Share photos, customize them, create albums, and a lot more (reviewed at the online course at Educ.ar). To be tried!
Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow. Click the button below to get started. Twittered about by Joao.
Allows you to search for Flickr images available under Creative Commons (so that you can use them in your own projects). Reviewed at eCuaderno, by J.L. Orihuela.
Vídeos educativos de Biología y Geología recopilados por el T.I.E. (Taller de Informática Educativa del IES José Arencibia Gil) Miguel Moreno, 2003. Se sugiere que el alumnado realice las actividades propuestas sobre los principales conceptos vistos en los vídeos.
Reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations. Seems not to track beyond 3 days (?). Reviewed by TechCrunch.
Store web pages, images and other HTML content to Google Documents using gDocsBar - a recommended Firefox add-on for Google Docs users. Google Docs maintains the original formatting of web pages and the hyperlinks . To save web pages in Google Docs, highlight the content with your mouse and drag that selection onto the gDocsBar window. Your web clipping will be saved as a new document in Google Docs. Reviewed by Amit Agwaral
An online tool that can instantly convert PowerPoint slides, Word Docs, PDF, HTML web pages and even RSS feeds into MP3 files. An array of different voices to choose from - like a US male voice, UK female voice or a voice that has an Indian accent.Will send you an email when the recording is done and MP3 is ready to download. Reviewed by Amit Agwaral
A Firefox extension for Twitter that will short tweets that seem to cross the 140 limit.
A video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP). Amit Argwaral recommends using it to rotate videos (QuickTime and WindowsMovieMaker only useful to rotate 90 or 180 degrees)
The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card.
Se habla mucho de la Sociedad de la Información. ¿Qué rasgos la definen? ¿En qué aspectos resulta novedosa? ¿En qué medida puede cambiar la vida de nuestros países? ¿Qué limitaciones tiene ese nuevo contexto?
Highlights from a great interview to José Orihuela (2006)
Allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why. You can then post a summary (onlyhighlights) to Twitter too! Learned about this from DemoGirl.com
Compiled by MiddleWeb (updated May 2002). An impressive collection of links on the subject of mentoring. Hope I can afford to explore it in depth soon!
A Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured. Recommended by Amit Agwaral
Before shutting down the computer, you would like to save a list of all websites that are currently open in Firefox... 4 great tips to achieve this!
The social feed aggregator lets you keep track of your friends across 28 Websites and services, including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, YouTube, blog posts, shared items on Google Reader, Amazon wish lists, and what they are watching on Netflix.
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith says: "It is called "the home of interactive writing prompts." If you are looking for ideas of what to write and also some advice about writing, this might be a good site to explore." Seems to deserve further exploring!
A free platform to host your teaching and provide learning opportunities online. In Spanish! Needs more exploring, but might be useful...
An incredible number of resources. Grammar: tutorials and lots of interactive exercises. Vocabulary: thematic lists and exercises. Dictionaries: mono and bilinigual, phrasal verbs, verb preposition. And a lesson featured weekly on their home page! Recommended by Silvia Colombo.
A free service that easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video/audio comments and reviews. Currently can be integrated into your wordpress blog. Learned about it from Cris Costa's twitter (criscost)
A selection of YouTube videos on how to use Powerpoint... to be watched!
Allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures. You can mix videos, photos and music together, add titles and transitions, Upload to the web. Option: direct upload to YouTube and Flash support*
Insertar una película y reproducirla automáticamente En PowerPoint 2003, puede ejecutar las películas a pantalla completa. Ésta es una característica formidable.
Allows you to add a Firefox extension: just click on the button to download any online video onto your computer
Free File Hosting. Unlimited Disk Space. Up to 100MB per File and 10 files per upload. No Sign Up Required. Set an account to get your files tracked. You can then find them under "My files" and order them in folders. Recommended by Rogerio Costa.
Teaches how to use Google Reader MP3Player, Yahoo MP3 player and Odeo to embed MP3 players onto your site.
Upload PDF documents and they are instantly converted into 3D flip magazines which you can embed in blogs or websites. While Scribd and Slideshare also support PDF files, Issuu offers two main advantages - they allow you to upload large PDF files (upto 100 MB) and their inline PDF player looks absolutely amazing. You even get to decide the colors and the PDF player dimensions.
A good way to allow readers to print individual post content without all of the sidebars, ads and headings messing up the print format.
You can record video of the full desktop screen or just a portion. The application also supports Pan & Zoom so the recording area can easily follow the movements of your mouse cursor - very useful when making videos for the small screen like an iPod. Another unique feature - it is possible record a remote computer screen with TipCam provided that computer is running the VNC server. Also provides an online space (250 MB) where your screencast videos are automatically uploaded after production. Uses Flash Video (FLV). Sites like Blip.tv support FLV format and therefore the screencast video quality is preserved as the video need not be re-encoded before streaming.
A web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. You will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. zWebquest creates all the necessary files and puts them on the server automatically. Hosting is FREE! Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for blogging about it.
A blog is a Web site that functions as a journal, or a diary, or a place to post your thoughts and opinions pertaining to a particular subject matter. In addition to text entries, a blog may contain pictures, video, and/or audio clips. This workshop will explain the difference between various kinds of blogs, introduce you to some hosting solutions, and show you how to setup your own blog using Blogger™. (lots of short videos)
En el siguiente mapa de Argentina se muestran las provincias y sus capitales. Lee primero las preguntas y observa luego el mapa para responderlas. Esperamos que este test resulte útil a estudiantes y personas que planean visitar Argentina (viajes y turismo). A estas últimas les recomendamos leer la nota titulada “Turismo en Argentina”, que se encuentra debajo del mapa. 1. ¿Cuál es el nombre de cada una de las 24 regiones (23 provincias 1 ciudad autónoma) que aparecen en el mapa? Llevando el cursor hacia las capitales podrás verlos como títulos de los enlaces*. 2. ¿Cómo se llaman sus capitales? Controla tus respuestas haciendo clic sobre ellas.
Create an avatar, a story or a movie. Share it on the Web, and get a URL to add it to your own blog or website. Larry Ferlazzo recommmends it for our classes!
AwesomeStories has hundreds of links to explanatory animations, audio/video clips, online games and virtual field trips. Linked throughout the entire site, they are not always easy to spot. We thought a separate section...
A screencast free tool, recommended by Carla Arena. Works online, but a downloadable option is also available. Here's a tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7XQTMSne6g&eurl=
You are reading a long document in Microsoft Word and wish to save some important parts to a separate file. Now you can ... create a "document scrap."
Sharon Betts recommends: "this online converter. You can put the URL of the video in and get back any format you wish". I see you have options to get a link emailed or even download a converter to work offline. Cool!
Larry Ferlazzo writes: "I’d say Tumblr is still the easiest and best platform to display student work online, but Roxer is close behind it."
Karen Montgomery's wiki. She shares links and handouts for her presentations. Worth visiting regularly!
Lots of resources, including video and audio
5 free optimizations without registration. 12 with registration. Must be downloaded to your disk. Recommended by Moodle
Jane Petring writes: I recently came across an excellent video called Avoiding Death by PowerPoint about making ppt presentations more dynamic. The video is about 10 minutes, but well worth it, especially for people who already use ppt, but want to improve interaction with the audience
lists free widgets and sums them up. Cool!
Save Money with Freeware/Open Source Software By Julia VanderMolen If free is good then good free software is even better, as this annotated list of free software for every grade level will prove. Published by Techlearning - Jan 01, 2008
Generador gratuito y en línea de logotipos y botones. Se puede modificar texto, tipografía, tamaño, color, etc.
Teaching beginners to write an informal letter. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo
Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for blogging on this!
Createdby Russell Stannard to help teachers to incorporate technology into their teaching. Some of the sites are specific to ELT and are grouped separately. The rest are for all teachers and there is also a section for those interested in more difficult multimedia products like Flash and Director.
Ideas for working with movies and a lot more; esp aimed at first language learners (not comp). Thanks to Lorena Recio!
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