Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything’s flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.
Explain Everything for iPad on the iTunes App Store
31 May 2012
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Developing Tiered Software Support Services
30 May 2012A tiered software support services model — having distinctive levels of support ranging from unsupported to fully supported software — can help institutions manage IT support services and their costs based on business need.
15% rule … like the committed sardine!
[Source: Higher Ed CIO]
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Interactive Fiction with Inform
30 May 2012Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world’s best-known writers of IF.
via Home : Inform.
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Playfic
30 May 2012Playfic lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world.
via Playfic.
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The Mobile Campus: Ohio State announces plan to transform teaching, learning, and research
24 May 2012The Ohio State University has announced a plan to build an innovative, forward-looking learning environment that will enhance teaching and student learning. The plan, called Digital First, will expand classroom technology, foster a 21st century mobile learning environment with technology including iPads, and enhance digital learning content through tools such as iTunes U and iBooks Author.
[Source: OSU News Room]
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Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement
24 May 2012A twelve-year teaching veteran and a California regional Teacher of the Year, Heather Wolpert-Gawron’s musings on educational policy, curriculum design, and daily school life.
[Source: The Committed Sardine]
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20 Surprising Stats About Technology Use in College
24 May 2012This infographic shares findings from a variety of recent studies on technology use by college students.
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Yahoo launches Axis browser – The Washington Post
24 May 2012Yahoo has launched a new browser for Apple’s mobile devices called Axis. The browser, which is also available on desktops through plug-ins for the four major browsers, is designed to let you move between your devices and look at the same searches.
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Study Shows Promise and Challenges of ‘Hybrid’ Courses
22 May 2012Students learn just as much in a course that’s taught partly online as they would in a traditional classroom, but such courses won’t reach their potential until they are both easier for faculty members to customize and more fun for students, according to a report.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Siri, change the channel!
12 May 2012Apple’s television set is finally coming — and will feature video chat and voice recognition.
[Source: The Daily]
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