Producers can use the Livestream browser-based Studio application to create LIVE, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget.
Our service comes in two flavors Free (ad-supported) and Pro (white-label, no-ads, pay for usage).
ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting - ScreenCastle is a One Click Screencast Recorder and Hoster. You can record and share a screencast directly from your browser without the need to install software
Capzles - Capture your memories. Tell your story. Travel through time.
Tinychat | Home - Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux
Magic Suitcase Online Bookstore - Welcome - The Magic Suitcase is a book distributor with a difference! We offer the best in children’s picture books - stories that teach content through literature. We seek out quality curriculum- related picture books and professionally evaluate these resources for educators, librarians and faculties of education. Our choices are current, pedagogically sound and innovative, offering teaching ideas that can springboard from these stories from pre-school to intermediate (JK to grade 8). Browse our catalogue, by subject area or by theme, and discover the real story!
Find Images to Use and Reuse with the New Creative Commons Filter - When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you?ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image?s creator.
Creaza - Home - Creaza offers an engaging suit of web-based applications where kids can use their imagination by creating, publishing and sharing digital stories.
Posted on May 28, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
I am now officially the Communications Officer for the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Elementary Educators. My role will be to communicate with all MACUL members on the Listserv, SIG EE Web page, and the MACUL SIGEE Ning Space. I will be updating at least once a month.
I am excited to be working with Gina Loveless, SIGEE Director and Karen Lemmons, SIGEE Assistant Director. You may also follow me on Twitter @stewartj. Also, make sure you join the MACUL TEaCHers Diggo Group to find/share bookmarks. I am looking forward to networking with you!
Building a great search engine that delivers great content in a visual way and is simple to use.
We are growing thanks to the amazing response we have received from the fast growing web 2.0 community.
Topsy - Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.
Bird Cinema - Video for Bird Watchers - Bird Cinema is a free place for people to engage in new ways of video sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos. Bird Watching is global with fans in all kinds of different environments. On this site you can find everything from blue jays in backyards shot by suburban families to penguins in Antarctica shot by full-time scientists. The staff at Bird Cinema functions a bit like producers and gatekeepers
Pikikids - Pikikids is a comic building site, especially designed for kids.
All content on the site will be regularly moderated as to make sure it is kid friendly.
Public Domain Photos and Wallpapers - This is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, All photos on Photos8.com are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose,including commercial. Please enjoy them.
My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, save it online or print it out!
37 Places To Get Free Stock Images | Graphic Fetish - Why pay for something you can get for free? We have compiled a list of websites where you can get free stock images you can use for your blogs, company
NextBio - NextBio is the provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. NextBio’s platform seamlessly combines powerful tools with unique correlated content to transform information into knowledge, providing the foundation for new scientific discoveries.
Copyright Alliance - The Copyright Alliance believes that copyright law promotes creativity and job creation and strengthens the U.S. economy. Those who create, render, and publish copyrighted works rely on the copyright law and its enforcement, for their creative and financial success. Without it, these creators would likely cease to exist, or at the very least, cease to produce these important works that are enjoyed by billions of people around the world.
Posted on May 26, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
I began using Edublogs http://cpseltech.edublogs.org/ two years ago as I found it easier to manage than my teacher class website.Blogging allowed me to quickly update and post links to what I was using with students.The widgets also added more interactivity by seeing who visited the site and where they came from.Students and parents (anyone, really) could post comments to my blog.A year ago, Edublogs began charging if you did not want ads on your blog.
I switched over to Wordpress.com http://cpselemtech.wordpress.com/ it offers similar features to Edublogs, but not all the widgets work.It does the job since I use this site mostly to post announcements.I may reconsider and switch back to Edublogs.
I also maintain a professional teacher blog on the Discovery Educator Network. http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/stewarj/ I post links and resources that would interest other educators.I like the fact that what I post on this blog is automatically shared to other members of the DEN.
Posted on May 26, 2009 in Session by James Stewart
Format Factory - Free media file format converter - Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.
Provides functions below:
All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
Source files support RMVB.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website was developed as a resource for teachers and students who are interested in how multimedia can be integrated into a variety of educational activities. The site was created by faculty members and graduate students in the Instructional Technology program in the University of Houston College of Education. All material on the site including text, images and digital stories, is intended for personal, educational, and non-commercial use only.
Online Educational Platform for Teachers and Learners - WiZiQ - WiZiQ brings students and teachers together regardless of the boundaries. With absolutely no cost to join or use its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, WiZiQ is becoming a vital tool in an online teacher?s or a student?s toolkit.
open thinking » 70 Videos for Tech. - A collection of interesting Internet videos by Dr. Alec Couros that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70 videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
homeworkNYC.org - Welcome to homework NYC.org, New York City?s full-service homework help site.
homeworkNYC.org has been designed by New York City?s three public library systems, Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library and Queens Library in collaboration with New York City Department of Education.
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
One shortcut that wasn’t mentioned was how to create dummy text to manipulate. This is done by typing the following command: rand(1,2) – where rand stands for random. The first number is the number of paragraphs, and the second the number of sentences per paragraph. If you omit the second number, you get five sentences in each paragraph. More information on this can be found on Microsoft’s support site.
The other command I use frequently include the CTRL+ A, B, U, I, C, X, Z, and Y keys. I use the CTRL+TAB key when presenting and have multiple windows open. The B and W keys come in handy in PowerPoint presentation mode when I want to blank the screen.
I also use tab and shift +tab when working with bulleted lists. Tab indents to the right, while shift +tab indents to the left.
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Session by James Stewart
Over the next few weeks, I will be discussing tools from the 21 Things for the 21st Century Learner. RubiStar has been around for awhile and is very good at creating rubrics on the fly. I use this to create tools to assess presentations and digital stories. Kathy Schock’s Guide for Educators lists other rubric options for assessing student work. I just came across iRubric on my Twitter feed.
There are also more options when it comes to creating surveys. Survey tools are another way to gauge understanding. Zoomerang and Survey Monkey are two popular services that offer a free simplified version and a paid version that offers more features. The one I use most frequently is creating one using Google Docs.
The survey I created in Zoomerang polled teacher on how effective technology training are for them. The top two reasons why they did not attend were they had already earned enough PD credits and they were too busy with other committees. After school on Tuesdays and Thursdays were the best times for teachers. Learning about subject area websites and Discovery United Streaming videos were the two top choices.
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Session by James Stewart
Webware 100 2009 - CNET - Welcome to the 2009 Webware 100! Below you’ll find 100 Web apps in 10 categories voted to be the best of the best by Webware readers and users of the apps themselves.
Be sure to also see the new 11th category, Editors Choice, for a list of 12 products that we feel merit inclusion in this year’s awards program, even if they weren’t big enough to win the popular vote.
Online HTML to PDF Conversion, Free | Url to PDF | Create PDF Online - PdfonFly is a pdf conversion service that allows you to convert you web pages and reports and images to adobe pdf files. At the moment we only offer valid urls of your html, asp, php, .Net, cgi, jsp pages and jpg / jpeg, gif, png files for conversion to pdf files. Very soon “doc to pdf” will be available aswell. Many more formats are still to come.
BookletCreator - create a booklet from any PDF document - BookletCreator is a free online tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created
OffiSync - Enabling Collaboration - Once you install OffiSync, you will get a tight integration between Office and Google Docs that will help you do the following:
* Save your Office files on Google docs just as if you were saving them locally. From that moment, you can access them from any computer using the browser only OR use Office to access those files when you use your own computer, just as if they were stored locally
* Use Google Search, integrated into the OffiSync toolbar, to find your documents in seconds (I love this feature!! )
* Share and collaborate with others by combining Office and Google Docs collaboration features. OffiSync will let you save a document online and add collaborators right from within the Office toolbar.
100 Awesome, Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers | Smart Teaching - The Internet can be a scary place for elementary teachers. On one hand, you want to share the Internet as a wonderful tool with your students, but on the other, you worry about safety and helping them find the most useful resources without getting lost on the information superhighway. Because of this, we?ve put together a listing of some of the best sites for elementary teachers and students online, plus a few tools to help you keep everything together.
Posted on May 20, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Button Beats Make Music online. Play the Virtual Piano. - Get the Buttonbeats Virtual Piano. Get Widgets for your website or blog or social network like MySpace. If your looking to play Music samples this is what your looking for!
Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data
Posted on May 17, 2009 in Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
