Teaching & Learning with Technology

Ever need to share a YouTube video, but were nervous about what links and related videos might pop up? The Quietube bookmarklet takes that video and displays it on a plain white background. Very neat and clean. Perfect for presentations and staff meetings.

How it works: http://quietube.com/v.php/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaaLFzEXhI

Install it here: http://quietube.com/

Cooliris is a browser plug-in that revolutionizes how you find, view, and share photos and videos. Whether you’re browsing the Web or your desktop, Cooliris presents media on an infinite “3D wall” that lets you enjoy content without clicking page to page.

Cooliris works with Firefox, as well as Internet Exporer, Safari (Mac), and Google Chrome (Windows).

Got photos and videos?

With Cooliris, immerse yourself when visiting popular sites like Facebook, Google Images, Bing, YouTube, Flickr, and Picasa. Scan through hundreds of photos and videos in seconds. Navigate among albums, zoom in and out, view in full screen or slideshow mode, favorite, and share. You can even use Cooliris to find photos stored on your desktop.

http://www.cooliris.com/

Mobile technology is playing an increasingly large role in the classroom – most students have a phone of their own, so why not use a device that they’re familiar with to engage them with education? Ipadio technology is perfect for enhancing and improving the learning process.

In brief, Ipadio enables the live broadcast of audio directly to the internet… all from a phone. There’s never been an easier way to record oral assessments, create revision podcasts or collect homework.

Check out Ipadio Classroom Integration Ideas here: http://www.ipadio.com/page.asp?section=99&sectionTitle=ipadio+in+Education

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. You can
post stickies with text, images, links to websites and even videos. The notice-board is really simple to use and you can set access rights so that anyone can view and or post to it or only restricted people.

No registration required – click, write, post – that’s it!

Check out these two websites for some ways to use WallWisher in the classroom:

http://forcuriousteachers.blogspot.com/2009/10/16-ways-to-use-wall.html

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2009/04/using-online-sticky-noticeboards.html

Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world — a digital world. It consists of the Web site below as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary that aired on February 2nd, 2010 that you can now watch directly from the website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation

Students can collaborate together to create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, mind maps and more with this powerful online brainstorming tool.

 Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

40 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_157dpbsg9c5