TechKnowledgey inTechgration

These are my links for July 1st:

• Meeting Ticker – Meeting-Ticker can be used to calculate costs of individual meetings or if you are employer you can use it to calculate cost of employee meetings while they take place.
• Google Moderator – Google Moderator is a tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events. …
• Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – NECC 2009 iPod touch Session – What to do with your iPod Touch in the classroom
• Edusim – 3D virtual worlds for the classrom interactive whiteboard – Edusim is a 3D multi-user virtual world platform and authoring toolkit intended for your classroom interactive whiteboard (but equally powerful on the students laptop or desktop computers)
• QR-Code Generator – Create a bar code for use by mobile phones.
• ProfCast – Welcome – ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts.
• Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: Students Tell Us About ?Living in a Digital World? – 2009 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) as “Best Picture” from among digital shorts produced and edited by students and teachers from across the country.
• SlideBoom – upload and share rich powerpoint presentations online – SlideBoom takes care of preserving the original quality of your presentation so there is no need to worry about output audio-visual elements and animation effects.
• Timetoast Timelines | Create timelines, share them on the web. – Timetoast allows people to create interactive timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web. Anyone can join Timetoast and start creating and sharing their own timelines, all they need is a valid email address. It’s completely free!
• Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Home – Web 2.0 Tools for Educators – Web 2.0 is a cool buzzword floating around, but its meaning has become somewhat diluted and obscured like a spoken story handed down from generation to generation. So many people limit their thinking of Web 2.0 to blogs and wikis, but it’s so much more. So here’s my working definition of this thing we call Web 2.0:
• MagToo – Facebook slideshows, MySpace, slideshow, photo sharing, zoom, panorama, trip, photo, resizing – Magnify Your World – MagToo is an image widget application and portal site which allows users to create slide shows with a unique magnifier tool, and immersive 360 degree panorama style shows. Furthermore, users can share these on social network sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), as well as create virtual “travelogues” on Google maps. MagToo’s virtual travelogue is a unique feature unavailable on other image widgets, and allows users to map and share their travels with slide and panorama shows.
• Home | Promise of Place – A unique public private partnership that works to advance the state of the art in place-based education by facilitating collaborative efforts in research, program design, techical assistance, resource development and dissemination
• http://www.peecworks.org/index – Welcome! PEEC is a partnership between the organizations and projects described below. By combining efforts, the collaborative is able to support program evaluation for each of the individual programs and also to better identify successful program characteristics that span all of these place-based education programs.
• Google Earth Cool Places – Weird, famous and beautiful placemarks – Google Earth is a program where you can look at the earth through aerial photos. At Google Earth Cool Places (GECplaces) you can find and share all weird, cool, beautiful places you find.
• Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students | ISTE Connects – Educational Technology – fantastic applications for younger / primary age students who use iPod Touches in her classroom currently
• NECC 2009 Attendees | Program | presenter handouts – presenter handouts
• eduTecher – a non profit web resource – eduTecher is a non-profit web resource that was designed to inform and guide teachers looking for ways to use instructional technology in their classrooms. It has no sponsors or agendas in order to ensure that it gives factual information about websites, hardware, and software that may be useful in an academic setting.
• Insert Photographs – The image search feature of Offisync is pretty similar to the built-in Clip Art gallery search. Upon installation, Offisync will add a new Google Search option to your Office Toolbar – you can directly search for pictures and then insert any one of them into document or presentation that you are currently working on.
• Manage your bibliography online and collaborate with other researchers | Mendeley – Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics.