Update: Google buys Writely.com
As I wrote about on a prior post, Writely.com is a great browser based collaboration tool. Late last week, it was gobbled up by Google.
As I wrote about on a prior post, Writely.com is a great browser based collaboration tool. Late last week, it was gobbled up by Google.
The EdTechTalk live webcast #58 on the Blackboard patent and DOPA issues just finished up and I encourage everyone to catch the recording once it is edited and uploaded. The shownotes include a letter from BlackBoard CEO, Michael Chasin submitted in response to EdTechTalk's request for a representative to appear on the show. Martin Dougiamas…
One of the struggles with online learning is finding tools to create, publish and share text based media within the online learning environment. Here are just some of the many problems: Creating: Most of the written text that is created by students and teachers is MS Word based. While it is the best known text…
h/t to Tonia Dousay for her recommendation of Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. She always has the best resources! Aside from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), there aren’t a lot of great resources to help students make the transition to…
In case you’re like me and missed the rollout of live captioning within Google Slides, here is a link to the announcement on the Google blog from October of 2018. h/t to Cara North who shared her observations on LinkedIn. This is an amazing enhancement and one I’ll be testing out in a few weeks in…
A question was posted in the Designers for Learning Facebook group about favorite “free” stock photos. As always, “free” is not always openly licensed, so read the licensing provisions before you use them in your work. Here are many of the responses: search.creativecommons.org Noun Project (icons and photos) Photopin Pixabay Unsplash Pexels Freepik Gratisography New…
UPDATE: We are just winding down from the largest snowfall in NYC recorded history – 26.9 total inches! Not to mention that it took a long time for it to stick last night as we were coming off such a warm January. Here are the details!. From earlier today . . . 23 inches so…
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