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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.
Use this free web service to create diagrams and drawings. Flowcharts, mindmaps, network diagrams, etc. Provides the html code for embedding your work in blogs, wikis and websites and URLs for creating links. Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software. Desktop application feel in a web-based diagramming solution. Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow.
In response to Learning Circuits big question, “Where are the examples of eLearning?” I have pointed to the wiki for the Digital Media subject “Relate to Clients on a Business Level”. This wiki illustrates a model for the integration of wikis, blogs and widgets in elearning. The power of three.
The wiki provides a gateway to teaching and learning resources and its structure is based on the subject’s learning outcomes. A “work in progress” wiki space is provided for each student.
The widgets are used to enhance teaching resources. They include,
Scribd: presents online documents that can be listened to, scrolled, enlarged and scanned, and downloaded.
SlideShare: presents PowerPoint presentations,
Odeo: presents podcasts and a sidebar player that automatically updates as the teacher adds podcasts to Odeo.
Bubbl.us: presents mindmaps and flowcharts that can be enlarged and scanned.
ProProfs: presents online formative assessment quizzes.
The blogs are created and maintained by students as a portfolio of their assessment events that in turn utilize a range of widgets for presenting results.
From a teacher who has spent many years developing eLearning using programming languages, software applications, and authoring systems this trio of Web2.0 applications is the way to go.
The SpaceTime 3D search functionality loads multiple search results as a stack of separate pages. Unlike ordinary search, which returns a list of links that you have to click one at a time, SpaceTime simultaneously loads 10 results at a time, each in its own window. Using a mouse or keyboard, users can then quickly and easily flip through the results, re-arrange the pages or manipulate them as desired. This search functionality supports Google, Google Images, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Images, Flickr, eBay and others.
The Mind42 service enables you to create a mind map for any purpose. Easy editing tools allow for quick changes, and a variety of functions are available for the entire mind map as well as individual nodes on the mind map. Include images and attachments for a specific node, such as a wikipedia article, or a to-do list. Make mind mapping branches for the various items involved in a particular task, and keep track of changes with the revision history. Invite and manage others to collaborate on a mind map with you.
3B is a fun new web experience. 3B allows you take any web sites or photos and place them in a personalized 3D space, your 3B village. You can use MySpace, Hi5 or Bebo pages or photos you've loaded onto Flickr, Photobucket or any other web
Use Infogami to create free websites. One-click editing lets you fix typos instantly. With customizable templates your site looks just the way you want it to. Detailed graphs let you see how many people are visiting your site. Full revision history lets you see who wrote what when. Fine-grained permissions let you decide what people can edit and what they can't. Every site gets a built-in weblog you can post stories to.
Flowchart is an online tool that lets you create flowcharts. With Flowchart, you can choose from a good variety of existing templates offered in its library, for items such as Mindmaps, project management, and engineering charts. The WYSIWIG editor operates smoothly to let you type, add clip art and photo images, edit the colors, modify item transparency and resize items, among other things. Charts can be saved or printed, and you can invite others to collaborate with you on a particular chart.
