Friday, July 30, 2010

Polleverywhere

Today in our course we have learnt how to use polleverwhere

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Embedding PowerPoint in Blogs

Yesterday, during the summer course 2010, someone has asked me how to embed a powerpoint in blogs. Basically you need to register with authorstream. Upload your presentation. Once uploaded share the link with blogger.

Piki Strips

Pikistrips allows you to take photos and change them into comic strips using bubble speech in the process. It's fun. Students can present their work in a fun way.

a comic strip!

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Sunday, July 25, 2010

A new way to present

Prezi is an innovative way to present your ideas. Forget powerpoint. Prezi is here and the best thing it is FREE.

Bounce


Did you ever want to comment about your webpages? You can do this by print the screen, pasting it on a Word processor document and then add text.



One can bypass all this by using bounce and comment directly

Take a look at this example: http://www.bounceapp.com/11673

Web 2.0 Poll


What is Poll Everywhere?

According to this site, it is the fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices



Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

What is your favourite colour?

Vote HERE

Friday, July 16, 2010

Wordle

What is Wordle?

Wordle is a free web site for easily creating beautiful word clouds from text, URLs, RSS feeds or del.icio.us account. They are a great way of visualizing the importance of particular word in text since the more frequently a word is used the larger it appears in the Wordle. You don’t need to sign up for an account — just go to the Wordle create page to get started!

Here is the most words used in my blog



Thursday, July 15, 2010

Scrapblog

Another way of presenting photos is by using scrapblog

Making your pictures speak

Do you want to make your photos speak out? Imagine an outdoor activity with the class. You gather the photos and upload them. Why not add speech bubbles. The pictures could be funny but also educational. It is up to you to what you add. It is also fun. Check out Bubblesnaps.com

Bubbleply

Youtube, teachertube etc are reknowned sites where teachers can download and show videos to students. Imagine if you get a youtube video and add subtitles, notes and cliparts. How? Bubbleply.com offers this service. You can edit youtube video and add these comments which could be helpful to the students. The students do not only listen and watch the video but now they can see the annotations done by the teacher.



Check out this video from YouTube which had bubbles and subtitles added

Click HERE

Friday, July 9, 2010

Creating Polls with VISU

Creating an online poll is as easy as VISU