Blended Learning: from Digital Literacy to Media Fluency

11 September 2012

Increasingly, institutions are seeing their students not only as consumers but also as creators of digital media — requiring a greater fluency in the use of new media tools. Here is a series of short videos describing how Ball State University is supporting its students in acquiring “media fluency.”

[Source: Campus Technology]


Create infographics | infogr.am

6 September 2012

We work with marvelous designers to bring you the best components and themes for your infographics. Simply pick whatever you like to build your own.

Create infographics | infogr.am.


Explain Everything for iPad on the iTunes App Store

31 May 2012

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.

via Explain Everything for iPad on the iTunes App Store.


Alan Lomax’s Massive Archive Goes Online

28 March 2012

More than 17,000 sound recordings made by the famed folklorist are now available, for free.

[Source: NPR]


Avid Studio makes leap to iPad

3 February 2012

Avid Studio, the high-end consumer version of Avid’s influential video editing software, has made the leap to the iPad today. Avid Studio for iPad includes many of the features of its desktop counterpart, along with interface tweaks like pinching to zoom on a frame.

[Source: Washington Post]


Apple Dives Deeper Into The Digital Textbook Market

19 January 2012

Apple unveiled iBooks 2, which Apple called “a new textbook experience for iPad,” and iBooks Author, which helps users to create textbooks. Both products will be available for free in Apple’s App store.

[Source: Wall Street Journal]


CollabraCam multi-camera video production for iOS devices

15 December 2011

CollabraCam is the worlds first multicam video production iPhone app with live editing and director to camera communication. CollabraCam provides a quick, easy and fun way to shoot and simultaneously edit live video from multiple cameras using iPhones, iPod Touches and iPad 2. CollabraCam links iOS devices running the app over local WiFi to create a video switcher and communication control room with a simple, yet powerful, live video editing workflow.

via CollabraCam | Macworld.


blurb: ebooks for the iPad (and more)

4 November 2011

Tools for making books – print and eBooks – even on the go at blurb.com!


TagCrowd

4 October 2011

TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.

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FiLMiC Pro – iPhone video app

12 September 2011

FiLMiC Pro is a $2.99 app that boosts your iPhone video as close to pro quality as it can get. The app allows selectable resolutions (1280×720, 640×480, 480×360) and a variety of frame rates like 30fps, 24fps all the way down to 1fps.

Here’s a sample movie made with FiLMiC Pro:

[Source: TUAW]


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