Posts Tagged as ‘resource’

November 5, 2009

Image Size and Resolution

Blurry digital images? Here’s how you fix them.

October 21, 2009

Vorbeo: Easy Web Polls

Vorbeo makes polls for blogs, moodle, and websites with terrific live preview function.

October 19, 2009

Twurdy: Readability-Based Search

Find easy-to-read web pages for low-level readers.

August 27, 2009

Highlight the Web

Why just share a link, when you can share highlighted text, too?

August 18, 2009

Crowdsourcing Meta-Resources

Can lists of audio resources for ESL be crowdsourced and mashed up? I’m ready to find out.

July 8, 2009

Teach Like a Dandelion Not a Mammal

Dandelions scatter seeds everywhere. Can knowledge be scattered as widely? A connectivist take on Chris Anderson’s article about abundance vs. scarcity and how it can be applied to teaching.

May 13, 2009

Random Choices from my Interactive Whiteboard

I used an editable, flash-based slot machine on an interactive whiteboard to choose students for roleplay activities.

April 7, 2009

Mashable Interactive Whiteboard Activites

Several popular classroom games, most of which are customizable — they can be adapted to different topics, levels, and lists of vocabulary. Plenty of great options for Interactive Whiteboard users!

March 5, 2009

Simplification now includes Photoshop

Most users of most technologies don’t need every possible feature. And, increasingly, they are choosing to not pay a premium for them. Online photo editors now include layers, masking, and plenty of effects. Most are free and work as simply as attaching a photo to your email message.

February 27, 2009

The Smartest Pen Ever

When using the Smartpen, your notes and the audio you recorded while taking them can be uploaded to your computer. When you use the Smartpen on Livescribe’s special dot paper, it indexes the audio you record to what you were writing when you recorded it.