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16 Jul, 2009

Scratch

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Collaborate| Fun| Games| Online Apps| Top Pick

http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important [...]

06 Jul, 2009

Gapminder –

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Data & Statistics| Online Apps| Online Database| Top Pick

http://www.gapminder.org/

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.  We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

25 Feb, 2009

Qik – share live video from your mobile phone!

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Cell Phone| Podcast/ Vodcasting| Top Pick| Video| Web 2.0

http://qik.com/
Qik enables you to share your moments live with your friends, family and the world—right from your mobile phone!
Add a new dimension to your online presence with streaming video. Become a reporter—get the scoop with backstage interviews with celebrities and experts Even better, Qik lets you share the results live on any website. Qik also [...]

20 Nov, 2008

Wordle – Artistic Word Clouds

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Fine Arts| Fun| Math| Top Pick| Web 2.0| Word Cloud| World Languages

http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle 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 [...]

25 Sep, 2008

Dim Dim – Free Web Meeting & Web Conferencing

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Interactive Whiteboard| Open Source| Podcast/ Vodcasting| Screen Cast| Top Pick| Video| Widget

 
http://www.dimdim.com/
 
With no software to download or install, Dimdim forever democratizes web- based live meetings. In seconds – right from your browser – you easily host or attend web meetings complete with audio and video conferencing, screen and application sharing. After experiencing the freedom and ease of Dimdim Web Meetings, you’ll wonder why you ever used [...]

09 Sep, 2008

Jog the Web – building paths to share with others

Posted by: Michael George - Instructional Technologist In: Top Pick| Web 2.0| World Languages

http://www.jogtheweb.com
Imagine you know all about ducks (or elephants, or anything in fact) and you have discovered a lot of cool information on the web you now want to share with all the other duck-addicts. The thing is that this information is spread out on plenty of different sites. You could of course put up [...]


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