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The Daily Round Up - May 7th, 2013

5/7/2013

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Hey Round Uppers - Let's start today over at Free Tech 4 Teachers.  Richard and his non-stop blog machine have 3 great new posts up.  The first is about an iPad app called Nearpod Homework.  The original Nearpad app is used to send out lessons and polls through iPads.  Nearpad Homework expands on that by adding the ability to send out presentations and quizzes as well, which students can work through at their own pace.

Next up, he's got an article entitled, "Collaboratively Create Multimedia Books on Widbook."  Widbook is a program that allows people to collaboratively create multimedia books (as the article's title would suggest...)  You can embed text, images, and videos in your digital book and then collaborate with whoever you want to!  It's a great (and one of the few) PC alternatives to iAuthor.

Finally, there's a write-up on "eduClipper: It's What Teachers Want Pinterest to Be."  eduClipper is, at its core, a visual bookmarking tool (much like Pinterest).  But, it handles more than just websites; you can add PDFs, PowerPoints, images, and videos as well.  Plus it can link directly to your Google Drive if you've got one set up.  And probably the best educational feature is that teachers can create class boards which their students can post to.  

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EdCetera has an article up today entitled, "Understand How Students Learn with E-Textbook Analytics"  It's about the E-textbook publishing company Soomo who create e-books that are "designed to encourage regular student interaction with the content, and collect data int he process that can help professors understand student needs."  


So, while your student reads and interacts with the textbook, it's busy collecting data (which sections are more difficult, which parts are the easiest, and so on).  Then, those results are sent to the professor for examination and analysis.  It's a pretty great way to find out how your students are engaging in their assigned reading.  Of course, privacy issues would be an obvious concern that would need to be addressed as well.


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Educational Technology has some excellent new resources today as well.  First up, "Teacher's must have tool for easily downloading or converting youtube videos."  I'll give you a hint, it's PWN YouTube, an online app that lets you easily download any YouTube, Dailymotion, Facebook, or Vimeo video in a wide variety of formats.  Definitely a great tool and worth checking out.

They also have a new post about "Teaching Using Google Glass."  If you're not familiar with Google Glass, here's a video to check out.  In short, GG is a piece of wearable tech that lets users take pictures, record and share videos, get directions, send messages, translate your voice, and ask questions to the internet.  It's an incredibly exciting piece of technology.  And here's an example of a Google Glass Virtual Field Trip in action (it's the same video from the article)...

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Finally, TeachThought has two enjoyable new posts up.  The first, "5 Less Formal Alternatives to Homework Over Summer Break" provides some great ideas for teachers looking for possible summer assignments that are more engaging and enjoyable than traditional homework.

They also have a new post, "A Primer in Heutagogy and Self-Directed Learning"  This article actually focuses on the work of my former Ed Tech professor, Jackie Gerstein.  She gave a presentation over "Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy of Mobile Learning"  which focuses on mobile and self-directed learning.  I've embedded the presentation below, in case you're interested!
Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy of Mobile Learning from Jackie Gerstein

Let's end today with two quick bonus links!
  • First up, a niceinfographic about creating infographics from Educational Technology.
  • Last up, a new featured paper from Digital Learning now about the benefits of blended learning.

Thanks for reading and see you tomorrow!

- The Round Up
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