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Collaborative Story Writing with Google Docs

The Electric Educator

This past week I started to train my 9th grade students to use Google Docs, part of the Google Apps for Education suite. I used Camtasia Studio to record the editing as it took place and did the final editing in iMovie. One of the assignments that we did together was a collaborative class story. Here are the rules: 1.

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5 Companies to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Their core products Camtasia Studio (screen casting) and Snagit (image capturing) are standard on all of my computers. My podcast series " Google, More than Search " [iTunes link] was created entirely using Camtasia Studio. TechSmith has embraced the educational community by giving away $2.3 Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

While my academic background is in the social sciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, social sciences or natural sciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same. Web technologies can be of tremendous help in this regard.

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