Featured: 1-13-2014 eduCanon

Build and share interactive video lessons using eduCanon. Students can now become actively involved in what has traditionally been a passive experience.

 

 

eduCanon makes it possible to take any YouTube, Vimeo, or TeacherTube video content and embed rich, dynamic questions with explanations inside the video. As students watch the video, the content is segmented into more palatable components to increase student engagement.

 

You can discover quality content by searching through the eduCanon database of teacher-created video, or you can paste the URL of a YouTube, Vimeo, or TeacherTube video, such as screencasts, Khan Academy, Minute Physics, TED, NOVA, etc.

Any aspect of the lesson can be easily edited, even after you’ve built it, from the title, to the video itself, to the questions, and when they appear. 

 

 Watch an overview of eduCanon's Builder Environment Walkthrough

 

eduCanon Monitoring analytics can inform you about whether students actually watch the video (key to flipping classrooms), what concepts they struggled with, and who really needs help. 

 

eduCanon is a free web-based app and works on all major browsers, Google Chrome and Safari are recommended, however. It supports iPad use as well.

 

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Featured: 8-7-2013 Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship

Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship is an interactive curriculum created to help teachers develop useful skills and an understanding of digital citizenship in their students.

Google devised Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship to support teachers of secondary students (ages 13-17). Their hope is that both students and educators will "gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity."

The Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship curriculum helps educate students on topics such as:

• YouTube’s policies.
• Reporting content on YouTube.
• Protecting privacy online.
• Being responsible YouTube community members.
• Being responsible digital citizens.

 Watch a video about the YouTube Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship includes ten English language lessons each designed to fit within 50 minute classes. Materials are also available in a number of other languages including Spanish, French, and Russian.

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The Periodic Table Set To Music

From AsapSCIENCE, comes "The NEW Periodic Table Song (In Order)" By by Mitchell Moffit based on the "Can-Can" music, by Offenbach.

 

 

You might also like the classic "The Elements", where Tom Lehrer sets the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

COD - 11/1/2012 Doceri [iPad Whiteboard]

A special series of posts this week is featuring four iPad apps that can help you use your iPad effectively with an interactive whiteboard. Today's featured app is Doceri.

Doceri for iPad combines screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard in one app. Create hand written or drawn projects on your iPad, using sophisticated drawing tools and the innovative Doceri Timeline.

Doceri allows you to backtrack to edit a drawing stroke, an inserted photo, or a hand drawn object at any time. Create, edit, replay, and refine your hand drawn or annotated presentation before you record, or record live during your presentation. Add an audio voice over as you record, or do it later.

When connected using wi-fi or an ad hoc wireless connection to your Mac or PC, you can access and control your desktop using Doceri on the iPad with the Doceri Desktop software on your computer. (You can present without Doceri Desktop via Airplay.)

Connect your Mac or PC to a projector and present anything from your iPad via the desktop software. Doceri’s one touch controls make it easy to control and annotate right on top of your Keynote or PowerPoint presentations, and save it as a Doceri project for future use. 

Still image captures, multi-page PDFs, or audio/video screencasts can be shared by email, iTunes, YouTube, or Facebook. Saving to the Camera Roll lets you share to any service you can connect to from your iPad or computer. 

Watch a video overview of Doceri

The free trial version of Doceri adds a watermark to the images, PDFs, and screencast videos that you share. To remove this watermark requires an in app purchase for $4.99 (USD). Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

>Similar apps you might want to check out:
Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing (free)
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard (free)
Splashtop Whiteboard ($19.99)
Jot! Whiteboard Free (free)

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COD - 10/17/2012 - Teachem [Video]

Teachem makes it possible for anyone to create a class from YouTube videos by adding time stamped flashcards and review questions.

 

 

There is a lot of video on YouTube, including over 700,000 educational videos in its EDU channel. Teachem feels that while this leads to a lot of opportunity it can also be very overwhelming. Starting a class on Teachem can take as little as 30 seconds.

 

You can go further than just creating a single class. You can first create a school. Then you can create as many classes as you want in that school by adding time-stamped flashcards and review questions to the videos. You can have as many schools as you want, making them open to the public or private just for your own class.

 

Teachem is a free and easy way to share your subject outside of the classroom. Create classes from your own collection of videos, or easily add any of the thousands of other YouTube videos on your chosen topic. Add your time-stamped flashcards at any point to any videos.

 

 

An unusual and interesting feature of Teachem is that the FAQ page is a series videos using their own features.

 

Watch a video: Teachem: Learning Has Never Been Easier!

The creators of Teachem believe their website can do for teaching what blogging did for publishing, open it up to the masses.

 

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COD - 3/26/2012 - TED-Ed [Video]

 

The mission of soon-to-be-launched TED-Ed is to "capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world."

TED-Ed pairs extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a library of videos meant to fuel the spirit of inquiry. The site featuring these new TED-Ed Originals, as well as some powerful new learning tools, is expected to launch early next month.

In the meantime, TED-Ed's YouTube channel features all of their new videos.

You can sign up to get TED-Ed news by email or follow @TED_ED on Twitter to keep informed of new developments on the site.

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Catch of The Day - Veengle - 11/22/2011

You can easily create and share compilations of YouTube videos with Veengle.

Your Veengle creations can be shared almost anywhere, on your website, your blog, Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites.

To create a Veengle compilation, find a video you want to use in your project and click on the "Open Video Editor" icon. Set the start and end times, then click on "Add to My Compilation". Repeat this process until your project is ready to go. View a preview, then save your compilation and share it with others.

Veengle is still in beta and will currently work only with YouTube videos. In the future, it is planned that users will be able to upload their own videos directly to Veengle.

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Catch of the Day - SlideShare - 8/2/2011

SlideShare is an online community for sharing presentations as well as documents, PDFs, videos, and webinars.

SlideShare is a good way to post your slides and other content to the web where your ideas can be found and shared.

Users may upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas and connect with others. Anyone can view these presentations and documents, download them, and use them for their own work.

Some of the things you can do with SlideShare:

• Upload presentations to share publicly or privately
• Download presentations made by other users to reuse or modify
• Embed SlideShare content on blogs, wikis, and websites
• Share on popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook
• Embed YouTube videos into SlideShare presentations

A free SlideShare account gives you unlimited uploads (3 video limit) and sharing of content and webinar creation. PRO plans start at $19(US) monthly and offer premium features such as private sharing, more videos, and an ad-free channel.

View Slideshare: Why you should use it

With 50 million monthly visitors and 90 million page views, SlideShare is among the most visited websites in the world.

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EmbedPlus Adds Crop and Classroom Suggestions

EmbedPlus, a free video-based tool that can help teachers share YouTube videos more effectively, which was the subject of a post last week has just created a page of ideas for using EmbedPlus in the classroom.

Also, they have added a a Crop tool to let users cut, splice, and chop a video to show only selected parts during play.

Go to the earlier post about EmbedPlus

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Catch of the Day - EmbedPlus - 2/9/2011

EmbedPlus is a free video-based tool that can help teachers share YouTube videos more effectively.

EmbedPlus allows users to embed YouTube videos with additional DVR-like capabilities that the standard YouTube player does not currently offer:

• Scene Skipping - skip to marked times
• Movable Zoom - magnify the area you point at
• On-Demand Slow Motion - instantly slow down videos
• Instant Replay - easily replay an event
• Your Own Annotations- add your own timed annotations

With EmbedPlus, seamlessly upgrade video for free. Features like scene skipping and annotations could enhance classroom videos. The slow motion and movable zoom functions can offer added accessibility for students with special needs.

Copy and paste the YouTube video's URL. Next, set a number of options such as embed size, start time, scene markers, and annotations. Then an HTML embed code and a short URL are generated. Copy and paste this code into the HTML of your web page and visitors will be able to watch the video using the enhanced EmbedPlus player.

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Catch of the Day - BlipSnips - 8/26/2010

BlipSnips is a free tool that can help you make YouTube and Vimeo videos more useful in your classroom.

With BlipSnips, you can select specific points in a video and jump directly to that point. Furthermore, you can add comments at those specific locations in the video.

With BlipSnips you can ...

• Jump directly to selected spots in the video
• Add comments directly to that point
• Share and embed easily
• Use with any video from YouTube or Vimeo

You can make a BlipSnip video by copying and pasting a YouTube or Vimeo video URL in the box. BlipSnips also provides a handy bookmarklet. Add it to your toolbar, then click it when watching a video to create a new BlipSnip video.

Watch a sample YouTube video that has been modified using BlipSnips

Note: I couldn't get it to work with a Vimeo video.

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Catch of the Day - Uniboard - 17 Mar 10

Uniboard software is today's fresh catch


Uniboard is pen software for presenting and teaching. Uniboard looks and functions like a simple whiteboard.

It works with most any non-keyboard input device: tablet PC, interactive whiteboards, graphics tablets, touch screens, even a mouse. Annotate, draw, and highlight to enhance and enrich your content while you are presenting.

Readily integrate any documents on your computer into your Uniboard presentation. An integrated web browser lets you access and capture any web content without leaving Uniboard. With the Apps Library insert a calculator, a stopwatch, Google maps, Wikipedia pages, YouTube videos, and many more apps.

Uniboard makes it possible to easily record and share your presentation using the Podcast tool. Record your explanation live while you write and draw, then publish on YouTube.

Uniboard features...

• Unlimited page size
• Document autosave
• Quick view and access to your Uniboard documents
• Great quality of writing
• Integrated document management
• Uniboard virtual printer
• Available in 8 languages
• and more

Watch a video demo of Uniboard.

Uniboard is available for both Mac and Windows. You can download and use Uniboard for free. This is a fully functional, unlimited version of Uniboard that will, however, show a semi-transparent banner at the bottom on startup promoting Uniboard. This banner can be closed. An education license which gives you access to minor updates and completely eliminates the banner is $49.

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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.

Screenshots

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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