tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75398552716292747132024-03-18T22:42:56.287-07:00e-learning ideasand interesting looking toolsSam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-85697184232524196242016-10-19T07:08:00.003-07:002016-10-19T07:08:20.009-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="https://sway.com/s/4zX7YL5LMZ9CXiPE/embed" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; max-height: 100vh; max-width: 100%;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="760"></iframe><br />Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-51016452565387242592013-03-08T07:15:00.001-08:002013-03-08T07:15:00.250-08:00goanimate thing<b>GoAnimate.com</b>: <a href="http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0UyHRHVgLzuE?utm%5Fsource=embed" target="_blank">BTEC+P3+film+1</a> by <a href="http://goanimate.com/go/user/0XRKMRJm-wSk?utm%5Fsource=embed" target="_blank">lezafgan</a><br/><embed src='http://goanimate.com//api/animation/player?utm_source=embed' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='400' height='286' FlashVars='movieOwner=lezafgan&movieId=0UyHRHVgLzuE&movieLid=0&movieTitle=BTEC+P3+film+1&movieDesc=&userId=0XRKMRJm-wSk&apiserver=http%3A//goanimate.com/&appCode=go&thumbnailURL=http%3A//fs.goanimate.com/files/thumbnails/movie/1326/6070326/15029572L.jpg&fb_app_url=http%3A//goanimate.com/©able=0&showButtons=1&isEmbed=1&chain_mids=&ctc=go&tlang=en_US&isPublished=1&movieOwnerId=0XRKMRJm-wSk&is_private_shared=0' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true'></embed><br><br>Like it? Create your own at <a href="http://goanimate.com/?utm%5Fsource=embed"><b>GoAnimate.com</b></a>. It's free and fun!Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-67349045652040348522013-02-01T02:27:00.001-08:002013-02-01T02:27:17.136-08:00Ideas from BETTToday I'm at the BETT show in London to see what's new on the learning technology front. <br />
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I'll be tweeting here if I see anything interesting: http://twitter.com/samkennedy01Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-60488015460074728292013-01-19T13:42:00.001-08:002013-01-19T13:42:00.937-08:00Flip Classroom / Flipped Teaching<p>Also called Flipped Teaching, this is about making best use of <b>everyone's</b> time when you meet face to face. <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_teaching">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_teaching</a></p>
Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-12618954072527885712013-01-17T14:34:00.000-08:002013-01-17T14:35:26.285-08:00Quadblogging<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. If you're interested in getting students to blog but wonder how to sustain interest and keep things moving, check this out. It's motivational, it's fun... and Ofsted love it too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://quadblogging.net/">http://quadblogging.net</a></span>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-5703474315492429092012-12-27T11:27:00.001-08:002012-12-27T11:29:40.320-08:0034 free online tools to use in teaching & learning<p>Check these out! Thanks to @pgsimoes on Twitter for flagging these up. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/rbyrnetech/30-web-20-tools-for-teachers">http://www.slideshare.net/rbyrnetech/30-web-20-tools-for-teachers</a> </p>
Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-74227667902675113462012-12-20T17:38:00.004-08:002012-12-22T07:19:00.630-08:00Interesting ways....<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://edte.ch/blog/?page_id=424" target="_blank">Tom Barrett's edtech blog </a>looks like a promising read. I stumbled across it after seeing his <a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AclS3lrlFkCIZGhuMnZjdjVfNDQwaHAzbXFxZnI&pli=1" target="_blank">31 interesting ways to use audio in the classroom</a>. Could be dangerous playing the Benny Hill theme tune to get the students to tidy up quickly at the end of your session though!</span>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-50384958097405994982012-12-20T17:22:00.004-08:002012-12-20T17:36:36.712-08:00Google Drive!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If you haven't discovered <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/start/index.html" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> (used to be called 'Google Docs'), or if you know about if but can't see its value, please give it a chance. It's marvellous. Here are a few reasons why...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Like the wonderful <em>Dropbox</em>, Googe Drive lets you store files online (a.k.a. 'in the cloud') so you can access them anywhere you go without having to carry around hard drives, memory sticks or, say, remembering to email yourself a document so you can work on it elsewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Both Dropbox and Google Drive have software you can install on your PC/ Mac and smart phone which make it very quick to save files direct from any program (e.g. Word, Photoshop, your phone's camera or photo gallery) to your online space. Alternatively, you can upload files by going to the dropbox or drive web site - not as fast but does the trick if you're not on your own computer at </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Currently Google Drive gives you 5Gb of space free and Dropbox gives you 2Gb. But if you get friends to sign up to Dropbox, you get more free space. Google charges a couple of £ per month to increase your limit to 25Gb. If you're interested, there's a cheesy </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">but informative comparison of the two products <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbjsNsfEmE" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>You can also <em>create</em> files in Google Drive</strong>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It has its own set of file formats based closely on Microsoft Office programs so 'Document' = Word, 'Presentation' = PowerPoint, 'Spreadsheet' = Excel. Forms we'll look at later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When you upload a Microsoft Office document you have the option of converting it to the equivalent Google Drive format so you/ others can edit it online via computer or (with more limited features) on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tthVEzX-UI&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">smartphone using the Drive app</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You can choose to share anything you upload to Google Drive with either named individuals or just 'anyone with the link'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You can also decide to let them edit the file in situ too. You can edit the same file at the same time as someone else and you'll see an arrow pointing to the bit they're adding or editing. It's not a gimmick, it works well. I've been working on a shared planning spreadsheet with a colleague for a few weeks now. We've occasionally been working on the file at exactly the same time and it feels fine/ intuitive provided you're not making major changes to the layout etc. This all makes Drive a powerful tool for group work, inc. collaborative note taking and authoring, brainstorming etc. (<a href="http://gettingsmart.com/cms/blog/2012/09/google_docs_for_collaborative_writing/" target="_blank">more on collaborative writing here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>Once you're done</strong> working on a file you can publish it online in lots of different ways or download it in a range of formats including Word, PowerPoint etc. It's worth thinking about the scope for publishing online vs. saving and emailing to someone. Consider:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I work with Jo on a text based document. We make tweaks independently over a day or so, at our desks, home, corridor (via phone)...</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We get to a point where we want to show it to 5 colleagues for their input on different sections. We trust them so we send them all the link with the ability to edit the file. They add their bits along with any comments (like you do in Word).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's not 100% finished but we decide to share it as a draft. We publish (via email, intranet etc) a read only link so others can see but not edit.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We continue to tweak the document and the general populous can see it evolve. The link stays the same. (We can revert to previous versions in a couple of clicks too.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Google forms have tremendous potential. Think surveys or other kinds of data collection activities. They're very fast to create and you get the live results on-line via a Google spreadsheet which can then be shared like any other file in your Google Drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">It's late and I'm too tired to write anything meaningful about forms but here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzgaUOW6GIs" target="_blank">a quick video</a> I found which gives the basic gist, despite it being quite old (it was made when Google Drive was called 'Google Docs').</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Students could be designing these and circulating them to a wide audience without paying a penny (tools like <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing/details/" target="_blank">Survey Monkey</a> are excellent but if you want more than 100 responses you have to pay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Google Drive is accessed by a link on the google homepage. This e-Learning blog is made with Blogger, another Google product. I know Google is taking over the world but for me Google Drive, Blogger etc is the way to go.</span>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-82334477267977498282012-12-05T14:49:00.001-08:002012-12-06T01:03:19.838-08:00Zooming Presentations (Prezi)<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Prezi has been around for a few years now and it's still a great tool for creating visually engaging presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint is great at what it does but this is something else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">To give you the idea, here's an example Prezi I found on the </span><a href="http://www.prezi.com/"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">www.prezi.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> web site...</span><br />
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<a href="http://prezi.com/mojdt36mrozf/mixing-mind-and-metaphor/" title="Mixing Mind and Metaphor">Mixing Mind and Metaphor</a> on <a href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A few observations about using Prezi:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>I can still work <em>my </em>way</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">When I use paper I like to jot my ideas down all over the place. In Prezi I can still do that, <strong>then</strong> I can define a 'path' around the page to turn it into a linear story... If I want to. Alternatively I can decide the sequence on the fly with my audience, depending how the session's going. So, in PowerPoint I'm forever cutting and pasting and reordering slides - then once I'm done I'm in a linear straightjacket. Prezi is much more flexible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>I can work quickly</strong><br />If I want to include a Youtube video, I just can paste in the link to it and it's there in my Prezi instantly. Once I'm done I can embed a Prezi into a blog [as above] web page or Moodle page [see <a href="http://www.screenr.com/37x7" target="_blank">my rough and ready video demo of embedding Prezis into Moodle</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><strong>It's portable</strong><br />Provided I've got a web connection I know I can always get to my presentation. If II'm paranoid about web access, I can download it and run it offline provided I've not embedded Youtube videos into it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">There are lots more pros including: the ability to collaborate remotely with others in real time to create a prezi; using zooming to reveal hidden facts or figures; the ability to zoom out to see the whole picture so you can tell visually how much info you're dealing with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I can't think of a downside except that if, say, the company who own Prezi.com decide to close their site, I'll lose all my Prezis. Note to self: remember to download each Prezi once it's done in case the worst should ever happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Lastly, a well crafted Prezi simply looks 'the business'. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here's a video explaining how <strong>you</strong> can get started with Prezi (or try <a href="http://prezi.com/learn/">http://prezi.com/learn/</a> for more tutorials).</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hs5ooion_s0" width="560"></iframe><br />Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-28938982867196431432012-12-04T03:01:00.002-08:002012-12-04T03:22:03.111-08:00Real time collaborative writing (and more)<a href="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/"></a>A couple of years ago ago I was at an <a href="https://www.lsis.org.uk/Pages/default.aspx">LSIS</a> eCPD an event where participants used a tool called Etherpad to jot down their ideas on the same online 'page' at the same time.
<p>As I watched the text appearing all over the page it struck me how fit for purpose it is for brainstorming (or whatever it's called nowadays), whether you're in the same room or not. It's fun and it generates a bit of healthy competition; you feel compelled to get your ideas down before someone else has the same idea.
<p>Etherpad was bought out by Google a while ago but alternatives, using the same technical system, spring up all the time. Until recently I used http://typewith.me but I'v just checked and this has been superseded by <a href="http://primarypad.com">Primary Pad</a>.</P>
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The features in Primary Pad are eclipsed by Google's 'Drive' (more on that excellent set of tools in a later post) but if you want to start simple, give Primary Pad a go.
<p>You'll need a way of sharing the web address for your pad with students. I'd say either stick it in a Moodle page or put it up on the SMART board. If it's a really long address, you can make it shorter (and so easier for others to type in) by pasting it into the box at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/">tinyurl.com</a>. <br><br>
If you've got students using SMART phones in class you could always put a large QR code on the board for them to scan instead of typing in the address (create a qr code in 2 clicks <a href="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/">here</a>).</p>
Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-25753591693558162702012-12-02T00:15:00.002-08:002012-12-02T15:06:37.060-08:00Word Clouds<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wordle's (<a href="http://www.wordle.net/">www.wordle.net</a>) been around for a while now but it's still as simple as ever to use and give a fresh slant on even the most turgid text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All you do is go to the wordle site, click <i>create</i>, type or paste some text into the box and click <i>Go</i>. The result is a lovely 'word cloud' image where the more frequently the word appears in the text, the larger it appears in the image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've just pasted the whole of the (gulp!) <a href="http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/common-inspection-framework-for-further-education-and-skills-2012" target="_blank">Ofsted Common Inspection Framework for FE & Skills document</a> into Wordle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The question is, does it tell us anything interesting about Ofsted's priorities?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /> There are some interesting alternatives to Wordle too, as noted in <a href="http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/02/wordle-closed-alternatives.html">this blog post by Phil Bradley </a>when Wordle was temporarily closed.</span>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-58986751608904282502012-12-01T16:45:00.002-08:002012-12-01T16:48:38.821-08:00Screencasting<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a nutshell, a screencast is a video recording of whatever is happening on your computer screen at a specific time, often with audio narration recorded live too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Screencasting has so much potential in teaching and learning! When I get a minute I'll share some examples demonstrating how creative you can get with screencasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For now then I've just embedded </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a screencast I did using <i><b>Screenr</b></i> a while back during an 'e-Learning clinic' at College where I was helping a colleague work out how to do gap fills in SMART Notebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think Screenr is currently by far the best free screencasting tool out there: it's very simple to use; provided you have Java on your computer there's no software to install; the resultant videos are already on-line so you can just link to them or embed them into web pages without having to think about file sizes and video formats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And here's a screencast of a screencast (!) by the marvellous <a href="http://twitter.com/davefoord" target="_blank">Dave Foord</a> explaining how to do a screencast in screenr. The recording is a couple of years old but screenr hasn't changed that much in the interim.</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rsXHeuIC0po" width="560"></iframe>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-56713922464407432792012-12-01T16:02:00.002-08:002012-12-01T16:02:35.271-08:00Tagging an Audio File<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Soundcloud.com</b> is good for lots of reasons. Here are two:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. You upload a sound file to it and you can then share it via facebook etc. But what I'm interested in is that you can embed it into a blog page (see below) or any other web page (e.g. a Moodle web page, book or label) and you get a built in player.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. You, or others, can tag the file with a text comment at any point along its timeline. <b>That's great! </b>And it's dead easy too. Here's a quick and uninspired(!) example:<br /> </span><br />
<iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F69622048&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-91279494041785942162012-12-01T14:00:00.000-08:002012-12-01T14:43:37.863-08:00On-line Magazine Maker<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Joomag </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.joomag.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Upload a pdf file or start from scratch by editing one of the existing templates to create your own on-line magazine. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can embed Youtube videos into pages too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's free to use (or you can pay to remove the odd advert). </span><br />
<br />Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7539855271629274713.post-26607772670200584122012-12-01T13:34:00.001-08:002012-12-01T14:08:37.481-08:00Audio conversations - any time anywhere<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Voicethread.com</b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Useful on-line tool for asynchronous debate. Upload an image or powerpoint, invite others to comment on it. Watch the video below for more info. I like the idea at 1m18s...</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32856071?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff&autoplay=0" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="400"></iframe>Sam Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820936071797042032noreply@blogger.com0