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Deep Thoughts Daily
I am pleased to announce my latest blog DeepThoughtsDaily.com. Although it is not very high tech it is a great location to get little thoughts to present to the class. I think it is very valuable for students to learn little thoughts that will help them through life and motivate success. There are a few [...]
Articulate Releases New Suite of E-Learning Authoring Tools
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 1, 2008 — Articulate, the market leader in rapid e-learning software, has released Articulate Studio ‘09, a powerful and easy-to-use suite of e-learning development tools.
significantly upgrades popular Articulate products and introduces a new video encoder.
“In the new Studio ‘09, we’ve combined requests from our users with innovative features no other [...]
Adobe Flex Builder 2 to Students and Faculty Free
SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich [...]
ELMO Document camera
I have been using an overhead projector for many years in my teachin practice. It was great, I could face the students when I write, I could copy worksheets on a transparency so the kids could see it, and more. Although it was great it did have a few disadvantages. First even whan in good [...]
iPod Now Ready for the Education Market
It did not take long, but the iPod Touch now has sufficient apps too make it a valuable tool for education. When the iPod first came out there were very limited apps in the area of education but that is rapidly changing. Although apple is critisized for being a clozed development format, the explosion of [...]
Iphone For Education, well not yet.
I was reading a glowing review of the many new apps (15) for education from e-school news. As much as I wanted the see great education apps on the phone, unfourtunately they are not there, with the exception of a few very specialized apps. With the 2.0 upgrade to iphone, and the ipod touch there [...]
Picturing History “US History as seen through the artists eye”
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=home
Picturing History is a site develped by the National Endowment for the Humanities that has a collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures that have a connection to historical events. The pictures themselves are great, but the are brought into context as you click on a picture. You get a descrition of the historical event that [...]
5 Best Photo Applications for the Mac Classroom
Editing and Manipulating photos is becoming an essential part of the multimedia classroom. In considering which tools are best I looked at a few primary factors. These include: Price, Capability, Ease of use, and educational value.
Pixelmator- $59 Pixelmator is a very powerful photo editing tool that gives you photoshop like capability in a easy to [...]
Free Photoshop for Teachers and Students Online
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Adobe has just released a great tool for basic editing of photos. The best part about it is that it is free and does not require installation. Photoshop Express is a free online application that lets you do a variety of things to photos, including: Cropping, Rotating, adding effects, correcting blemishes and more. This is [...]
Investment Simulation for Teenagers
http://simulator.investopedia.com/
In one of my high school business classes we did an activity where we got to buy and sell stocks on paper for a quarter, and it was a great expierence. The down side to that expierence is that it was limited to the major stocks listed in the local paper, and we had to [...]
