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25 tools to entertain, educate, enthrall and excite!
Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com
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Tagxedo
• Next generation Wordle product
• Simple and easy to use
• Flexible
• You can add your own images to create your own wordcloud shapes
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Vuvox
• Media Creation, made easy, and Incorporate images, videos
• Create embedded content and hotspots
• Use photographs as frames for slideshows
• A nice alternative to Powerpoint
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Web 1.0 and 2.0 compared: a worked example
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Voxopop
• Discuss interests with others
• Interact quickly and easily
• Using your own voice
• Start your own talk groups
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Readability
• Readability makes it easier to read webpages
• It removes the clutter around what you’re reading
• Great for printing as well
• Install as a browser bar button
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Before/after BBC news story
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Wallwisher
• Online bulletin board with post-it notes
• Easy to create, maintain, and involve others
• Great for group use
• Embed video and image links too
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Trailmeme
• Create a ‘trail’ of websites/pages for people to explore
• Good way to introduce a subject
• Assisted learning, explored at own pace
• Easy to create
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Animoto
• Create video compliations from images
• Produce professional looking products
• Free accounts limited to 30 second clips
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Whichbook
• Choose a book to read based on various criteria
• Use a simple sliding scale to emphasis elements
• Then choose your book and borrow from your library
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YouSendIt
• Send large files easily
• Browser based
• Overcome email limitations
• Free and commercial versions
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Plugoo
• Plug a chatbox into your site/blog
• Links directly into your messenger
• Excellent for ‘Ask a librarian’ type service
• You have complete control over it
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Me chatting to.... Me!
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CopyTaste
• Create your own private URL with data
• Share with friends, colleagues, the world
• Include photos, video etc
• Easy way to collate data
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Flame
• Create wonderful flame/smoke type images
• Simple, easy and quick to create
• Beautiful!
• Sometimes just having fun is enough!
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Netvibes for home/start pages
• Pull all your links and content together in one place
• Save time as data flows to you
• Add RSS feeds, create dashboards,
• Share, or keep private
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An example Web 2.0 subject dashboard
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Google searchstories
• Create 30 second stories around Google search
• Choose 7 searches, add music, you’re done
• Upload to YouTube
• Simple and easy to use
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Slideshare
• Add your presentations
• Keep them private, make them public
• Create your own network
• Excellent for training, distributing
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Tizmos
• Create a page of large thumbnails of resources
• Use as a start page, subject guide or trail
• Simple and easy to use
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Search engines page example
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Star Wars weather forecast
• Great fun if you like Star Wars, not so much if you don’t.
• A different answer to an obvious question
• Sometimes things are just fun
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London weather, April 17
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Tinychat
• Create a real time chat room in seconds
• Add video functionality to it
• Stream up to 12 people at once
• Make private video calls
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Simple screenshot
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TitsUp
• Checks to see if a site is down for everyone, or just a local problem
• Quick and easy
• It does what it does!
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What it looks like:
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Krunchd
• Quick way to share a lot of URLs
• Great for teaching, subject guidance, training
• Generate your own link
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ScreenToaster
• Free online screen recorder
• Works with a single click
• Add voice over
• Embed anywhere
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What do you suggest?
• Takes an idea from you
• Uses Google to make suggestions on improving the search
• Interesting concept – useful for teaching search
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Web Seer to compare suggestions
• Choose two different things
• Compare the Google suggestions
• Quickly see similarities/differences
• Fun and educational all at once!
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Zinepal
• Create printable PDFs and eBooks from any online content
• Quickly, easily produce your own material in a different format
• From blog, search results, website
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UK General Election worked example
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Glogster
• Poster yourself!
• Create online posters
• Incorporate text, images, music and video
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Glogs related to ‘books’
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Even more!
• If you found these interesting, you’ll probably find my other resources helpful:
• “I want to” is a collection of over 1,100 applications that help you do different things
• My “Web 2.0 weblog” which is updated most days with new resources.
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Thanks
• You can contact me at [email protected]
• Or via my website at http://www.philb.com
• I’m happy to discuss working with you to update your staff or colleagues with tailor made courses on social media or internet search, from an hour to a day.