4/2012 - Google Docs OCR [Tools]

Use the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of Google Docs to convert PDFs and scanned images of pages to editable text for free.

Google Docs supports importing and converting scanned text documents. Upload your scanned images (JPEG, GIF, PNG) or PDFs, check the option to “Convert text from PDF and image files to Google documents”, and Google Docs will extract text and formatting from the scans that you can edit.

Google Docs OCR works best with high-resolution images, and not all formatting may be preserved. To help ensure the accuracy of the OCR translation, the original PDF/image is included in the new document, followed by the editable transcript of its contents. So, each page of the original document converts as two pages - one original image, and one of the rendered editable text.

Watch a video demo of Google Docs OCR

Go to an earlier post about converting PDFs to editable text

Google Docs OCR supports a number of languages including English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

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COD - 9/24/2012 - CloudOn [Tablet]

CloudOn is a free tablet app that lets you work directly in Microsoft Office, edit & store your information online, and share files with your colleagues.

As well as being able to format text, change fonts, and correct  typos, CloudOn enables you to track changes while editing Word documents, use pivot tables and insert formulas in Excel,  present your PowerPoint slides complete with transitions, and more.

Key features of CloudOn:

• You work in the real Microsoft Office.
• CloudOn delivers your Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive files to one place.
• Open email attachments directly in the workspace or send files to anyone, even if they don’t have a CloudOn account.
• Use the file viewer to open and view PDF, PNG, EPS, or virtually any file type.
• CloudOn automatically saves any change you make.Watch a video introduction to CloudOn

CloudOn is available for iPad from the iTunes App Store and from Google Play for Android tablets.

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Catch of the Day - Googlio - 9/28/2010

Googlio is a free portfolio webspace created by mashing up blog, wiki, social networking, and other Google web tools for students and teachers to collect, publish, reflect, and connect digitally.

Googlios brings together free Google tools and ePortfolios. It is meant to be a collection of resources for using ePortfolios in education.

Watch a video introduction to Googlio

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Catch of the Day - gFlash+ - 5 Mar 10

The catch of the day is gFlash+, flashcards for iPhone/iPod Touch


gFlash+ is a free flashcard app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. There are a lot of flashcard apps in the app store and I've been trying out many of the free ones. gFlash+ is one of the easier to use, more versatile such apps.

One of the strengths of gFlash+ is that new card sets can be created with a simple two-column spreadsheet in Google Docs and downloaded directly to the gFlash+ app on your mobile device. You can also download card sets from the gFlash catalog directly to your device, as well as load cardsets from content partners; StudyStack and the FlashcardExchange.

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Any two column Google Spreadsheet can become a set of flashcards or a reference guide. However gFlash offers templates on their web site that make creating content easy, give you control over how certain fields display on the mobile device, give you control over certain modes, such as disable multiple choice, Study Mode, and Q&A reversal, and makes the content search-able if you later share the document with gWhizMobile@gmail.com .

All gFlash apps support image files hosted on the internet. You can embed audio (.mp3, .mp4, and .wav) references to files stored on the Internet and YouTube video file references in the appropriate Google Spreadsheet cell.

Watch a Demo Video


The free app, gFlash+ [iTunes app store link], has a limit of 13 cards in a set and includes small ads. There is also a paid version gFlashPro available for $4.99, with unlimited cards in a set and no ads.

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Catch of the Day - Create a Quiz in Google Forms - 11 Aug 09

Today's catch is this great video Using Google Forms to Create an Online Quiz

In five minutes, learn how to use Google Forms to create an easy-to-administer and grade online quiz or test. Results are presented in a Google spreadsheet.



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