02 – Student Portfolios with Bulb

08/11/14 • 6 min

Episode 2 – EdTech You Should Know – Student Portfolios with Bulb

Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

This episode of ETYSK features the website Bulb, a beautiful platform that allows students to create online portfolios of their work.

“Students are using bulb to create and publish portfolios and projects. Teachers are using bulb to publish lessons and collaborate as a class.”

I particularly like Bulb because students get to keep their bulb account forever – it isn't something that is district owned or managed and therefore isn't hosted or required to be maintained by the district. It is a great history of student learning that travels with students throughout their educational career.

I'm excited to see where bulb goes and interested to see how students and teachers use bulb going forward.

Here are some relevant links to information about Bulb:

https://www.bulbapp.com/u/bulb-for-teachers-and-students

Episode 2 – EdTech You Should Know – Student Portfolios with Bulb

Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

This episode of ETYSK features the website Bulb, a beautiful platform that allows students to create online portfolios of their work.

“Students are using bulb to create and publish portfolios and projects. Teachers are using bulb to publish lessons and collaborate as a class.”

I'm excited to see where bulb goes and interested to see how students and teachers use bulb going forward.

Here are some relevant links to information about Bulb:

https://www.bulbapp.com/u/bulb-for-teachers-and-students

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01 – Thinglink

Episode 1 – EdTech You Should Know

This is the first episode of EdTech You Should Know, a new show in the Instructional Tech Talk network. The show features an educational technology tool per episode that is worth knowing about for use with students or staff.

This week's episode features Thinglink – an excellent tool for creatively annotating pictures and videos with various forms of media.

Here is a link to the website: http://thinglink.com/edu

To join Susan Oxnevad's challenges, see this link: http://thinglinkblog.com

Here is a sample of what you can do with ThingLink:

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03 – Mirroring and Screen Sharing with Reflector, AirParrot, and Slingshot

EdTech You Should Know – Episode 3

Mirroring and Screen Sharing with Reflector, AirParrot, and Slingshot

On this week's episode we talked with Drew, the co-founder of AirSquirrels (the firm that produces the great apps we are discussing today).

Drew and I talked about the following three apps in relation to mirroring and screen sharing:

Reflector:

“Reflector is an AirPlay receiver that allows you to wirelessly display your iPad or iPhone on a number of devices. It’s available for Mac, PC and most Android devices. Mirror your device on a big screen without wires or complicated setups.”

AirParrot:

“AirParrot adds AirPlay screen mirroring to any Windows or Mac computer. Wirelessly connect a computer to a TV and stream movies, music, photos and more to an Apple TV or computer running Reflector. AirParrot is the only Windows screen mirroring solution, and it's a great Mac AirPlay alternative.”

Slingshot:

“Slingshot allows you to share iOS device screens, Mac and Windows desktops or specific applications. Share with anyone, whether they're across the world or in the same room. Simply start a session, share your device and then invite others to join in! A number of collaboration tools are included, too! Video, audio and text chat are paired with collaborative note taking, file sharing and more.”

The headers above are direct links to the apps. A special thanks to Drew for talking with ETYSK about these awesome apps for educators!