The Web is a big place, full of new and interesting things to discover. The problem is finding the good stuff and keeping track of it all. This is where Delicious can help.
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.
Pizap is a FREE and fun photo editor that lets you add photo effects like to images.quickly and easily. Some of the effects include custom text, speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers. PiZap also has built in tools for sending e-cards, downloading your image, embedding your image, or sharing the link to your image. No registration required. Pizap is a great addition to any classroom for do fun and creative projects (example: creating writing prompts) To check out Pizap [Click Here]
This is a cool online slideshow creation tool that allows you to upload your own photos from your computer. You can then select music and automatically create a video that is completely animated with effects and transitions. Currently you can e-mail your video or embed it in a blog or webpage but they are indicating that you will soon be able to download your video to your computer or iPod. [Click Here]
The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos. TeacherTube staff review flagged sites and will remove any inappropriate posts. With more collegial commentary and discussion through messaging and responses, the quality of this resource will only increase. [Click Here]
Have you ever wanted to convert a music file , video file, image file or a document file into different format? Now sometimes this conversion can be as easy changing the file type when saving, but more often than not, it may require using an additional conversion software. Wouldn't it be convenient if this could all be done with wither one program or a one stop solution. Well, ZAMZAR is that one stop solution. ZAMZAR can convert most of the popular file types either from a web site or from your computer. This can all be done with four easy steps. STEP 1- Type in the link of the online file you want to convert or browse for it on your computer. STEP 2- Select the file type that you would like to convert it to. STEP 3- Enter your e-mail address- ZAMZAR sends the converted file to your e-mail account. STEP 4 - Click convert and wait! [Click Here]
KickYouTube is the easiest way of downloading YouTube videos to your computer. Just put kick after youtube on the video url. So for example, if you have the following url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
It would look like this: http://www.kickyoutube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
And then you will be able to download the video in a variety of formats, which include MP3 for audio only. As an alternative, you can use our handy bookmark, located at the upper right corner of this page. Just drag the star icon into your bookmarks toolbar and you're all set.
Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles. [Click Here]
An egg timer is a device whose primary function is to measure a set amount of time. Its primary purpose was to assist in cooking an egg in water. Some later designs allowed adjustments to measure many other cookery tasks. - Wikipedia
We have all used or seen the traditional egg timer. They were great for playing games or helping mom make sure the hard boiled eggs were cooked properly. But once again, the web has made the egg timer even cooler with e.ggtimer.com This handy online egg timer is perfect for the classroom, board room or large training venue. Not only is this tool simple to use, but it will also your group back in their seats whentime is up. For more information about this tool, [Click Here]
Go2web20 is one of the largest web2.0 directories out there. It is design to help keep the world up to date with all the new & hot services that are born daily into the web. In many cases, Go2web20 has been the first to report the existence of a new application.
Today Go2web20 includes over 2,700 services and more are uploaded everyday. [Click Here]
Bing is Microsoft's new online search portal, located at bing.com. The site has some interesting features.
Bing's search capability is sensitive to the type of information being searched for and brings up information on the search results that is more relevant. for example, you searched for FedEx and Bing brings up a page with major links and the ability to track a package. It does the same thing for other types of sites. For example, search for Amazon and you get a link to search for items within Amazon.com. [Click Here]
Here is a great Web 2.0 tool that will have many uses in your classroom...no matter what age you teach. Wordle is a great tool for generating something called word clouds. Either type or copy and paste in your text and let Wordle generate a unique word cloud. The clouds created give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Wordle lets users change fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, save them or do a print screen to save your project. Wordle would be a great way for students to check what words are being over used in their writing by simply past their text into the Wordle text box. Another way to use Wordle in the classroom is to have students create special word walls (Examples: adjectives, synonyms, antonyms) [Click Here]
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. [Click Here]
Glogster can do all of the following: Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs. Glog yourself every day! Amaze your friends - send others links to your Glogs. Share your profile! - show your creations on MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, Bebo or wherever you want. Find new friends by their style Have fun browsing Glogs, comment on other people's Glogs and get inspiration [Click Here]
One issue that educators can run into when encouraging students to use technology to do projects is finding music that is clean and legal. There is a site that I have been encouraging educators to use for years, FreePlayMusic.com. FreePlayMusic is a great site for both students and teachers looking for instrumental music without lyrics. Not only does it offers high quality music to download, but they also have a large collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download. The content found at FreePlayMusic.com is free for educational use as long as it is for private use. You cannot use it to generate a profit or for broadcasting on websites, wikis,blogs or podcasts. (Limited to school grounds and classroom – non broadcast) To check out FreePlayMusic [Click Here]
Here is a great concept/mind mapping tool for both students and teachers. It works much like Kidspiration and Inspiration, but simpler. Just type the main idea. topic and subtopic in the right hand column and let the text2mindmap generate the map for you. When you are all finished save the final project as a .jpg image. To check out the great tool [click here]
If you are an educator looking for a tool for you or your students to edit images, there are many tools available, but finally there is one that competes with Photoshop's Express. The tool is an online image editor called Pixlr. Just upload your image and begin editing with all of the many options and tools. When finished, simply click on “Save” image, and you are able to save your edited image to your computer. To try it out [Click Here]
Linkedin is a professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in your career, and is one of your most valuable assets. LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return. Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to accelerate their success. We believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust. [Click Here]
Classroom20.com is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. Classroom 2.0 is a no-cost, community-supported network. [Click Here]
This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape. this conference allows participants to virtual participate synchronously and asynchronously. [Click Here]
