ScreenToast

Free Online Screen Recorder    http://www.screentoaster.com/

What is ScreenToaster?

1.    To watch videos : Just click on a video to launch the player.

ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture screen activity in real-time to rapidly create and share tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.

2.    To record videos : Click on "Start recording" or "Record", start recording using the shortcuts or via the recorder.

You can add audio and an embed webcam while you are recording.
When finished, add subtitles, choose your thumbnail, describe and tag your video so other users can easily find your screencasts.

On which platform ScreenToaster is compatible?

ScreenToaster is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.

On which navigator may I use ScreenToaster?

ScreenToaster is optimized to run on Firefox 2 +, Internet Explorer 7 +, Chrome, Opera 9 and Safari.

Is ScreenToaster free?

Yes it is.

"How To" DEMO:
http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/demo/screentoaster

One True Media

ONE TRUE MEDIA

Publisher's description

From One True Media:

One True Media effortlessly combine photos and video clips with words and music to personalize your story. Quickly share with our Online Slideshow or get as creative as you want with our Video Montage. One True Media is quick and easy to use with no software downloads and immediate results.

• Price: Free
• Operating system: Webware

Features

• One touch solution for converting videos and images into stunning montages.
• Easy navigation through well-designed tabs.
• User-friendly interface and easy operability.
• Extremely simplified registration procedure.
• One can easily add luring effects, such as music, captions, etc, to make the content more presentable.

 Similar to ANIMOTO (http://www.animoto.com/), but ONE TRUE MEDIA has more features to create.

QuizSnack - Online Poll & Survey Tool

What is QuizSnack?

QuizSnack is an easy to use online poll & survey tool, allowing you to create and conduct questionnaires without having to learn complicated software. The reporting is very simple and straightforward, with results being displayed in real-time.
Using QuizSnack you can:

      - customize the looks of your poll and survey widgets
      - create polls and surveys in any language you wish
      - embed your quizzes in your website
      - store your data securely for an indefinite amount of time
      - export your data as CSV
Because of its flexibility and ease of use, QuizSnack can be used by bloggers who want to set up a web poll, those who wish to conduct an online survey, as well as social networking users who want to create a personality quiz of their own.

 

Examples

Now you can easily create online surveys, polls and personality quizzes.
Click to see a few examples.  View examples

Go premium

Use QuizSnack to create watermark-free surveys and polls and to unlock
the advanced reporting.
View features and pricing

SynchTube

What is synchtube?
http://www.synchtube.com 

SynchTube allows you to watch synchronized YouTube and Vimeo music and videos with up to 50 other people with a chat window along the side so you can IM about what’s happening. Setting up a “room” is easy.
Just enter the URL(s) of the videos you want to watch and then share the URL with your group. We can imagine tons of uses for this service, but the sweetest one has got to be setting up some videos to watch “together” with a far-away partner."

NOTE:  SYNCHTUBE DOES NOT WORK IN INTERNET EXPLORER PLEASE USE GOOGLE CHROME OR FIREFOX.

1 minute YouTube on SynchTube:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRwB59tF5M&feature=player_embedded

Use in the Classroom:  As a teacher, you could select a number of videos to watch in a playlist, have the students go the channel and either watch the entire playlist or choose from the list to watch when they get home or at another time during the day.

Tutorials:

Learn The Basics  

Discover Social Playlists

Import Playlists From YouTube

A Look At The Room Leader

SimpleBooklet - Create Your Own Booklet

Do you ever wish you could publish on the web but don't have any coding skills? Would you like to create a product brochure, an instruction manual, an invitation, a gift registry, a manual, a flyer, or even a booklet?  You can with a simplebooklet.

Just start with a blank page and add text, images, video, audio, embeddable widgets, and even files with a simple click. Then drag and resize each piece of content to create the layout you want. Once you've completed one page, make another and another. Simplebooklet.com is an easy to use drag and drop interface, and requires no technical skills.

Sign in to simplebooklet.com to access and retrieve your booklets from any computer or mobile device using your browser of choice.  Accounts are free.

When you have completed your booklet, you have a number of options to publish. You can add it to the public booklet library, email it in rich html, embed it in your website or blog, share a link to it on your social network, tweet it, print it on your printer, or just keep it private and only share a short URL with friends you want to have access.

WONDERSAY - Animate text with style!

Wondersay is a simple tool for creating animated text displays. The animated text displays you create with Wondersay can be embedded into a blog post or wiki page. To create an animated text display just type a few words then click the Wondersay This icon. If you don't like the display that is automatically generated you can customize the colors, fonts, and animation effects until you're satisfied with the display. See my animated text below.

Applications for Education
Wondersay could be a fun way to enhance the display on a multimedia project constructed on Glogster, Wikispaces, or other similar sites.

With Wondersay, you can use any simple sentence or twitter account to generate a cool animation! Wondersayings are easy to create, customise and share. No software programs to download (it's all online), no sign-up or passwords (save them by copying the link), and all for free.

Now, what you're going to wondersay is up to you! Here are some ideas that may inspire you...

·         Wondersayings can be more exciting than simple one line emails.

·         It can bring life to famous quotes.

·         You might want a better way to grab people's attention (maybe as a banner on a webpage too)!

·         It's a unique way to send a personal message.

·         For special occasions, sending wondersayings is a great idea (as well as gifts!).

·         Perhaps you'd like to embed your latest tweets on your website?

·         Or just for fun, and probably for many more reasons...

If you prefer to watch instead of make, then you can also subscribe to the best wondersayings of the day, browse the most popular and search for your favorite words.

made on Wondersay - Animate text with style

JUXIO

What is Juxio?

"Juxio is a new visual way to communicate. Individuals and businesses use Juxio to combine images, text and more into mashable, visual streams called Juxes to share across social media and in print."

How do you create Juxes?

Juxes can be created on both Web and iPhone/iPad apps - and there will be support for additional mobile devices in the future.

Signing up for Juxio is free:
1. Click on "Sign Up" in the top right hand corner of the Home Page.
2. Enter your name, email address and password in the popup screen.
Your password must include alphanumeric characters only.
Note also that you can change your password at a later date, but not your email address.

See a Tutorial:  http://www.juxio.com/beta/Help.php?page=Tutorials

How to integrate Juxio into your curriculum:

• Juxio is a fantastic online tool to use for online visual creation.  Students can mash-up text and photos to create their own Jux that can be used to organize information or display understanding. 
• Use Juxio for animal classification, vocabulary, historical time lines, changes over time, to tell a linear story, or display any information in an organized fashion. 
• Take pictures of a science experiment for students to turn into a Jux; they can start at the beginning of the experiment adding captions to each picture.  Text boxes can be added for students to type in their hypothesis at the beginning of the experiment and to add a concluding statement at the end. 
• Take pictures of a school field trip and create a Juxio to tell the story of what happened on the field trip. 
• The small area for writing makes Juxio an ideal place for creating media versions of poetry, and it would allow for teaching about how to choose a suitable image to match the tone of words.

A Jux can be created individually by students in a computer lab setting, or by a whole class using an interactive whiteboard.   After students create a Jux, they can save it as a PDF file, print it, or share it online via email, Facebook, Twitter, or url.

PRESENTATION RESOURCES ON LiveBinders

LiveBinders on Presentation Resources  Click her to see!

Here is a list of websites that students could use to make presentations - in some cases, could be alternatives to Powerpoint, keep your notes for class, organize by topic, etc.

If you haven't seen Live Binders, play around with it also!!

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web

• Collect your resources
• Organize them neatly and easily
• Present them with pride

Best of all, it's free!
There are tons of LiveBinders already created.  
Here is one on iPad in Education:   http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=26242

Video Tutorials    http://livebinders.com/?type=video

• What is LiveBinder It?
• Add a binder icon to my desktop
• Use a Flickr image as my binder cover
• Upload a file (.pdf, .jpg, .doc) to my binder
• Import delicious bookmarks into a binder
• Install the LiveBinder Bookmarklet on IE
• Install the LiveBinder Bookmarklet on Firefox
• Install the LiveBinder Bookmarklet on Safari or Google Chrome

 

 

LiveBinders are free!
You can create, share, and present as many LiveBinders as you want for free. They plan to offer this basic service for free into the future.
The free version has the following upload limitations:

• You can upload any file size up to 5 MB. (This is the size of the individual file being uploaded.)
• Total upload storage for free is 100 MB per account.

Tagxedo - Word Cloud Generator with Shapes!

Check Out Tagxedo [tag-SEE-doh]

Word Cloud Generator  

There are two things that separate Tagxedo from similar tools like Tagul, Wordle, and Word It Out.   First, as anyone can see by visiting Tagxedo, it is very easy to customize the design of your word clouds. You can select from a variety of shapes in which to display words or you can design your shape for your word cloud. You can enter text into the word cloud generator manually or simply enter a url from which Tagxedo will generate a word cloud. As with other word cloud generators you also have options for excluding words from your word clouds.

The second thing that makes Tagxedo different from its competitors is a good variety of image download options. Tagxedo gives you eighteen options for saving your word clouds as png or jpeg files.



Applications for Education  Word cloud tools like Tagxedo can be useful for visual learners who need a visual depiction of the words of emphasis in a text. You could try having students use Tagxedo as an tool in the editing of their written work. Have students paste the text of an essay they've written into Tagxedo to see how often they use particular words or phrases. The students can then reflect on why they've used a particular word so often. 



Nov. 3 - Republicans
Take House, Democrats
keep Senate



Or you could pull up their Daily Tagxedo   http://daily.tagxedo.com/  Each day a Tagxedo is created from current events, trending topics or whimsical Idea of the Day!

Dipity - Create Digital Timeline

What is Dipity? http://www.dipity.com/

What it is: Dipity is a site that makes it simple for your students to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines.
Dipity makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, students are creating timelines in “their language.”  You have to check this one out…look at a sample timeline to see how truly superior these timelines are to the traditional paper/pencil timeline.

How to integrate Dipity into the classroom:

• Create a timeline of your fieldtrip, demo in the classroom,
• Students can bring history to life by embedding relevant You Tube video into their timelines.
• Create a timeline of your day by combining Dipity with your classroom tweets from Twitter.
• Timelines can be created by students individually or as a class and posted on a class website as a study resource.

Dipity makes your classroom interactive and engaging for students. This is where real learning takes place! To introduce Dipity to your students, invite them to create a timeline of their day or their lives using Dipity (if they have a family Flickr account they can embed pictures right into their timeline).
Tips: Students can look at the content they add to Dipity in four different views:
Timeline, List View, Flipbook, and Map View (this only works if the timeline has been tagged with locations.)