{"id":8873,"date":"2015-12-03T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:00:17","slug":"the-12-apps-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-12-apps-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Apps of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<br \/>\nThe University of London and the Dublin Institute of Technology both launched on 1 December their respective 12 Apps of Christmas.  It's not too late to sign up.  These are free online courses, aimed at students and instructors of all ages who are interested in learning more about integrating mobile learning technologies into their studies or classes.  I have to admit that I was disappointed on December 1st when the University of London revealed the first app--Google Translate.  I thought I knew all about this app, but I was surely wrong!  Their presentation was easy to follow and well-illustrated.  I truly had no idea that sound files would work on Google translate.  Each app includes educational applications and actual activities for you to try of which there are several for Google translate.  So check out the site and see if you may be interested in participating in reviewing the apps and these mini-courses and providing feedback.  15-20 minutes a day are kindly requested for you to give feedback to them.  Here's the link:<br \/>\n<a title=\"12 apps of Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openeducationeuropa.eu\/en\/news\/new-edition-successful-12-apps-christmas-online-courses-students-and-teachers\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.openeducationeuropa.eu\/en\/news\/new-edition-successful-12-apps-christmas-online-courses-students-and-teachers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here's a demonstration of Google translate and the song LaBamba!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06olHmcJjS0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols The University of London and the Dublin Institute of Technology both launched on 1 December their respective 12 Apps of Christmas. It's not too late to sign up. These are free online courses, aimed at students and instructors of all ages who are interested in learning more about integrating mobile learning technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-12-apps-of-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The 12 Apps of Christmas\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[111,120,215,291],"class_list":{"0":"post-8873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-distance-education","9":"tag-elearning","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-social-media","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2j7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16052,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/12-apps-of-christmas-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":8873,"position":0},"title":"12 Apps of Christmas 2020","author":"Janice Florent","date":"December 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year the University of Glasgow's Digital Education Unit identified 12 apps they felt would be useful in teaching and learning for online and distance education. 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