Annotating the web isn’t a new thing. There have been a variety of tools that have allowed users to annotate text online and make it available to others. Diigo had an early version of this. There was a fantastic tool that Google killed off called Google Notebook that allowed you to grab snippets from the …
Category archives: Technology
The Complexity of Choice
I spoke at a school recently where a teacher indicated that the amount of platforms we have available at the board was paralyzing, and that not knowing where to begin, they choose to do nothing instead. I was troubled by this of course. Our intent is to provide a rich tool kit to attend to …
Templates for Newcomers
I’ve been pulling together a series of posts regarding Explain Everything as a format for creating templates. In that series I’ve attempted to expand on some methods to create templates, and established a space to share those templates with others. You can read those posts here: Let’s take that workflow, and apply it to an …
Creating Templates With Explain Everything
This is turning into a bit of a series of posts to properly cover templates in Explain Everything. I’ve just finished writing a post on how to share these types of resources in a centralized location. Once I had created that centralized space, I realized I needed to create a template to test out the …
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Sharing Templates from Explain Everything
We refer to them as “templates”. Explain Everything refers to them as “projects” in the export page. You could refer to them as .xpl files. Regardless of the label, once you start to consider Explain Everything as an application with its own file format, rather than merely a vehicle to create screencasts, some additional super-powers …
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iMovie Isn’t Redefinition
Tim Kivell and I presented today at the Hamilton Wentworth Principals Conference, summarizing lessons learned after three years orchestrating PD plans for the schools directly involved in the technology facet of the Transforming Learning Everywhere initiatives here at the school board. These are the slides we presented, but slides can only tell half the story, …