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September 2011 - Posts
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Greetings, PHOTO505 is a web site that does many fun things to a face picture. Ever wanted to be on the cover of Time magazine? How about on a billboard or in an art gallery? Those wishes can come true — sort of — with the help of todays site, PHOTO505. Read More...
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Greetings, TWEETSENTIMENTS is a Twitter analytics tool with a unique difference. Ever heard of a Twitter Sentiment analysis tool? I hadn’t. It’s a tool which determines if a person is naughty or nice based on their Twitter post. When I discovered this Read More...
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Greetings, WEVIDEO is a free, online video editing service which promises to be fast, convenient and easy. I should say, right up front, that I’m not a big video editing fan. While I try to include lots of video in my online courses, editing and manipulating Read More...
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Greetings, INSTRUCTABLES is a web site containing instructional tutorials or a wide variety of topics. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest — or is it? For some folks Sunday is the day to get the chores done around the house. While that doesn’t sound particularly Read More...
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Greetings PHO.TO is a free, fun, online image editing, enhancing and special effects tool. Many of the apps featured on this blog do just one thing. Today’s app — PHO.TO — is the exact opposite. It does just about everything involved with photo editing Read More...
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Greetings, ACTIVEHISTORY PLAGIARISM CHECKER is a free, easy to use, plagiarism checking site. The British history site, ACTIVEHISTORY.CO.UK now has it’s own plagiarism checking area called ACTIVEHISTORY PLAGIARISM CHECKER. At least there is no doubt about Read More...
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Greetings, JSTOR is a digital archive with over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly works.Are you working on your masters or some other academic research project? If so, then you are going to love this site. It’s called JSTOR and it indexes Read More...
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Greetings, START.IO is an app that creates a custom browser start page. START.IO is another web app that does just one thing but does it very well. In this case, it’s the creation of a browser start or home page containing a collection of favoured links. Read More...
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Greetings, VIEWPURE is a web service which will display just a YouTube video. YouTube is an incredible educational resource with content on virtually every topic imaginable. Unfortunately, it’s being under utilized by educators for many reasons including Read More...
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Greetings, ONLINE AUDIO STORIES is a collection of free children’s audio books and stories. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How was your first week back at school. Need a little diversion to take your mind of the events of the past week. Today’s site Read More...
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Greetings, BAM! RADIO is a web site featuring a number of education related podcasts. Did you know we have our own radio station called, BAM! RADIO? It’s not a traditional radio station but rather a collection of recordings, converted to podcasts which Read More...
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Greetings, FLASHKIT offers free, downloadable music loops in a variety of genres. Today’s site — FLASHKIT — is better know for it’s Flash tutorials and resources but even Flash developers need a sound tract to accompany their latest creations now and Read More...
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Greetings, TWTRLAND is a free web tool for gathering Twitter information. Do you Tweet? If so then you’ve had to grapple with the age-old Twitter conundrum. Do you have to follow someone who follows you? I don’t, so please don’t take offence. It’s nothing Read More...
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Greetings, SCHOLARSPOT is a free, online repository filled with educational videos. Todays site — SCHOLARSPOT — is an interesting collection of education related video clips. When I say education, I’m using the word in it’s broadest sense. Their list Read More...
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Greetings, MR WYLIE’S EDUCATIONAL GAMES SITE is a list of free online educational games. Anyone familiar with edtech knows the name Jonathan Wylie. Not only is he a frequent contributor to several tech related Twitter streams, he also writes popular blog Read More...
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Greetings, JPEGMINI is a free, online tool to reduce the size of JPEG images. Did you travel to far away places or stay close to home this summer. Whatever your holiday destination, chances are you took lots of pictures. Summer is a perfect time for that. Read More...
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Greetings, TIME, TIDE AND THE NET is an amazing speech about the power of Social Media from a most unlikely source. How about something different on this Labour Day Monday? For many teachers, it’s the last day of summer holidays before school resumes. Read More...
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Greetings, POPULAR FREE GAMES is a web site offering a variety of free online and downloadable games. It’s Sunday again — the Sunday of the Labour Day week-end. For many teachers, this marks the end of summer holidays and a return to the classroom — an Read More...
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Greetings, 40 NEW FONTS are free, downloadable fonts with a fresh and unique look. It’s been a while since I’ve featured any fonts and if you’re a regular reader you know I have a soft spot for fonts and clipart. Today’s contribution — 40 NEW FONTS — Read More...
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