Tech Tidbit: theLearnia.com

As classrooms become more student-oriented rather than teacher-oriented, it's becoming more necessary for teacher to provide instructions for student activities that aren't reliant on lecture and repetitive explanation.  Teachers that create content that explains concepts or instructions that enable students to work on their own are more able to facilitate learning.  The site theLearnia.com provides teachers with a platform of creating their own video lesson either by uploading a PowerPoint presentation and narrating the presentation or by creating one on their own from scratch.

When you create your own presentation in theLearnia, you can add text boxes, background images, lines, shapes, and other media to your presentation. Record your narration to go along with your presentation, and then publish to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and more.  You can also e-mail the link to your presentation or embed it on your class website. These instructional videos that you create are ideal for linking to a Google Classroom course or another Learning Management System course. 

Tech Tidbits: Export Media Files from Google Drive app onto your iPad

In this Tech Tidbits tutorial video, I demonstrate how to export media files from your Google Drive app onto your iPad.  As students use iPads to create presentations and projects, they might have the need to access photos, video files, or audio files on their iPad that are not already available.  

This tutorial video demonstrates how to export picture and video files from Google Drive on their iPad's Camera Roll.  It also demonstrates how to export audio files, such as mp3 files, from Google Drive into iMovie to be used as a soundtrack in a video.