Popular web tools that can be embedded into posts, pages or added to text widgets in sidebars -Edublogs Help and Support There’s a gazillion cool online tools nowadays and many provide code that you can use to embed what you’ve found or created into your blog posts, pages or added to text widgets in your blog sidebar. Refer to the following instructions to embed: Below’s a list of tools to get you started: Audio Hosting Websites Here’s some of the popular site used by educators who want to embed their audio within embedded players rather than uploading them directly to posts as links: Brainstorming Tools AnswerGarden – is a word cloud site that collects words and phrases. Comic and Cartoon Tools Poll and Survey tools Presentation Tools AuthorStream - - A site where you can host your presentations and share with others. Slide Show Tools BookR – Super easy slide show maker.Flickr – Flickr is a PhotoSharing website for hosting and sharing your photos online. Quiz Creation tools Video Creation Tools Animoto – great site for quickly creating professional looking videos from your images. Video Hosting Websites
Visual Thinking Evolution A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Especially in British English, the terms spidergram and spidergraph are more common,[1] but they can cause confusion with the term spider diagram used in mathematics and logic. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing. The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. Reference: wikipedia
iPad App Guide #1: Evernote | TPACK iPads in Schools What it does Evernote for iPad is a cross-platform app for recalling / remembering information. You can use this app to save website screenshots, notes, pictures, and audio comments; which are instantly synchronised between your computer, mobile device, and web Evernote account. (It is also available for Android devices). For: Teachers, Administrators, Students ( Upper Primary / Secondary) Cost: Free – Download Here Requires WiFi? Educational Applications note-takingresearchreferencesto-do listsorganising information Video Tutorial Further Reading
Mind Mapping - Create Mind Maps online Polling tools event Introduction In this recorded session we took a look at if, and how, we use/have used e-polling or surveys. The idea for this session was triggered when I used a poll in the overview for last week’s Serendipity and wondered about the different polling and survey tools that people use. The Session We started with a look at whether we had used polling/surveys either as a respondent or as an information gatherer. Then came the most interesting part of the session where we started to look at tools we have used and/or that we know about. Next came the best bit where members of the group shared an experience of using a poll/survey tool, We had brief looks at GoogleForms (including a quick play), Facebook, Flubaroo and PollDaddy before running out of time and moving on to our best takeaways from the session. Conclusion This was so interesting – I love to know what tools others are using and to hear about the contexts and purposes. Next Webinar
Free Online Word Cloud Generator home home Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles Diagrams « Digital Tools for Students Mind Maps can help you organise your thoughts, on JCU Study Skills Online you can read about mind maps and watch a video by Tony Buzan who has published many books on the subject. The University of Hull has produced this very impressive collection of diagrams on learning. To create mind maps one of the simplest tools to use is Bubbl.us. This training video shows you how to use Bubbl.us SpicyNodes can be used by students of any age (with parent / guardian permission). Anther tools for creating mind maps is MindMeister (the free account allows you to save three mind maps at any one time). Text 2 Mind Map is a very simple application – key in some text and convert it to a simple mind map. Lovely Charts allows you to create a variety of diagrams. The Student Interactives on ReadWriteThink may help you organise your thoughts. Exploratree from Futurelab allows you to create ’thinking guides’ alone or collaboratively. There are many ready made templates to complete to help thinking.
Recommended by a colleague I trust as a preferred web 2.0 concept mapping tool. Looks good from what I saw. Try it. by shellyw39 Feb 1