3 great tools to records screencasts on chrome book

September 26, 2014When it comes to creating screencasts on Chromebook, several of the popular screencasting web tools (e.g Screencastomatic and Screenr) are out of the list because they require Java and  Chromebook does not run Java. That being said, there are , however, several alternative ways to for Chromebook users to create screencasts. Here are 3 of the best of them:1- Google hangoutThis is one the my favourite ways to record a screencast...

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4 of the best Android apps for flipped classrooms

September 25, 2014 I have been receiving several requests to feature a list of the best Android apps for  flipped classrooms. I know I have repeatedly featured here different iPad apps for creating flipped lesson videos but the thing with Android is that I am not really a huge fan of it for the simple reason that its app store is lacking several powerful apps that are indispensable to us in education. Even when I was working on today's list...

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Multimedia Resources

1-Video narrative - digital storytelling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling  http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Good-DocumentaryFilm http://www.ehow.com/video_4755820_what-film-narrative.html http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=23&cid=23&sublinkid=36 http://freeplaymusic.com (free music that can be used in a video) 2-Video editing software http://avidemux.sourceforge.net (Win, Mac, Linux - free)  http://www.lwks.com (Win - free)  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker (Win) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software  http://audacity.sourceforge.net...

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23 iPad Google Apps Every Teacher Should Know about

Google has several officially released apps that teachers (and anyone else) can use on their iPads. All of these apps are available for free download from the iTunes app store. Recently,  Shake Up Learning published this wonderful infographic where she featured some useful Google apps for iPad. As is the case with all the visuals she shares, this graphic sums up the most essential Google apps every teacher should be aware of. These apps...

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