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Always Be Learning with my Tablet

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Created June 15, 2016 by Alan Levine • 964 views • 18 examples • 1 tutorials

We’ve experienced out first day challenge sharing what we have learned to do on our iPads. Now that you have started doing your studios and challenges, what else are you learning about using your devices? What do you feel like you want to learn? Share a newly discovered tip or technique in this challenge. Share an image from the device or a photo of it in action (you should know how to save a screenshot of your device).

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Find an Educational Use for Fun Apps

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Created December 9, 2015 by Alan Levine • 1173 views • 2 examples • 0 tutorials

What are some single purposed apps or web sites you use frequently for entertainment or personal uses (let’s skip the popular things like Facebook and email)? Pick and app and design some kind of activity you might use that might have an educational use. In your response, include the way you normally use the app, and then detail what it might offer in an educational context. The example shown here might be an assignment to find representations of certain kinds… Read more »

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Use X-Ray Googles To Give A Web Page Makeover

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Created December 6, 2015 by Alan Levine • 1585 views • 3 examples • 0 tutorials

Use X-Ray Googles To Give A Web Page Makeover

Mozilla’s X-Ray Goggles is a tool to learn how the web works by using it to inspect and re-edit a copy of any page on the web: X-Ray Goggles allow you to see the building blocks that make up websites on the internet, and then remix them into new creations. X-Ray Goggles lets you poke around the elements of a web page and remix them into new creations. Learn how to swap images, text, and more. Try a simple example… Read more »

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An Acapella Message

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Created December 2, 2015 by Alan Levine • 1347 views • 3 examples • 1 tutorials

Combine up to nine superimposed video tracks into one message about a topic. Meet Acapella… what's going on? pic.twitter.com/45lZMWWyBY — FUNNY (@VideosOfComedy) November 7, 2015 he killing it ??? pic.twitter.com/8Ck226xVSW — FUNNY (@VideosOfComedy) November 8, 2015 Okay, you may not have the harmony capabilities of the featured videos tweeted by @AcapellaVideos but you ought to be able to come up with a way to create a message in a short video, either featuring your voice/audio multiple times, or done as… Read more »

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Assemble Almost Anything on the Web with Storify

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Created September 7, 2015 by Alan Levine • 893 views • 2 examples • 0 tutorials

Assemble Almost Anything on the Web with Storify

Storify is likely the most versatile tool to collect disparate web content that you can weave in a stand alone collection. You can easily log into storify with your twitter login. The storify process includes using the tools on the right to find content from many social media services, or directly if you know the URL of the item you wish include. Once added to the vertical timeline on the left, you can re-arrange the order, and you can add… Read more »

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Collect Activity Across Social Media With Tagboard

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Created by Alan Levine • 2788 views • 5 examples • 0 tutorials

Collect Activity Across Social Media With Tagboard

If your students are tagging things in different social media services, you might want to give Tagboard a try. It can collect responses by tag from within Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Vine, Instagram, and Google+, and it generates a Pinterest style visual display. You can sign in and create an account by using either your twitter, Instagram, or Facebook account. A free account allows you to create just one tagboard, so choose your tag wisely! By editing the settings, your Tagboard… Read more »

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See The Activity With Visible Tweets

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Created by Alan Levine • 912 views • 2 examples • 0 tutorials

If you would like to set up a display for a public place that continuously animates the activity of a twitter hashtag, try Visible Tweets. For example you might use it: As an opening activity before or at the start of class. It might be a way to start discussion about the activity. Set up on a monitor or TV screen in a public area such as a student cafe or community. Often it is used at a conference or… Read more »

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Archive and Save Tweets with TAGS Worksheet

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Created by Alan Levine • 959 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Twitter TAGs is a Google Spreadsheet created by Martin Hawksey to automatically save copies of tweets to a Google Spreadsheet for a specific hashtag or search item. By collecting this data, the spreadsheet offers a number of ways to view a summary of the activity, including a visualized “Conversation Explorer”. We recommend setting up a new TAGs spreadsheet every time you start a project where participants will communicate via a hashtag. One important note is that due to limitations of the… Read more »

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Speed Up Time with Hyperlapse

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Created July 14, 2015 by Alan Levine • 932 views • 30 examples • 0 tutorials

Make a special effect video of a journey or navigation or a sped up time lapse series. Hyperlapse is a tool created by Instagram that changes time! Use the app to record a video sequence; when saved it speeds up the video and selectively drops frames to create a rapid film sequence. See these examples: The roads that run through Yellowstone National Park are often roadblocked with roaming bison and other wandering wildlife. This is what my morning commute looks like… Read more »

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What Are We Celebrating?

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Created July 12, 2015 by Alan Levine • 1510 views • 48 examples • 1 tutorials

Tell us something about the Agora to celebrate! You have walked the Agora, listened to tweeting birds, seen daily oddities. This Challenge is easy and designed to help you practice using the Challenge Bank. We have assembled a collection of animated GIFs that express celebration– follow this link to see one randomly chosen for you (the link will open in a new browser window). Think of a short sentence (one that will fit in a tweet) that says how this celebrates something you did in the… Read more »

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