May 26th, 2009 — Miscellaneous
Suppose you want to provide your students with an article from the Web but you don’t want all the extra things on the Web page such as advertisements and other blocks of text. The Web site Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) allows you to generate printable text and vary three things: the text style, text size, and margin width.
convert this post to pdf. December 31st, 2008 — Collaboration, Learning, Miscellaneous, Visual Learning, Web 2.0
Evernote allows you to clip information from the Web and edit the Web pages. You can create your own notes, drag and drop content into Evernote. Also, there is software that you can download that allows enter information and sync it with the Web-based content.
By default, the information is kept private on the Web but you can make it public.
A number of video tutorials are available here. The Getting Started Guide can be found here.
With the free account you are allowed up to 40MB of uploaded files each month. With a Premium account, which costs $5/month or $45/year. the amount of uploaded files allowed is 500MB. There are other advantages of upgrading to the Premium account. Click on this link for more details – Premium account.
You can also embed widgets into your Web pages such as the one below.
convert this post to pdf. December 20th, 2008 — Miscellaneous
In another post, I mentioned the Optoma Pico Projector that David Pogue reviewed. In a later article, David discussed other pico projectors. This article is worth the read if you are interested in purchasing one of these projectors, especially if the source of the video is important to you. The Optoma Pico projector can’t hookup to a laptop but the 3M Micro Professional Projector can. To learn more about the 3M Micro Professional Projector, check out this article.
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convert this post to pdf. November 16th, 2008 — Miscellaneous
Want a video projector for short distances? The Pico Projector, reviewed by David Pogue, might be worth getting for small classes. Cables come with it that allow you to hook up a variety of devices, including an iPod (both video iPods and the iPod Touch). But you’ll need a speaker because the speaker in the projector is pretty small.
convert this post to pdf. July 15th, 2006 — Miscellaneous
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