Category Archives: ed tech

YouTube tricks

YouTube Tricks Go to Full-screen version of a YouTube Video As you know, if you want to show a YouTube video full-screen, you click on the full-screen icon found in the lower right-hand corner of a YouTube video.   But … Continue reading

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Embedding Cropped YouTube Videos into Moodle

If you would like to embed just a portion of a YouTube video into Converge, watch the video below. The author of this video summarizes the steps: “When we select the embed code we untick all of the option boxes … Continue reading

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How to play portions of a YouTube video

Need to show just a portion of a YouTube video into a website, Powerpoint, or provide a link to the video. Use this site.

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LiquidText – PDF and Document Reader for Annotating, Researching, Highlighting and More – For the iPad

Check this out the free iPad app LiquidText

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Student collaboration with Fetchnotes

Maybe your students want to collaborate by creating study notes together. One free tool to consider is Fetchnotes. Notes can be created in a browser and viewed on a mobile device, and vice versa. Fellow students will receive a notification … Continue reading

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Dr. Carl Weiman: Science Education in the 21st Century

The video below is a talk that Dr. Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, gave at Cornell University in 2009. The notes below are a summary of the talk.   How Experts Think and Learn Experts have a … Continue reading

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