Visual.ly - Create Infographics

VISUAL.LY - DISCOVER,    CREATE.    SHARE .....

http://visual.ly/

INFOGRAPHICS!
We all look in the lower left hand corner of USAToday to see the daily graphic!  We are visual learners .....Now, with Visual.ly we can create our own infographic with ease or use ones that have already been created. 

Visual.ly is a wonderful new webtool/resource that lets users both explore and create beautifully organized infographics. These visualizations can easily illustrate a complex idea and show a large amount of data in a simple to understand way. Students and teachers can create and find excellent representations using this unique site.

Click here to see the Top 20 Infographics created in 2011:

http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/

Click here for the FAQ:   http://visual.ly/about/faq
 

For Educators - Use the infographics created for discussions, examples, information or have students research to see if the data is accurate.   Then have students research data on any topic and create their own infographic!  Please notice that on many of the infographics, at the bottom, a "Source" is listed.  Teach students to give credit for the information.

Note: For best results use Google Chrome or Firefox 

TAGUL - Create Tag Clouds

Tagul is similar to Wordle. Both create customisable word or tag clouds, the difference is that Tagul’s clouds are embeddable into other websites such as blogs or wikis.

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds. It is created by Alex, an entrepreneur and tech geek from Moscow, Russia. You can read more in the FAQ section, visit the Blog or explore the Forums. 
It requires signing up with either a new Tagul account, or via some OpenID provider,

EDUcreations - Teach what you know - Learn what you don't.

 

www.educreations.com

Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't!

Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within the  app on their iPads. Check out the "Showcase" on the homepage or the "Featured" tab in the iPad app to view some great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations.

Only public lessons may be embedded for viewing outside of educreations.com, so make sure to choose the "public" option in your lesson's privacy settings. Then, visit the lesson playback page for the lesson you want to embed. On the right side of the page, you'll find a link that says, "embed on the web." Once you click this link, you'll be prompted to copy an embed code that you can use to post your lesson anywhere on the web.

There are sections on English, Math, Social Studies,Science, the Arts, and Languages.

3D Toad - Move images 360"

The site is for educators and learners!  There are several subjects covered:  Skeletons for animals and humans; Disections for a cat, sheep heart, cow eye, pig kidney or ovary; Geology, Dental Hygiene, Chemistry, and several others.  The pictures can be turned 360' with your mouse.

Here is a quick YouTube video on 3D Toad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ecbb26IKKQ4&safe=active

Tumble Cloud

www.tumblecloud.com/



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TumbleCloud is a place for collaborative digital storytelling, where users can easily arrange, display, co-create, share and manipulate multimedia content.

They call it collaborative digital storytelling. All that digital stuff you have. All that digital stuff everybody else has. Photos. Videos. Music. You name it. Mix it all up together and then re-arrange it any way you like. Just by dragging and dropping, Tumblecloud makes it easy for you to tell stories your way, whether by yourself, or with a whole bunch of other people.
See what happens when you get together on tumblecloud with people that matter to you. See what happens when you make stories together.

• capture your special day

• market your small business

• give your digital stuff a home

• collaborate on a project
  

  

 

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BookBub - Get Free and Bargain Bestsellers For Your eReader!

What is BookBub?

http://www.bookbub.com

BookBub is a free (daily) email newsletter that keeps you updated about deeply discounted and free digital books. You choose the types of books you'd like with categories ranging from mysteries to cookbooks, and they send the best deals in those genres to your inbox.

BookBub doesn't actually sell books -- they simply alert you by email to fantastic limited-time offers that can be purchased from retailers like Amazon's Kindle store, Barnes and Noble's Nook store, Apple's iBookstore, and others. When you sign up, you may choose from their list of retailers. Book publishers offer deals at these sites for promotional purposes, and the BookBub staff works with them to determine the best ones to send to members.  Each deal is available for a Limited Time!!  Sometimes for just that one day.

BookBub features works ranging from big-name authors like Michael Connelly, Debbie Macomber, and Jodi Picoult, to independent authors who might be lesser known but whose books are getting rave reviews. The team of book experts is working around the clock to bring you the best deals on quality books that you'll love.

 

Just enter your email and select you retailers and your reading interests:

 

PADLET (Formerly Wallwisher)

http://padlet.com/

(The old Wallwisher)

• Put the wall on your blog or website. Make it more wonderful.  Embed it!

• Paste link to a youtube video? Check!

• Drag a word document from your computer? Check!

• Take a picture from your iPad camera? Check!

• Keep your wall private between friends. If you like them, give them permissions like the ability to change what you write. If you are the social kind, make a public wall for the whole world to see.

• Mobile:   Your phone, your tablet, your TV- Padlet works on everything.

• Like flexibility? Use the free form layout. Like organization? Use streams.

EXAMPLES:

 

 I have used this as an "evaluation" tool.  After a presentation, I would ask participants to go the web address I give them and post a comment on the day's learning.  I am sure you can think of many other ways to use Padlet!!

How to use Padlet.com in the classroom?  from their Blog: http://tinyurl.com/awwy5ad   Click to see more ways to use!

"Teachers often write to us about how they use Padlet to pose a simple question to their class, or to collect exit tickets at the end of the class, or, sometimes, to collect assignments or projects from students."

Purple Planet - Royalty Free Music

Most of you are probably familiar with Purple Planet - if you have searched for Free Music!!!  Just a reminder that this is one of the better free music sites for educational use.
Here are the types of music available:


Purple Planet is owned by 4 fellas from England.  They create this music and offer it to all - to share!
All they ask is that you give credit to any music you use simply by adding the website to wherever you use their music.   http://www.purple-planet.com

 

Live Minutes - Free Conferencing (Webinar)

http://liveminutes.com

LiveMinutes is a FREE service that lets you organize web meetings (webinars) to share and annotate documents with team members, students, clients, etc. You can use LiveMinutes for internal meetings, training, teaching...FREE.

First, sign up for an account - follow the tutorial when you sign in.  To get started just click "start sharing" and a meeting space is created for you. That meeting space is assigned a URL that you can share with the people you want to join you.
 

Live Minutes offers a good selection of tools that you can utilize to share ideas with others. You can talk to each other using either the Live Minutes audio or by connecting through Skype. Live Minutes offers a collaborative whiteboard for drawing. You may upload images and documents for others to see and comment. And in the future Live Minutes will allow you to share videos during your webinar.

This is a great way to quickly host a live online tutoring session with students or talk to you collegues wherever they may be. The drawing option on the whiteboard could be very handy for illustrating concepts that are difficult to type quickly on a keyboard or that lose meaning when someone is just explaining rather than showing.

Really Free Conferencing!

Hangout with your friends or colleagues, share videos (up to 9) and conference for free. Join the call with your browser, Skype or your phone directly. No long distance charges, the number is toll-free, really.

More? In the US, you can even get called by the conference on your landline or mobile directly !

Meeting is recorded : The recording of your call are saved to your reports or to your Dropbox account.