Print on Sticky Notes in MS Word

Print on Sticky Notes in MS Word http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/tutorials/stickynote.pdf
I came across this great tutorial from Marilyn Western.

Here are some classroom ideas:

1. Save a little paper when you need to revise original.
   
2. Print these for marketing tools for books with such things as "Mrs. Tracy's top ten favorites" or " What to read after you've read Twilight".
3. Print a batch for a teachers gift with her name on it.
   

Slideshare addon for Powerpoint

Thanks to Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day
for this one.

Tabbloid

Tabbloid http://www.tabbloid.com

This is a tool that lets you capture RSS feeds and have them delivered in a pdf file via email. I like this tool because I think the pdf two column format is easily read.

Classroom idea:
1) Use this tool for current news feeds and post resultant pdf on your Moodle or wiki . I like RSS feeds as a way to ensure current events reading comes from reliable sources.

2) Find two opposing viewpoint feeds and have class compare and contrast. resultant pdfs

Screedbot

I always like to see something new. Here is a tool that produces animated typewriter text for you


Screedbot http://wigflip.com/screedbot/#.




Classroom idea
Place most important directions in a screedbot to make them more noticeable.

Query by humming

Ever remember a melody and can't remember the song? Here are several neat tools that MAY help you name that song!

• Musipedia http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_humming.0.html
  
• Musicline http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche/input . This is in German.
  
• midomi http://www.midomi.com/

These work better if you can whistle.

How to create a self-grading quiz using Google Forms

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty

Capture Fox Movie

I love Firefox, mainly because it has neat add-ons that allow so much flexibility in producing content.
Here is the latest thing I have stumbled upon.
Capture Fox Movie http://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.html
It is a very easy screencapture tool. Here is a little screencapture I made without sound. It demonstrates nothing but the ease of this tool.

Embedding Google Books

Here are instructions http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/embeddable-google-books.html

Here is an embedded book



and here is a classroom idea: project book during class so students who forgot their book can still read along I know this is basic, and I will be thinking of other ideas.

fooling with docs

Adding already produced documents to blogs

Google doc link

placeholder wiki
I also thought of another tool I have seen Scribd. This lets you display page on blog post, as you can see.

Testing pages - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: Testing pages

Blog as parking spot

Favthumbs and MyJugaad.in

Here are two possible ways to present webpages. Thanks to Jane Hart's Pick of the Week.
Favthumbs http://favthumbs.com/This tool lets you see your tagged bookmarks as webpages, which are clickable.
MyJugaad.in http://myjugaad.in/

This tool lets you present webpages in a slide show format.

Classroom idea:
1) Gather the webpages you want your students to use under one tag and then favthumb that tag - a neat visual guide to sources!

2) Have students demonstrate their pathway to new information by organizing a slideshow of webpages used for a project. Or require such a collection of webpages as a way to cite sources.

Zoomit

Zoomit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

Classroom idea: I am very interested in screencasting and am looking for tools that let you manipulate and draw and annotate your window screen. This nifty little download lets you zoom in on any window with a click. Once in you can draw and highlight to your hearts content. A simple punch of the escape button clears it all out. This will be great for class presentations, I think!

Deke McClelland 's 101 photoshop tips

One of the benefits of having a platform on the web is you can park things you want to use! I want to get better at photoshop.

Embedding Google maps

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Classroom idea Here is a little idea that could add interest- embed a Google Map in your wiki of project instructions. If you are studying Chinua Achebe maybe a simple Google map of Nigeria with satellite image . Just look for "link to page" in top right corner of Google maps. Thanks to Joyce Valenza for this idea. Here I show two Butte Montana institutions - Pork Chop John Sandwhich Shops. Don't leave Butte without trying them! The one marked A is more authentic!

Glogster

Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ is a web tool that lets you create a bulletin board style web poster. This tool lets you embed videos and sound.

Here is one work in progress
Classroom idea: This would be an option for almost any poster project. I like the idea of picking and choosing the right images and text to convey a message.

Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook

http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/login.jsp?serviceurl=%2Fnb%2Findex.do

Lots of possibilities here for online notetaking, but I like this idea from Digital Inspiration.

Classroom Idea - Create a pathfinder with notes for a class project.

Have students display note taking skills, or use this to have them justify their online source choices.

wordle

I have a fascination with word clouds
Here is another tool for creating them
Wordle http://wordle.net/

Classroom idea:
1.Examine well known literature visually

2. Have students enter two newspaper articles on same subject and contrast and compare.

3. Language learners might see patterns in word use.

iCue

iCue http://www.icue.com/

I don't want this one to slip under my radar. It is a tool from NBC that lets you gather and present NBC video. I haven't explored it yet, but I will.

Classroom Idea- Historical events could be revisited. Current events could be presented.

Apture

Apture http://www.apture.com

This tool might lead to information overload, but I like it. It allows you, with the addition of the apture script to your blog ( can't get it to work yet in wikispaces, alas) , to add a pop up window on a bit of linked text to enrich your posting.

Here for example I write about my visit to Hoover Dam. I was so amazed at the engineering feat and the changes this dam brought in its wake. I also love to visit sites constructed during the WPA era. You almost always see such interesting art associated with these sites, and the Hoover Dam, with its concrete bas relief and the metal angels.

quintura.com

Quintura http://www.quintura.com/ A interesting widget that I think might be a way to discuss keywords and searching ideas. Of course I like to get Montana into all I do.

Sketchcast

Sketchcast http://sketchcast.com/

Another online whiteboard . I like this one a little better than others, because you can record your voice, too.

Classroom idea: A difficult math problem might be presented with voice explanation allowing students to replay explanation.

Bubblesnaps

Bubblesnaps http://bubblesnaps.com


lets you place speech bubbles on your photos, and then embed them in your blog or send them as a link.


Classroom idea: If you have a major point to get across, this could be a clever way to do it. I see its use in creating instructions for projects.

World TV

World TV http://worldtv.com/create

This nifty tool lets you gather web videos together and store on one spot and thus link. I have had trouble embedding too many videos in a wiki, and this seems like a solution.


Classroom ideas: Search for and then retain videos that will help you teach a certain subject. I like this idea because you don't have to search again. The buffering time seems less here, too. Here is a selection for making origami. http://worldtv.com/joantv/.

Read The Words

Read The Words
http://readthewords.com/


I thought this might be interesting. What could you do with it.
1. Paste reading assignments and let students listen and read instructions

2. Adjust reading speed and let new and reluctant readers read along.

3, Could this help in learning another language?

This would not post here so I added it as page element on left.

Webinaria showing Viscosity

Webinaria www.webinaria.com/ is a screen recording tool. I am venturing out into screen recordings- and I like the cost of this - free. (although I might upgrade to paid version to get embeddable code)


Viscosity
http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/create.php is a mesmerizing look at color and form.
Ideas- webinaria. Demonstrate any computer tool via screen casts

Viscosity - use in art class to demonstrate color and shape. Use in religion , social studies as a metaphor of forces acting upon us and our communities.

Zotero

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ is, well, I don't really have a word for it. Sort of like a file cabinet in your computer for your research. It has tools that let you save webpages, take notes, tag and cluster. I am somewhat overwhelmed, but impressed.

Imagination Cubed

Imagination Cubed http://www.imagination3.com/


is an interesting site where one can draw,share and and via email. It creates sort of a video of your drawing process. Look at this link to get an idea

Classroom idea - Math seems like it might actually work as a web 2.0 tool here, as you draw equations, etc..

Pixton

Pixton http://www.pixton.com


This takes a little effort, but allows you to create your own comic strips.

Classroom ideas:

• Use comic strip to give directions . Comics definitely make you pare down the words and stick to the essentials!
• Have students create comics representing book character
• Have students create political cartoons from current events.

How not to do work.

How to make your papers longer
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com

Slideshare and Authorstream

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
Authorstream http://www.authorstream.com/
I am not the biggest fan of students making
powerpoints, because I see so much copy and pasting and not so much reflecting. Still, I see so many beauutiful powerpoints done. Here is a way to retain and share those powerpoints. Authorstream retains animations and recorded audio.

Class idea: Have your students post ppts done for class presentations on slideshare and collect them in a wiki or blog for review. Students may listen more intently to their fellow students if they are accountable for content. This would give teacher a way to review what was done in class and create an assesment for other students, and students a mode of review.

I see dead People('s Books) from Library Thing

I See Dead People['s Books] http://www.librarything.com/groups/iseedeadpeoplesbooks
A neat idea from Library Thing, cataloging famous people's libraries See on left side random books from Marie Antoinette's library .

Classroom idea. History/ Culture lesson - Why did person read and own this book?

SciVee

Scivee http://www.scivee.tv/. I read about this on Jane Knight's E-learning Pick of the Day

A very interesting idea and attempt to disseminate scientific information.

Classroom idea -
1. Search here for new information on your subject of the week.
2. Current events project, but using video

JumpKnowledge

JumpKnowledge http://info.jkn.com/index.htm is a web annotating tool. I dismissed web annotating when I first saw it , because I thought -when will I ever want to annotate the web.



But with just a little thinking out of the box, I am excited by this tool.

Classroom ideas.
1) Have your Spanish language students create a web- trip to a Spanish speaking country, with annotations in the language being learned.

2) Create a mini webquest on any theme.

3) Pathfinders

4) Have your students annotate three or four sources with different political leanings.

Spacetime

OH! OH! OH!
Spacetime http://www.spacetime.com/
I saw this on Joyce Valenza's blog .
Lately I have been thinking we are about to make another leap in how we search and view the web. Tabbed browsing, which was such a convenient feature, seems to me like a baby step into 3d browsing. This is not the first tool I've seen that stacks web pages, but it looks like the easiest for me so far.

Classroom idea : The new way to search?

Offtype or Skrbl

offtype http://offtype.net/


http://offtype.net/image_6898827170710.gif.html



Classroom Idea. Need a whiteboard for your wiki? This might help. You can save images, too http://offtype.net/image_6898827170710.gif.html

Shelfari

Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com/

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

A bit like Library Thing

Ideas: A presentation tool for book lists and related books

TagCrowd

Tagcrowd http://tagcrowd.com/ lets a reader "visualize word frequencies" from websites and uploaded papers.

Classroom ideas
1) Students can upload their work and judge the pattern revealed.

Here is the tagcloud created from Carondelet's home web page

2) Students examining bias , debate, marketing could get a visual representation of word usage
3) words as art

Tumblr

Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/ is a mini-blogging tool that is very easy to use.

Classroom ideas:
Have students create biography presentations on a Tumblr.
The dashboard itself
provides great ideas on what they might include- text-photo-quote-links to good sources -music that captures the biographee's spirit- a video on person or place or time in history.

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is an graphic organizer tool that lets you create brainstorm outlines online.

Classroom idea
1) Brainstorm research possibilities
for a research assignment










2)

Use with students as a way to organize her essay