Friday, December 2, 2011

Diigo Ed Picks - Dec 2, 2011

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/11/27/20-ways-siri-may-forever-change-education/ - iPhone personal assistant may change education (Tim showed us some of this...)
http://vyew.com/s/ - continuous meeting rooms for real-time and visual collaboration anytime - one wonders how secure these are...
http://primarypad.com/ - web-based word processor designed for schools - pupils and teachers work together ("pupils" - quaint terminology... nevertheless looks useful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW032sKtj8 - how one school district is using QR codes
http://learningblog.org/2010/06/16/twitter-for-teachers-a-professional-development-tool/ - twitter as a professional development tool for teachers
http://www.authorstream.com/ - PowerPoint online viewer - makes a movie - preserves animations, narration, videos... - worth looking at - but PPT 2010 does have export to WMV...
http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you/ - cute wordle - most of the tools look familiar.  We should make a wordle of all the "best tools" lists, and use just the biggest tags!
http://www.tagxedo.com/ - reminder - you can design some fancy tag clouds - next step would be animation - a tag-cloud head turns to you and smiles!  Could be done with animated gif...
http://www.gliffy.com/examples/flow-charts/ - Flow charts in Gliffy (software developers used to use flow charts - not much anymore...)
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/12/vidque-create-library-of-educational.html - vidque - build your own library of educational videos, pulling from various sources - it helps you find similar videos
http://www.slimekids.com/games/spelling-games/spellingfiles/whizz.swf - create words from given letters - slimekids has some pretty good games...
http://www.krunch.us/ - crunch multiple url's into one - a bit tedious to use
http://www.filmstreet.co.uk/flashapps/stopframeanimator/ - stop frame animator - pose, capture, animate - clever mannequin approach (maybe create swim tutorials...?) - idea - automatically match swim video frames to a mannequin...

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