Hi everyone,
Welcome to the Teaching Technology Blog. For the first installment, I thought I would give you some websites to play around with. The best way for learning most of these things is by playing with them, so try a few of them and let me know what you think. You'll be surprised how great some of them are - particularly some of the search engines down the bottom!
PRESENTATION SOFTWARE!
www.prezi.com - an online presentation maker that really makes an impact.
www.tripwow.com - turns basic elements into a snazzy presentation
SITES FOR USE IN VARIOUS CLASSROOM SITUATIONS
http://www.timetoast.com/ - An excellent timeline maker
http://www.gizmoz.com - put yourself in the digital world!
http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/index.php - make a flipbook animation on the fly
http://www.youblisher.com/ - turn PDF's into much more interactive and sylish documents
www.flippingtypical.com - choose effective fonts for assignments
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/ - create a collection of resources on a subject, arranged very interestingly.
http://animoto.com/ - Turn photos, music and video into a professional looking movie trailer
http://www.khanacademy.org/ - a wonderful site for Maths, Science and some other areas full of DIY videos.
REALLY INTERESTING SEARCH ENGINES!
www.wolframalpha.com - performs calculations and returns really interesting data on your search terms
www.spacetime3d.com - graphical interface to search engine
www.redz.com - gives a scrubbable interface to the search
www.search-cube.com/ - gives results in an interesting cube
www.taggalaxy.com - searches through flickr content to find relevant images
YOUTUBE TOOLS:
www.tubechop.com - lets you chop apart a youtube video
www.keepvid.com - lets you download youtube videos
www.quiettube.com - lets you take away all the surrounding (distracting) content around a youtube video
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