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