Hanging Out Lab Play List (POT Miniconference: 8/19/2010)

Here are links to a variety of tools and toys you may wish to explore during your time in the lab today.

 

Amplify (http://amplify.com/): username: miracostapot, password: spartan

Amplify combines services like Facebook and Twitter to provide easier sharing, blogging, storing of pages and images for access anywhere.

 

Bubbl.us (http://bubbl.us/) -- no password needed, click on Start Brainstorming

Bubbl.us creates mind maps, visual images of text thoughts.

 

Diigo (http://www.diigo.com/) username: miracostapot, password: spartan

Diigo is a way to save your bookmarks on the web for yourself or your class, annotate and highlight the web pages you save, and share resources.

 

Edublogs miracostapot.edublogs.org, username: miracostapot, password: spartan

Create blogs for your classes.

Glogster (http://www.glogster.com/)

Create posters from text, images, video and music. No registration required.

 

Jing (http://www.jingproject.com/) free--must download copy to your computer

Take screen shots and make short videos for web, email, and other uses in your courses.

 

PBWorks (http://miracostapot.pbworks.com) -- username MiraCosta POT, email:miracostapot@yahoo.com, password: spartan

PB Works provides wikis for educational use. Click edit and try the wiki!

 

Prezi (http://prezi.com) -- username: miracostapot@yahoo.com, password: spartan

Prezi is presentation software that works on the web. You can edit presentations online, create paths through material instead of linear shows, zoom on images, and download your presentation with its own player. Log in and click on New Prezi -- play around!

 

Tumblr (http://miracostapot.tumblr.com): username: miracostapot@yahoo.com, password: spartan

Tumblr is like a mini-blog. It lets you post images through links, quotations, video clips, and add your own content.

Voicethread (http://voicethread.com/) username: miracostapot@yahoo.com, password: spartan

Voicethread lets you post an image or images and lead a conversation around it. Students can use phone or microphone to record their input and it appears with their photo around the central object(s). Log in and click on Create -- play around!

 

Web2pdf (http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/default.aspx): no user name necessary

Turns web pages into PDF files

 

Wordl (http://www.wordle.net/) -- no password needed

Wordl lets you input any text or webpage, and it creates a map of words with the words used most often appearing larger.

 

Zoho (http://www.zoho.com): username: miracostapot, password: spartan

Log in, choose any application and try stuff! Zoho is a complete online office suite, including spreadsheets, presentations with slides, notebook with drag-and-drop images, email and more.

 

Comments

[Linda Hargrove]

Thank you for all the suggestions. I enjoyed seeing what many of the sites were. I really liked the Prezi on math not being linear. I felt it was more engaging than a Power Point presentation. I felt like I was playing, yet also learning!