Technology for Learning Blog

Dear Colleagues and Students

I never knew you could do this with YouTube videos in Chrome…

1 min to watch now = many future minutes saved…

Dear Colleagues & Students

Some interesting experiments on this link (1min 30sec to watch)

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/digitalwellbeing

Dear Colleagues and Students

Screencastify is a really useful tool for creating and sharing your own screencasts (or gifs) with just a couple of clicks.

There have been some great updates recently.

Image courtesy of The Conversation/ Shutterstock.com

This article came into my inbox yesterday and I have shared it with a few colleagues already. I though its balanced approach to a contentious issue worth sharing with you. Rather than interpret the article myself, here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite, encouraging you to foster your own “reading resilience” and engage with the full article:

“Public anxiety about the capacity of digital-age children and young adults to read anything longer than a screen grab has come to feel like moral panic. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest we must take such unease seriously….”

A colleague shared a BBC article on the rise in popularity of audiobooks recently. Serendipitously, I was searching Audible and came across an area of the site I had not seen before. They have conveniently classified their catalogue by length of time. So, next time you’re on an adventure and you know the approximate length of the journey, you can search for something to listen to based on genre and journey time.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Brian