November 2008
JISC RSC Scotland N&E: AccessApps
by knann (via)50 open source and freeware assistive technology applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows compute
October 2008
Tech-Ease: Quick Answers to Real Classroom Technology Questions
by knann (via)Great resource for teachers to get quick answers technology questions
September 2008
August 2008
June 2008
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
by knann & 20 othersWordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
June 2007
dotSUB.com ~ Any film in any language.
by knannAdd captioning to any video!--including other languages.....Lots of educational uses!
Gizmoz / The world of animated Talking Heads
by knann & 14 others (via)Create a talking character from your own photo! I can think of lots of uses for the classroom. How about you?!! Copy and paste this link to your browser to see the best clip yet:
http://www.gizmoz.com/video/55761_world_cup_joy
January 2007
How Products Are Made
by knann & 4 othersHow Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.
Online Tools For Schools
by knann & 1 other (via)The Office of School Services in the College of Education operates as a clearinghouse for Web-based and other educational technology projects. Online Tools for Schools provides an entry to our Internet-based materials for K-16 education.
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