Thursday, December 15, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Q: I am looking for the online networking space to collaborate on the project. Do you recommend some?
A: Podio is an answer - "the mission we are on with our users to change the way we work."
Check it out:
https://company.podio.com/product
Check it out:
https://company.podio.com/product
Podio is for your team — and for the whole company.
You can work with everyone on Podio: with your co-workers or with your clients in dedicated work spaces. In your free Employee Network your entire company can communicate, anyone with a company email-address can join. Podio Apps add structure to your work, with a social activity stream featuring comments, likes and status updates.
Q: Is any free video editing application available?
A: Lightworks is a free video editing application that is now available for Windows, though Linux and OSX versions users.
Download from http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Read more about this product from Guy Mullins at
http://at.uto.asu.edu/news/lightworks-review/#more-2574
Download from http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
Read more about this product from Guy Mullins at
http://at.uto.asu.edu/news/lightworks-review/#more-2574
Monday, November 21, 2011
Q: How Professor could present – showing slides/talking to camera – from somewhere on campus to a group in DC?
A: To handle showing the speaker & then showing slides you need to send the request to videoconf-q@asu.edu and cc Jesus Antonio Diaz, the person here for videoconferencing at Computing Commons
This may work better when one of our people wants to present elsewhere…
Q: Where do I find the games to incorporate in my online course?
A: Google the discipline you teach with "game" as an additional keyword - you will find a lot of resources to sort through. You need to play the game you pick before you recommend it to your students. Make sure that it is free, easy to understand with clear directions, and fun. I'd like to share the examples from our faculty to start with:
the Ayiti: cost of life game that Rhonda Philips integrates into her sustainability course:
http://costoflife.ning.com/
The other example is from Wendy Hollingshead Corbett:gamesforchange.org
Against All Odds - refugee survival game - http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
the Ayiti: cost of life game that Rhonda Philips integrates into her sustainability course:
http://costoflife.ning.com/
The other example is from Wendy Hollingshead Corbett:gamesforchange.org
Against All Odds - refugee survival game - http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Q: How to obtain a temporary or guest ASURITE in order to give sharepoint access to partners outside of ASU?
A: Blackboard Access
If you want an ASURITE ID to be able to take a class in Blackboard, please do the following:
- Contact someone in the ASU department that you are working with and ask them to submit an online Courtesy Affiliate Request form at forms.asu.edu to request an account for you.
- Go to forms.asu.edu, Computer Account Requests, and fill out a Courtesy Affiliate Request form on behalf of the person who needs the account;You must give the full name, birth date, non ASU email address, and if possible the last 4 digits of the SSN so we can make sure they aren't already in our system.
http://help.asu.edu/sims/selfhelp/SelfhelpKbView.seam?parature_id=8373-8193-5021&source=Selfhelp&cid=7017 - If you have Guest access make sure to switch to the Folder view (the List view is by default and you can't see the content in that setting)
Q: Does Blackboard support publishing, sharing and consumption of open educational resources (OER) across its platforms?
A: Blackboard Inc.announced a series of new initiatives to provide greater support for open education efforts.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Q: What do I need to know about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)?
A: To find out more about web accessibility, visit
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Monday, October 10, 2011
Q: How to find safe online resources and tools to engage my students in learning?
A: Adobe Education Exchange presented the K-12 Tech Tools website that already collected all information for you -
http://edutechdatabase.wikispaces.com/
- If you're looking for a kid-friendly website to direct your students to during centers, tech tools to assign to your students who need extra help (or want extra work), or new tools to engage your students in learning, this website is for you!
- This website features a collection of free, kid-safe, online resources categorized by subject, grade level, and standard (adapted from DC Public Schools Learning Standards).
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Q: Can I get help captioning or subtitling my video?
A: here is an answer from Google
http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27738
You can either obtain software to help you do it yourself, or arrange for a captioning/subtitling company to do it for you. Here are partial lists to get you started: Captioning Guidelines:
Software:
Services:
- WGBH Media Access Group
- Automatic Sync Technologies
- WebWideVideo.com
- Winged Words Transcription Services
- Talking Type Captions
- CaptionMax
- Omega Transcripts
- VITAC
- SubPLY
You can also search Google for "captioning", "subtitling", and "video transcription" software and services.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Q: What is theTeaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future program?
A: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a UNESCO programme for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It provides professional development for student teachers, teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and authors of educational materials. The modules are divided into 4 themes:
Q: What is a good academic education conference to attend?
This three-day program is unlike most academic conferences. It aims to bring scholars and students together as well as experienced professionals willing to learn, share their ideas and their great achievements, while addressing the importance of education and its strong correlation with development.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Q: What are the resources for educational games?
A: Please explore "Games for Change":
Founded in 2004, Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact. We bring together organizations and individuals from the social impact sector, government, media, academia, the gaming industry and the arts to grow the field, incubate new projects and provide an open platform for the exchange of ideas and resources.
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Q: Do you know if there is an interactive way to comment for digital conversations?
A: here is the link to VoiceThread:
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
Q: How to properly credit the information that I use?
A: here is the link to Citation Machine:
Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.
Q: How to organize my references online?
A: here is the link to Connotea:
Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists
Q: How to take a picture or make a short video of what I see on my computer monitor?
A: Jing captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly:
Q: What is the best practice for creating a power point presentation?
and more tips to make your presentation successful:
Q: Can expand my communication without adding new accounts?
A: You already have GMail account. Google+ is the right tool for you. You can create circles of friends, classmates, colleagues, students and share the materials with particular group without interfering. You can have up to 9 people in hangout sharing their displays and talking. Check it out:
See you in my circle!
Q: How to post audio file on the web?
A: Here is a link to create and share your audio on the web via Cinch:
Q: How to use Clickers in classroom?
A: You need to register at http://clickers.asu.edu/
Some assistants will be assigned to help you and install software for your laptop.
Here is the link to a tutorial:
Q: How to record audio for my class?
A: Here is a link to free software Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.
About Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more! See the complete list of features.
Q: Graphic Design help?
A: Here is the demo for SmartArt
"SmartArt graphics add color, shape, and emphasis to your text and data, and they're a snap to use."
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