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Another useful post from Richard Byrne with some good ideas about using PicCollage with students. With the app you can arrange pictures, video, text, and stickers into collages very easily. "From the app you can share your collage to Google Drive, Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox, and many other file sharing services" He has also included a video where he demonstrates how to use the tool without creating a PicCollage account. It is a free tool and available as an Android or iPad app.

Extension (Firefox/Chrome) and app for displaying Wikipedia pages in a much more visually appealing way. Provides ability to customise text, plus a helpful image gallery feature."

"CamScanner is a document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and CamScanner will automatically enhance the scanned results so you can easily email, print, fax or share them in PDF or PNG format." The basic version is available for free

"Bulb is a simple tool that allows you to share your knowledge using video, images and text, published on pages and organized into collections. It's a place where anyone can teach, everyone learns, and knowledge changes lives."

via @rmbyrne

Record message in your own voice(by calling our number), convert text to speech or upload a clip and transmit immediately as phone calls to your group. You can also set the number of times the call is to be retried or set up an expiry time for the call. The best advantage of Voice-SMS/Calls is that you can Communicate with your users in their own language.

Record message in your own voice(by calling our number), convert text to speech or upload a clip and transmit immediately as phone calls to your group. You can also set the number of times the call is to be retried or set up an expiry time for the call. The best advantage of Voice-SMS/Calls is that you can Communicate with your users in their own language.

"Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust."

Interesting research about the literacy connection to social networking.

Your iOS device is a killer pocketable computer; your desktop is more powerful with a bigger screen. They need to play better together. Here's how to break down the barrier between the two and shuttle text, files, media, and more seamlessly between your desktop and iPhone.Two-Way Tools: iPhone to Desktop to iPhone The following tools push information and data in both directions-back and forth between your desktop and iOS device.

QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes that can contain any alphanumeric text and that often feature URLs that direct users to sites where they can learn about an object or place (a practice known as "mobile tagging"). Decoding software on tools such as camera phones interprets the codes, which are increasingly found in places such as product labels, billboards, and buildings, inviting passers-by to pull out their mobile phones and uncover the encoded information

A simple website that allows you to generate a a qr code from some text.

"Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to rapidly make and share maps! With Scribble Maps you can:- Draw shapes and Scribble!- Pace Markers and text- Create a Custom Widget- Save as KML/GPX- Send maps to friends"

"A vook (rhymes with "book") is an enhanced digital book that blends text with audio, full-color video and links to the Internet and social media that complement the written word and add context. Vooks can be accessed through the Web or with an application download for the iPhone and iTouch, and soon the iPad."

You can have some great control over the tag/word clouds you create. "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

This app will be good to discuss when we do the text book podcast

Add webReader text to voice page reader to a personal blog or web site for free. Plugin for Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla.

QR Stuff generates codes from the following Text, Website URL, Telephone Number, SMS Message, Email Address, Email Message, Contact Details (VCARD), Event (VCALENDAR) Google Maps Location, Wifi Login (Android Only), Paypal Buy Now Link, Social Media , iTunes Link & YouTube Videos. You can also use their pay for service for other options eg t-shirts etc.

Kaywa is a really straight forward QR code generator. Input can be URL, 250 character text, Phone Number or SMS. Is only for non-commercial use though.

Provides an email address that deposits attachments directly to your Dropbox. Ideal for teachers managing student work submission.

A pretty cool little All you have to do is connect with Dropbox, get your unique email address, and start sending files! After a few minutes they will automatically appear in your "Attachments" folder. We have some great features too, like automatic archive unzipping, folder organization, and plain text and html message copying, with more on the way! So what are you waiting for?tool.  

A post from Mashable. People want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically things onto their blog or website. nThere are many7 tools to help you do that. "The nature of the web is such that sharing and republishing content is common - and often even encouraged. The problem is, we increasingly store bits of our data on various services scattered across the web. Aggregating that content into one centralized personal hub can be time consuming - requiring user to manually copy text and links or upload files and photos - or fiddling with RSS feeds trying to make content automagically appear"