Educational Technology

December 23, 2012

14 Free Text To Speech Tools For Educators

Would you like to relax your students’ tired eyes? What if you could convert any written text into spoken words? What about running a PowerPoint presentation and also have a narration of the text on your slides? Would you be interested in a list of 14 free text to speech tools?

by Christopher Pappas

December 2, 2012

12 YouTube Videos Every Online Educator Should View

What are the benefits for the teacher and learner in the context of open education and OER? How does a blended-learning school boost student achievement? How can we design the schools for 21st Century Learning? How will be the classroom of tomorrow? What are the tools and resources for the 21st Century Educator?

by Christopher Pappas

November 27, 2012

Social Learning Tools Every Online Educator Should Know About

The following list of social learning tools are used from online educators for pedagogical and androgogical purposes.

by Christopher Pappas

November 25, 2012

Blogs And Education: What Is The Big Deal?

Blogs constitute a digital asynchronous tool, which makes it an environment very suitable for the management of knowledge and that is a reason that blogs are considered to be strong pedagogical tool. Would you be interested to know how to use blogs in education?

by Maria Manolopoulou

November 21, 2012

Word Clouds in Education: Turn a toy into a tool

When it comes to finding the deeper meaning in a text passage, a word cloud is a simple application that you might have seen as a cute bit of fluff rather than a useful academic tool.  Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud.  A glance at a cloud is an easy way to preview a passage, or to analyze text.  So what does this mean for your courses?  

by Joseph Kern

November 19, 2012

Free Survey, Polls, and Quizzes Tools for eLearning

Would you like to create polls, surveys, quizzes, test, diagnostics and assessments quickly and easily? What if I tell you that you can do all these for Free?

by Christopher Pappas

November 13, 2012

List Of Free Android Apps For Children With Special Needs

In the list of Free Android Apps for children with Special Needs you will find 33 Free Android Apps.

by Christopher Pappas

November 12, 2012

Top 20 Free Podcast Tools For eLearning Professionals (2018 Update)

Looking for ways to cut down expenses and find more cost-effective ways to create and launch podcasts for eLearning? Wouldn’t you be thrilled to know which are the most remarkable podcast tools out there, for free? This is a list of the top 20 free podcasts tools for eLearning which you can use to record, integrate, and distribute podcasts.

by Christopher Pappas

November 12, 2012

List Of Free iPad Apps For Children With Special Needs: Part 3

In the List of Free iPad Apps for children with Special Needs: Part 3 you will find 20 more Free iPad Apps for students with Special Needs.

by Christopher Pappas

November 12, 2012

Educational Video Production: When Educators Become Producers

Multimedia age has changed the role of teachers. The need for audiovisual aids to support e-learning, mobile learning, distance and blended learning have reformed the role of educators, who are now becoming producers to enrich their teaching with mediums like podcasts, videos, animations, interactive presentations.. etc.

by Maria Manolopoulou

November 11, 2012

List of Free Screen Capturing Tools

Are you interested for a list of free screen capturing tools? Would you like to create for free video tutorials? Upload, create, and share screen captures with your learners?

by Christopher Pappas

November 10, 2012

Google Tools for eLearning Professionals

eLearning professionals can use one or more Google tools from the following list to achieve better learning outcomes.

by Christopher Pappas