2015-10-26

How to Connect an iPhone or iPad to a TV - OSXDaily


You can easily connect any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a TV screen or even many projectors with the help of a wired connector adapter and HDMI cable. As long as the recipient TV, display, or projector has an HDMI input port, you can mirror the iPhone or iPad display directly to that screen. This is great for presentations, demonstrations, watching videos or movies, and so much more. The output video can be a maximum of 1080p HDTV resolution, and yes both video and audio are transmitted, mirrored from iOS to the TV screen.



Show What You Know with Media » What do you want to create today?


""Show What You Know With Media" is a book series and website created by Dr. Wesley Fryer to serve as a menu, handbook, and map for teacher-leaders and learners in the twenty-first century who seek to develop digital literacies as multimedia communicators and help students "show what they know with media." * Mapping Media to the Curriculum (Volume I) explores the first six products in the framework: Interactive Writing, Narrated Art, Radio Shows, 5 Photo Stories, Visual Notetaking, and Narrated Slideshows / Screencasts. Videos in each chapter (hosted on YouTube) are directly linked for compatible eReaders and also linked via QR codes, so readers can optionally use a smartphone to view them."



2015-10-24

Why Technology Will Never Fix Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education


The real obstacle in education remains student motivation. Especially in an age of informational abundance, getting access to knowledge isn't the bottleneck, mustering the will to master it is. And there, for good or ill, the main carrot of a college education is the certified degree and transcript, and the main stick is social pressure. Most students are seeking credentials that graduate schools and employers will take seriously and an environment in which they're prodded to do the work. But neither of these things is cheaply available online.

 


Why Is The University Still Here? | TechCrunch


Universities are supposed to be dead. These bastions of higher learning have been on Silicon Valley's hit list for much of the past decade, and disruption phasers targeting the industry have certainly been set to kill in the years since the global financial crisis.

And yet after years of efforts, we have arrived in 2015 and almost nothing seems to have changed about the way we get our degrees or even just our continuing coursework.

MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – were supposed to be the vanguard of the new online education movement, surging to popularity in 2011 and 2012 following a rash of press about the end of higher education as we know it. Since those discussions though, MOOCs seem to have fared poorly. 

 


6 Handy iPad Apps for Creating Educational Movie Slideshows ~ EdTech and MLearning


Below is a collection of some very good iPad apps for creating educational movie slideshows with students. You can use your selected photos, add a video  and/or a soundtrack and mix all together in a beautiful and engaging slideshow. While features provided differ from one app to the other, most of these apps let you use existing photos and videos to create animated slideshows.



Revisiting Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants


As with many ideas which may be simply stated Prensky's world of 'Digital Natives and Immigrants' has been oversimplified and misunderstood. In part this is the danger that comes with relying upon a cultural metaphor and a consequence of society's love affair with neat dichotomies.



2015-10-21

Women’s Rights Online: Translating Access into Empowerment


New research by the Web Foundation shows that the dramatic spread of mobile phones is not enough to get women online, or to achieve empowerment of women through


2015-10-19

"Digital Technology and Higher Education ..." Prof. Neil Morris (CSEDU 2015)


Keynote Title: Digital Technology and Higher Education - Delivering Benefits for Student Education Keynote Lecturer: Neil Morris Presented on: 25/05/2015, ...


2015-10-18

ClipStitch – The Best App For Making Video Collages!


ClipStitch is the ultimate app for creating fun, beautiful, and creative video collages. Have fun making your own video, and share it to boost your popularity.