New Twitter Resources Added

Added to the Twitter page:

• A new video from Common Craft that explains Twitter Search in plain English.
  
  
• Twitter Apps - A nice collection of free web applications that you can use to enhance your Twitter experience.
  
  
• Top 5 ways to share videos with Twitter - Jennifer Van Grove outlines five ways in which you share online video via Twitter.
  
  

• Jane Hart's guide to getting started with Twitter.

• TwitDoc - Share files easily via Twitter.

• Polleverywhere - Conduct real time polls with your class which they can respond to by mobile phone text message or Twitter - the results are then shown live in a web browser or as part of your powerpoint slide.

Cheers!

Paul.

You can follow my team on Twitter...

Hello!

Just a little e-mail to let you know that I've set up a Twitter account for my day job so that you can follow what I and my colleagues are up to re: e-learning & ILT if you want to.

You can follow us here:

https://twitter.com/SHSSTELLS

And you can learn more about the team itself here:

http://hss.newport.ac.uk/displayPage.aspx?object_id=9863&parent_id=9862&type=PAG

Many thanks!

Paul.

New Plagiarism Detection resources added

Hello!

Some more free Plagiarism Detection tools have been added to the site:

Online Scanners

• http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
• http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/
• http://www.doccop.com
• http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/
  

Downloadable Scanners

• http://www.scanmyessay.com/
  Scans all documents in a directory on your local machine.
  
  
• http://www.plagiarism.tk/
  Scans a group of documents to see if plagiarism has occurred between them.
  
  
• Plagiarisdetect Word 2007 plugin
  Scan documents from within Microsoft Word.

Credit goes to Sebastian Donner for writing this excellent article showcasing all of the above tools.

Cheers!

Paul.

A new Plagiarism Detection page & another free tool for splitting up PDF files.

New page added: Plagiarism Detection

Presently this new page has a link to http://www.plagium.com, a free online service that teachers can use to see if students are trying to pass off other peoples work (that's available online) as their own.

Added to the PDF Tools page:

• PDFTK Builder
  
  Free Downloadable software that you can use to extract pages from a PDF, collate them and save the result as a new PDF file.
  
  You can watch a tutorial video on how to use PDFTK Builder by clicking here.

PDF Hammer, Prezi & Stupeflix all added to the site.

Hello!

Some more nice tools the you may find helpful have been added to the site.

Added to the PDF Tools page:

• PDFHammer - This site lets you split up PDF files and the save the result as a new PDF file.

Added to the Presentation tools page

• Prezi - This is a great site that lets you create interactive 'zooming' presentations, you need to see one for yourself to appreciate it.
  
  Click here to view an example Prezi presentation.
  
  My thanks go to Helen Hodges from RSC Wales for pointing Prezi out to me!
  

Added to the Video Editing & Creation page:

• Stupeflix - Similar to Animoto, this site lets you upload images, videos, mp3s and text to then create a professional looking video.

Cheers!

Paul.

3 new free image resources & a new way to link to specific parts of YouTube videos

Added to the YouTube Tools page:

• Tubechop - Similar to the previously added Splicd and YouTubetime, this site lets you create a link to a specific part of a Youtube video, so students don't need to watch the whole thing in order to get to the bit you want them to see.

Added to the Royalty Free Images page:

• Yahoo Creative Commons Image Search - By using the creative commons filter built into Yahoo's image search you can find royalty free images that you can make use of for free.
  
  You can jump straight to the Yahoo Image Search itself by clicking here.
  
  
• Iconza - This is a nice site that lets you customise a set of icons for use with your MLE or school blog.
  
  
• Free Vector Download - This site lets you download royalty free vector images.

Online guides for Twitter, Delicious & Jing

Added to the Twitter page:

• "Mastering Twitter" by Chris Dementrious - A nice PDF manual that shows people how to setup and use Twitter.
  
  
• Top 7 Twitter Tutorials - A collection of videos & links put together by Ben Parr that show you how to get the most out of Twitter.

Added to the Screen grabbing & recording page:

• A PDF Manual for Jing

Added to the Delicious.com page:

• A written guide on how to use Delicious like a pro