Tag archives for Digital Passports
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Google Lit Trip that I liked!
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Make a Splash with SplashCast!
Add Mike_Bryant’s channel to your page The above embed comes from SplashCast. I’ve played around with this service for about a month now, unable to decide if it’s any better than some other tools out there. On one hand, SplashCast allows you to throw a lot of different file types into a single presentation. This [...]
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Tabbloid: A Web 2.0 app for non-Web 2.0 people!
If newspapers are old school, and aggregators are new school, then consider Tabbloid the rest area on the highway between the two. Tabbloid is a simple Web 2.0 application that allows you to submit a set of RSS feeds along with an email address, and then have sent to you a newsletter via email that [...]
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Speechable: Add speech bubbles to your images
I think the title says it all. Sometimes, the best Web 2.0 sites are the simplest! Speechable let’s you upload your images and add bubbles to them. That’s it. Wham bam, done. When you’ve finished one, you can either use their embed code to put it in your blog/website or just download it yourself. I [...]
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Phweet: When 140 characters just isn't conversation enough
Warning: This site is pretty raw still, but it seems to function as advertised in my testing. Ever start having a great conversation on Twitter and realize that you have WAY more to say than you can fit into 140 characters? Or that you’re going back and forth with somebody, and you’d be better of [...]
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Got Too Many Profiles? AtomKeep will help
There’s plenty of sites that will allow you to update dozens of your social sites at once (Ping.fm, hellotext.com, upcoming.me) which is handy to broadcast your messages all over the social web. However, what’s more difficult is maintaining each of those different sites and ensuring that your information is accurate! How many profiles do you [...]
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Edmodo: Twitter DESIGNED for the classroom
Without a doubt, Twitter has taken the education community by storm. However, there really aren’t all that many people who are using it in the classroom. Let’s face it, it just isn’t designed to be used in a teacher/student environment. Edmodo is. Jeffrey O’Hara is the network administrator/webmaster for Community Unit School District 200 in Wheaton, Illinois. I [...]
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GoAnimate – Animation that I actually get.
I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but I really don’t understand Flash. I’ve sat in on a couple of workshops to learn how to use it, but there’s just something about “Tweens” and stuff that I just don’t get. Because of that, I’ve constrained myself to comic strips and the like. On a friend’s reccomendation, [...]
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Animoto for Education – Free is good!
We’ve partnered with Animoto in the past, culminating in them giving free access to every DEN teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week. But now they’ve just gone over the top. We’re pleased to announce a new service exclusively for teachers. Animoto for Education (http://education.animoto.com) gives teachers, grades K-12, unlimited access to the full range of Animoto’s [...]
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View your Flickr Pics with PicsViewr
There’s a million Flickr hacks, and about half of those are different ways to view slideshows. But every once in a while you see one that just makes you grin in a silly way. For me, that’s Picsviewr. It may not be the most powerful, it may not have the most features, but gosh darn [...]
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Wii Remote Hack
This post was actually just an example of how to embed objects into the DEN blogs, but since some people enjoyed it, I’ll leave it up!
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Fix your Movies… with FixMyMovie.com
Learned about this from Scott’s blog, and thought it might be pretty useful. Particularly if you use your cell phone as a video recording device! Basically, FixMyMovie.com is an all in one movie cleaner upper. Too dark? It brightens it. Too shaky? It steadies it. Seemed to do a decent job on their blog in [...]
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Mogulus: Your own custom TV studio
I am constantly amazed by how sophisticated some Web2.0 applications can be. Take for example, Mogulus. While there are several sites that allow you to broadcast live video streams, this really takes things a step further. And then another step further. And then yet another step further! At its most basic level, Mogulus allows you [...]
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Adoptic: Let's do some sharing
One of the biggest challenges new bloggers face is finding an audience. It’s easy to say, “If you write it, they will come” but the reality is it just isn’t that simple. Everybody wants an audience. If you’re going to be putting the time in, you want your work to be seen. One of my [...]
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Surfing Timelines with Dipity
Thanks to Mike for sharing this one with me today. I’ve played around with many a Timeline creator, but this one truly seems to stand out. Dipity.com can serve as a traditional timeliner, and it will work well, but it can also become your FriendFeed with benefits. The basic view is exactly what you’d expect. [...]
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WAKEUP with WakeRUpper
Via Cindy Lane As I’ve often said, sometimes the simplest sites are the best. WakerUpper.com only does one thing and it does it well. You put in your phone number, date, time and message, and it’ll call you with it at that time. That’s it! Tadaaaaahhhh! And yet, its simplicity is its brilliance. I do [...]
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Speedracer? No, Typeracer!
There’s one 20th Century technology skill that isn’t going away any time soon. And that’s, Typing. Yea, voice dictation is coming around, but we’re still pretty far from going keyboard-free. And while there are are hundreds of typing programs out there, there’s always room for one more. Particularly when it’s web based, cross platform, and [...]
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Have you joined the DEN Diigo group? Facebook Group? LinkedIn Group?
One of the great things about being a member of the Discovery Educator Network is that your fellow STARs are right there with you, exploring new horizons online, pushing the boundaries and surfing on the cutting edge. So when you explore a new site, you’ll often find that there’s a group of people for you [...]
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Social Networking at TechForum Midwest
Today I feel pretty darn privileged because I get to spend the day networking at TechForum Midwest, which just happens to be local for me No flight required! Highlight of the day has been the networking taking place. Sheryl Nussbaum Beach set the right tone with her opening keynote, encouraging the attendees to spend time [...]
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Twitterate yourself with STARs
Heard about Twitter but don’t know where to start? Already using Twitter but you’d like to expand your network? Want to find a way to stay connected with other STAR Discovery Educators in between events and conferences? Have I got a solution for you! This all started with Lee Kolbert. She decided to create a [...]
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A two day whirlwind in Bucks County, PA
This week I had the distinct pleasure of visiting Bucks County, PA and do a few presentations. A few? Make that 7 in two days! Between a Day of Discovery for nearly 200 educators, a community night for 80+ parents, and then three high school assemblies, I think I may have met half the county! [...]
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Earth Day with voicethread & Discovery Education streaming
The World is Just Awesome!! Lets not trash it, heat it up or waste it. Look around you. Look around class, the school, the community and your own home. How can you make a difference? Get a little info by watching, reading and listening to the media below and other people. Then share your thoughts. [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Express vs. Picnik
After months of waiting, Adobe has finally entered into the online photo editing arena with Adobe Photoshop Express. I’ve been waiting rather impatiently for this one, since I Adobe has always been the image editing king. I obviously had rather high hopes for it. That being said, I’ve been pretty darn impressed with Picnik.com, and [...]
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Too… Many… Sites… Bring it all together with FriendFeed
I don’t know about you, but I bookmark things in del.icio.us, put my videos on YouTube, photos on Flickr, share my quick thoughts on Twitter, and then blog at Teach42 and here, and really that’s just the short list of where I’m maintaining a presence online. It’s hard enough for me to keep track of, [...]
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