Search Cube
search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search
results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews
of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images.
TodaysMeet
TodaysMeet: Talk. Listen.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
Claymation Avatar
Clay Yourself is a site that lets
users create an claymation style avatar. The site was created by
Hotels.com to allow their customers to create a commercial as part of a
contest and promotion that they were running. However, the site is
still running and is a great and simple way to create an avatar that can
be placed on a Facebook page and can also be downloaded and used on a
classroom blog or website.
SlideRocket
SlideRocket is a hosted web app designed to take presentations to the next level with graphical prowess and multimedia integration. It is a great transition for anyone familiar with PowerPoint, but who is tired of dull presentations in over used templates.
Although the content of your presentation is of course the most important part, small visual improvements can have a big effect on audience engagement and participation.
Some of the more impressive features of SlideRocket are enhanced text effects, slick slide transitions, media integration (audio, video, animation) and graphic effects. You can see in the below example just how smooth and beautiful slide transitions are and how much more interactive it looks than a standard PowerPoint.
There are a number of real benefits in using a web based Presentation tool such as SlideRocket. Your presentations are always hosted online so there is no need to backup or save files to disk. Sharing can be done directly through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter or by mailing a direct link to your slides. A final benefit and in our mind the most exciting feature of SlideRocket is it’s ability to measure your slides effectiveness. You can retrieve statistics on who has watched your presentations and see comments left by your audience online.
www.sliderocket.com
visual.ly
Infographics are popping up everywhere. They are a great way to get a
message across by visualizing data rather than bombarding a reader with
vast amounts of text. The same principles apply to presenting and this
makes Infographics a fantastic way to convey your data without putting
the room to sleep.
Visual.ly is a site dedicated to Infographics and data
visualizations. They host a huge amount of quality Infographics on a
wide variety of topics. You can choose to embed or re-use pre-made
graphics in your own presentations or in the not too distant future the
site will be offering tools to help you create your own.
Embed an Infographic into your blog or presentation.
http://visual.ly/
Embed an Infographic into your blog or presentation.
http://visual.ly/
Alltop
The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that they answer.
They do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. They group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages. Then they display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph. Our topics run from adoption to zoologywith photography, food, science, religion, celebrities, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, Macintosh, and hundreds of other subjects along the way.
You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine rack” of the web. They have subscribed to thousands of sources to provide “aggregation without aggravation.” To be clear, Alltop pages are starting points—they are not destinations per se. Ultimately, their goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.
Joongel
FindHow
FindHow, the How-To search engine, focuses on indexing only high-quality How-To's, typically from well-known, recognized brand names or individuals. Many of these sources (often companies, government entities, or educational institutions) have other motives for providing information besides pure profits, and most have trusted, off-line brand name reputations to protect - which encourages them to focus on providing trustworthy and high-quality information.
TinEye
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.
TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and they also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 2,090,717,922 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for.
Addictomatic: Inhale the Web
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics.
Personalize
After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. When you're done, bookmark the page and keep coming back to your personalized results dashboard for that search.
Browse the News
Their news pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more. You get all the feeds from the best sources in each category. And like your search results dashboard, you can personalize the layout of the headline boxes, delete ones you don't like an
Key in a topic and the top stories from several social media sites appear! I keyed in Social Media. Visit Addictomatic!
Printer Button on Post
Printer Friendly Button
Tutorial for blogger
1. Click website above
2. Click the radio button next to Blogger.
3. Choose the way you want your button to look.
4. Blogger will automatically take you to your layout page and adds the gadget
EASY!!!!
I am sure that you have seen this icon on various websites that you have visited? What exactly is it? It is the RSS icon. Why do blogs/websites include this icon on their sites?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS allows the computer to bring the contents of a website or a blog to you rather than you going to it. RSS has changes the way one consumes Internet content.
Instead of bookmarking things that you found interesting and return to those resources periodically to check for updates. Going to sites to check for content can be a waste of your time if there’s nothing new to see. Instead, make that content come to you. Whenever you’re on a website, look for indicators that you can subscribe. Do you see the RSS logo pictured above? Do you see links called “Feed,” “Atom,” “RSS,” or “Subscribe”? These are indicators that an RSS feed is present. Some browsers even automatically detect the presence of feeds and turn on an RSS icon for you. A feed is just a compacted, machine-readable version of the content you’re already consuming. If you click on a feed, you may either see a bunch of code, you could see some snippits of the page content, or you could see a gaggle of buttons all with different logos on them. Either way, you’ve found a feed!
Feeds, as I mentioned, are machine-readable. You will need a tool to consume the feed. This is called a reader or an aggregator. Google Reader is a web-based tool that I utilize to keep up to date on recipe and technology blogs - it follows me wherever I go.
Once you have your feed address, find the place to click in your reader to “subscribe.” Yes, “subscribe” usually means “pay,” but in RSS terms it only means “sign me up to receive content from this source in the future.” Once you’ve clicked the subscribe button, paste the feed address into the appropriate box and hit subscribe!
Once your aggregator chews on the new feed for a minute, you should see the content from that source appear in the reader. Voila! You’ve subscribed to a feed. In the future, just load your feed reader (Google Reader for example) up and see what new content has been posted on that site. If you see something you want to see in its original glory, click the title of the posting. That usually opens the original.
Using RSS and a feed reader has given me the ability to consume much more material than I previously could. It gives me the chance to speed through lots of content and then stop when I see something that I care about and spend more time on it. Instead of going to every blog I like. Give RSS a try!
Here is a copy of my Goolge Reader.
PikiFriends
Penpal website! I came across this website today! I would love for my students to communicate/collaborate with other students from around the US or World. I can not wait to explore this tool even more! Pikifriends
Enter the Group
This is very similar to Edmodo. At EnterTheGroup.com users create their own groups, called Projects, to get their work completed. This site allows users to collaborate and organize projects.I am still exploring this tool but thought that I would share it! Enter the Group - however it is project based oriented, meaning to complete a project you can utilize this site to file share, etc.
You can create a virtual classroom - once you create a classroom - an url is generated for you to share. Here is my classroom: Social Media
Bitly or Tinyurl
Do you ever want to share a website address, but it is too long, long with numbers, etc. There are several websites like tinyurl and bitly that will shorten long addresses, by generating a new url. You can add each as an extension on your tool bar.
For example:
For example:
Issuu
Issuu a digital publishing platform which delivers exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions. There is adult content publications, which can be turned off in your settings. Below I uploaded a pdf file to see you it works! This documents was useless as a 300 page pdf - so time consuming going to each page. Now it is more enjoyable!
Alphabetimals - A Fun Way to Learn Alphabet
Applications for Education
Alphabetimals offers some nice little resources to help you help children learn the alphabet. For folks like me who are not artistically inclined, the option to type a word and print it in an alphabetimalized version could be a nice way to print and display vocabulary words in your elementary school classroom.
Animated Text
HAVE FUN creating!!!!
BlogGif
This
website allows you to create a photo collage, animate text, apply
effects to photos, create animated GIFs, to name only a few! Click here to start creating!
Flamingtext
To create your flaming text click here!
FlashVortex - animate text
FlashVortex is another animated text generator. This website has several text templates, such as you can make your words, melt, bounce, scale, flame, sandy, glow, 3D, rotate, and many more! You can also create buttons, banners, clocks, and menus!
Firefox Addon's
Today you are going to explore FireFox!!! What is Firefox? Just a
search engine? No! There is more to Firefox than just using it as "just
a searching tool".
I will introduce you to Firefox Add-ons and personas! Then you will explore on your own.
Create two posts:
Customize your Firefox to enhance your online shopping, music, bookmarking and much more.I will introduce you to Firefox Add-ons and personas! Then you will explore on your own.
Create two posts:
- Firefox Add-Ons - what add ons are available, which ones did you add - where does one go to find these add-ons/extensions.
- Firefox Personas - take a snap shot of your persona - what is a persona, how does someone find a persona for their browser.
There are several Firefox add on categories - see photo on right.
Edmodo
Today you are going to be introduced to the Social Networking site
called Edmodo. Edmodo it is a Learning Management System (LMS) for
students and teachers. You will use a code given by Mrs. James to add
that class to their Edmodo account.
Edmodo will be used for you to stay organized! All assignments will be posted here.
Edmodo
provides a safe and easy way for our Social Media class to connect and
collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school
notices. Edmodo's goal is to help educators harness the power of social
media
to customize the classroom for each and every learner. Edmodo was
developed in 2008. The developers believed that we needed to evolve the
school environment to reflect the connected world in which we live, and
the created a tool that closes the gap between how students live their
lives and how they learn in school.
Edmodo will be used for you to stay organized! All assignments will be posted here.
Edmodo
provides a safe and easy way for our Social Media class to connect and
collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school
notices. Edmodo's goal is to help educators harness the power of social
media
to customize the classroom for each and every learner. Edmodo was
developed in 2008. The developers believed that we needed to evolve the
school environment to reflect the connected world in which we live, and
the created a tool that closes the gap between how students live their
lives and how they learn in school.
Edmodo is - Anytime, anyplace learning.
It allows the teacher to post messages, discuss classroom
topics, assign and grade classwork, share content and materials, and
network and exchange ideas with their peers - among other things!
Edomo allows us to make our Social Media class a community!
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