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Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers by David Kapuler <span class="“> – Annotated
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Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines/Newspapers
1. Issuu – One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, with a very nice user interface.2. Yudu – Upload a document or PDF to create an online magazine that can be emailed our or embedded into a site.
3. Openzine – Very user friendly site with an abundance of templates and layouts to create a professional-looking magazine and share online.
4. NewsCred – Create a terrific looking online newspaper in 5 minutes, similar to Openzine.
5. Scribd – A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing.
6 Fodey – A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site.
7. Zinepal – A great way to bring the news to students by “clipping” online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers.
8. Paper.li – A fantastic site to turn Twitter into an online readable magazine.
9. Guzzle.it – Is a news aggregator that puts online news in one customizable place.
10. Crayon – Create a professional-looking newspaper with this nice online creator. There are several options to choose from, so it has a bit of a higher learning curve.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes Online
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College Students on Streaming Video: Get Me Outta Class! — Campus Technology <span class="“> – Annotated
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Nearly a third of college students reported that their parents or guardians would be “very upset” to know how little they actually attend classes in person. The reason: They’re watching the courses through streaming video instead. Almost half reported that they’d prefer to join classes online than interact with classmates and professors in person. These results came out of a survey of 504 college students sponsored by InterCall, which sells conferencing and collaboration services.
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Eight in 10 students (78 percent) reported that professors have made lectures available either by live video feed or by posting a videotaped lecture for students to access online. The majority of respondents said streaming allows them to “attend” classes even when they’re out of town or when they want to attend versus when the university has the class scheduled. Nearly half said that one advantage of streaming video is that it would enable them to take multiple classes scheduled for the same time slot. A solid 64 percent reported that viewing their classes through video online lets them fast-forward through the parts they don’t find useful.
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The majority of respondents indicated they believe that video streaming helps improve the educational experience by helping them prepare better for exams (74 percent), improving their grades (54 percent), and learning more effectively than sitting in class (53 percent).
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By streaming course content, professors and universities are providing students with the flexibility and interactivity that helps them excel and creates the educational experience that benefits them most.”
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10 Rules of Teaching in this Century — Campus Technology <span class="“> – Annotated
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many higher education institutions are clean-sheet redesigning teaching, learning, assessment, and career development. The 10 rules in this article suggest the depth of change that’s occurring on campuses right now.
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Two basic 21st century laws frame these rules: First, the knowledge developed during the course does not pre-exist the course. Second, since the knowledge of the course does not exist before the course (because you and the students develop the knowledge during the course), your chief challenge is to manage the process of knowledge discovery
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1. Re-examine and adopt the move from teaching to learning.
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2. Re-visit the accountability measures on your campus
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3. Make a corollary change in assessment,
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4. Insist on teaching only in technology-enabled classrooms
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5. Make sure your students have technology management tools of their own
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6. Insist on faculty having management tools for their own professional development
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7. Do not discard the lecture or class discussion approach when appropriate,
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8. Make sure your students have a digital repository of some sort-
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9. Require your students to interpret their collected online evidence at regular intervals
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10. Make the collection of evidence the primary work of the course
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Unique Notions: Learning Styles / Multiple Intelligences / Personality Types + Web Tools
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GROU.PS :: Create your own Social Network.
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