communication

Reel – Present your ideas and reel in the feedback

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:05:31 +0100

A fast and easy way to turn your images, PowerPoints, Word documents, PDFs into mobile-friendly online slideshows, and start getting feedback from your audience without logins or special software.

Reel App provides an online service for sharing PPT, PDF, and image files with others.

Reel App provides...

- a unique url for sharing the file;

- an option to get feedback from the audience on each slide or images in the shared file.

- an option to view the presentation on laptops, mobile phones, or tablets.

- a summary page containing the overall feedback from viewers.

Learner Voice-Peer Assessment

Could be a good way for learners to get feedback on presentations they deliver and practitioners could use Reel App to check learner understanding on each slide in a presentation;"thumbs up" if they feel they understand & "thumbs down" if don't.

Visit http://www.reelapp.com/ to try it out.

PrimaryWall - Web based sticky notes

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:58:47 +0100

There are a lot of different online notice boards available these days.

Online notice boards are a neat way of getting a shared space to collect ideas from learners during a "blue sky"/brainstorm session. Or for a practitioner to post resources for a topic. Learners could ask questions which can be answered by fellow learners and/or their teacher/assessor/practitioner etc.

PrimaryWall is ideal for Family Learning, conceived by a teacher and built for schools; deliberately kept simple, fast and user friendly.

The font size of the notes is quite large when typed to make it easier for younger users. Some lesson plans and ideas for practitioners are provided on the site.

Visit http://primarywall.com to find out more.

Transmiti - Google Translate Client

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:58:38 +0100

Transmiti - Translate selected text or entire documents in no time!

Transmiti is a small (less than 800KB in download), portable Windows application that can translate selected text in any document or any Windows program without the need to open a browser window or upload the document currently being read.

· Download the standalone .EXE file and run it.

· Highlight some text in a Word or PDF document;

· tap the specified hotkey and after a small delay,

· the translated text appears in a popup window.

Users can, make the program automatically copy the translation to the clipboard and/or replace the highlighted text in the document, if editing is allowed.

Note: By default, the hotkey is set to the Windows key on your keyboard, I changed it to the F9 key. I also had some problems with the proxy settings in work but easily entered to allow it to work.

This may well be the tool learners, whose first language isn't English, are looking for to help them understand documents.

Visit http://www.transmiti.org/en/index.html to download and try it out.

99 Chats

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:04:54 +0100

Communication Channels are important for Learning Providers - 99 Chats is an easy to use chat service that lets practitioners create chat rooms that can be added to a website, VLE or blog etc.

99 Chats is highly customizable and can be a great way to expand the learning experience. An ideal way to offer extra help for learners when they need it or perhaps even to communicate with employers and/or other stakeholders. Easy and free with lots of possibilities to improve communication in the learning environment.

Visit http://www.99chats.com/ to find out more.

QRals.com - Online QR Code Generator App

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:26:48 +0100

Creating QR codes is not difficult, especially if practitioners/learners/stakeholders are using an application like QRals.

QRals is a new (and free) web tool allowing practitioners, learners and other stakeholders (with minimal technical skills) to have as many QR codes generated and used as they could possibly need.

Users are able to enter different content including text, links, email address, MeCards, Bizcards, SMS etc. They can also select the colours to be used, and the actual size of the QR Code itself.

Easy to use and users can download the resulting image to their computer. Every QR code also gets a bit.ly url for the image!

Visit http://www.qrals.com/ to try it out.

Queaar Blog • Infographics - The Rise of QR Codes

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:25:21 +0100

Infographics - The Rise of QR Codes - Queaar is excited to share the first infographic made by their Creative Team. The second QR Code find today

Take a look at another infographic on QR codes at http://blog.queaar.com/post/8811809234/infographics-the-rise-of-qr-codes.

Scanapalooza

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:14:40 +0100

Thinking about using QR Codes in education, in classrooms, in inductions, in libraries, in presentations, etc?

Learning providers may have a long uphill struggle ahead with some stakeholders and their understanding of what can be done with them.

QR Codes that link to...
•    a series of online resources,
•    a presentation,
•    notes, etc
•    as well as contact details.

Lab42's QR codes infographic, looks at how we're using them, and why they're scanned (or not).

Visit http://blog.lab42.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Scanapalooza.jpg to take a look.

So, how are you using QR Codes?

How are you planning on using them?

Titan Pad

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:21:22 +0100

TitanPad is based on the open-source release of EtherPad, after they were acquired by Google.

If you're used to EtherPad already - you'll feel like at home with TitanPad, it works exactly the same.

TitanPad has been up and running for some time and practitioners/learners/stakeholders are free to use it for online collaboration.

Visit http://titanpad.com/ to start your online collaboration.

Welcome to Comment To

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:18:02 +0100

Comment To is a Social Bookmarking Service that allows users to...

bookmark excerpts,
comment on them, and
share them with your friends,

...from anywhere on the web.

Visit http://www.commentto.com/index.php to try it out and/or find out more.

VYEW

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:34:53 +0100

Vyew allows Learning Providers to meet and share content in real-time or anytime.
Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room; users can access and contribute at anytime.

I found it easy to set up and use – the FREE version – unlimited use with up to 10 people. The catch? It's advert supported - I didn't find the adverts intrusive.

Conferencing features:– whiteboarding, video conferencing, screen sharing, Voice-over-IP. Collaboration features. The continuous rooms are saved and always-on.
Take a look at http://vyew.com/s/.