Russell Stannard writes: "This for me is one of the best tools I have found since Lyrcis Training and myBrainShark. It allows you to upload Word, PPT or PDF files and then add a webcam and voice as you work through the presentation or document. You can share on the internet, embed and email to people." Sounds cool!
Spin the lottery wheel and find out what your life would be like if you were born in another country. A bit shocking, but excellent food for thought. Useful to practise Conditional II or III, and perfect modality for probability and speculation, with late teens or adults.
Chat with anyone you want just by sharing a four-digit code. User friendly and reliable, gives participants the options to get the chat log emailed. Allows file sharing during the session as well
Enter your list of words, and try several activities to learn their spelling. Teachers can save their lists. Includes automatic reading aloud and use in context. Cool!!!! Learned about it at David Kapuler's blog "Thoughts of a Cyberhero".
Convert media files online from one format into another. Works with audio, videos, images, documents, ebooks and archives, and also includes a "hash generator (?). Introduced to me by Marta Costa. Looks cool!
Compose a new email message, type the URL of any web page in the body of that message and send it to submit@web2pdfconvert.com. The service will then fetch the corresponding web page on its own servers and will send it back it you as a PDF attachment. Hyperlinks retained.
Reviewed by Amit Agwaral.
"Want an easy way to share a bunch of URLs? Simply list down all the URLs you want to share in the box below (one link per line, including http://) and we will create a single link to share."
Reviewed by Amit Agwaral at Digital Inspiration.
Create and format a document in Word as before, choose File -> Save As and select MediaWiki* under file types. Word will now convert and save the document in Wiki style markup. It is supported on Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Office 2010.
Reviewed by Amit Agwaral at Digital Inspiration
This could be useful when we want students to try wiki writing... Has anyone tried it? Would love to know how well it works for Pbwiki, Wetpaint and Moodle wikis...
Is there something you want to get off your chest, but there is no way you are going to create a blog just for that, and a tweet would never convey what you need conveyed? Well, if that is ever the case a visit to Freedom Share is in order. This site will enable you to have texts typed and posted without needing to create any kind of account, or even authenticate who you are via Facebook or Google. The site is free and open to just any person who wants to use it, and we are also talking about a site that can be used by people who know nothing about coding.
Reviewed by Larry Ferlazzo.
A small screen capture tool that allows you to take high quality screen captures with excellent support for Windows Aero Glass effects. In HQ mode, Shotty can capture a selected window with full alpha transparency and save it as 24-bit PNG file, which allows you to merge the image with any other background while maintaining the Aero Glass effect.
Shotty can capture the entire desktop, a selected region or a specific window. The program includes a small image editor that lets you crop or resize the capture and also offers several annotation options. You can highlight areas, add custom text, blur selected areas and insert colored or semi-transparent rectangles. Other features include support for delayed captures and image watermarks, integrated uploading to a temporary hosting service, an auto-save option and more.
Recommended by DigitalInspiration
Printable Flashcards for download. Worksheet templates
to match MES-English vocabulary sets. Phonics flash cards
and handouts for presentation. On-line FLASH games for students. 123Listening.com contains downloadable audio with matching worksheets. Recommended by Sonie!
Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs. NOTE: Only works for PDFs that you can open and read without any 3rd party plugins. PDFs that require a password to be viewed cannot be unlocked by this service.