Presentation tools

5 Great Tools for Creating Your Own Educational Infographics

May 15, 2013

These fun, mostly free tools can help educators easily create their own Infographics, and bring a very modern twist to instruction. “A picture is worth thousand words”. That is what infographics do. They convey a wealth of information in a largely graphical format. They can help communicate visually even the most complex concepts in a [...]

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Dozens of Tips & Techniques for Creating High Quality Engaging Screencasts

March 31, 2013

The creation of instructional videos is one of the many technology-enabled capabilities that the 21st century teacher has at their disposal. Instructional videos can be a wonderfully engaging element in teaching. Video content is also usually a fundamental element of the flipped classroom (which regular readers of EmergingEdTech know we’re a big fan of). The [...]

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Simplify Project Based Learning With Biteslide

February 17, 2013

This digital slide book application can be a powerful companion to Project Based Learning efforts. Introduction In this article I shall give you a brief introduction to Project Based Learning (PBL) and show you how Biteslide can be used as an end-to-end technology solution for PBL projects. There are a dizzying number of EdTech tools [...]

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Using Instagram in an Educational Context

February 13, 2013

The highly popular photo sharing app can deliver a variety of educational benefits. If you are active on social websites, or have young tech users in your life, then you’ve probably come across Instagram. This application works in hand-in-hand with Facebook and has grown to be one of the most apps on the Internet. What [...]

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Add Voice Over to PowerPoint Presentations in 5 Easy Steps

December 23, 2012

This simple technique is an easy way to turn those PowerPoint Slides into flipped course content. The presentation tool in Microsoft Office is one of the most widely used slide presentation applications available today. While PowerPoint has plenty of detractors and is often the butt of jokes (“PowerPoint has no power and no point …”, [...]

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6 Free Online Collaborative Interactive White Boards – 2012 Update

November 4, 2012

3 of the original apps from our April 2010 post are no longer available, but here’s 4 more free online IWBs to check out, and they’re all collaborative! The original April 2010 article, “6 Free Online Interactive White Boards” and the more recent “Using The iPad As A Digital Whiteboard (Plus 4 Cool Free Apps [...]

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8 Great Education and Instructional Technology Infographics

September 5, 2012

There’s been a surge in the number of Infographics published this year that focus on instructional technologies and how they are evolving and being used. For those of you who are fans of this increasingly common and popular visual communications device, here is a selection of ed tech related Infographics that were created and made [...]

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Is Reverse Instruction Education Technology’s Perfect Storm?

April 8, 2012

Flipping the classroom is a technology-enabled technique that can make a significant difference in student learning and academic success, and is well suited for gradual widespread adoption. Having been immersed in the world of education and instructional technologies for a good number of years now, I often think about which technologies can truly make a [...]

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Enabling the Flipped Classroom with Evolving Software Solutions

March 7, 2012

Guest Post by Louis Malenica In a way, we are all experts in education. It is one area in which we may each claim extensive experience. We all spent many years in school, and now we all read, write, calculate and basically get along in the world, regardless of our level of formal attainment. And [...]

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4 Sets of Introductory Computer and Internet Technology Interactives

February 22, 2012

A collection of web based interactive activities to introduce students to computers and the Internet. It was my pleasure to deliver presentations on “Using Popular Social Networks Tools in Course Work” and “Flipping The Classroom: Succeeding with Reverse Instruction” for our faculty here at The College of Westchester on Monday. While discussing the use of [...]

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