Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Code Combat - Play a game to learn Code
Back from my 6 month hiatus... I bring Code Combat. Code Combat is a game made to teach you wizarding skill... I mean computer code. The coding language JavaScript is brought to life by animating your character (Thorin) through his wizarding world using code. Very intuitive and absolutely free, give it a try.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Chromecast
Now this is something that could change the teaching landscape! Turn any HD TV into a media sharing device. I already ordered mine!
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Amazon has a big app promotion going on today in their app store, and they are offering seven great apps in their freee productivity app bundle. These are popular applications that plenty of folks think are well worth their normal price, all free for Sunday July 14 only.
The apps are:
- WiFi File Explorer Pro by Dooblou (normally 99-cents)
- Documents To Go (Full Version Key) by DataViz, Inc. (normally $14.95)
- PrinterShare Mobile Print by Dynamix USA, LLC (normally $12.95)
- Tasks N Todos Pro by Handy Apps Inc (normally $5.99)
- Splashtop Remote Desktop HD by Splashtop Inc. (normally $8.99)
- Spacedraw Key by Scalisoft (normally $4.99)
- Splashtop Remote Desktop by Splashtop Inc. (normally $4.99)
You'll need the Amazon app store installed to buy these, and keep it installed while you're using them. This sounds like a great way to save some serious cash, and score some really nice apps while doing it.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
ZOHO Surveys
Zoho offers a nice suite of online word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet tools. Recently, Zoho announced the launch of Zoho Survey. Zoho Survey is a feature-packed tool for creating online quizzes and surveys. In comparison to Google Forms, Zoho Survey is a better product.
Zoho Survey allows you to mix and match 21 response formats while you're creating your surveys. Within those response formats there are additional features you may find useful. For example, you can specify a maximum number of characters entered in an open-ended response field. You will also find that you can apply "if then" logic to any response field. This means that you can ask a short answer question and send respondents to a new question based upon their responses. For example, I could ask students to enter which class they're in and send them to a set of questions just for their class. (This can also be done in Google Forms but only if you use multiple choice responses).
When you're ready to publish your Zoho Survey you can embed it into a blog post or webpage. You can also send out a link to your survey. One of the options that you can choose for your published survey is to limit responses to one per computer. Another useful option is to set a date to automatically stop allowing responses.
Zoho Survey is available to use in your web browser and as an iPad app.
Zoho Survey allows you to mix and match 21 response formats while you're creating your surveys. Within those response formats there are additional features you may find useful. For example, you can specify a maximum number of characters entered in an open-ended response field. You will also find that you can apply "if then" logic to any response field. This means that you can ask a short answer question and send respondents to a new question based upon their responses. For example, I could ask students to enter which class they're in and send them to a set of questions just for their class. (This can also be done in Google Forms but only if you use multiple choice responses).
When you're ready to publish your Zoho Survey you can embed it into a blog post or webpage. You can also send out a link to your survey. One of the options that you can choose for your published survey is to limit responses to one per computer. Another useful option is to set a date to automatically stop allowing responses.
Zoho Survey is available to use in your web browser and as an iPad app.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Lino online sticky board
Lino.it is an online collaborative board.
Use from smartphones and tablets, Android and iOS. Take notes, post pictures and videos. Zoom in and out at will by pinch gesture.
Take a note right away wherever you are
Access lino from your home, office, or even on the road and post a sticky note online whenever you need!
Organize your stickies visually
You can move the stickies around and change their colors whenever and however you like.
Free layout of your pictures and movies
You can position your picture archives and movies as you like and share them with your friends.
Send an Email and take a note online
Create an Email message containing your note and send it to lino – It will be posted as a sticky.
You can position your picture archives and movies as you like and share them with your friends.
Send an Email and take a note online
Create an Email message containing your note and send it to lino – It will be posted as a sticky.
Never forget special days or deadlines!
Set due dates on your stickies, and you will receive an Email reminder on the morning of the due date.
Set due dates on your stickies, and you will receive an Email reminder on the morning of the due date.
Use stickies to share files among friends and colleagues
Attach your files to stickies, and share them with your friends and colleagues at home and office
Use as a bulletin board among friends
Create a group with your friends and colleagues to share a canvas and stickies with them.
Attach your files to stickies, and share them with your friends and colleagues at home and office
Use as a bulletin board among friends
Create a group with your friends and colleagues to share a canvas and stickies with them.
Use as a handy tool for your meetings
Post your meeting’s agenda and keep the notes of the meeting handy so that you can access them when you need them.
Post your meeting’s agenda and keep the notes of the meeting handy so that you can access them when you need them.
Share your ideas with texts and pictures
lino is an ideal tool to share your ideas and to have a discussion with your friends and colleagues.
lino is an ideal tool to share your ideas and to have a discussion with your friends and colleagues.
Education Application
This is a great way to create a collaborative space for students. They can post and meet here to organize help sessions. Assignments can be posted here with due dates. There are limitless applications for this.
Coggle - Collaborative Mind-Mapping
Thinking, rethought. Coggle is designed to help you make sense of complex things - it's a shared workspace to help your team work more effectively together.
You can break down your idea in tree form, laying out items using all the available canvas space. You can put related items close to each other, and provide visual links to represent dependancies. Even better, you can invite your business partner to work on the same diagram, at the same time as you, so you get it done faster:
When you look at the basics: a Coggle has branches. On each branch you can add information (that’s text, a picture, a web link or even math), and on each branch you can add more branches. Whenever you add branches you add detail, and you can add as many as you like. By doing this you build up an intuitive representation of information that you can share with anyone.
You can break down your idea in tree form, laying out items using all the available canvas space. You can put related items close to each other, and provide visual links to represent dependancies. Even better, you can invite your business partner to work on the same diagram, at the same time as you, so you get it done faster:
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