AnyMeeting is a nice service for hosting and recording live webinars without installing any special software. When using Any Meeting
as a webinar host you can share your screen, use your webcam, and use
text chat all at the same time. As the webinar host you can invite
others to talk to the group using their webcams. You can have up to six
webcams active in a webinar at any one time. You can record all or part
of your webinar for free too. If you have people that just want to
participate in the audio aspect of your webinar, they can call in using
the phone number and access code assigned to your webinar.
Any Meeting has
a free plan and paid plans. The free plan is supported with
advertising. Using the free version of Any Meeting you can have up to
200 total webinar participants. The paid plans removes the advertising.
Cassie's Digiology
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Infographics
There are so many infographics out there, but how can we use them in teaching and learning? Kathy Schrock did a great presentation and it was very simple. I love the resources and links she provided.
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/infographictopics
Can you think of ways to use infographics in teaching and learning?
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/
https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/infographictopics
Can you think of ways to use infographics in teaching and learning?
Urtak is a free and simple polling service that can be used on any blog or
website. The polls you create can have multiple questions, but they must
be "yes or no" questions. But Urtak
isn't that limited because visitors to your poll also have the option
of writing in their own questions.
You can get started using Urtak in seconds by registering with your Twitter or Facebook account. You can also use your email address to create an account with Urtak. As you can see above, Urtak polls can be embedded into your blog or you can direct people to your poll by sharing the unique url Urtak assigns to your poll.
You can get started using Urtak in seconds by registering with your Twitter or Facebook account. You can also use your email address to create an account with Urtak. As you can see above, Urtak polls can be embedded into your blog or you can direct people to your poll by sharing the unique url Urtak assigns to your poll.
Should we use twitter?
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Shelfster
Shelfster is a new research and writing tool that I learned about from Vicki Davis
earlier this week before trying it out myself this afternoon. The
purpose of Shelfster is to help you bookmark and annotate websites and
documents that you find while researching a topic. You can organize your
findings into Shelfster projects. Within each of your projects you can
create documents by dragging and dropping links and texts into your
documents from your list of saved links. Of course, you can also type in
your documents and edit things that you dragged from your project
library to your documents. Documents can be saved in your online
account, downloaded, and printed.
Shelfster offers an iPad and iPhone app for bookmarking and annotating items to save in your projects. Shelfster also has browser bookmarklets and browser extensions for bookmarking and annotating materials in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera (sorry Safari fans, it seems Shelfster doesn't support that yet). You can also use Shelfster as a desktop app on Mac and Windows computers.
Applications for Education
Shelfster has the potential to be a good service to help students organize the useful content they find on the Internet. I'm not sure that I'd have students write an entire research paper within Shelfster yet, but it could definitely be a good place to construct an outline of a research paper. Shelfster says that integration with Google Docs is coming in the future. When that happens then I might have students use Shelfster for writing an entire research paper that could be easily shared for peer editing.
Shelfster offers an iPad and iPhone app for bookmarking and annotating items to save in your projects. Shelfster also has browser bookmarklets and browser extensions for bookmarking and annotating materials in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera (sorry Safari fans, it seems Shelfster doesn't support that yet). You can also use Shelfster as a desktop app on Mac and Windows computers.
Applications for Education
Shelfster has the potential to be a good service to help students organize the useful content they find on the Internet. I'm not sure that I'd have students write an entire research paper within Shelfster yet, but it could definitely be a good place to construct an outline of a research paper. Shelfster says that integration with Google Docs is coming in the future. When that happens then I might have students use Shelfster for writing an entire research paper that could be easily shared for peer editing.
Find that File
Find that file is an interesting source to find or locate different forms of file types for a specific subject or content piece.
http://www.findthatfile.com/
http://www.findthatfile.com/
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
Just finished reading this book by Chris Lehmann and Scott McLeod. As technology reshapes teaching and learning in the twenty-first
century, school leaders would do well take into consideration the insights and
advice shared in this book. With dozens of concrete
examples, it offers something for education leaders no matter their
prior experience with technology tools and issues. Digital technologies and social media continue to evolve and are transforming the way in which we communicate, teach, and learn. This is a must-have toolbox for
educational leaders who choose to be agents of change.
If you have a chance, pick up a copy. It is worth the investment, especially for school leaders.
If you have a chance, pick up a copy. It is worth the investment, especially for school leaders.
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