In no particular order...
1. Youtube and teachertube and ted and...can I count all these as one? Great reources for videos on anything you could want and a lot of them are good too! I love all of the commoncraft series...
2. Delicious- great for keeping all of those great links organized and best of all share them with others!
3. Jing- Great for online tutorials and to show how to do just about anything...much better than screen shots.
4.Animoto- Love it, Love it...So easy to make a really cool video that looks like it took hours...
5.Podcasting- although this is not really one particular site...A great tool with so many uses.
I liked www.go2web2.0.net, although as a resource it is a bit overwhelming. The search works well and you can narow it down to the type of tool that you are looking for. I did discover tons of sites that I had never heard of before...but were they any good or useful?? not sure...
My mother received the Kindle for Christmas and loves it. She was skeptical at first but has come to love the ease of it. Now she wants me to get one... We can share books just like we do now except without actually needed to see each other. or even "touch" the same pages. I don't know if I am ready yet. I will admit the Kindle does feel nice in your hand and the screen really does look like a printed page. here is just something about the feel of a book and the pages, the cover and the cuddling with it. I don't know if am ready to give that up. However, she can pre-order books and have them "delivered" as soon as they are released, no driving to the store, no waiting on the hold list at the library or even forgetting the book came out...She also loves that when she finishes a book...no matter where or when...she can have another in minutes. The Kindle also highlights and defines words for you plus all sorts of other features but don't know if i would use all those..
Surprisingly, students at Princeton were given Kindles with all of their course work loaded on it and didn't like it. They missed the interaction with the printed page and didn't think it was functional enough.
Hmm I still haven't decided if I will get one or not but I am also not in a hurry to go out and spend the $350...
2. Delicious- great for keeping all of those great links organized and best of all share them with others!
3. Jing- Great for online tutorials and to show how to do just about anything...much better than screen shots.
4.Animoto- Love it, Love it...So easy to make a really cool video that looks like it took hours...
5.Podcasting- although this is not really one particular site...A great tool with so many uses.
I liked www.go2web2.0.net, although as a resource it is a bit overwhelming. The search works well and you can narow it down to the type of tool that you are looking for. I did discover tons of sites that I had never heard of before...but were they any good or useful?? not sure...
My mother received the Kindle for Christmas and loves it. She was skeptical at first but has come to love the ease of it. Now she wants me to get one... We can share books just like we do now except without actually needed to see each other. or even "touch" the same pages. I don't know if I am ready yet. I will admit the Kindle does feel nice in your hand and the screen really does look like a printed page. here is just something about the feel of a book and the pages, the cover and the cuddling with it. I don't know if am ready to give that up. However, she can pre-order books and have them "delivered" as soon as they are released, no driving to the store, no waiting on the hold list at the library or even forgetting the book came out...She also loves that when she finishes a book...no matter where or when...she can have another in minutes. The Kindle also highlights and defines words for you plus all sorts of other features but don't know if i would use all those..
Surprisingly, students at Princeton were given Kindles with all of their course work loaded on it and didn't like it. They missed the interaction with the printed page and didn't think it was functional enough.
Hmm I still haven't decided if I will get one or not but I am also not in a hurry to go out and spend the $350...
Great post, Meg! Your picks are great and I like the links. That was a great bit about the searchability of gotoweb20.net! I just found a ton of widgets that are going to make me look like a genius in a professional development course I am teaching in my district. Thanks!
ReplyDelete