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TEDEd, TED X, and flipping videos

Posted by packroyd on May 14th, 2012

Many people have been inspired by the TED talks on the web.

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Music maestro

Posted by packroyd on April 30th, 2012

A recent online discussion regarding the use of popular music, and the complex copyright difficulties this can cause staff and students prompts me to remind readers about places to obtain royalty free music, and a plug for a blog I strongly recommend.  I first wrote about some sources for royalty free and creative commons sourced music  in this blog in 2009, including Kevin Macleod's http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ .

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Prezify your Powerpoint

Posted by packroyd on April 23rd, 2012

I am just doing a live broadcast Prezi for beginners tutorial in college today, so a post about about how you can now turn your PowerPoint presentations into Prezi presentations is probably timely.  I am less of a fan of Prezi than some people, mainly because for me the quality of a presentation has less to do with software choice and more to do with presentation skills.  If you have a bad PowerPoint show, it will export to a bad Prezi show.  However I also have to say that Prezi does not force you down the linear route that Po

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Visual Google image search

Posted by packroyd on April 16th, 2012

Do a Google image search, for say, "pingpong".  Nothing new so far.  But did you know you can drag one of the images you are presented with into the Google search box?  This then searches for places on the web where this image occurs!  You can also then search for visually similar images.  Once more I need to say tha

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infocus

Posted by packroyd on April 2nd, 2012


Too much information?
Highlight the bit of a web page you want, and share it!

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Geogebra is wonderful

Posted by packroyd on March 26th, 2012

non dynamic screengrabI have mentioned Geogebra previously in this blog, and we are now beginning to use this free Maths software more extensively here at college.  I love the dynamic nature of the diagrams you can produce, but due to technical problems at present you will need to use your imagina

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photopin

Posted by packroyd on March 19th, 2012

For a teacher in a rush, copyright can be an irritation. However how would you feel if someone was using your own creative work without acknowledment?   So, if you want to quickly find photos you can use for your learning materials, with a copy and paste copyright acknowledgement, a useful site to find them is

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veengle YouTube compiler

Posted by packroyd on March 12th, 2012

Veengle is a YouTube playlist editor, that allows you to put together clips into a coherent collection, and also gives you the opportunity to just pick the parts of each video you want.   It will then give you embed code for the resultant "mingled" video.  Just to illustrate the concept here is a couple of glossy Google promos, one for search features, and one for Sketch-up, put together into a single compilation, and then embedded in this blog.  Despite their relentless cheerfulness and glossiness you may also learn som

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Grockit Answers: a discussion tool around online videos.

Posted by packroyd on March 5th, 2012

Grockit Answers is only in beta, but  is an interesting (html5?) idea. It's a YouTube (and Vimeo)mashup, that makes watching online videos a more interactive experience.

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Meetings and appointments sign up: Doodle

Posted by packroyd on February 27th, 2012

I have been searching for a while for an easy to use online appointment system.   This would have multifarious uses, including staff (and tutees) signing up to 1to1 sessions, or small group workshops.  After investigating Google calendars and forms, Eventbrite and others I have come to the conclusion that Doodle is probably the quickest and easiest way of doing this on a small scale.  Its prima

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