Tag: Misc apps

iOS11 Screen Recording

Screen recording from an iOS device is now easier with iOS 11. A good use for this in the classroom when demonstrating to students how to use an app or other function like split screen or multi tasking.

How to help junior students login to their computers

If you’ve ever used Chrome books with students under the age of 7 then you’ll instantly know the pain and stress that I’m about to describe. I was working with a classroom of 25 Year 1 (6 year olds) students who had never logged in with their accounts before, let alone be able to find the @ key on the keyboard.

Student learning analytics with EDpuzzle

Edpuzzle is great free tool for creating videos with embedded questions. You can also trim videos, add voice comments and more.

All data including student answers and how many times a student has watched a section of video is added to the teacher Dashboard.

Learn how to use Edpuzzle with these simple, downloadable instructions.

LMS and Blended Learning

Blended Learning for senior students – which LMS is best?

An online learning and collaborating system is a key part of the blended learning model. With so many Learning Management Systems or LMS’s in the market, which one is right for your students.

Adam Vardanega shares what is working in his classes and why.

Top 2 Plagiarism Tools for Teachers

There are some great plagiarism tools for teachers, some paid and some free.  Below are the best free and paid plagiarism tools for teachers (plus a bonus Google Add-on). Free image on flickr.com The ability to find, assimilate and produce your own work is becoming increasingly hard for students and the temptation to plagiarise is

UTB Show: An Interview with Bharath Madhusudan from Securly

This UTB show features Bharath Madhusudan, one of the co-founders of Securly. He’ll talk about the common misconception of Web Filtering. He finds the concept of web filtering to be so 20th Century and so they don’t normally think of themselves as a web filter anymore. Find out more what he means by that by watching this show.

Gmail Hacked

LastPass: Password security best practice

If you have a Google password, you may have heard that a number of usernames and passwords were leaked by a third party company.

It is a good reminder that we shouldn’t take internet security for granted.

In this post we show you what can you [practically] do to keep your password safe

How you can use the Google Translate app in the classroom

I have been playing with the Google Translate app with some teachers and am really loving the accuracy and functionality of the app. The Google Translate app works offline which makes it even more useful.  See the Google Translate App demonstration video and transcript below:

How to use Future Me with your students

Before we look at today’s online teaching tool called Future Me, I was reminded by one of the readers of this blog of a post I had written back in March last year looking at how much influence technology has on learning.  It is similar to my post at the beginning of this series.  I

How to check for plagiarism

With a lot more students using the internet as their main research tool many teachers have been asking about how to check plagiarism. There are many different plagiarism checkers out there but the one that I have found to be the best free option is plagiarismchecker.com When I introduced this online tool to my students

How to use Animoto in your classroom

Animoto is a great video producing site that doesn’t require you or your students to have any video editing skills.   Some of the features that make Animoto my video creating software of choice are:

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