effective web 2.0 tools for the classroom: part 3

Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom:

Part 3

Johan Eddy Luaran

i-Learn Center

Universiti Teknologi MARA

2014

First Published 2014

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 BLENDSPACE ................................................................. 1

CHAPTER 2 EDUCLIPPER ................................................................ 12

CHAPTER 3 BRAVENET .................................................................... 18

CHAPTER 4 LINO ............................................................................. 28

CHAPTER 5 SLIDESHARE ................................................................ 47

CHAPTER 6 REALTIME BOARD ....................................................... 67

CHAPTER 7 UTELLSTORY ................................................................ 82

CHAPTER 8 MYBRAINSHARK ......................................................... 94

CHAPTER 9 WIKISPACES .............................................................. 108

CHAPTER 10 BUNCEE .................................................................... 121

CHAPTER 11 EVERNOTE .............................................................. 129

CHAPTER 12 PRESENT.ME ........................................................... 136

REFERENCES .................................................................................. 144

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Website: https://www.blendspace.com

Description:

Blendspace was formerly known as Edcanvas. Blendspace is a connected space where

students and adults can organize, present and share information. It is a quick method

to blend all materials needed from all over the websites into a beautiful lesson.

Presentation can be gathered, annotated and shared easily by dragging and dropping

images, movies, maps, audio and text and embedding hyperlinks onto a blank canvas.

Blendspace allows the use of multiple frames on each canvas to pre-teach a topic,

differentiated instruction, and share pathfinders and explore connections. Users can

also upload own content or searching on the Internet.

Users can also create classrooms for students to participate in the lesson. A teacher can

grade students' exercises immediately and automatically. Furthermore, a teacher would

benefit from a comprehensive assessment towards students in this interactive canvas.

Older elementary and secondary students can create collaborative projects by copying

individual canvases to make a complete dynamic canvas. An attractive presentation will

be presented to the audience and serves multitude information in one organized

canvas. Blendspace is not only suitable for teaching and learning but it is also suitable

for businesses and other fields. Blendspace can be used to present ideas and will be

helpful in collecting various ideas from other coordinates.

Suggested activities:

Get your students to do their revision and quizzes at anywhere and anytime. Fun and

interactive learning is happening in Blendspace. User with drawing talent can upload

and use their material to blend on the canvas. You can also encourage your students to

do their group work in Blendspace and collaborate to project their ideas on the canvas.

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This is a fast way to create lessons. Learning will be more

interesting and stimulates creativity. Sign up for free and

experience the flipping classroom.

It is a friendly user website, suitable for those who need

organized lessons, do assessments and track viewers'

progression.

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Boring subjects can be interesting with

blended sources, colourful and creative

designs.

Sign up or log in to experience Blendspace. You can also log in via

Facebook or Google account and share your canvas on social

media network.

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Click here if

you are a

teacher to

sign up

Click here if

you are a

student to

sign up

Once you are logged in, you can start your lesson by dragging and

dropping various materials (at the right corner) onto the canvas.

The canvas

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Choose materials from various sources here. Need

not to open up another tab for different sources.

Variety sources are available on one webpage.

Create quizzes for your

students to answer in an

interactive and fun way. You

can also drag and drop quizzes

from other sources in

Blendspace.

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Create a class and invites students to join without using

their e-mail addresses. Students can ask questions or

comment on the lesson posted.

Another interesting feature is that you can add other

websites as your bookmark and drag it to your canvas

in Blendspace. This enabled you to have more sources

for your project in Blendspace.

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Your lessons will be

saved automatically

and organized.

Share and spread your knowledge and creativity to

everyone via famous social network or other websites.

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Get inspired and shared what other users have created

in the Gallery.

You can always check and keep on track on how many

students do their homework. Other users can also

acknowledge how many people viewed their work, any

comments from the viewers, and whether they like or dislike

your canvas.

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An example of an interesting canvas

from other user.

Variety videos can be dragged and

dropped on the canvas as well.

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You can also teach students grammar by getting

them to do activity in writing biography. Another fast

and creative method is using Toontastic on canvas.

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Teaching and learning will be feasible at anyplace and

at anytime as information and knowledge based on

academic curriculum are available at the tip of your

fingers. Blendspace can be accessed on your

smartphone, tab, desktop or laptop.

Blendspace offered free trial of a Premium

version. Advanced and more services provided in

Premium version such as record audio and

collaborate with other users. Payable version will

be offered after the trial version has ended.

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Website: https://educlipper.net

Description

Educational materials are widely shared by educators and students worldwide. It enhances collaboration, encourage discussion and mitigate the gap of education through this type of learning and discovering process. This is different from other sharing sites as it is created solely for the purpose of educational contents only. Contents can be uploaded or clipped from websites, blogs, other online alternatives and you can also personally upload your own things to be shared and discuss online by putting it up on your quickboard. Your quickboard can be set as public to be viewed by everyone or privatize if preferred.

Suggested activities

Have the students look up for their own preferred topics and compile as many interesting contents online, to be shared verbally in class.

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Before you can start using this website, you need to sign up for an account to store all

your posts and interesting discussion. The sign up does not require any fee!

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The usage for each button is very clear which makes it easier to be used as it is

organized neatly and efficiently.

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There are two types of accounts available which are ‘Students’ and ‘Educators’ for you

to sign up for.

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Website: http://www.bravenet.com/

Description

This website provides various applications such as online calendar, photo album, site

search and chat room. It is interactive, fully customizable, remotely hosted tools for

webmasters of all skill levels.

Suggested activities

From this website, a blog can be created by a teacher in a way whereby the teacher

can use it as a medium to give information in many interesting ways. There are many

applications available from this website, but the focus here will mainly be on making

blog and managing message forum.

This is how the web page looks like. You can login by clicking on the log in button or sign up by

clicking on the “Sign Up Today. It’s Free!”

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This is your account manager page.

You can open your web application control panel by clicking on the “web apps” tab.

This is where all your information will be

displayed where you can edit your profile.

This is the control panel which allows you to

utilize the website by using all the services

prprovided

This block will

show all the

application that

you have

registered and

downloaded to

your account.

This block will allows you

to pick any new web

application that you

desire to be add to your

account

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The following are the descriptions on using Bravenet for blogging and and managing a message

forum.

1. How to make a blog.

First you need to

choose the site builder

in the account control

panel

You will need to come

out with your website

address name before

creating your site.

Then select your theme.

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You will receive a welcome note and you can now start building your own website!

By moving your cursor to the green blocks

you can enter your own main title, sub

title and change the theme image.

You can write your first post, import posts

from another service or delete the

component, add more posts and display

images by going to the orange blocks

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You can also add multimedia contents to your page.

Customizing your website is easy. Just login and point your mouse at any content block on the

page and an editor will come up allowing you to change or delete it. In order to add more

content, change your theme, or access other features, explore the toolbar at the top of the page.

Click “add content to page”

Choose category that you

like

If you choose multimedia,

then few choices will be

given to you. You can pick

whichever that you like, for

example, you chose

youtube

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Insert video

URL that

you like

Choose how

big you

want the

block to

appear

When you’re done, click

the insert button.

Or you can

browse for any

video that you

like from

youtube

Finally, you will have your

youtube video block.

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You can also interact with everyone else by replying their comments in the comment segment.

Your readers will be able to comment on any info that you have posted.

Once you already have your own website, you can just click the site builder button in the

account control panel to edit them. When done, the above dashboard will appear. Then click

edit site to continue.

Fill in your details

Put in your thoughts

and comments

Submit when you’re done

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2. Using a message forum.

First you need to click on the

message forum icon in the web

applications control panel

You can customize the

appearance of you forum to

make it more interesting by

clicking on each of the

orange boxes

Using this categories manager you can create,

edit and delete your forum categories and your

forums and control their additional options

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After you have created your forum as you

desire your forum will display all the forum

titles and are ready to use.

To enable the students to find you forum page,

you can copy and give the URL to them by

clicking the “Get Code” button.

When the student opens the URL given, they will be able to

have access to your forum through their own account. (In this

case, teachers and students are using different accounts)

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The students are then able to respond to their teacher by giving feedback and comment on the

post, and this is the form of learning through the usage of technology.

The teacher will then receive the students’ comments and the interaction continues and this is

considered as a form of learning.

To post, students need to

fill in the details, enter

their messages, and type in

the security code.

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Website: http://en.linoit.com/

Description

Lino is an online website which offers stickies and canvases. In this website, the user is

able to post, see and peel off stickies on the canvas freely. Lino can be used from PC

and also phones which equipped with the function of Android Apps.

Among the features offered by this websites is the ability to take note right away

wherever you are and organize your stickies visually. Hence, it is always easier to

remember the special days or deadlines and share ideas with text, pictures and videos.

Friends will also be able to add on their ideas on our canvases.

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Suggested Activities

Teachers and the students are able to share notes, lists, pictures, websites, documents,

agendas and also video in the same canvases. They can use this web as a discussion

and sharing medium and also as a reminder. The reminder is active when we set the

date on it. Reminder will be alerted via email so that members will be aware of the

upcoming events.

Teachers can also post questions and students can answer it. Not only questions, any

kind of information, attachments, videos, and pictures in teaching aid can also be

posted here.

Before using Lino, users should sign up first. Gmail, Twitter and Yahoo mails

are included as alternatives to log in.

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This is the homepage after we logged in.

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I used ‘My Groups’ to keep in touch with others as a

medium to share opinion and thoughts.

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This is to invite members into group. For instance,

teacher invites students to join the group and interact in

the group.

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Select a new canvas as the background and select the accessibility

for the canvas whether to share it or keep it as private.

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After selecting the canvas, some icons will

appear.

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The history updates of the stickies and reminder will

be noted here once all is done.

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Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 1 and Figure 2 show emails that will be sent by Lino to their members

either for the updates or reminder so that the members will keep updated and

alerted on the upcoming events or date.

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Website : http://www.slideshare.net/

Description

SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or

publicly in the following file formats : Powerpoint, PDF, Keynote or Open Document

presentation. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or

embedded on other sites. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to

be similar to Youtube, but for slideshows. The website was originally meant to be used

for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it has since expanded

to also become a host of a large number of slides that are uploaded for many other

purposes. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting service, it also supports

document, PDFs, videos and webinars. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate,

comment on, and share the uploaded content. The current list of SlideShare’s investors

includes Venrock, David Siminoff and Dev Khare.

Suggested Activities

We can discover, share and present. Share what you know through presentation,

infographics, document, upload video, and more.

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At top of the right corner, you can see Upload, Go PRO, Login and Signup.

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Slide Share discovers every day top Slide Share

Slide Share also presents Featured Slide Share

HOME PAGE

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Slide Share allows you to share your opinion or anything about business & management, career,

design, education, entertainment and technology. You can share it with everyone who needs

more information.

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In this Latest Conferences, it is more like share inner working some organization and highlight

what goes into it.

Slide Share also trending in social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Linkedln

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We also can browse SlideShare and users.

You also can upload your presentation, document, lithography, video and anything here

Content marketing made easy by Analytics, Leadshare and Channel Customization.

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Analytics allows you to measure performance on your SlideShares and find out what resonates

with your viewers with dynamic analytics dashboard.

You also can share this at social network such as Link ed In, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Google,

Pinterest, Reddit and Scoop It.

Analytics also have their own benefits such as getting to know your visitor, where do they

come from and to know whether or not they have found what they were looking for.

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Branding by expand your company’s presence and reach by making your profile page an

extension of your brand.

You also can share this at social network such as Link ed In, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Google,

Pinterest, Reddit and Scoop It.

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SlideShare sends information on new featured presentation on SlideShare every week.

LOG IN AND VIEW MY PROFILE

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Clicking “My profile”, on the upper right side brings you to a box containing details on user’s

name, uploads, account setting, analytics, PRO dashboard, logout and support.

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This is my profile for SlideShare and I have also upload some of my presentation on SlideShare.

Here are my followers and who I followed.

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Website : http://realtimeboard.com/app/

Description

Realtime Board is a website that provides online collaborative software which is free and easy to use. The concept of collaboration makes it useful in discussion and presenting ideas especially in education field. Teachers and students can interact with each other by offering opinion and shared it with the class anytime and anywhere. The visual planning on the board makes learning sessions more fun added with multiple icons and tools which can help students express ideas freely and creatively. The Realtime Board Manager, Joseph O’Meara stated that,

With Realtime Board, I am able to develop an annual operating plan for our department and share a visual picture of work regardless of where I am or what audience I am with.

Suggested Activities

The Realtime Board can be used for discussion among the students and teachers. The students can also share any related information through this board whether in the forms of documents, pictures, and videos. The students can also express their ideas and comments through the comments and text tools. Besides that, the ideas on boards can also be produced into slides shows which make the discussion more fun.

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Above are the signing up steps before the users can use the Realtime Board for

free.

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Realtime Board is a user-friendly website as it provides lots of tutorials such as

video and picture with description. As such, users can create their own board

with ease.

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The users can upload files from their computer or through internet sources by

pasting the URL on the space provided. They can also upload files from Google

Drive. Plus the web also provides other icons that can help in expressing words

and comments in organized way.

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All the tools provided in the web are really helpful in conveying messages and

making the distribution of ideas more organized. Sticky notes for example, are

really useful in attracting the readers’ attention in emphasizing the importance of

the ideas or documents.

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The board created can be transform into slides show and the users can share

their board through other websites or Facebook. This webpage is also interactive

as the user can invite friends from Facebook or email to work together allowing

them to chat in the chat room.

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The users can monitor the accessibility and visibility of their account to other user

and set their personal information in the website through the setting button. They

can upload their picture and set or change their username. Lastly, they can

logout from website by clicking the ‘logout’ button at homepage of their account.

When they have finished with the setting and creation of the board.

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Website: http://www.utellstory.com

Description

Utellstory is a web that provides a community and an easy platform for people from different background to share and tell multimedia stories. It helps us to creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and share our story through UtellStory we can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support our entire story. It also can be embedded into our blog, email to our friends, or shared through your favorite social networking sites.

Suggested Activities

Use UtellStory to create your own multimedia storytelling to share with schools and community events.

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ACTIVITIES BY UtellStory:

1) Follow People’s Stories

2) Read More Stories with Different Country, Culture, Education,

Entertainment and Others.

3) Create The Slideshows

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Sign Up with UtellStory

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Step to Making Slideshows by using UtellStory.

1. ADD SLIDE

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2. Arrange Slide Order

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3. Insert Background Audio

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4. Transition Style

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5. Duration Adjustment

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6. Save your slides

This means that your slides

have been saved.

You can preview

your slides by

clicking the

‘preview’ button.

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This step is to publish your

activity.

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7. Publish story to allow other to read it.

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Website: http://my.brainshark.com/

Description

Create online video presentations, then share and track them with ease. Promote

yourself or your cause, share your expertise, or browse eLearning content.

Suggested Activities

Have students work in groups to create research projects and share their sources

visually.

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Website: http://www.wikispaces.com/

Description

Wikispaces is a free web hosting service for social writing in education context. It can be

used by the teachers and students. For the teachers, they can teach easier. They will

be able to spend more time teaching and use less tools. The classroom can be

managed too along with the other online resources in one place. Teachers can also

keep track on students’ outcomes by having assessments. Students can make other

classmates their peers to discuss and exchange ideas based on the class subject and

project.

Suggested activities

Students

Help students to make activities, exchange ideas and help among peers and teachers.

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Join first. If you are a student, choose ‘I’m a Student’. Follow the instructions for

signing up.

Then, when you have confirmed your email and you have the account, sign in.

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Choose higher education if you are a university student. If you are an elementary

or secondary student, choose K-12 Education.

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The red star marks that the wiki name. The name should not be one of the name

existing in Wikispace’s database. Moreover, the name should not have space in

between and has to be between 3 and 32 characters long. For example,

drawinggeometric, todaysclass and nicedesigns2.

This is your wiki homepage. You will need to create a page to start making

activities.

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The editing tools offer you file uploading, put link to other website, widgets,

table, calendar, video and etc. You can also edit the text. When you are finished,

you can preview or save it.

To let any visitors to know what your wiki is made for. You can put introductions,

information and etc.

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From the above screenshot, it is an example of an introduction of the wiki.

Besides the page, you can go to the ‘File’ button next to the ‘Page’ to upload files

like images or documents.

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When you have created a discussion topic, go to the setting options as shown

above. You will need to click ‘Start Monitoring’ to get notifications if any wiki

user replies your discussion. Plus, if you want replies, click ‘Unlock Replies’ to let

your members leave any comment or reply.

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For project, you can create a project with your members. Deadlines for the project can also be

included.

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When you want to start interactions and involvement from other members, you

can invite them by clicking the ‘Members’ tab at the top and go to ‘Invite

People’.

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A new member has arrived for you new wiki page.

From the above screenshot, this is how it looks like when you are invited by a

wiki user.

You can go to ‘Assessment’ to see your achievement and records of everything

you do on wiki.

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2.2 Teacher

Teachers can help their students to have after-class discussion and other

activities.

A teacher or an educator and join as a teacher.

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Then you can do the activities just like the student’s tutorial of using Wikispaces.

The steps are the same.

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Website: http://www.buncee.com/

Description

Buncee is a whole new way of creating and sharing online and mobile greetings, memories, interests, new finds, business stories and more in a unique, fun and social way. By leveraging the capabilities of online tools and iOS devices, uncee makes it easy for even the most ‘non-technical’ individuals to create and share engaging and interactive multi-media creations that can be shared publicly or privately.

Suggested Activities

Have students of any age or ability easily create the multimedia presentation.

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Sign in to create new presentation

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This is an example of a presentation.

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Website: https://www.evernote.com

Description

Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for save note and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook.

Suggested Activities

Student will able to save their own note, image, song, and Microsoft thing in this web and student will able to open their note with internet connection every time and everywhere without bringing any storage item.

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First, search Evernote website and

sign up to create a note now

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Put your email to sign up with

Evernote

Type your email and make sure you

remember your password

Sign up here

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You can make a note for meeting,

to-do list, research, alarm, and

any Microsoft files that you can

save such as word, excel and

power point

You can save your own photo that

you want to remember such as

business cards, image of note, and

your own photo that you want to

save

You also can search for anything,

even text within images, on any

computer or tablet you use

You can make a new note by clicking

at new note button

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After that you will see this box and you may create a new note.

Title of the note

You may create your own note now

either date, image, song or anything

You can attach picture, song and

note at this button

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Now choose the items

that you want to attach

And then click open

and attach the item

that you have choosen

Then wait for a few minute

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When Evernote has finished saving your note, you can open it anytime and anywhere.

You may share your

note with your friends

You can view items only in

your note

You can open your note

in new tab

You can also delete

your note

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You can zoom in

your image by

clicking at your

image

You also make your own note in your

smart phone

This is an example of Evernote in

android smartphone software. It

allows Android Smartphone users

to create their own note

anywhere without using

computer.

Android

Smartphone

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Website: https://present.me/content/ Description: Present.me offers a unique new way for people and organizations to communicate. Think PowerPoint plus YouTube, with numerous applications for business, education, human resources, and individuals. The most effective way we can communicate is through face to face communication with one person or with many others. Constrained time, daily pressure, geography and budgets all conspire to make this personal dialogue more challenging. Present.me allows users to share and review everything from tutorials and product demos to business updates and job screening interviews when it suits them, on demand. Suggested Activities For Internal Communications

Educational updates, team motivation, knowledge sharing For Informal Learning

Online tutorials, revision refreshers, public speaking practice For Events

Sharing speaker presentations with those who couldn’t attend on the day

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Let’s get started by designing your very own creative presentation! You may use the plans

to help you design the ideas!

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Before you may start using Present.me, you must first sign up if you have not had any accounts yet. You may sign up manually or just sign up using your Facebook or Google account. If you have already registered yourself as a

Present.me user, you can just login and get started!

You’ve signed up, logged in and are ready to make your first Present.me. Click on the Create tab at the top of the page, and you will be taken to the

upload page.

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Make sure you have Slides & Video selected, and the Record Video option selected. Click Proceed and you can then choose your file to upload. It

can be a Powerpoint file, a PDF (you can export from Keynote and Prezi to PDF) a word

document or a Google doc.

Choose the file and wait for it to upload

As soon as it’s uploaded, you’ll be taken to a new tab whilst your file

converts to a format compatible with Present.me.

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Once it’s converted, you’ll see a green Record button appear to the right. Conversion times can vary depending on the level of traffic, but most presentations are converted in under a minute, with some larger files taking up to 10

minutes. Present.me will also send you an email when your file is ready if you prefer not to wait.

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Click Record and your slides will be loaded into the recorder application. The first thing that happens is we ask permission to use your webcam and microphone. Click ‘Allow’, and you will see a network speed test running in the background. If your network isn’t

fast enough, you will be notified– you can still use Present.me, but you are more likely to lose your connection whilst recording and thus lose what you’ve recorded. If you do have a slow connection, it’s better to upgrade to a Plus account (you can take a 30 day free trial if you sign up with a new account) and then upload a prerecorded video and sync

that.

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Once you’ve clicked allow, you should see your webcam image in the right hand side window. If you can’t see yourself, click on the Settings button (bottom left)

and you can choose your camera and microphone from the list provided.

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Say a few words just to make sure your microphone is working, Click the red Record button and you’ll get a 5 second countdown before it starts recording, use the right & left arrow keys to move your slides

forwards and back, alternatively, you can click on the buttons on the recorder. Pressing the space also moves the slides forwards.

When you’ve either reached the last slide, or are ready to stop, click the Stop button and you will stop recording. If you’re on the last slide,

you can also click ‘Next’ and that will stop the recording too. Now you’re ready to review & publish. Click ‘End & Review’ and you will be

taken to the Publish page.

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Here you can review the finished presentation, change the privacy setting; add a title, description and keywords. If you click ‘Delete

Recording’ your recording will be deleted and the presentation will be ready to record again. If you’re happy with the recording, click ‘Save’

and the presentation will be published.

Now you can share it with whoever you want – put it on Facebook, on

Twitter, LinkedIn, or just email a link to someone, the choice is yours.

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REFERENCES CHAPTER 1 BLENDSPACE https://www.blendspace.com CHAPTER 2 EDUCLIPPER https://educlipper.net CHAPTER 3 BRAVENET http://www.bravenet.com/ CHAPTER 4 LINO http://en.linoit.com/

CHAPTER 5 SLIDESHARE http://www.slideshare.net/

CHAPTER 6 REALTIME BOARD http://realtimeboard.com/app/

CHAPTER 7 UTELLSTORY http://www.utellstory.com

CHAPTER 8 MYBRAINSHARK http://my.brainshark.com/

CHAPTER 9 WIKISPACES http://www.wikispaces.com/

CHAPTER 10 BUNCEE http://www.buncee.com/

CHAPTER 11 EVERNOTE https://www.evernote.com CHAPTER 12 PRESENT.ME https://present.me/content/