Minggu 11

5 Benefits of Using WordPress

1. Cheap or Free

· Using WordPress for website are cheap or free. WordPress itself is free, a theme is easily under $100 or even free and you save loads of money .Every students can use it as it is free.

2. It’s That Easy

· With any computer savvy, WordPress is easy to use. If you can send an e-mail, use Microsoft Word or set up a Facebook account, then you can use WordPress. And normal use doesn’t run the risk of mucking up the design. It’s website creation for non-techies.Wordpress can also link to any website and any video. Even if want to link to blogger or wikispaces also can.

3. Do It Yourself

· With WordPress you enter the Do-It-Yourself world. No more waiting for and paying a programmer to fix a tiny error, saving you time and money. Templates or backgrounds can change as you wish. Students can improve their creativity and can write everything that he or she learn in the class and share with their friends.

4. Many Users, Many Places

· WordPress is online and offers multiple users, which means you’re not the only one who can fix something in a pinch and you can access it from anywhere. Which means if you’ve got Internet access in Tahiti, you could work from there. That also means your important site is backed up on a secure server with multiple redundancies, not some high school kid’s laptop.

5. Climb the Search Results

· WordPress also makes it easier to optimize your search engine results. That means your site is more likely to land on the first page of Google results, which means people are more likely to find you.

Minggu 10

Camtasia Studio

Uses of Camtasia Studio

Camtasia is a solution for recording, editing, and publishing your screen videos and images or even power point. You can easily create software tutorials and demonstrations in Flash and streaming video formats for your global audience. Camtasia records all activity, including narration from a Windows PC screen, edits clips, and then outputs files to RealMedia, Windows Media, Flash, Quicktime, or other formats. Captions, text boxes, and graphics can be added after the video is produced. TechSmith Camtasia Studio is user-friendly video screen capture software. I’ve tried it out for myself, and it’s pretty great. If you haven’t yet, can have a try.There are few uses for Camtasia Studio. After reading this list, you may realize you’ve been in one of these situations and having screen recorder software would’ve saved you time and headaches.

1. Step-by-Step for the Not-so-Computer-Literate

Your parents just got back from their cruise in the Bahamas and have hundreds of digital photos on their camera. Problem is, they have no idea how to upload them on to their computer and you live across the country so you can’t just drive over and do it yourself. Instead of spending hours on the phone explaining how to do it, create a video in Camtasia Studio going through the step-by-step process and email it to them. And when they forget how again, they can just re-watch the video. Problem solved!

2. Share Tips and Tutorials on YouTube

You’re creating an animated .gif using Adobe Illustrator’s bones tool and stumble across a fantastic new way to simplify the process. You feel the entire graphic design community should be made aware of this great discovery. How do you make this knowledge public? You decide to record your computer screen with Camtasia and make a tutorial to upload on YouTube. Within a month the video goes viral and you are hailed Design King of the Day. Problem solved!

3. Record Complex Functions for Easy Review Later

You bought a second 23-inch monitor to match your current one for some sweet dual-monitor action. However, you want each monitor to display a separate background image. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t make this easy. After spending some time searching forums you get some tips and figure it out. Instead of having to find the same forums and tips to remember how to do it again, you create a Camtasia Studio 7 how-to video and keep it as a future reminder. Time passes and you decide to change up the images. After watching your video, you have the images changed in no time. Problem solved!

4. Create Video Walkthroughs for Live Presentations

Your web design team has finished the new website and it’s time to present it to some of your top clients. You create a Camtasia video of you demonstrating a walkthrough of all the site’s features and vital areas of interest for your clients. During the recording you have some difficulties with the site links. You team fixes them and you edit a re-take. This video is then presented in a video conference call. The clients praise you for a professional and functional site, and one of them comments he was expecting to have to sit through some technical difficulties midway through the presentation (as is always the case). Problem solved!

Minggu 9

WHAT IS JING?

Jing is a cross-platform application that can be downloaded from

www.jingproject.com. It enables you to take static screen captures of your computer screen (called screenshots) as well as record short videos (less than 5 minutes) of onscreen action (called screencasts). You can then share your screen captures and screencasts instantly with others whether over the web, email, or even embedded in your online course shell. Jing’s companion site, www.screencast.com, makes sharing easy and fast. Once your screen capture or screencast is done, with a click of a button you can easily upload it to Screencast.com. Once the upload is done, Screencast.com then copies the URL to your uploaded screen capture or screencast to the clipboard of your computer, enabling you to then easily paste the URL into an email or your course management system to share with your students. Screencast.com, also, generates HTML embed code which enables you to embed your screencasts seamlessly into your online course management system. But if you do not wish to use Screencast.com to share your screen captures and screencasts, you can save your screen captures as PNG image files and your screencasts as SWF

Flash video files and distribute as you see fit (Margarita & Dave 2010).

BENEFITS OF USING JING

According to Patrick et al. (2009), Jing is useful because:

1. It is free.

2. It is available for Windows and Mac.

3. Ability to upload images and videos to screencast.com with a simple click of a

mouse is something that none of its competitors currently offer.

CHAPTER

USAGE JING IN EDUCATION

Elizabeth (2010) suggest, some quick ideas using Jing in education:

1. Create training videos for quick and easy access for students, or even yourself

for refreshers.

2. Have your students record themselves solving math problems and then post

on your classroom blog!

3. Have your students record their presentations

4. Have your students record themselves researching and presenting their

findings

5. Don’t stick to the norm! Have your students get creative – create a timeline

of an explorer’s life and then present it via Jing.

FEELING AFTER USE

It is a nice and interesting web 2.0 for teaching or for fun. I have learn by using Jing to do on youtube, powerpoint, image abd for website. It can transform in either photo or in video. If is in video, then the sound can be record by ourself. It is so much interesting and i feel happy and glad that in today lesson i learned this.

Minggu 8

Web That Can Be Use To teach Children

1. Facebook

· Early learning development -- Most often, teens and students will take advantage of the social network to talk about school’s work, projects, and activities. Sharing of thoughts and ideas that concerns homework is the biggest reason why they can allow their children to use Facebook.

· Ability to express what they know, feel, or understand -- A Facebook account contains a home page on the web—a page where children can communicate and express themselves independently. They can also discuss about their activities and sort of interests. They can freely form and join a group and give support to fan pages. They can find what other children of their age are interested in.

· Skills in social networking are developed -- Their Facebook account allows them to keep in touch with current, old, and new friends. This is one of the fastest ways to introduce themselves to others and find additional friends. Using it in the proper way, social networking experience will boost the child’s self-esteem and guide them not to experience loneliness.

· Enhanced digital capability -- Facebook pages will train up kids how to respond and give comments, upload images and videos, and navigate the website. Having a great experience on-line will increase their social media skills which are very important elements in life as they grow up and mature.

· As Facebook continues to influence children’s lives, parents can’t help but let their kids use it to their advantage. Preparing them for new technology era is paramount to educating them how to develop friendliness, social living and computer know-how.

2. Twitter

· Twitter is definitely a useful tool for communicating since you do not have to worry about what you write. As a student, you could use Twitter to your advantage by relating to others your views on a certain subject and you can even put some links in your posts so that you could share more about the topic. If you have followers who happen to be your classmates and maybe some of your professors too, then they might find what you have to say interesting—that would be a good way to start a productive discussion. Another thing that makes Twitter really cool is that once your cell phone is activated to work on Twitter, you can thumb on those keypads like your texting, but instead of usually sending it to one person, you are sharing your experience with all your followers! And if sending tweets through your cell phone is not only what you are after, you could of course receive tweets too. Now, you do not have to go home to log on to Twitter because you’ve got the power of SMS in your hands!

3. Prezi

· Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin.
It's visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web.

a) Strengths

• allows you to create amazing online presentations.
• flash based application, which breaks away from "slideshows"
• entire slideshow is built on one page (you can easily map out presentation)
• you can alter your presentation on the fly by quickly seeing entire presentation map.
• zooming in an out of material adds an element of animation
• Free version has 100 megabytes of storage
• You can embed pictures, movies even PDF and powerpoint slides
• Creates a more fluid, more effective, and more attractive way to present desired ideas
• The ability to zoom out can give the student a view of the "whole picture" of the presentation.
• Movement can be utilized to create focus and retain student attention during presentations.
• Once created there is only one URL for a Prezi presentation, so even if there are further edits the link stays the same.
• Student groups could easily work together. For example, if a student is absent, the rest of his/her group could e-mail the link to the Prezi for the student to work on at home and then the following day students could finalize together.
• Ability to organize and reorganize information makes it possible to "get it right."
• Tutorials within the site offer help and tips which will benefit students using Prezi for the first time.
• Gives students the opportunity to select safe photos and images from creative commons.

b) Ideas for the classroom

• students can create more interactive slide-shows.
• Used to promote authentic assessment.
• Students can use this technology to create time lines with embedded images and interactivity. For example, imagine students using Prezi to "tell" the chronological events of a historic event.
• Use to create a visual for a piece of poetry
• Use to showcase "student of the month"
• Can use Prezi Meeting for students to collaborate on group projects.
• students could brainstorm writing content into a Prezi and then shift content around and use grouping tools to be able to organize for writing. Viewing their Prezi might help students see if their organization is ready for drafting or if they still need to work in the prewriting/organization phase of writing.
• After a lesson, have students work in groups to "reteach" the lesson using a Prezi. This would require them to recall, organize, and present information learned.
• Could be used as an icebreaker activity. All students, and the teacher, could create Prezis about themselves and then share them with the class.
• Teachers can create a Prezi with missing or incorrect information. The students then must edit the corrections into the Prezi and present the corrections to the class.