Storybird is a wonderful tool to create picture books for and with your students. All you need is a free account. As a teacher you can add students, invite them to collaborate or give them an assignment. The works can be published, so parents and friends can appreciate them, too. The best thing, of course, Full Article…
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Mux for converting video
www.mux.am Mux is an excellent video conversion/sharing site that lets you enter in the URL of a video clip (or its location on your hard drive) and specify what format you’d like to receive the video in (iPod, PSP, DivX, MPEG-4, and lots more). Give it a few minutes to work its magic, and Mux Full Article…
Scrap blog
www.scrapblog.com Want to do more with your pics than just dump them online? Scrapblog lets you grab your photos from Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Picasa, and many more photo sites, and use them to construct cool (and free) multimedia scrapbooks. You can also use video in your scrapbooks, and the interface is very easy to use. Full Article…
Search Me
www.searchme.com Searchme is an innovative search engine that essentially uses Apple’s Cover Flow interface to present your search results. To search, enter a term and then scroll horizontally through full previews of each relevant Web page until your find what you’re looking for. You can also create “Stacks” of bookmarked Web pages to revisit later.
Tag Galaxy
Visual representations of data are nothing new, but Tag Galaxy takes it to new heights in searching Flickr photos. Enter a single keyword (I used “frog”) and you’ll see a 3D representation of a solar system with the keyword as the sun, orbited by related word “planets” (e.g., “amphibian,” “green,” and “toad”). Click a planet Full Article…
Newspaper Club
I’ve come across this website (http://www.newspaperclub.com) and I think this can be used really well in class. You have to create an account, however, you only have to use an e-mail address and a password. Then you can use their layout tool to create a newspaper and export it as a pdf for free. If you Full Article…
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