"What is ThingLink?
ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images.
Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."
It is an easy way to discover interesting photos, videos, web pages and more, recommended by people sharing your Interests.
Pedagogical uses:
Searching information and resources in the Web.
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids, families and teachers. Two (or more) people author a Storybird-one with words, one with pictures-and then share it with their network. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.
For the teachers is possible to create thematic assignments within seconds to support their lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface.
Pedagogical uses:
developement creativity, language skills, foreign languages skills, creative writing, storytelling.
Intermediate level
Tags: free, storytelling
easy and accessible tool for students, allows us work together to create biographies and timelines like a wiki through collaborative work to create results in a multimedia timeline. To get a richer content, we can include texts, images and video.
The Vote Monkey tool can be used for on line voting. Pedagogical uses: Common or democratic decisions about several topics like dates, subjects on didactic material etc.
tool to make a page with sticky notes - can be used for brainstorming. I do not really like it, because it does not seem collaborative. It has been used in the first pilot by Greek teachers however, and they were happy with it.
The Stikis tool is a useful tool for our project. It can be used in the following pedagogical ways. In training when the trainer is going to use "brainstorming" as pedagogical method; in the method of "sub grouping"; in voting about a subject; in questioning and answers when the trainer wants all participants give their ideas and more.
LeMill is primary a tool for trainers. You have to register for free, that you can use it. It is a tool for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. 18759 teachers from 67 countries share 29838 learning resources in 49 languages. Only the Greek lanuage is missing.
Pedagogical uses: find, develop educational learning materials, and work on them with other trainers
tag: trainer, learning materials
The idea of Climarks is that through each other, we can learn, understand and enjoy more than we could alone. On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that people find while surfing the web.As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide
Pedagogical uses: creativity, general knowledge, languge learning
Through LiveCastr people can broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web, allowing their online friends to follow them from any event, anytime, anywhere. The live video can be viewed on the LiveCastr website or on a LiveCastr player that users can place on their personalized profile page on their favorite online social network.