Viewzi is a website search tool that offers results from Google and Yahoo in a variety of formats incliding Webscreen Shots, Simple Text, Google Timeline, Power Grid, Video x3, Photo Cloud and much much more. It is definitely worth looking at.
Here is a cool tool that can be used for Book Week – BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF. This fun online tool allows you to design your human self and then add your animal parts which ties in great with Book Safari our theme for 2009.
After the students have created their character they can be printed out. The site also gives a run down of what animal features have been used to describe the created character. There are also links to Zoos and Aqauriums in New York.
280 Slides is a free web-based service where you can “[c]reate beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world.” It allows you to
import existing PowerPoint presentations
access your presentations from any computer with an internet connection
use media from services like Flickr and YouTube
use built-in themes
automatically save and recover your presentations
download your presentation to PowerPoint
publish your presentation on SlideShare, e-mail it, or embed it in a website
create your presentations on the web in your browser without downloading any software
This is one to share with both students and teachers alike.
The wraps have finally come off Microsoft’s new Bing internet search tool.
The new search engine has been two years in the making and Microsoft says the difference between Bing and Google is that the new search engine is designed to return answers instead of a bunch of links – although it also does the latter.
Here is a safe way to use YouTube and other videos with your students without the worry about them accessing stuff that’s inappropriate. Vodspot is a cool tool that can help you organise you videos for your students.
Once you sign up to Vodspot, you can create your own video channel and drag and drop videos from YouTube, TeacherTube and many other sites to your channel. Then give your students your Vodspot channel address. You can even install a widget and link your selected Vodspot videos from your blog or wiki. Students will then only access the videos you have selected for them. If you already have a vodpod account you can create a vodspot from videos already collected.
Student can make comments about their favourite videos and teachers are able to access statistics to see which are the most watched videos. Quite a useful tool for anyone who uses or is thinking about using the video resources that are freely available on the internet.
Great classroom resource. The only down side found so far is that there is advertising on the side.
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I'm enjoying looking at your blog. Last week's information on the Flip video was very interesting and the Librarian's Song was great.
Keep up the good work!
Denise O'Brien
SMS Librarian
Trinity Catholic College
Viewzi is a website search tool that offers results from Google and Yahoo in a variety of formats incliding Webscreen Shots, Simple Text, Google Timeline, Power Grid, Video x3, Photo Cloud and much much more. It is definitely worth looking at.
