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Kaleidoscope maker for interesting new graphics
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Today we wanted to highlight more than 25 of our favorite Twitter add-ons, tools and services that won’t resist.
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For cat lovers…create your own animated cat
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ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web.
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Make screencasts / tutorials / demos / high-scores show-offs…
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The Graffiti Creator is a Flash application that allow you to make your own
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Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
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Playfish, makers of some of the most popular casual games on social networking sites, has raised $17 million in funding from Accel Partners and Index Ventures.
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mypersonalspace.com is an online social site.
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Incredibly cool and addictive little game
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Create your own avatar based upon your name
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Funky drawing program
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on line drawing program – it gives you choices of shapes or lines, choices of colour and choices of line thickness. It starts you with a basic body shape outline, but you can change this shape to whatever form you like.
links for 2008-10-28
October 28, 2008 — dougpeteLive from NACOL
October 28, 2008 — dougpeteI’m going to give Coveritlive a shot on my portable. Success TBD.
http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=b60731feec
Modern Conferencing
October 28, 2008 — dougpeteAs noted earlier, I’m at the NACOL (North American Council for Online Learning) conference. It’s a collection of 1,200 educators, administrators and vendors who share the desire to support and learn from each other issues about the deliverance of courses for students online as opposed to face to face in a classic classroom.
As with anything in technology and education, the conversations are full of unique jargon. The one that I hear over and over in the presentations is “brick and mortar” classroom. It’s a term that’s used, and not always positively, about traditional classrooms.
Above the jargon, it’s interesting to note the amount of technology that’s happening. Unlike NECC where there as a lot of back channeling using things like Coveritlive or other forms of live blogging, the majority of people are engaged in chat or catching up on their email on the laptops that they brought to the conference. I supposed it’s multi-tasking, but I’m not sure that the tasks are divided equally between the tasks and that’s a shame for the presenters. Interestingly, there are highly sought after seats in the breakout rooms…near the electricity.
I’m in a location about 4-5 km from the convention centre and there’s no shuttle so it’s a nice little hike to get there and back. There’s a huge difference between the 4 degrees I left and the 34-35 degrees that we’re enjoying here. So, I’m not about to cart a laptop that distance. That’s for consolidating my notes at night and doing report card support from a distance.
This time, though, I do have my iPod. Fortunately, there’s quality wireless throughout and so I’m able to stay connected that way. Now, after my experience with blogging on the airplane, I know that I don’t have a prayer to live blog on this thing, but…, most presenters have web sites or resources that they share during their presentation. Portable Safari is perfect for that task — a few taps later and you’re there. Throughout the presentations, little nuggets would be tossed out, and I was using Twitter to capture them. It was cool to see folks jump in and comment on those random bits.
I think back to the good old days when you recorded everything on paper and returned home to hopefully remember to follow up on the desktop computer there. It didn’t always happen. Thankfully, current technology allows one to get ever more from the content…we’ve become so reliant on immediate information gratification. It’s a skill to be acquired, to be sure, but one worth the learning.
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