In this hour we will acquire tools that I use to make flipped and blended learning sites like this one.
First you need to get the tools, then we'll explore how to use them to improve the documents you've already created.
By the end of this hour I want you to have created PORTAL for your own project and shared it with the group via the workshop tag.
Image capture
Image capture: download and install Jing by Techsmith
This is a free tool from the makers of the more expensive tools Camtasia and Snaggit
Why download Jing?
Jing allows you to take capture frames/snippits from your computer and either store them as files on your computer or save them to a cloud space. You can annotate these files before saving, and insert them into materials you are preparing for reports or teaching materials.
Jing is particularly useful when you want to create tutorials to explain things that you are doing on your computer.
This is a free tool which I have used for years. It's reliable and benign.
Why use Irfanview?
Irfanview allows you to see thumbnails on your computer organized by folders. You can scroll through the photos, open them, crop them, resize them, apply filters, and do many basic editing functions in one flexible interface.
This program is only for Windows. If you have another device, you'll have to use something comparable.
Explore the images on our device using this tool or one that comes with your device.
Report in your shared document what your capabilities are with your image browsing / editing tool.
Create a free portal space
PBworks is a wiki website creation site that allows you to create one free workspace under the basic academic plan.
What can you do with PBworks?
You can use this workspace to create a portal for your students to use to explore your lessons and tutorias, and link to other places they should go to online to submit their work or find links to more information.
It is common for conferences to set a TAG for their conference, for example #thaitesol20; or this workshop tag, #jan27crru
If you are in a presentation at the conference you can take a photo or comment on the presentation and post it to a site that collects, or aggregates, all the posts to that site around tags people assign to their posts
If other people do the same then their combined posts using the common tag can be aggregated and displayed by users who search for them on the site according to their tag.
Examples of sites that do this include
Twitter
Facebook
Flickr
What have other workshop participants done with tagging at these sites? archives2020
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