Tellagami – Create Narrated Animations on Your iPad

Tellagami is a free iPad that elementary school students will enjoy using to create narrated animations. If you have ever used Voki or GoAnimate, Tellagami will feel familiar to you. Tellagami allows your students to create customized animated scenes in a matter of minutes.



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The Best 5 Online Educational Video Libraries to Learn New Stuff

In the world of technology the methods of learning have changed significantly, from traditional means like reading books to revolutionary methods like watching and learning from videos.



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#GCCC13: Watch This 11 Year Old Keynote Speaker… THIS IS AWESOME!

Watch 11 year old Matthew give the pre-keynote address at the Greater Clark Connected Conference in front of 400 educators and a live televised audience! Video recorded by Jeff Bradbury: @TeacherCast For more information about having TeacherCast broadcast at your event, please visit www.



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1M infographics have been created with Infogr.am and now you can use it right from Microsoft Excel

Infographic creator Infogr.am is celebrating a milestone today: 1 million graphics have been created on its platform. In conjunction with this news, the company is also releasing a Microsoft desktop app that pairs its service with Excel. One of the winners from our conference in April, Infogr.



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7 Ways to Find Creative Commons Music

There are millions of songs out there under a Creative Commons licence. But how can you find them? Happily, we’ve compiled a list of the top seven ways to find Creative Commons licensed and public domain music online.



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Shooting for the Edit

Edit less by shooting smarter! Chris's production tips to give you a leg-up in post-production. Edit less by shooting smarter! Chris shares some tips you can use during video production to give you a huge leg up in post-production.



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How to Use B-Roll Footage In Videos

Earlier today at the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp I talked about the idea of creating a gallery of b-roll media that your students can use in their slideshows and videos.



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RADCAB - A Website Evaluation Framework for Students

Thanks to Patty Eyer today I learned about a great mnemonic acronym to help students remember a process for website evaluation. RADCAB, which you can learn about at RADCAB.com, stands for relevancy, appropriateness, detail, currency, authority, and bias.



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Two Video Guides to Website Evaluation

Writing the previous post about RADCAB reminded me of a Common Craft video about website evaluation. That video is embedded below. Common Craft videos are free to watch for evaluation purposes, but to share them you do have to be a subscriber to their service (I am).



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How to Track Your Stolen Laptop Using Dropbox

Mediabistro Event Launch Your Copy Editing Career Enhance your skills with the best in the business in our Copy Editing 101 interactive online event starting August 7. You’ll discuss style guides, avoiding common errors, and landing a job to jumpstart your career. Register now.



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A Must See Graphic on Creative Commons for Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Creators enrich the web with their creations but without licensing others to use and in some cases add up to that work, innovation will never develop. This is where the importance of a licensing body such as Creative Commons comes in handy.



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Capturing Student Work via Email to GoogleDrive or Evernote #edcampsa

For apps that won't allow you to copy from the Camera Roll--like AlbumFX Lite--you can have students email the product directly to Evernote, GoogleDrive via GoFileDrop Freemium, or--if you're not worried about FERPA issues--as DougPete points out in this comment, use dropittome to send it to Dropb



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15 More Apps To Create Books On The iPad

Creating books on the iPad doesn’t seem like the first thing you might do with one of the popular little tablets, but it’s really quite capable of doing so provided you’re not trying to write the next great novel.



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Summer Learning Series-Twitter Chats For Learning

This is the fourth post in my Summer Learning Series. These are short posts with tools, tips and resources for you to try something new this summer or something you can take to the classroom in the Fall.



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A Must See Graphic on How to Do Research ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is graphic that I have used in several presentations and in different workshops. This graphic has been created by Kentucky Virtual Library and is meant to walk students throught the process of doing research from A to Z.



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A Fabulous Flow Chart on How Students Should Use Images from The Web ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Using multimedia is part and parcel of students work in the classroom. Several classroom projects now include curating resources, using images and videos. However, the use of such media materials is regulated and does require complying by certain rules and guidelines.



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What’s Life Without Apps?: eBay INFOGRAPHIC

Mediabistro Event Launch Your Copy Editing Career Enhance your skills with the best in the business in our Copy Editing 101 interactive online event starting August 7. You’ll discuss style guides, avoiding common errors, and landing a job to jumpstart your career. Register now.



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Storytelling Fun With Foldify for iPad

Foldify is an iPad app that students can use to design all kinds of 3D figures on their iPads. After designing their figures students can print their designs with directions for folding their designs into 3D paper objects. Foldify provides basic templates for objects like cars, houses, and people.



via Pocket http://ipadapps4school.com/2013/07/11/storytelling-fun-with-foldify-for-ipad/

Summer Learning Series-It's All About The Hashtag

If you remember, in my 3 part series on Twitter, I wrote about how I completely changed the way I do professional development on Twitter. In a nutshell, I no longer start with signing up and tweeting the first day. I always show how to use Twitter without ever signing up.



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The Two Cutest Explanations of Social Media That You'll See Today

There are so many social networks on the web today that it can be hard to keep track of which ones to use for which purposes. Avalaunch Media is here to help with two of the cutest explanations that you'll see today.



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With Tighter COPPA Regulations, Librarians See Hurdles to Kids’ Internet Use

New rules take effect this month intended to protect kids’ privacy online, and some librarians are worried. Some say that the more stringent regulations may impede mobile app use in elementary schools—and also prevent kids from recreationally sharing favorite hobby sites with each other.



via Pocket http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/07/k-12/with-tighter-coppa-regulations-librarians-seed-hurdles-to-kids-internet-use/

Email Multiple Photos from an iPad to A Blogger Site

Today in iPad Media Camp in Manhattan, Kansas, participants learned how to email multiple photos from an iPad to a Blogger website, using a “secret email address” defined in the Blogger settings.



via Pocket http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/07/09/email-multiple-photos-from-an-ipad-to-a-blogger-site/

15 New Good Chrome Extensions for Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Since I published the previous list of students Chrome extensions a few weeks ago, I received several emails from fellow teachers and educators suggesting more important extensions to add to the list. I have gone through all of these resources and I selected the ones below.



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Important Advice For Anyone Who Wants To Be Effective At Making Change

One of the key concepts that any good community organizer knows is that people who are “formal” leaders (presidents, pastors, CEO’s) may not really be the genuine leaders who have a following and influence.



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Favorite #iPad Apps

Over the last year, I've had the opportunity to work with lots of different iPad apps. I've spent lots of money (about $200) on all the different paid apps, as well as some that I managed to pick up thanks to just in time notifications via AppsForFree app (free itself).



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