Capture your screen as a movie, while recording your voice. Simple interface, just select movie quality and start the capture:
Download Berio from http://www.juniortan.com
This app was created for educators in collaboration with Thomas Bohm
Guys and Gals, this is official! Leopard launches 26 Oct! For those who are interested, we can have an UNOFFICIAL meetup on Saturday for a simple review. As mentioned below. we will explore features, enhancements and education related stuff. There’s also a software I have been working on for screen recordings; works only in Leopard, and I will need beta testers 
Please note that this is an UNOFFICIAL meetup. Not endorsed by my employers in any way.
Tentative date and location: Saturday 27 Oct at 5pm, Indochine Siem Reap @ Holland Village. I am buying drinks Please email me off-blog if you are attending.
As this is our own little thing, resources are limited, but I will bring along 2 demo machines for you guys to hands-on
Project management. Gantt Charts. Free.
I just started working on a project with a couple of students, and we’ll be using this software to track the progress. We should start early getting our kids to learn project planning and management using tools like these, don’t you think?
Click here to go to Gantt Project
Awesome free software allowing screen captures as pictures or movies. Great performance, saves videos of your desktop as .swf movies. Use for screenshots or how-to training movies, or illustrations of ICT examples. Only gripe I have with it is the 5 minute limit for video recordings, but that is sufficient for almost anything.
Shameless plug:
A friend of mine, John Larkin, has developed a tutorial for using Comics in Education. You can download it here. Also notable are a couple of excellent links
Okay! We have recently gone crazy over an awesome software for the researcher, writers, educators and pretty much everybody else.
It’s hard to describe NoteShare. It is a digital scrapbook, outlining tool, multimedia respository and collaboration tool all rolled into one.
You can create journals of learning, reflections for action research, curriculum/subject content, lesson plans. Type in your text, drag and drop anything (files, links, whatever), and organize them into your workflow.
NoteShare really comes into its own when you work collaboratively. You share out a NoteShare document, and people on your network (or the Internet) can open your document too. They can peruse and edit (if you allow them to), and very importantly, when you turn a page in your document (on your machine), their pages turn too!
I am currently prepping for a seminar next week, and you should be able to guess how I am working the seminar discussion points/notes/presentations!
Kinda hidden, seldom seen, is a useful Services menu under the application name of many applications. Here’s one example - the Summarize tool. Select any text in Safari, preferably a looong text page, and go to Safari -> Services -> Summarize. An application called SummaryService will launch and you can conveniently move a slider to select your summary size. I go to wikipedia a lot, and this tool helps me read quick summaries…
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This is a mind mapping software that is useful to allowing planning, storyboarding and many other uses. Mind-mapping learning activities enable students to create a visual representation of the relationships between ideas or things and offer an intermediary step between the web of information in the brain and an expository representation of that information. The brain makes sense of the world by discerning and creating patterns; in the same way, learning happens when students perceive and construct patterns.
Freemind is a free software built on Java that runs really nicely. With this, in the classroom, mind mapping can be used at any point for students to clarify and expand their ideas; specifically, it can help them access and record prior knowledge; brainstorm; organize, develop, and edit their ideas; apply concepts; or summarize and review readings and notes.
Most of you using a Mac would know it is easy to creat PDFs. Anytime in an application, if you want that document, image or file as a PDF, you head to your menubar, click on File and select Print. You will get the PDF option on the bottom left hand corner and you get to save it as a PDF file.
Now what if you have a few PDF files and you want to combine them into a single PDF? Here comes PDF+PDF and as a widget! A very simple widget that looks like a chalkboard.
All you need to do is select the PDF files, click on copy and then launch dashboard and press CMD+V to paste. Drag the files into the correct position with the pages in front right on top as a PDF. When you are done, click “=” and a new PDF file would be created for you!
Whenever we do demonstrations for different types of software, this comes up for Digital Art. Well, if you do have a tablet like the one from WACOM, it’s great as you draw, slide a picture under your tablet screen and trace and for me, I love it best when I can to pull up that screen and scribble away like I would on a clear piece of paper. I then save that as an image.
I was asked to help draw something for the church recently and managed to quickly whip out a logo for the church digitally. I didn’t realise how easy it was to use it with all the pencils, markers etc and the ability to angle your medium and pressure as well. Best of all, it’s a free software. You can pay a bit and get more advanced features.
If you were to try to teach a concept, you can also use J’s recording fucntion on a screen, iShowU (which I will talk about in another post) or SnapzPro. In terms of Art, does the ability to record a student’s drawing process allow a teacher to better his technique or critique it? Or are there ways where one can draw a biology diagram and be able to have that recorded as a learning object (animation)?
