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Use this free web service to create a song spot in your blog or wiki. Select a song from SongSpot's huge library, customise the player and then either send or embed the player in your website. There is also an email option for you to send songs and messages to friends. A good example of the increasing application of audio technologies in web site design and development.
Corel WordPerfect Lightning is free software that "makes it easier than ever to capture, use, and reuse ideas, information and images. It includes: i) a Notes tool for word processing, note taking and copying text and images from email and the Web, ii) a Viewer to open PDFs, WordPerfect and Microsoft® Word documents, iii) a Navigator to organize your ideas and documents, iv) a free online account with 200 MB storage—plus many more services!
Use this free web service to obtain or provide feedback on your TAFE design projects. You can upload your designs, EMBED THEM IN YOUR BLOG, and others can add voice or text comments and colour annotations. It's a great tool for collaborative design projects, particularly when you are looking for ideas from other TAFE students to help you overcome a 'sticking point'.
Tungle is a powerful peer-to-peer (P2P) meeting coordinator. You can use Tungle to arrange meetings with class colleagues, project team members, and friends no matter where they are or what calendaring software they use. Tungle provides you with a view of the free or busy times of people with whom you want to schedule a meeting - in advance of sending a meeting invitation.
Here is an excellent new search engine to help you find the best information for your projects. Get instant results from your favorite search site + other top search sites at once. Your favorite search site (e.g. GOOGLE) may not be the best one for video, audio, social bookmarks, entertainment, employment, et.
Here is a great widget for your blog/wiki. The player can be customised to fit in your blog's sidebar. SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media 'channels' that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages 'tuned' to that channel.
Here is a site that provides a wide range of widgets to enhance your blogs. Widgets provide links to sites and applications that include To Do lists, video and mp3 players, Flickr, etc. etc., and a wide range of blog sites.
Links to 250 Web 2.0 applications (most are free), including 29 bookmarking applications, 13 calendar applications, 5 contacts managers, 17 CRM systems, 11 database managers, 17 desktops, 14 development tools, 8 document managers, 11 feed readers, 16 file managers, 7 photo editors, and much much more.
Google's image and photo storage and sharing service, has been upgraded…They've increased their free storage allocation and also added the facility to directly link to individual albums and photos, making it easier to share them via e-mail or IM. They even give you the HTML code to display an album or photo on a web page.
They've also integrated it with Blogger so if you've got a blog hosted by Blogger, log in to Picasa Web Albums and you'll find a new album containing uploaded images from your blog. Tip: Resize images to the size your posting as it saves space and should be faster at loading and rendering. If you need a utility to help crop and resize images use SnipShot - http://snipshot.com/
Here is a great site for instructional design students and teachers. Create your own FREE online quiz. Customize with your own choice of logo, text & colors. Post your quiz at any webpage (your blog, myspace page or classroom page).
VoiceThread enables “group audio blogging” - you can create “voicebooks” combining images and audio. Extremely simple but is effective when you want to post an image and allow others to add their text or voice comments. Also note that you can post these voicebooks to your blog, wiki, MySpace, etc.
Here are some great images for your blogs and wikis. They include Punk Graphics, Goth Graphics, Glitter text generator, Inspirational Graphics, etc. Although developed for use with MySpace sites they can also be embeded in blogs, wikis and websites....
Yahoo Briefcase is recommended as a free service for storing your files on the Web. Limited to 30mbs but has the advantage of letting you create a folder structure for storing files. This is particularly useful when a number of files are created at the same time and need to be kept in the same folder e.g. Camtasia.
Add your favorite blogs (or any source with a RSS feed) to your Feevy tag and receive automatic updates. Feevy gives you a personalized feevy tag. Just place the tag in your blog template or wiki and... bang! Your friends will appear in your blog! Feevy shows the latest posts from your favorite blogs in one column putting them in order according to the latest updates, which will appear on top. You can use as many feevy tags as you like. placing them anywhere in your blog or your html page.
MindMeister, which is currently in private beta (enter your email and you might get an invite), is a new online mindmapping tool similar to Bubbl.us, Gliffy’s web-based diagram service and Mayomi (now dead, it seems). There’s no doubt that it’s nicely designed and comes with some neat features: cut, copy & paste, undo and redo, font colors, a revision history, keyboard shortcuts, multi-user editing and the ability to import, export and save maps to the server.
Second Life: The Official Guide Here is a great book if your interested in Linden Lab's fascinating Second Life metaverse. It explores in detail every aspect of Second Life's rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents.
