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The eduClipper App Works on Apple Watches

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Disclosure: I have a very small advisory and equity interest in eduClipper.

The Apple Watch was officially released today. I don’t expect that a whole lot of teachers and or students will be sporting these soon. That said, I’m sure there are a few early adopters who are looking for an educational app for their new watches. If that’s you, take a look at eduClipper’s updated app.

eduClipper has updated their app to work on Apple Watches. With the app installed on your Apple Watch you can view your own clips (bookmarks), view the clips of those people you follow (including your students), and comment on clips. The commenting feature includes the option to leave voice comments.

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The eduClipper app on an iPad has many more features including creating whiteboard videos, organizing projects, and managing students’ accounts.

New Collaborative Portfolios Added to WeLearnedIt

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welearnedit Back in August Adam Bellow launched a new iPad app called WeLearnedIt. Through the WeLearnedIt iPad app you and your students can create digital portfolios. This week a collaborative portfolio creation option was added to WeLearnedIt. WeLearnedIt portfolios can contain files from Google Drive, Dropbox, links from the web, images and videos captured with your iPad, and whiteboard videos created within the WeLearnedIt app. Watch the video below to see how the new portfolio option works.

The best aspects of WeLearnedIt are found in the feedback and sharing tools. Teachers can assign grades to elements of students’ digital portfolios. Grading is not limited to assigning scores. Teachers can give written feedback on each submission. Rubrics for assignments are available through the app too.  School-wide implementations (a fee-based option) of WeLearnedIt allow teachers and administrators to share assessment data.

Disclosure: I have a small advisory and equity interest in eduClipper (the parent company of WeLearnedIt). 

Create Whiteboard Recordings on the Updated eduClipper iPad App

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Screen Shot 2014-03-13 at 9.21.48 PM Cross-posted from my other blog, Free Technology for Teachers.

The popular digital portfolio and bookmarking service eduClipper has released an updated iPad appthat offers four awesome new features. The most notable of these features is whiteboard recording. This new feature allows you to create explanatory videos in a Khan Academy style or to narrate and annotate an item from your eduClipper library. Complementing the whiteboard recording feature is a new option to download your eduClips to your iPad or to Airdrop them to a computer.

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The other new eduClipper iPad app features are updated annotation tools and a new notification center. The annotation tools now include options for changing the thickness of your lines, new line and font colors, and new font style choices. The new notification center resembles that of Google+ in that you’re able to go back and view all notifications on each of your eduClips.

Disclosure: I am an advisor to eduClipper with a very small equity stake in the company. 

eduClipper Launches A Free iPad App for Clipping and Sharing Your Favorite Resources

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educlipper eduClipper has just released a new iPad app that brings the great features of the eduClipper website to you iPad. From the eduClipper iPad app you can clip (bookmark) your favorite links, import content from Google Drive and Dropbox, and import content from your camera roll. Just as you can do on the eduClipper website, through the app you can place resources on multiple clipboards. Clipboards can be shared publicly or with a select group of people such as the students in your class. Students can use the eduClipper app to add content the digital portfolios they’ve created in eduClipper. And remember this about eduClipper, teachers can create and moderate students’ accounts.

The only drawback to eduClipper’s iPad app is that it requires iOS 7. If you haven’t updated to iOS 7 you will have to in order to use the eduClipper iPad app.

Disclosure: I have a very small equity stake in eduClipper.