My Blog Wordle

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Cool Online Tools

Next week I facilitate a workshop designed to assist Year 11 students find some useful online tools to support their learning, especially research, collaboration, organisation, study and presentation.

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There will be a very, very brief presentation and overview of each tool and then students will be free to experiment, exploring the tools of use/interest to them.

Do you mind checking out this list and suggesting some more tools?

Also, are any of the below best avoided by Year 11?

Why?

 

Here’s the list

 

Tame the web

RSS feeds: point website updates towards your reader (watch the video here)

Google Reader: is a place to read all your RSS feed (watch the video here)

Instapaper: a read later bookmarking service

Readability: remove the clutter around the webpage you’re reading

bit.ly: shorten your links

 

Sharing & Collaboration

Delicious: a social bookmarking site (watch the video here)

Diigo: another social bookmarking tool

Google Docs: collaborate on documents with peers online at home

 

Creative Commons for Images and Sound

Creative Commons (Australia): understand licenses

Flickr: the largest photo sharing site

Flickr ‘The Commons’: search the great public photographic collections

Soundzabound: royalty free music for schools

 

Organisation

mindmeister: free mindmapping tool

bubbl.us: organise brainstorms

Evernote: synch files with all your devices

Dropbox: free online storage

Livebinders: collect and share resources (here’s the video)

Netvibes: dashboard everything

 

Customise

iGoogle: customise your homepage with a variety of widgets

Wetpaint: free site where you create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks

 

Mashups

Wordle: generate word clouds

GAPMINDER: unveils the beauty of statistics while revealing trends

Newsmap.jp - a mashup of headlines that shows new patterns

 

Research & Answers

Google Alerts: keep up to date with topics of interest

Wolfram Alpha: enter what you want to calculate

Project Gutenburg (Australia): free ebooks

bibme: a free automatic bibliography generator

Noodletools: guides you through the research process

 

Memory Tools

Anki: makes it easier to study and remember (iPhone app here)

BRAINFLIPS: online flashcards

10 more Mindmapping tools: + what’s best for mindmapping anyway?

 

Presentation

Slideshare: converts your PowerPoints and other documents + saves them online to share (take the tour)

Prezi: astonishing presentations

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My TweetCloud

Over the last 3 months

Over the last 12 months

Huge 12 month Tweetcloud

Like Wordle, Tweetcloud is a great representation of what’s been on my tweeting mind.

Twitter Wordle

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Blog Wordle

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My Delicious Wordle

Delicious Wordle

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