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July 2011 - Posts
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Greetings, PLAYGIF provides playback controls for an animated GIF. Animated GIF’s may be one of the oldest and most popular forms of animation on the web, but they lack some modern amenities like playback controls. Today’s app PLAYGIF fixed that deficit, Read More...
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Greetings, NAP (National Academies Press) offer over 4000 free PDF versions it’s books for download. Wow, free books! My first instinct was to look for a “catch”. There is none, that I can see. According to the web site: “The NAP (National Academies Press) Read More...
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Greetings, SERVER CHECK is free tool for checking web site status and other things. A well stocked carpenter’s toolbox has more then one hammer or saw. A well stocked DE Toolbox has more then one tool to do a particular job like checking the status of Read More...
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Greetings, WIKISUMMARIZER is a free web tool that will reduce any Wikipedia entry to a point form summary. Today’s tool, WIKISUMMARIZER is amazing in many respects. It’s a computer program that scans a Wikipedia article, identifies the main points, then Read More...
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Greetings, CONCORDLE is a word cloud vizualization tool simliar to Wordle or Tagul. Before I get into today’s app, I’d like to apologize to those users who follow me on Twitter. Apparently, my Twitter accounts was somehow hacked or compromised so that Read More...
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Greetings, W3SCHOOL is a web site offering free tutorials for learning HTML And ‘Net technologies. It’s the summer holidays for many of my teaching colleagues. Not only is this a time for rest and renewal, it may also be a time for learning new skills. Read More...
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Greetings, The BLUEBOTS web site offers 44 brush style fonts for free download. It’s been a while since I’ve featured any fonts so, permit me to rectify that with today’s site, BLUEBOT. It’s a great place for getting free stuff and recently they featured Read More...
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Greetings. HEYTELL is an amazing, free app that transforms any Android phone or iPhone into a walkie-talkie. Something a little different today. A free app for Android and i-Phones called HEYTELL. I’ve added it to the DE Tools list because (IMHO) it is Read More...
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Greetings, VIEW AT: is an amazing index of panoramic photo displays of places around the world. It’s Sunday, the day of rest. For those teachers on Summer break, it’s just another relaxing day. For those who are back at school, upgrading or doing graduate Read More...
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Greetings, PICASION is a free, online, animated GIF creation tool. Sometime, the easiest way to do something is “old school”. In the case of a simple animation, that would be an animated GIF. The great thing about this type of animation as opposed to Read More...
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Greetings, RANDOM NAME GENERATOR is a free web app for randomly selecting names from a list of names such as a class list. Earlier in the week, I featured an app called GROUP MAKER from a marvellous web site titled SuperTeacherTools. This site featured Read More...
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Greetings, TELL IN FUTURE is a free web app for creating messages to be read in the future. Today’s offering — TELL IN FUTURE — is another app that I can see no use for. Nevertheless, I have a feeling that I’m missing something — some obvious use or application Read More...
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Greetings, VINTAGEJS is a free, web based, digital enhancement tool that gives pictures an early 1900’s sepia look. There are dozens of filters, add-ons and services which will give pictures and photos an old fashioned look however, that usually means Read More...
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Greetings, SITE TRAIL is a free and amazing web site analysis tool. Google Analytics used to be my web site analysis service of choice. It provided me with information about who is visiting my site, where they’re from, how long they’re staying, what they’re Read More...
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Greetings, GROUP MAKER is a free web app that will randomly select students to be members of a group. Today’s app is one of several apps offered on the SuperTeacherTools web site. This site has a number of interesting tools which I hope to sample in the Read More...
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Greetings, MAZEWORKS is a web site offering a variety of freely accessible games and puzzles.It’s Sunday again, the day of rest — at least for those of you who are not on summer holidays. Some people like to play games as a way to relax and unwind. Those Read More...
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Greetings, DIVE INTO HTML5 is a free, online tutorial by Mark Pilgram focusing on the new HTML5 mark-up language . At long last, HTML5 is gradually replacing HTML4 as the fundamental building block of the web. From a user point of view, there are few Read More...
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Greetings, WHAT DO YOU LOVE is a new search app from Google that searches all Googles services and features. First of all, happy 4th of July to all my American readers. I hope you have a great holiday Did you know that Google has around 65 services that Read More...
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Greetings, RANDOM POETRY GENERATOR is a free online service which will create a poem from the contents of any web page. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Some folks relax by writing poetry. Others, not so much because, poetry writing can be hard work. Read More...
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Greetings, VECTOR PORTAL is a web site containing dozens of free vector graphic images. Happy Canada Day to all Canadian reader. According to Wikipedia, vector graphic images use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s) Read More...
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