A colleague of mine recently showed me a very cool way for students to create good-looking videos. It’s called Animoto. Animoto lets you quickly and easily combine text, images, and videos into beautiful videos. The videos really do look good. Your students will be impressed with what they can create. My friend’s grade 6 students […]
YouTube videos not embedding correctly on WordPress class blogs
Whoops? Did something break? [stextbox id=”info”]Looks like the glitch is fixed. Youtube videos look just fine now.[/stextbox] I was just about to email a friend to show them how they could embed YouTube videos onto their classroom blog when I noticed YouTube videos on my own classroom blogs weren’t working properly. (I run a self […]
Backing up Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 User Profile
There is nothing scarier than opening up Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 to get an error message saying there’s something wrong with your user profile. (Well, I suppose your computer not booting up is pretty scary too. Or, when your hard drive crashes and you lose all of your family photos, that sucks.) If you’ve been […]
Using Dragon Naturally Speaking in mind mapping software
Some students use Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software as assistive technology the classroom. Voice recognition is not a magic solution that will help all students, but for some students, writing using their mouths instead of their hands can be a more effective way for them to get their ideas onto paper. Mind mapping software […]
Google drive app makes the iPad an effective tool in the classroom
There are two big problems that I hear about using an iPad in the classroom (or anywhere else for that matter.) I’m talking about problems with using the iPad as a notetaking tool, as opposed to problems with deploying and managing a class set of iPads. It’s hard to create content on the iPad. The […]
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