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Here is a new mindmapping tool.
WiseMapping is an online mind-mapping software that enables you to create mind maps and share them with your team. It uses SVG/VML instead of Flash or AJAX so you can create online mind-maps that are viewable in more browsers. You can invite other students to edit the map and, when it's finished, you can export it in multiple formats or publish it online.
A great research link to over 140 search engines and directories. The fact that most students don’t even consider switching Google for anything else doesn’t mean that there’s no innovation going on in the field of search. Quite the contrary; which can be seen from the list of search engines at this site.
Stanton Wortham from Wharton/University of Penn describes the popular learning theories in use today and the assumptions they make about how people learn. He describes these theories in 4 videos. Very refreshing stuff.
Here is tool for searching for instructional videos to assist your learning.
If you're looking for a one-stop shop, file conversion service, then take a look at YouconvertIt. YouconvertIt lets you upload document, image, audio and video files and will convert them from one format to another. All you need to do is select the file from your computer, pick your target format, and the file will be uploaded and converted. Once the conversion is complete, you'll receive an e-mail containing a link to allow you to download it.
Here is a good tool to aid in WWW exploration for visual thnikers who don’t like paging through lists of search results? You enter a URL, it crunches a bit, and returns a node map with lines to sites that are “similar”. If you double click any of the nodes, they expand for the network around that node. You can use the sliders to zoom or change the spacing of the graphic, and drag around nodes to re-arrange them. And there are some graphic tools for coloring, annotating, etc.
Here you can create your own “pods” of video collections, and with their one click browser tools, you can create collections of web video from 1000s of different video sites, YouTube, Google, MySpace, just about anywhere that embeds flash video. You can do some customization of your “pod”, have categories, tags, comments– and it provides a cut and paste method to embed a “widget” in your blog.
This is a nice interactive tool for developing timelines. You can create and share your timelines as well as explore those already available. Check out the "History of Video Games" timeline as an example of the potential of this tool.
StreamYard enables you to save the videos you see on the web, for example on YouTube. Simply enter the URL, download and then playback. Upload to a host service and embed in your wiki/blog.
A tag is simply a label or keyword that describes your file for making it easer to find. With tag2find you do not need to have inflexible folder structures anymore: tagging frees your information. You will find everything (documents, movies, images, music, etc.) on your desktop by simply using tags. It does not matter where your files are stored on your disk, you will find them anyway.
Forbes.com widgets allow you to add Forbes.com content on your blogs, wikis, social media sites , personalized homepages like Netvibes and iGoogle, as well as personal Web sites. Could this be an emerging trend that other magazines and newspapers will adopt.
ColorFields colour palette enables you to search for Flickr photos by matching a colour from the palette. This is actually quite useful, especially if you’re a designer in need of images that’ll match the color of whatever you’re working on.
BlueGrind will automatically pick up the RSS for your blog, and convert all your posts into Audio, without having you do anything else! You can download MP3 news and blogs, upload articles, press releases, register to have blogs converted to audio (Give Your Blog a Voice™), and much more.
Celtx is the first, cross-platform media application that provides support for the entire pre-production process. Work with others by sharing access to your Celtx Media Project - scripts, breakdown files, budgets, schedules, and location forms - and maintain your artistic vision throughout the Project. Drag and drop images in to the Celtx Storyboard where they can be grouped together, tagged with text, and played as a loop to help pre-visualize your media project.
YouTube has launched its Remixer tool, which is available on TestTube. Check it out here. The remixer lets you add effects and graphics, text and audio, overlays and transitions to your YouTube videos, directly in your browser. The remix tool is powered by Adobe. It’s the same as Photobucket’s Remix tool, which is also powered by Adobe. So if you’ve become a pro with the Photobucket remixing tool, you’ll have no trouble with YouTube’s.
Synthasite is a powerful and easy to use website development tool. The construction tool lets you visually assemble your website using templates, components, widgets and services from the Synthasite superstore. Synthasite has a large and growing "superstore" of free web components to choose from including Widgets and Templates. Synthasite will host your site for free.
DeviantArt is a great site to publish your designs and view the designs of others. At present there are 38,000,000 "deviations". Join the largest art community in the world! As a member, you can collect favourites and submit art. Don't forget to check copyright conditions before reproducing any artwork.
EveryZing is a search engine for audio and video resources. In addition to specific searches there is a wide range of categories to browse. Good for project resources.
The One Minute Tip will provide you with short technology and business tutorials. Here is a link to 42 (at present) podcast and vodcast Photoshop tutorials. You can create an email subscription and receive updates when a new tip (tutorial) is added.
Sputtr is a search engine that lets you find results from several resources directly through one page. From Google maps to Google groups, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr and Wordpress, there are many, many types of searches you can perform in order to get the results you may be looking for. The sputtr site itself is basic and easy enough to use: similar to a Google search, you simply enter your search term. Then choose the search group you’d like to get results for.
