I am soooo glsd to see this. I have always liked elluminate as a ebinar platform but as it was expensive and the free version allaows you 3 people, I did not use it. Now I can REALLY go and play!!!
I think I will try it out in my blogging course.
While there are dozens of online services and software tools out there that help you download videos from YouTube for offline watching, you don't need their help anymore for downloading your own videos from YouTube.
"Lijit provides an impressive search network creation dashboard where you can define and manage your trusted social networks connections. Basically you are creating your own search engine that searches your blog, bookmarks, photos, blog roll, and more..."
Biographicon is a kind of who's who of anybody. It's actually a biography site where anyone can go and add information about themselves or anyone else!
AllPlay Web is an amazing, innovative solution that allows you to create a professional, fully-automated and entertaining game show experience within your webinar. Simply create your game show from our template creator and then invite attendees using our invite wizard. During your webinar, you host the game on your computer while each attendee engages in the game using their own on-screen keypad.
Viewpoint is an audio and video repository that allows you to record your audio/video online using your microphone or webcam, or upload existing media. These media items can then be linked from other sites or embedded inside your own web pages. Please note that this product has been developed for educational purposes only; these videos are not for commercial use.
For the last few weeks I've been trying out a free tool called Slinkset and I have found it to be pretty useful. Slinkset is a tool that enables you to create your own 'portal' site ( A 'portal' site is one that links to other content rather than a tool for producing content) and I've been using it to create a kind of educational technology news site. I've used it to keep track of the things that I'm reading, writing and watching online as well as adding a few links to conferences.
"Teachers have always spent their own money on classroom supplies. With costs rising each year how can teachers add technology and software to the classroom without going broke? One answer is Freeware and/or Open Source software."
I have been creating a lot of student projects that use ThingLink as a tool for learning. I have also received a handful of of questions from teachers who are highly interested in facilitating a similiar project of their own, but need help with the management involved.
"With so much active student engagement, how do you manage a project like this?"