Group items tagged

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. Published as a quarterly since February 2005, MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan). MAKE comes from O'Reilly, the Publisher of Record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.

very nice website that contains lots of good tutorials about design.

Teachers can ask students who are interested in design, to follow one of the beginner tutorials and create a design, model or drawing of a car, building, or something else they like.

Design collaborative activities with students to learn about geography, geology, environmental sciences

one of my favourite publishing tools

huge collection of free and paid tools.

making your own font based on your hand-writing

My First Font is a tool that allows creating fonts based in someone's handwriting. Pedagogical uses: It can be used with low skilled learners to introduce them in the use of devises like scanner, printer and software packs. It's a kind of learning game. It can be used also as an international game.

Zap survey is an online Tool where you can create all kind of different surveys. It is very easy to use and divided into three steps: Create an Online-survey, send them to students via Mailing list and inteprate the reusults fast and easyl via online-tool. You have to login bevore using it. It is rather a tool for trainers and teachers than for students. It can also be used as an tool to spread Evaluation surveys and exams. Pedagogical uses: survey, to spread examinations, project management, evaluation tag: trainer, examination, evaluation

I have used different survey tools, and I like Google Forms (part of Google Docs) because it has no restrictions and a very intuitive interface. My Diigo account has an overview of survey tools if you search for the tag "survey" (on my account)

Stripcreator is a website that allows users to create and save their own comic strips. Pedagogical uses: creativity developement, icebreaking Novice level Tags: free, illustrations, creativity

Tool for audio recording and creation of audio files which can be made available to others; The tool allows to edit also different audio files. Pedagogical uses: creation of podcasts, project presentations, students presentations related to the subject.

cool open source video recording and editing software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Pedagogical uses: creation of video-based information products, video presentations, video tutorials intermediate level Tags: free, video, creativity

In this project, you can make your plants send messages to Twitter, for example when they are thirsty. Pedagogical uses: learn about electronics, programming, media, sensor technology, collaboration Pros: creative, useful knowledge, innovation Cons: difficult, high learning curve, some equipment needed (to be purchased online)

overview of tools used for learning

web site focussed on education web 2.0 with links to teachers web 2.0 sites and interesting web 2.0tools to be used in class related to virtual office, Word processing, spreadsheet, image creation, maps, blogs, audio/podcasting, blogs, … Pedagogical uses: creating , presenting, create podcasts, ,...

This is a free tool (by Google) to make mobile websites. Very easy to use. 

There are useful and useless things in Google Sites. It is free but it is more a business tool than an educational one. But it can start as a business game and then someone can use the social mobile template to start socializing.

Pretty cool 3D modeling tool - free - can be used to create and tinker with 3D models, export them to 3D printing, etc. "Features & Benefits Solid modelling Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids. Cloud storage The 3D designs created with Tinkercad are stored in the cloud for easy access from anywhere. We always use SSL encryption (same as online banks). Laser Cutting The SVG export in Tinkercad is specifically tailored for laser cutters. The standard workplane will cut a slice through your model which can then be laser cutted. Shapes Shapes are the basic building block of Tinkercad. Any shape can add or remove material and in addition to pre-existing shapes you can also import your own. Share models As Tinkercad is a web app you can easily share your models just by copying the link. Tinkercad also lets you fork someone elses model and develop it further. Import 2D With 2D import you can create vector shapes in your favorite vector editing tool and import them into Tinkercad and extrude them into solids. Great for adding logos or images. Grouping By grouping together a set of shapes you can create a new shape to work with. By building more and more intricate shapes you can create extremely detailed models. 3D printing Tinkercad supports all 3D printers on the market that accept the industry standard STL file format. You can also download VRML files for color printing. Import 3D Tinkercad features revolutionary 3D import that lets you turn an external file into a editable Tinkercad shape. There is a growing number of supported formats. Web based Tinkercad runs in any web browser that supports HTML5/WebGL be it on Windows, Mac or Linux. Suggested browsers are Google Chrome and Mozille FireFox. 3D printing services With direct integration with 3rd party printing services you can print a design from Tinkercad with just a few clicks of the mouse. F

cool flash app to  make drawings

you draw, then the application turns it into an animated drawing that you can save and embed, all for free. Interesting if you like drawings and animation. Very simple and intuitive. No need for instructions. Pedagogical uses: storytelling in a different style; icebreaker; illustrator

Does it work with tablets? Would be a great drawing tool if you do not have to use your mouse for it.

Light sugar is an online plattforme for posting and sharing photos. It is an innovative tool which offers you the possibility to improve your digital photography. That means you can edit your photos with a special software. Before you can start to work you have to register for free. Pedagogical uses: Develop students creativity, poste and share photos, edit on photos, use software Tag: Photo, edition of photo, photo book, 3D, art

technical uses: Knovio is an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows you to make an exisiting powerpoint presentation much more dynamic using a web cam or micro. You simply upload your presentation, and then you can narrate each slide with audio or video, and then share your video presentation either via email or across your social networks. It is a particularly great tool for someone who is already proficient in powerpoint. Their program is completely free, and since it is web-based, you can access your creations wherever you have internet access. Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to their projects.

Technical uses: Animoto es una de las mejores herramientas gratuitas para la creación de presentaciones. Esto le permite combinar sus fotos, vídeos, clips de sonido, las palabras y la música para hacer una presentación dinámica. Puede tirar fotos y clips de video desde Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram y otros medios sociales / sitios web o subirlos directamente desde su ordenador. A continuación, puede añadir palabras y la música. Cuando el pase de diapositivas se hace, puedes compartir tu video en Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, correo electrónico, o incluso descargar en un DVD. La versión "Lite" es gratuita, pero viene con restricciones. Hay dos niveles más altos de planes de pago, cada una con su propio conjunto de atributos. Pedagogical uses: Project presentations, students presentations related to their projects.