Animation can be an appealing and advantageous supplement in an online classroom. Learn its benefit and how to create your own animated videos.
Video Animation in an Online Course
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How to Start Curating Content
Do you spend ages on the web gathering resources for class but have no way to organize them effectively?
Learn how to easily curate information so that it can be easily navigated and shared with students.
6 Ways to Use PDF Converter in Online Classes
PDF conversion tools can help both educators and students present and share their assignments, reports and projects in a universal format that can be viewed on any device without needing to install the native application used for creating the original documents.
Here are six ways online learners and teachers can use PDF converters in online education.
Visually Organize Your Thoughts With Mind Maps
Creating a mind map is a powerful way to organize your thoughts in a visual form. A mind map is similar to a flow chart, except that while flowcharts normally proceed in a linear top-to-bottom order, mind maps progress clockwise from the top, and feature radial structures branching out from one central node.
Mind maps show you the relationship between ideas, structuring the information in a way that clarifies what is the main idea and what are the peripheral details. They let you see see the overall picture.
Using the Explain Everything iPad App to Give Feedback on Student Work
Explain Everything is a powerful iPad app that provides an interactive whiteboard for creating screencast presentations.
With the Explain Everything app, you can import documents, pictures, videos, sound files, or browser windows to your project, and then add drawings annotations, animations, or voiceover narrations. The final project can then be recorded and shared with other people.
Here are 4 examples of how instructors can use the Explain Everything App to provide feedback on student work.
16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]
Pinterest, the social network that allows users to “pin” content to their online bulletin boards, can be used in a variety of ways in education. Take a look and try some of them yourself.
Top 6 Flashcard Creation Tools for College Students
Using flashcards is a popular way to learn new terms or a foreign language. By reviewing your set of of cards over and over again, the information becomes ingrained in your memory so you won’t forget it.
Here are 6 online flashcard-creation tools that let you create your own flashcards, or learn a pre-existing set of cards:
Engage and Assess Students with the Nearpod App
Nearpod is an app that allows teachers to create interactive presentations that incorporate student input. After downloading the Nearpod app, teachers can create presentations and add opportunities for interactivity. The slides of the presentation can include images, videos, live web…
Create Interactive Learning Maps with Edynco
Are your online students getting lost trying to figure out which assignments to do first, and how the different parts of the course material relate to each other?
Consider creating a learning map to help your students feel grounded as they move through the course material. Learning maps are a great way to help students focus and remember what they learned.
Add Interactivity to Video Lectures with eduCanon
Want to prevent the “zone out” effect for students watching your video lectures online?
Try using eduCanon to keep your students awake and actively engaged. eduCanon is an online tool that allows professors to easily add questions at key points during video lectures. Simply upload a screencast, YouTube video, or Vimeo video to the eduCanon site, and choose where you want to insert the questions.