Over the next few days we are going to be playing around with the back end of the Taccle2 site. Thanks to all you teachers out there, the website is groaning under the weight of all the e-learning ideas you have posted and is in need of some serious housekeeping. We are going to tidy Full Article…
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Give students a voice with Flipgrid
Flipgrid is an interesting application for asynchronous communication. It was developed by the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid allows a teacher (or account holder) to post a short written question and students can answer that question with a video message that is limited to 90 seconds. All the video responses end Full Article…
Jott: Explore speech to text technology
www.jott.com Jott is one of the coolest application of speech to text technologies we have seen. Once you sign up for a free account, call Jott on your phone and you can leave a message which will be converted to text and posted on your blog, twitter speed or to do list. The conversion is Full Article…
Singing Fingers
Finger Paint with Your Voice Watch in HD: Youtube – Vimeo (watch or download mp4 in HD) – iPhone (Download m4v) – 720.mov High Quality (300 MB) Singing Fingers Lets You Finger Paint with Sound Make a sound while moving your finger to record a sound-drawing. Touch the drawing you just made to play the sound back: forward, backward, sideways, or any way. That’s it! Singing Full Article…
Teacher Safety Online
One of the questions we get asked most by teachers is regarding internet safety and using social media responsibly. Of course, no teacher wants students to see pictures of him the worse for wear after a night down the pub (#awkward), swanning around on Tenerife in a mankini (we’re not judging) or Morris Dancing (now we Full Article…
Death to VLE!
Regular visitors to the Taccle2 website will know my personal opinions about VLE or LCMS or whatever the catch all generic name currently is for those behemoths they call “learning platforms” (such as Blackboard, Moodle and so on). I have ranted on several occasions about their shortcomings – in particular they way in which they Full Article…
