More from Dan Roberts… Quizlet is a free website where you can create your own quizzes to help with revision. You can either create your own resources from scratch, or you can browse the resources, already created and ordered by topic, and let other people do the hard work for you. To give you an idea Full Article…
The Ultimate Emergency Lesson
This is the lesson that will bale you out of trouble when you a) are doing emergency supply cover b) when you have an annoying gap at the end of a lesson c) it is Friday afternoon and you and your class are counting down to the time the bell goes d) it is just Full Article…
On line thesaurus
Wordnik is an online dictionary/thesaurus that’s a doddle to use. Just type in the word you want to find out more about and hit enter. Wordnik then finds definitions, examples and heaps of extra information about that word. That extra info includes photos from the web about that word, recent relevant Twitter posts and whether or Full Article…
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…
Totlol
www.totlol.com YouTube is a phenomenon, but it’s not exactly guaranteed to be kid-friendly. Totlol takes care of that. Actual human beings vet videos from all over the Web as suitable for kids age 6 months to 6 years and embed them at this site. I found classics like Kermit singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green” Full Article…