Vyew – free Meeting rooms for real time collaboration

Vyew is a great presentation tool for educators. It allows its users to meet and share content in real time. It is completely free and supports up to 10 participants. In fact it is one of my favorite presentation tools because of all it has to offer to us in education. Imagine a tool that enables you to upload documents, files and videos into a room which others can access very easily and start viewing and contributing to. It is really perfect for online collaboration and web conferencing where people can collaborate in real time and share whatever they want and all for free.

Some features of Vyew

Here are the main features that Vyew offers to its users:

• It is completely free
• It requires a sign up
• It does not need any software installation or download for it is a web-based application
• It is very easy to use and anyone can right off start on it
• It supports up to 10 participants
• It also provides tools for uploading files, slides,documents, images,and videos
• It provides you with a whiteboard to draw and type on
• It also allows you to share your computer screen with participants in your room
• It supports voice and text chat
• It is compatible with Pc, Mac, Linux and many other systems

How can i get started using Vyew ?

Head over to Vyew main page and sign up for your free account
Watch this short tutorial video to see how you can use the above mentioned options

Applications of Vyew in education

Vyew is just what educators need. The conferencing and collaborative features it offers for free can be used by teachers to make tutorials and invite groups of 10 students at a time to a single room and explain lessons to them, share slides and other relevant staff. Vyew can make your teaching much more fun and students will love it for sure.
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Google Voice Search: Search Out Loud

Google Voice Search is a newly released feature by Google. You no longer need to type in your search query but just speak it out loud and Google will do the rest. I can not believe how advanced Google's technology is becoming. It is making our internet navigation way easier and quicker than anytime before. Not only Google is a great resource for educators but the best one ever.



I am crazily in love with its services and i trust them more than i trust myself. My love for Google and my deep recognition of its importance in our schooling has put me in a relentless hunt for its updates. I have even devoted a whole part of this blog to Google’s Educational Tools that every teacher should be using and i have also written an article entitled What every educator should know about google which has made the biggest hits in many educational forums and blogs. I am also working on many papers about how educators can benefit the maximum from Google , just stay tuned for the updates here and you will be able to discover many more amazing facts about this huge internet guru named Google.
As i said about Google Voice Search, queries are conducted via voice and all you need is Google Chrome 11 or higher and a built-in or attached microphone. Just click on the mic on the search bar and start speaking and whatever you say will be automatically typed in Google search bar and results will be displayed immediately.

What is Google Voice Search useful for ?

This new feature is great for

1. people who want to search for something but are not sure about the spelling of the search terms
2. If you want to search long queries
3. If your hands are busy doing something else then use this voice search to search Google for you

Unfortunately this service is available just in The US for now and here is what Google has said about this:

It will take several days for Voice Search to be available to everyone. Please note Voice Search is available for US English only.

Now watch this short video to learn about Google Voice Search

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Screenr – Easy Screencast making tool

Screenr is a great web tool. It is a web-based screen recorder that allows its users to create and share their screencasts around the web. It is dead easy to use and does not require any software download. Screenr is the best way to start creating tutorials and lessons to share with your students. Long time ago i used to wonder how these people create video tutorials and embed them in their blogs or websites and i used to think that one has to be a a technology savvy to do that but experience has proved me wrong. These video recordings you watch on youtube and on the  other how-to video platforms are very easy to make , they might even be easier than you ever thought.

 

Some features of Screenr

Here is a list of the main features that Screenr provides for its users:

• It is free
• It requires a sign up
• You can sign up with your Twitter, Facebbok, or Google account
• It doe not require any software to install
• It is completely web based and you can run it on any browser with internet connection
• It allows you to make a screencast recording of what you are doing on your computer
• You can make recordings of up to 5 minutes long
• You can embed your recordings in your blog, wiki, or website

How can i get started using Screenr ?

Head over to Screenr main page and sign up for a free account or use your other accounts to sign in
Now watch this video tutorial to learn more about how to use Screenr

Applications of Screenr in education

Screenr is a very good tool for educators. You can use it to create video tutorials about complicated formulae or to walk your students through a step by step process of a part of a lesson. Remember students love media clips and if these clips are made by their own teacher they can even be much more impressed and therefore you can guarantee a higher percentage of interaction. Give Screenr a try and see by yourself.
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