8 Great Tools to Create Webinars Online

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One of the pluses of technology in education is the fact that it liberated the notion of formal instruction and destroyed its confining walls.

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The Best Video Encoding Settings for YouTube: The Full Guide

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Robin Good: If you have been spending countless hours trying to figure out by yourself what are the best encoding settings to use for uploading video to YouTube, this video guide has all the info and tips you may need.

 

The guide covers lots of useful ground, provides some very useful reference tables, and goes over 1080p and 720p encoding, SD resolution, data-rates, key-frame interval, audio quality settings, and a lot more.

 

Recommended. Excellent info. 9/10

 

Full guide: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Encoding-for-YouTube-How-to-Get-the-Best-Results-83876.aspx

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A Curated Video Site Focusing Only on Educating Entrepreneurs: CoFounder TV

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Robin Good: Here is a good example of video curation at work. CoFounder.tv is a video web site curating only the best and most inspiring entrepreneurship video clips. From startuppers, to investors and VCs, the growing collection strives to bring together a variety of viewpoints from those who have been there.

 

The curated video site is maintained by Rony El-Nashar, a VC at Dubai based SeedStartup, a startup accelerator and seed venture fund that invests in early-stage startups from all around the world.

He writes: “My goal with Cofounder TV is to build a resource that educates and inspires entrepreneurs globally.”

 

Right on track. A pioneering example of what you are going to see in place of blogs soon. 9/10

 

Check it out: http://cofounder.tv/

 

 

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Free HD Videoconferencing Across All Platforms with VidyoWay

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Robin Good: VidyoWay is a new free videoconferencing offering from one of the established leaders in the industry. The service, for which you can request an invite here, accomodates up to nine simultaneous HD video streams and works across standard PCs, mobile units and legacy systems regardless of which vendor technologies they are using.

 

Key features include:

 

-> Seamless interconnectivity of Cisco, Polycom, Lifesize, and other legacy H.323 and SIP-based endpoints

 

-> Supports Microsoft Lync and voice only devices

 

-> Provides free mobile client for users without access to legacy VC or MS Lync

 

Review on TNW: http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/07/23/video-conferencing-firm-vidyo-launches-free-service-vidyoway/

 

Video demo: http://youtu.be/dxH6-Q67j1A

 

 

More info: http://info.vidyo.com/vidyoway.html

 

 

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Google Translate Adds Example Sentences To Put Words Into Context | TechCrunch

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Sample sentences have long been a standard feature in many  online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context.

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Online collaboration with Tricider

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Free online Tricider tutorial for teachers and students.

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Video tools for cheap introduction to movies and screencasting « Education, Technology & Business

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insights & innovations at the intersections from Scott Moore…

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AnswerGarden

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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.

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Create a Social magazine

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This is a useful easy to use tool for creating online magazines with images and video embedded. Not for use by people under 13 years old and they do claim righte to use any images etc that you upload. Still handy for creating a visually pleasing online magazine.

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