audio cnwl

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Spreaker

A brilliant podcasting/ broadcasting tool in so many ways. Try it and you'll see why.

Brainybox from classtools example

esafety padlet

Created with Padlet

Passwords

everyone click here

bl session 1 EHWLC OCT 14

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podcast writing?

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(free) Audio tools for assessment and feedback

This post has four screencasts on tools you can use to aid the assessment and feedback processes as a teacher. It's about time saving (of course) but more about giving you the opportunity to add depth to your feedback and breadth to your assessment strategies. 


The video below demonstrates how Read and Write for Google app combined with vocaroo.com can not only save loads of marking time (once you get into the swing of it) but it can also add depth and quality to the feedback. 

Access the Chromestore here

Access vocaroo here






Here's another screencast I made on using vocaroo with a little more on sharing options in Vocaroo



Audioboo.fm for assessment




More specifics about how to use Audioboo
 

Chopping youtube vids

Don't get me wrong, I love tubechop. It's such an easy interface and works a treat BUT you can't easily full screen it once chopped. So I had a look around and found http://viewrz.com/cutter . Does the same job AND gives you a full screen button.  You set the time you want it to start and the same for the end time. The rest is pretty intuitive. It has a slightly annoying aspect to it in that when paused it covers the screen with options but it's worth it if you want easy full screen.


Tubechop does have an obvious embed code generator but you can find the viewrz one if you pause the video and click 'share'. I did find it a little hard to copy- took a few attempts. Anyway, here's one I just made

Let's pretend this is going to be...

...a post about the easiest mistake to make when trying to get hold of links for blog posts

watch the video or read the post. Or both

see that link in the address bar above? The number of times people copy that and put it into e -portfolios or e mails is amazing. It is an easy mistake to make but can be really frustrating for the recipient or assessor.

Click publish (or update if you are editing) then 'VIEW'

 the post so that you see the live version online, click on the post title to get the unique URL & then copy that link.

open badges...digging deeper

update 29th Sept 2014

I have nailed my colours to the Credly mast. Long may that remain. Also playing with Moodle badges but for smoothness and ability to issue badges from my phone at a click Credly is winning hands down at the moment

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The badg.us site has been down since the weekend apparently and it got me rummaging around on the web again and I have found some things that may be of interest if you are thinking of issuing badges next year. The guy that set it up did have some server space trouble around this time last year and what he has done is remarkable but this is a crucial time for us and maybe it's time to look elsewhere...

You may also want to explore the badge options in Moodle as these can be exported too. For the moment I think there is nothing that individual users can do to author them and those that will exist seem to relate to Moodle use. Watch this space though, it may turn out to be the best option. 

https://app.achievery.com is in 'beta' format and there are definitely things that need ironing out- you need two accounts to make and receive badges for a start so I wouldn't recommend this one in its current manifestation- the badge making tool is a bit fiddly too. The badges can look nice and I also like the way the badge could actually act as a lesson plan with evidence requirements built into the issuing page: https://app.achievery.com/earned/4165 

https://www.openbadges.me/ uses the same designer software and for that reason alone I'd say avoid it for now- the simplicity of the badg.us designer tool was what appealed to me in the first place- having said that, I'm sure it'd be OK once you got to grips with it and had made a few badges. You should also note that this is designed to work as a plug in for other systems such as Wordpress. The completed badges can look very nice too: 

https://credly.com is pretty good- is great for built in icons with which to make the badges and is perfect if you want to make nice looking badges that can be issued electronically. As far as I can tell there is no facility for printing them the way I have with badg.us though and if you want to go down that route you'd best avoid it but for straightforward badge making and issuing this is the one for me. Badges can be uploaded to mozilla backpack (aka 'persona' account) easily as you can see from this collection- it's the last badge in the listr: https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/824391a6e3d2c1ac3d7660831042a461/ you can generate a code to issue to people so they can claim for themselves but the code isn't unique 

The best alternative to badg.us for printable that I have found is ForAllBadges: https://badges.forallschools.com/ - it's set up for schools but enables e-issuing and printables in pdf format. Easy upload to Mozilla backpack too. What you might really like about this one (and it's not something you can do yet in badg.us is set upl classes and it also has the facility to enable students to issue the badges to each other if you want (that appears to be a default setting so be careful)

Each student gets her/ his journal and you can set it so that they can see other people's badges in class

codes are unique in the printable pdf

if you have seen the badges I have been using you will know that the 'hard copy' badge collection has been very popular and competitive so I wouldn't want to lose that functionality and to have the classroom profiles element available too seems like a win win...until this site crashes or needs some downtime!

session on curating etc.

Tonight's session : http://tinyurl.com/eteachweek9

also see this post: http://eteachx3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/curated-newspapers.html

Open Badges

Another Adobe Voice video. This one's on open badges. I made it using the Adobe Voice app on the ipad. I'd like to give the impression that it's really hard to do but it isn't!

e-teaching feedback video made with adobe voice

vocaroo update

here are few ideas about how you might use vocaroo; recorded on vocaroo

link



Record music with Vocaroo >>

free images to use

When you have 21 and half million images and other media to use freely why would you need to go to most people's default of 'google images'. As much as we love Google and its ease of posting to blogs and G+ and all that, as teachers we need to be aware of copyright limitations on images we use, especially if we're going to repackage them and post them online. Wikimedia commons is a useful gateway to all their free to use media (as it says on their web site) 

this is the link

embedded google doc

Vocaroo

One of my colleagues has just shown me Vocaroo http://vocaroo.com/ which is a cloud based recording tool. It works great with the chromebooks we are using and did a nice 8 minute recording of the work he's doing at the moment. Quality seems pretty good seeing as he used the inbuilt mike and it comes with an embed code. Here's his post which includes an embedded vocaroo.


http://akashbltasks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/using-blended-approach-in-series-of.html

Try a MOOC

You might want to consider the issues raised in this very clear BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23069542  before trying it for yourself and if you're unclear about what a MOOC is you can watch this video:





Here are a few that I thought might appeal if you do want to give it a go:

Teaching in higher education 101 (Coursera)

e-learning and digital cultures (Coursera)

World War 2 (Harvard)

or less HE

adding two digit numbers and a whole bunch of maths (Khan Academy)

essay and report writing  (OU) 

Directly related to teacher education 

Teachers sharing resources online (OU)

Inclusive education (OU)

MOOCs

What better way than to define this phenomenon than with an infographic. This one comes from here: http://www.onlinecolleges.net/

Curated Newspapers and push technology

The easiest 'news aggregator' out there (in my view) is addictomatic

here is an example http://addictomatic.com/topic/newham+college#suavq.wd.bh

search for stuff, edit the sources (lose the twitter one; it's broken!) the copy the link- the link changes each time you edit a source.


Kuratur focusses on twitter users, hashtags and content BUT you can also link to facebook pages and any site with an RSS function. AND you don't need to be a Twitter user to harvest the content,

see this one I made yesterday: http://www.kuratur.com/eteachingx3/newham-college.html 


If you are a Twitter user and you want something more sophisticated then either of paper.li or rebelmouse might be the tools for you. Go to the full resources below so you can see them in full as well as the embedded headline thing.

Paper.li is pretty straightforward- you can link to a daily update or copy the embed scrip and paste it into your blog or VLE if you like- this is one of mine http://paper.li/eteachingx3/1374943150 or embedded: this is another from Rebel Mouse: here's the link: https://www.rebelmouse.com/teachertrainer/ I can't embed the whole paper but I can embed one item and it looks like this: paper. li allows for subscription whilst rebelmouse enables e mail alerts. This means that these things use PUSH technology in two ways:


1. The material is pushed to you (the curator of the newspaper) based on parameters set when you set the thing up. You may have set it up so that it posts things that include a specific # (hashtag)... or from a Twitter account (for example) if so then things are PUSHED to that hashtag or account THEN pushed to your newspaper.

2. If people subscribe then the automatic alerts are a form of push tech alerting them to updates.

• any subscription that generates alerts is push tech any social medium that allows following uses push tech 
• any social medium that uses a 'wall' or 'timeline' is using push tech 
• "readers"/ "aggregators" or "curation tools" like 'scoop it' use push tech 
• RSS feeds are special web links (look like this: https://audioboo.fm/users/38785/boos.rss) that can be used in 'readers' or VLEs such as Moodle to have a place where new material automatically populates the page

if you have a smart phone you may have seen a message similar to this:

"this program would like to send you push notifications"

then you have to accept or decline. This is the same sort of thing- instead of you asking 'Angry Birds' or 'Candy Crush Saga' if they have any new levels, games, add ons or products they will helpful push them onto you without you asking. This may not be something you crave but think about the ability to automatically push messages onto your trainees - twitter enables you to do this and you can get the students to set it up in such a way that your message appears as a text message on their screens. You could really get into their brains and play havoc with their out of college personas with a couple of carefully timed direct tweets!

Martin Compton

top tools conveniently linked and explained

This website has a great collection of links with brief overviews of the tools- it's a little dated in places (for example 'stixy' - a former favourite of mine- is still there) and not all are cloud based but the effort is much appreciated (advertising and layout may be a little off-putting but still well worth  bookmarking). Thanks GK for sending the linking on too. 

cartoonist

I made this using the tool at Creaza http://www.creazaeducation.com/ Free space is limited but the effect is excellent.

eteaching course design/ structure

playlist

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