Create automatically graded tests with Testmoz

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Testmoz is a free testing tool, which allows to easily and quickly create tests for use in teaching.

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Video – 7 Skills students need for their future

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Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group has identified what he calls a “global achievement gap,” which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have skills of the future: * Critical thinking and problem-solving * Collaboration across networks and leading by influence * Agility and adaptability * Initiative and entrepreneurialism * Effective oral and written communication * Accessing and analyzing information * Curiosity and imagination.

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How to use Google Plus Hangouts to live stream an iOS demo from your mobile device

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http://tosolini.com – This tutorial explains how you can broadcast the contents of your iOS device to a live audience using Google+ Hangouts on Air and YouTu…

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Socrative: Smart student response system

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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run.

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The New HTML5 Video Player for the Web: Flowplayer 5.x

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Robin Good: The new Flowplayer version 5.x is a free embeddable video player designed for those publishers who prefer to host their video clips rather than publish them on popular video sharing sites like YouTube. 

 

This approach offers the advantage of fully controlling the user experience including the player design and features available to the user, while integrating a number of valuable advanced features, such as:

 

Subtitling Slow Motion Fast forward Android support Full CSS-styling of video player including “finished state” which allows you to restyle the player when video ends .no-volume and .no-time modifier classes to create minimalist video players where the user sees only the video Responsive layout Random seeking – let’s you jump anywhere on the timeline regardless of how much video has been downloaded. Keyboard shortcuts iPad full screen support Playlist – compilations support

 

All features: http://flowplayer.org/news/

 

Free version GPL.

Commercial version allows full branding: $95/€71

 

Download: http://flowplayer.org/download/

 

Demos: http://flowplayer.org/demos/

 

Find out more: http://flowplayer.org/

 

 

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Gather short video responses: Intervue

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Instantly capture video interviews – Intervue is a quick and easy tool for anyone looking to gather short video responses online from anyone with a webcam. Great tool for carrying out research.

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Blind marking in Moodle 2.4

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Anonymous or “blind” marking in Moodle 2.4 which allows you to grade student work without knowing the identity of the students.

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Teachem – a new way to create video lessons

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Teachem allows anyone to create a class from YouTube videos by adding time stamped flashcards and review questions. You can even create your own school on Teachem.

It’s simple and it’s free.

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Connected Mind – create mind maps

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“Draw unique and memorable mind maps, store them in the cloud for free and access them anywhere.

At last it is possible to create a mind map as individual and easy to imprint on your mind as one drawn by hand on paper. The mind maps you create with Connected Mind are even better as you can easily include images and shapes and you have a whole rainbow of colors and a selection of fonts at your disposal.

 

There is no limit to the number of maps you can create and you can store them in the free cloud storage provided. There is no need to create an account. Simply sign in with your Google or GMail credentials and your maps can be stored in the cloud on a google database.

Once stored in the cloud, you can access your mind maps from any computer that has Google Chrome installed.

 

Works on Google Chrome.”

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Find Easy to Read Text for Lower Levels

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Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it’s simple enough.

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