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Self-grading multiple-choice tests with Google Docs
Self-grading multiple-choice tests with Google Docs
I don’t have much love for multiple-choice tests — either for administering them or for taking them — but as a teacher, the format was sometimes required by my administration, and was sometimes useful for simple prove-that-you-read-it quizzes. Google Docs didn’t help me love them, but it did help me never grade them.
#google#online#teaching#cybersalonaz#cooltech#cloudcomputing#hznmc#hz10#hz09au#hzk10#hz10k12
·rpollack.net·
Self-grading multiple-choice tests with Google Docs
Cover Story: Finger Painting: The New Yorker Blog : The New Yorker
Cover Story: Finger Painting: The New Yorker Blog : The New Yorker
Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. There’s a companion application, Brushes Viewer, that makes a video recapitulating each step of how Colombo composed the picture. (Watch how he drew this week’s cover below.) Colombo leans heavily on the Undo feature: “It looks like I draw everything with supernatural assurance and very fast—it gets rid of all the hesitations.”
#iphone#art#graphics#cybersalonaz#cooltech
·newyorker.com·
Cover Story: Finger Painting: The New Yorker Blog : The New Yorker
indispensabletools
indispensabletools
The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensable ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way. This particular wiki was created by Drew Buddie attributions where possible are below.
#tools#web2.0#education#resources#wiki#cybersalonaz#cooltech
·indispensabletools.pbworks.com·
indispensabletools
Lighthead - Caffeine
Lighthead - Caffeine
Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
#mac#software#freeware#osx#cybersalonaz#cooltech
·lightheadsw.com·
Lighthead - Caffeine
Marginalia Web Annotation | geof
Marginalia Web Annotation | geof
Marginalia is an open source Javascript web annotation system that allows users of web applications to highlight text and write margin notes. The Moodle version adds annotation to Moodle discussion forums; a stand-alone version provides sample source code and instructions for how to integrate this with other web applications. The annotation feature works in Internet Explorer and Firefox. The applications also includes smartcopy, which automatically includes citation information when a user copies & pastes text in Firefox. All of these features are integrated with a web application; none require special browser or other client software.
#javascript#opensource#collaboration#web#hznmc#hz10#hzk10#hz10k12#collabspaces#cooltech
·geof.net·
Marginalia Web Annotation | geof
UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0 - Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions.
UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0 - Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions.
On other projects we were left frustrated and overwhelmed when trying to grasp what our users really wanted. Unorganized inboxes and clogged ticket systems ruled the day. Forums were awash with duplication, user support was impossible to determine, and valuable ideas were lost in the shuffle. UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas so we get more quality than quantity.
#tools#cybersalonaz#cooltech#web2.0#crowdsourcing#hznmc#hz10
·uservoice.com·
UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0 - Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions.
Wordnik
Wordnik
Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait—if you're interested in a word, we're interested too! Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. By "information," we don't just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)!
#tools#online#reference#cybersalonaz#cooltech#education#crowdsourcing#writing#search#hznmc#hz10#oet10
·wordnik.com·
Wordnik
How To Videos on Wonder How To - Video Tutorials, DIY Lessons & Tips
How To Videos on Wonder How To - Video Tutorials, DIY Lessons & Tips
WonderHowTo hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites. Explore the largest collection of free how-to videos. Whether you want to learn origami, how to dance, how to cook, how to tie a tie, ways to save money, some killer makeup tips, or ideas for Father's Day... WonderHowTo is your one-stop shop to browse, search, or network your way through the world of free video tutorials.
#reference#howto#cybersalonaz#cooltech#video#diy#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12
·wonderhowto.com·
How To Videos on Wonder How To - Video Tutorials, DIY Lessons & Tips
SchoolTube
SchoolTube
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. SchoolTube is the recognized leader for moderated, internet media sharing for teachers and students. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards.
#tools#cybersalonaz#cooltech#video#education#movies#youtube#hz10#hz09au#hzau09#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12
·schooltube.com·
SchoolTube
Roomatic
Roomatic
Roomatic is a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter. It uses the Twitter Search JSON API (previously Summize) to poll for Twitter updates with the room's name in it. Posts from Roomatic are automatically marked with the room name. Room names can also be full urls
#cybersalonaz#cooltech#socialnetworking#microblogging#twitter#socialmedia
·roomatic.com·
Roomatic
TweetPsych
TweetPsych
TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform.
#cybersalonaz#cooltech#twitter#socialmedia#hznmc#hz10
·tweetpsych.com·
TweetPsych
Teaching Copyright
Teaching Copyright
Rather than presenting unbiased facts and encouraging inquiry, the materials focused on drilling students on the prohibitions of copyright. As avid users of technology ourselves, we could not stand by and let this educational opportunity become an excuse to scare young people away from making full and fair use of the digital technologies that will continue to affect virtually every aspect of their lives. We decided to fill in the gap by developing an honest, accurate, and balanced curriculum that would help students understand and exercise their digital rights and responsibilities. Working with educators from around the country, we aimed to design a fun and flexible plan that would not just provide information, but also help foster basic skills in research, writing, and critical thinking. We're proud of the result. The Teaching Copyright curriculum is a detailed, customizable learning plan to help educators raise interesting questions about copyright, technology, and law
#ds106#teaching#online#cybersalonaz#cooltech#education#copyright#creativecommons#law
·teachingcopyright.org·
Teaching Copyright
OMGLOLROFL! a Twitter thing
OMGLOLROFL! a Twitter thing
I created this site because I am curious. When someone starts following me I wonder how they found me. Was it randomly? Was it through a friend? Now I can see if we share any friends, even better I can search any public profile.
#tools#cybersalonaz#cooltech#twitter
·omgfriends.com·
OMGLOLROFL! a Twitter thing
Fliggo - Create Your Own Video Site
Fliggo - Create Your Own Video Site
Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos. We created Fliggo to let anybody create their own video sharing websites. Whether you want to create a place to collect niche videos of your favorite hobby or you need to privately share training videos with your company, we have strived to make Fliggo an easy solution for any of your video needs.
#tools#cybersalonaz#cooltech#web2.0#video#sharing#youtube#free#hznmc#hz10
·fliggo.com·
Fliggo - Create Your Own Video Site
Survs - Collaborative Online Survey Tool, Web Survey Software
Survs - Collaborative Online Survey Tool, Web Survey Software
Survs is a collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance. Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyze online surveys. It is collaborative in the sense that you can cooperate with your teammates through the journey of building, deploying and analyzing your surveys. You can even share your surveys results, templates and themes online. Being a web application, no special software is needed. As long as you have an Internet connection and a web browser you can access Survs wherever you are.
#collaboration#tools#software#online#cybersalonaz#cooltech#webapps#web2.0#hznmc#hz10
·survs.com·
Survs - Collaborative Online Survey Tool, Web Survey Software