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A free website and blog platform that is an easy-to-use platform for the first time user. Recently, Lifeyo has added a couple of features to make their platform even better. The new feature of most interest to educators is the addition of a multiple author capacity. Now you can add contributing editors to your website. You can add editors by selecting "add editors" from the "share" menu then typing in the email addresses of your new editors. The other new feature recently added is the addition of customizable fonts and design elements.

Educators and students around the world spoke, and Wetpaint listened! Advertising will now be removed from qualified education sites to keep the focus on collaboration and learning.

via Andrew Sartori (Sartz). I didn't realise that wetpaint wikis were also free for educators!

From the University of Ballarat, FolioSpaces.... is a fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Foliospaces free ePortfolio provides you with the tools to set up a personal learning and development environment. The standard version of Foliospaces is free. Unlike some institutional ePortfolio solutions, you keep your Foliospaces when you graduate, or change employment. An ad free premium ePortfolio version is also available for a small annual fee.

"The Hindu PDF" is a website that gives you free PDFs of all today's newspapers. If you are interested in reading the newspaper, there is good news for you. Now you can download Hindu PDF and read today's latest newspaper for free without spending money on your phone or computer. Now many of you are thinking about how this can happen. I'll tell you how. this website "The Hindu PDF" uploads PDFs of every major newspaper on its website every day. So you can come to this website every day and get the PDF of the latest newspaper. Even for free. That means you don't have to spend a single rupee. I will tell you, the Hindu PDF is the best newspaper of Hindu News.

Here you can download The Hindu pdf for free, daily The Hindu newspaper pdf today download. also The Hindu Pdf Editorial, The Hindu Pdf ad-free etc.

Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia's remarkable archive-one of the nation's largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers. Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder makes it easy to search via curriculum, topic or keyword. Watch or download video clips featuring Australian life from the distant past to the present day. The video clips are carefully selected to cover topics including Australians at Work and War, Immigration, Indigenous Australia and Native Title, Asia-Pacific region, Australian politics, The Arts, Broadcast Media from radio to the Internet, Sustainability and Values and Citizenship. There are more than 600 resources to select from, with more added weekly.

Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia's remarkable archive-one of the nation's largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers. No registration or log in is required, however we would appreciate your feedback. Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder makes it easy to search via curriculum, topic or keyword. Watch or download video clips featuring Australian life from the distant past to the present day. The video clips are carefully selected to cover topics including Australians at Work and War, Immigration, Indigenous Australia and Native Title, Asia-Pacific region, Australian politics, The Arts, Broadcast Media from radio to the Internet, Sustainability and Values and Citizenship. There are more than 600 resources to select from, with more added weekly.

My Sound FX is your source for a whole heap of professionally recorded and edited, studio quality, free sound effects arranged under a number of categories. These mp3 files may be used, without restriction, for both private and commercial use and load directly into Audacity and Garage Band. They claim to be adding new effects on a daily basis so please be sure to check back often. You can even let them know if you can't find what you are looking for please and they will do their best to add it to the collection.

# Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 4See the Cerne Giant in your bedroom Visit some of the world's most famous and unusual places on Google Earth. You can search for places you know or visit the Google Earth KML directory to make new discoveries. *Download required. Download Google Earth Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 5Automatically save every draft of your wedding list/seating plan Google Docs automatically saves every version of your document so you never have to worry about losing a valuable draft again. Try Google Docs Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 6Flight arrival and departure times in real time With Google Search, you can enter a flight number and get updated information on when the flight is arriving or departing. Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 7Say 'I don't speak Italian', in Italian With Google Translate, type the word or phrase you want to translate and select your languages to receive your translation. Please note that Translate is only available in some language pairs. We're adding more as fast as we can. Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 8Are you big in Uzbekistan? With YouTube Insights, you can find out what countries your viewers are from and also get additional information like viewer demographics. Go to YouTube Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 9Settle trivia disputes in the pub Settle a bet in the pub with Google Search on your mobile. Access all the information on the web without needing to be in front of your computer. Go to Google search on your mobile by typing m.google.co.uk into your mobile phone browser Copy and paste this link into your Email or IM: Share this thing # 10Watch your favourite YouTube clips in high-resolution If you have a fast internet connection, you can change the setting in your YouTube account to

You can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos ,games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community is free (of cost and ads) and developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education.

From Robin Good: Beeclip EDU is a web app which allows anyone to easily combine images, video and texts to create instructional scrapbooks, moodboards, collages or portfolios. Images can be easily searched and imported via Google Images and Flickr, and text can be easily added in a number ways. Visual objects can be positioned and personalized on the page and final scrapbooks can be downloaded or printed. Free to use. Can be tested without registering.

Turn simple photographs into videos using this site. Once you sign up (it's free) you begin by choosing a video template and then adding your pictures from Facebook, Flickr, or your computer. You can set the order of your pictures, add captions to them and add text slides if you wish. Next you add music, either from their library or add your own from your computer. Your last step is to add a video title and any additional text and you're done. Completed videos can be uploaded to You Tube or Facebook and can even be embedded into a website or blog. The site does have a 30 picture maximum but that is long enough for most people.

Looks to be a good alternative to Real Player

An alternative to Real Player which does not load ads onto your computer

With the Photo Dropper plugin, you can now search millions of Flickr photos and add them to your Wordpress posts with just 1 click, all without leaving your Wordpress dashboard. Attribution links are automatically added underneath the images to comply with the Creative Commons license rules. It's the easiest way to add photos to your blog. Period. And best of all - it's Free!

This has amazing implications for education and training. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. Layar is available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in Android Market for the Netherlands. Other countries will be added later. Planned roll-out dates for other countries are not known yet.

Presently is another Twitter like microblogging environment built with enterprise in mind. Just like Yammer, presently works within a closed community based on shared email addresses, that is to be able to access or post to the community you have to have a common email designation eg yourname@thecompany.com. Presently has a couple of interesting features such as the ability to share media and also form groups on a formal or ad hoc basis. The basic service is free though you can purchase an Enterprise Edition which has more controls etc.

Imageoid is a free, simple service for adding a variety of effects to your images. To use Imageoid you just upload an image from your computer then choose the effect(s) you want to apply to it. You can combine effects if you like. If you don't like the way your image looks with a chosen effect, just click "reset" to start again. Imageoid can also be used to resize your image. Imageoid offers twenty-two effects that you can apply to your image. Below you can see the before and after of one of my images.

WatchKnow has indexed over 15,000 online educational videos for children. Select from over 3,000 categories or search by subject and age level. Titles, descriptions, age level, and ratings are all added for usefulness. The site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers.

"Dropbox has been one of those extremely useful online tools for me over the past couple years and keeps getting better as time goes on. For those of you who aren't familiar with the program, it basically is a file sharing app. Once installed onto a couple computers, it then creates a folder on each user's system and syncs any files that are added into the folder. "

Excellent example of how different computing files can be synchronised between computers and shared. Free for PC's & Macs (2 GB). There is a version for the iPhone as well but seems pricey.

"TidyRead is a service that extracts the text from almost any web site and displays it on an easy to read page that removes all of the clutter that can make reading on the internet so hard sometimes. TidyRead provides a browser bookmarklet, which strips away all the extra stuff from news or blog article pages, leaving you with some nicely formatted text to read."

"On this day of great celebrations worldwide, we also invite to celebrate the impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that today, like every year on this day, becomes freely available to humankind. Every year on New Year's Day, in fact, due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose."

Interesting website that lists what copyright works enter the public domain each year. Leon Trotsky has just been added to the list.