What I'm Learning: Great story of teacher collaboration and student engagement
What a great story of teacher collaboration and student engagement. #k12online14 A Tale of Three Classrooms (2014)
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What I'm Learning: One of the better stories that exists about connected learning
One of the better stories that exists about connected learning. Just beautiful. #k12online14 We are all Connected (2014)
What I'm Using: Make a Gif out of any Slideshare deck that exists!
I love the ability to make a Gif out of any Slideshare deck that exists! Go http://gifdeck.in/!
What I'm Using: LibreStock (for finding stock photography)
It has been a while since I used something other than MorgueFile for finding high quality stock photography. This sure is nice, though: Search through 31,072 high quality do-what-ever-you-want stock photos
What I'm Using: SpeachNotes (for dictating with amazing accuracy)
I have absolutely never seen a dictation tool for the web that is this good. Wow. Speechnotes Professional Speech Recognizing Text Editor Distraction-free, Fast, Easy to Use & Free Web App for Dictation & Typing Speechnotes is a powerful speech-enabled online notepad, designed to empower your ideas by implementing …
What I'm Using: Notion.so (for collaborative creations)
It has been a long time since I was last interested in a collaborative “document” creator. I have been exclusively been using Google Docs for years now. Notion is making me think twice about this decision. It is a breath of fresh air, and so long as it continues to develop, I …
What I'm Learning About: Remote Control Motion for iPhone & GoPro: Motrr Galileo
I’m intrigued by how this tool can be used for capturing learning. Galileo has many uses. It is an app-driven, motorized mount that lets you control the orientation of your iPhone or GoPro. It can be directly programmed to follow specific motion paths, or controlled remotely from most handheld devices …
What I'm Using: Google Classroom- Creating a Discussion Board via @alicekeeler
I found this use of google spreadsheets to be pretty amazing, especially with how it interfaces with classroom so well. The advantage to using a spreadsheet for discussions is… it is a spreadsheet!! Google Sheets are in your Google Drive, easy to locate. It can be embeded into another website …
What I'm Using: Balloon (for receiving files directly to my dropbox)
This is pretty freakin’ cool. Balloon is a drop box for your Dropbox. Share your Balloon to receive files, collect photos from an event, and so much more straight to your Dropbox. There’s no signup for senders, and no need for you to manually download files anymore. Source: Balloon
What I'm Using: Screensaver Ninja (for displaying a twitter hashtag as a screensaver)
So, this is kind of impressive. I am in love with the idea of using your idle computer to continually update a hashtag you are following: Screensaver Ninja allows you to display websites through your screensaver in rotation, transforming your computer or a dedicated monitor into a powerful dashboard for you and your …