Saturday, March 29, 2008

The power of social bookmarking......

This video was created by commoncraft.com to show the power of social bookmarking and how it makes web pages easy to remember, organize and share.

What is the big deal about blogs?

Need an explanation? View this video.
http://www.commoncraft.com/show
A video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal.


Want to know what Twitter is all about?

When people ask you to explain Twitter, send them to this video.
http://www.commoncraft.com
A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter.


Saturday, March 15, 2008

World Clock: great for statistics & trivia


The World Clock has an almost unlimited number of uses in any discipline and for anyone. You have to check out the website, and if you are mathematically minded who said you could not integrate technology into your life, here’s the easiest and best place to start, and the tool is user-friendly. You’ll want to bookmark the website, because googling world clock will likely not get you to this one easily.
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Conversion tools for educators




Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/ is one of my favorites. A great converter, it is fast, free, educationally friendly. It converts almost anything to anything else you want it to be. The list is endless, so for one stop conversions, this is my pick. The other item, like Zamzar, is a converter. ConvertTube will allow you to convert online video like YouTube to more popular formats like wmv, mov, mp4,mp3, 3gp. http://converttube.com/ Having this tool in your teacher toolbox will make it easier to get around those firewalls.