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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