What's new on "Paul's E-learning Resources"

Moving blogs!

2010-11-10T20:15:00.003Z

Hello!

I'm moving the updates blog into the main website itself so this blog will no longer be updated.

I've updated the Feedburner subscriptions to point to the new blog, so if you are subscribed via Email you should continue to get the new updates without having to do anything.

You can also get updates via Facebook & Twitter if you like, the links to do that are all on the "Stay Updated" page.

Cheers!

Paul.

A mobile blogging tool, some comic strip makers & how to force publicly shared Dropbox files to download, rather than just open in the web browser.

2010-10-26T13:24:00.014+01:00

Added to ipod/iphone resources:

Tumblr - another mobile blogging platform similar to Posterous

Thanks to Enzo Rossi for the tip!

New page added: Comic Strip Generators:

On this page you'll find free resources that let you and your students create comic strips.

Added to the Dropbox page:

Make Dropbox Public Links Download Files Instead of Viewing Them In-Browser

Don't forget that you can now listen to & subscribe to my podcasts by clicking here.

That's all for today!

Cheers!

Paul.

E-portfolios & using the iPod to blog and broadcast audio & video AND a new site podcast!

2010-10-20T13:24:00.012+01:00

New section added: e-portfolios

I've finally added an e-portfolio page to the site, originally I left it off because I couldn't find a solution that met my needs, i.e. a free open source scalable soloution that allows students to create and manage their own online portfolios easily.

However,I recently came across the Googlios project and it's exactly what was looking for so I've added it to the site.

Added to ipod touch page:

Justin.tv - Stream live video from your ipod touch to the web.
Twitcasting - Stream live video or audio from your ipod touch to the web.
Audioboo - Create podcasts from your ipod.
Posterous - Create a blog and post to it via the ipod.

Finally I've decided to start using Audio Boo to create little podcasts that, I hope, will provide give a little bit more of an insight into why certain websites and resources have been added to my website & also explain how I hope to use them with staff and/or students.

You can subscribe to the podcasts here: http://audioboo.fm/Pauls_elearning

That's all for today!

Cheers!

Paul.

An online podcast maker, a tool to annotate web pages & 2 more Moodle resources

2010-10-14T10:18:00.007+01:00

Added to the Sound Recording page:

Voisse - This is a free site that lets students create their own recordings either via their computer or by phone and then share those recordings with you. Very handy for audio journals!

Added to web page annotation:

Markup.io - This installs a neat little bookmarklet into your web browser that you can click on at any time to start annotating whatever web page you are on at the time. Your annotated page is then given a unique URL which can be shared with students so they can view your notes.

Added to the Moodle page

Moodle tutorials by educators for educators - A collection of tutorials on moodle.org written by the Moodle community.

Creating the perfect Moodle course by Mark Drechsler - A nice presentation that gives tutors some hints and tips on how they can make their Moodle courses better.

Right click a file to send it to your dropbox, 3 new sites for free sound effects & music and hold meetings online with join.me

2010-09-16T16:11:00.010+01:00

Added to the Dropbox page.

Droppub - Send any file to your public Dropbox folder & copy the resulting URL to your computers memory, ready for pasting.

Added to the Sounds Effects & Music page:

Soungle - A Royalty free sound effects & music search engine.
Jewelbeat - Website offering free effects & music.
FreeSFX - A uk based side where you can download lots of free sound effects.

Added to the Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing page:

Join.me - Best used when you need to run "live" computer training to many people who can't actually be in the same room as you.

Create your own 3D animated movies, a video showing how staff and students can make use of Twitter & more Moodle training resources.

2010-09-07T14:54:00.006+01:00

Added to the Twitter page:

Video: The Twitter Experiment - UT Dallas

Added to the Moodle page:

MyMoodle Books - A collection of HTML books providing staff training on using moodle.

Added to the Video Editing & Creation page:

Muvizu - This lets you make 3D animated movies, it's well worth a look!

Cheers!

Paul.

Twitter for ipad, ipod touch resource page added & allow students to upload files into your Dropbox.

2010-09-05T07:37:00.010+01:00

Added to the ipad resources page:

Twitter - Access multiple Twitter accounts from your ipad.

New page added:

ipod touch & iphone Resources

Added to the Dropbox page:

AirDropper - Lets you securely request files from anyone and have them be uploaded straight to your dropbox

A new mind mapper, a free image editor, teacher training videos & email files straight to your Dropbox.

2010-07-31T13:14:00.007+01:00

Added to the Mind Mapping page:

Spicynodes - This is a nice system that lets you create mind maps that your students can use to explore the other content you've uploaded to your VLE or website.

Added to the Image Editing page:

Cloud Canvas - A new HTML5 based image editor that integrates with Google docs - worth a look!

Added to the Further Reading page:

Learn It In 5 - "...a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom."

Added to the online file storage page:

Send to Dropbox - A free service that lets you email files to your dropbox.

That's all for now!

Cheers.

Paul.

Essentials list updated & some more free ipad apps added

2010-07-21T23:07:00.004+01:00

Hello!

I've updated the "Essentials" page, removing some old resources that I no longer use and updating it with those that I do.

You can see the complete list here.

Added to the ipad resources page

Team Viewer - This is a great app that lets you control a computer from your ipad.

Pocket MV - Allows you to login to Second Life and communicate with others who are online.

That's all for now!

Cheers.

Paul.

5 new resources for you...

2010-07-14T13:05:00.005+01:00

Added to further reading:

Web Tools Applied to Teaching

Added to Diagramming Software:

Diagram Designer - This is a bit of software that you can download and install onto your computer.

Added to Digital Publishing:

Zine Cube | Similar to Wobook, you can embed videos into your books.

Added to the Twitter page:

Twitter 101 - An Introduction for Students

Added to word/tag cloud makers:

Answer Garden - Lets you ask students a questions and then turns their answers into a tag cloud. Very nice!

Office 2007 training videos, a new game maker & a nice PDF editor to boot!

2010-07-07T14:15:00.004+01:00

Added to the MS Office 2007 guide page:

Haylau ICT Training - Lots of training videos covering Word, Excel, Access & Powerpoint.

Added to the Game Creation page:

Construct - This is similar to Game Maker but it's totally free, has a nicer interface and can produce some really great results - well worth a look!

Added to the PDF Tools page:

Nitro PDF - This is a great free bit of software that acts like a PDF swiss army knife.

Cheers!

Paul.

A new collection of customisable edu-games, send files to dropbox via email and a new page on free educational iPad apps!

2010-06-29T13:24:00.006+01:00

Added to the game creation page:

Classtools.net - A collection of flash games that can be customised by teachers and then embedded intoa website, blog or MLE.

Added to the online storage page:

Habilis - This website lets you email files straight to your dropbox

And finally a new pager has been added to the site: iPad resources, click here to check it out.

Cheers!

Paul.

E-learning conference for all teachers at all levels | Can you help me pick a date?

2010-06-29T09:27:00.003+01:00

Hello!

As part of my day job I'm planning an e-learning conference for next year.

It's going to be open to all teachers at all levels of the education system and so I want to hold it on a day that is most convenient for teachers to attend.

I was wondering if you could spare 2 minutes to fill in a very short on-line form to indicate which day would be best for the conference to be held on.

You can access the form here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/tells-conference-2011

Please note: By filling this form in you are not committing yourself to attending or anything like that, I just want to get a feel for which days/months are best for teachers to attend conferences.

Thanks for reading!

Paul.

Record and edit Skype video chats, a large collection of ready made edu-games & a new accessibility toolbar for web browsers added.

2010-06-18T10:56:00.004+01:00

Added to the Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing page:

http://www.vodburner.com/ - Record and edit video chats held within Skype.

Added to the Game Creation page:

Play & Learn - A large collection of educational games all sorted by subject.

Added to the Accessibility page:

JISC Techdis Toolbar - A free toolbar that students can install to thier web browser to customise the way web pages look, it also has an inbuilt text to speech system!

TimeLine Creation links added along with a teacher's guide to Facebook and 2 new sound editing resources.

2010-06-16T09:40:00.008+01:00

Hello.

A new page has beed added to the site: Time Line Makers.

Click here to view it.

Also the following resources have been added to:

The Facebook page:

A Teachers Guide to Using Facebook

The Sound Recording & Editing page:

Cheers!

Paul.

A new guide to creating a personal learning network (PLN) using Twitter & some new tools for creating private chat channels via Twitter & Facebook.

2010-06-10T13:56:00.004+01:00

Added to the Twitter page:

Using Twitter to develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN)

Two resources for creating 'private' Twitter channels for your students:

HootCourse
Twiducate

Added to the Facebook page:

HootCourse - it's been added twice as it accepts logins from both Twitter & Facebook.

Cheers!

Paul.

Try Google Docs for free and two great new software collections from RSC Scotland North & East!

2010-06-09T12:27:00.005+01:00

Added to the Google Docs page:

Google Docs Demo - Try Google Docs without having to first create a Google Account

Added to the Research Tools page:

My Study Bar - A collection of free tools from RSC Scotland North & East which can help overcome problems that students commonly experience with studying, reading and writing.

Added to the Accessibility tools page:

MyVisBar - Another collection of software, this time for students with visual difficulties.

Cheers!

Paul.

Research Tools added to site along with a "Donate" button.

2010-06-07T15:59:00.003+01:00

Hello!

I've added a new page to the site that contains links ot free resources that you and your students can make use of to help with online research.

You can view the new page here: http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/research-tools

Also, I've added a new "Dontate" page that allows people to contribute to the upkeep of the site, you can access it here:

http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/Home/dontate

Cheers!

Paul.

Moodle guides & Google Wave video added

2010-05-24T13:01:00.003+01:00

Added to the Moodle page:

Moodle Tools Guide for Teachers - A fab 1 sheet printable guide outlining how all of Moodle's tools can be used.
List of shared courses - Here you can download 100 shared moodle courses which you can then upload onto your own moodle site.

Added to the GoogleWave page:

Waving in groups.

Lots of further reading for you & a nice presentation on creating game like engagement for learning.

2010-05-12T09:57:00.004+01:00

Added to the "Further Reading" page:

Added to the "Game Creation" page:

Creating Game-like Engagement for Learning by Julie Dirksen

That's all for today!

Cheers!

Paul.

2 more Twitter visualisation tools & a new "Remote desktop" page added.

2010-05-07T12:11:00.008+01:00

Hello - some more updates for you:

Added to the Twitter page:

Twitter Wall & Revisit - Two new tools for visualising tweets.

New section added: Remote Desktop Tools

Have you ever left a file on your home computer and needed access to it whilst in work?

The software listed on this page lets you control your home computer "remotely" via a web browser on another computer, allowing you to opertate it as if you were sat in front of it at home.

Click here to access the new page.

Cheers!

Paul.

Turn PowerPoints into flash, a new mind mapping tool and make websites easier to read.

2010-05-06T21:52:00.006+01:00

Hello!

3 more resources have been added to the site.

Added to the presentation tools page:

iSpring Free - This is a great free add on to PowerPoint that lets you save your presentations as web ready flash files. If you want to embed your presentations into your VLE or blog then this is well worth a look.

Added to the Mind Mapping Tools page:

Think - Allows you to create "chunky" mind maps, worth a look!

Added to the Accessibility page:

Readability - This website allows you to strip away the fancy formatting of any webpage and make the text easier to read and/or print.

Cheers!

Paul.

Facebook for learning, a digital collage maker and free moodle hosting

2010-04-23T12:30:00.006+01:00

Hello!

3 more resources for you!

Added to the Facebook (Social Learning) page:

Slideshare: Facebook for learning?

Added to the digital scrapbook & collage page:

Glogster - An web application that lets you and your students make digital collages.

Added to the Moodle page:

Key To School - On this site you can set up your own Moodle server for free!

Cheers!

Paul.

Ustream.tv added to Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing

2010-04-17T13:05:00.002+01:00

Hi all.

Just a quick update to let you know that I've added Ustream.tv to the Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing page.

Ustream is a free website that lets you broadcast a live video stream of your webcam, or any piece of software that's running on your computer coupled with audio from a mic that you may have plugged in. Viewers can then watch the video stream on a normal web page and are even given a chat room to ask you questions in.

It's brilliant!

I'm going to be using it for lots of different things in my day job, such as streaming training sessions for people who can't physically be in the same room as me, technical support and a live office webcam... actually the office cam is already up and running, you can view it here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/tells-webcam

Cheers!

Paul.

Free stock footage, a search story maker, more free documentaries and an updated further reading page!

2010-04-16T12:29:00.008+01:00

Hello!

Some more updates for you today:

Added to Video Editing & creation:

Added to Educational video Sites:

Documentary heaven

And finally the further reading page has been updated, it now includes links to websites offering lots of e-learning teacher training resources, oh and a small music video with my e-learning anthem... ;)

Click here to view the updated further Reading page.

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

Paul.

More royalty free music & fx, a collection of PowerPoint games & some great lesson plan ideas.

2010-04-15T11:50:00.005+01:00

Hello!

Some more updates for you:

Added to further reading:

Added to Royalty free effects & music:

Added to game creation:

Parade of games in powerpoint - Customisable powerpoint games.

That’s all for now!

Cheers!

Paul.

Lots of interesting ways that you can use e-learning resources & a new music site added.

2010-04-09T18:36:00.010+01:00

Hello!

I've added a series of excellent presentations by Tom Barrett which provide examples of how you can make use of some of the resources listed on the site within the classroom.

You can view the complete collection here.

The pages which have had the presentations added into them are listed below

Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing
Sound Recording & Editing
Sound Effects & Music
Collaborative Whiteboards
Google Wave
Wikis
Twitter
Word/Tag cloud makers
Google Docs
Presentation tools

And finally I've updated the following page:

Added to Sound Effects & Music

Grooveshark - This site lets you search for songs and then provides you with a web address (URL) that you can link to from any document or embed them via it's own custom widget straight into your web page or VLE.
Cheers!

Paul.

A new word cloud maker, an easy way to create online photo slideshows and a searchable bank of free to use clipart.

2010-04-08T23:52:00.005+01:00

Hello!

3 more resources have been added to the site:

Added to Word/Tag Cloud makers:

Tagxedo - Another word cloud maker, this one has lots of nice shape templates that you can map you words to.

Added to Video Editing & Creation:

FotoBabble - This is an easy to use site that lets you upload photos into a slide show and then record your voice talking about them. It then combines the two to make an online movie.

Added to Royalty Free Images:

Open Clip Art - A searchable bank of free to use clip art.

Cheers!

Paul.

New Page Added: Using Facebook for Social Learning

2010-04-07T23:45:00.002+01:00

Hello!

I've added a new page to the website, it contains links to resources that will show you how you can use Facebook to enhance teaching and learning.

You can access it here: http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/facebook

Cheers!

Paul.

100's of teaching ideas, an online PDF merger/splitter and a new collaborative whiteboard.

2010-04-05T17:57:00.007+01:00

Hello!

3 more resources have been added to the site:

Added to the Further Reading page:

Web 2.0 Teaching Ideas (mind map)

Added to PDF tools:

I Love PDF | An online tool for splitting and merging PDF files

Added to the Collaborative Whiteboard page:

Board800 | Create an online drawing pad which students can contribute to.

That's all for today, don't forget you can get updates via Twitter and/or Facebook if you wish - Click here to see how.

Cheers!

Paul.

2 new game creation resources & a "Further Reading" section added.

2010-04-03T13:52:00.002+01:00

Hello!

I've got some more updates for you:

Added to the Game Creation page:

New page created: Further reading

On this page you'll find links to free online publications, reports, blog posts etc that can give you some ideas of how you might make use of some of the resources listed on this site. Presently there's only one link on there, "The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects book" (pdf) but it's well worth a look!

That's all for now!

Cheers.

Paul.

Get updates via Facebook

2010-04-01T16:12:00.002+01:00

Hello!

You can now get updates via Facebook if you wish via the new Facebook page I've set up here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pauls-E-learning-Resources/105265782845932?ref=ts&v=wall

Thanks for reading!

Paul.

Get site updates via Twitter & Second Life Resources mini site shut down.

2010-03-31T18:25:00.001+01:00

Hello!

I've (finally) gotten round to adding a Twitter account for the website so if you'd rather get news & updates via Twitter then you can do so by following me here:

http://twitter.com/Pauls_elearning

Also after 2 years I have decided to shut down the Second Life resources mini site as the new version of Second Life that's coming out will make most of the information on the mini site obsolete and it wasn't getting enough traffic to justify a revamp.

However, you'll still be able to see what I'm up to in Second Life by visiting my work site here:

http://sites.google.com/site/secondlifeuwnshss/

Cheers!

Paul.

The BIG Easter update - A new game creation section and lots of new tools!

2010-03-29T18:21:00.030+01:00

Hello!

For reasons that I won't bore you with it's been a while since I've been in a position to update the website.

So over the Easter break I've added added all the nice websites & bits of software that I've come across over the last few months but were unable to add to the site at the time.

As there are a lot of updates, I'll just post the pages that have been updated and then provide a list of all the things that have been added to that specific page.

So take a deep breath...

NEW PAGE ADDED: Game Creation

On this page you'll find links to websites and free bits of software that allow you and your students to create video games, which can be educational - or not!

UPDATED PAGES:

PDF Tools
http://www.pdfmyurl.com/, https://www.fillanypdf.com/ & PDF Split and Merge added.
Presentation tools
http://www.slidefinder.net/ & PPTPlex added
DVD Tools
http://www.dvdstyler.de/
Sound Effects & Music
http://www.soundjay.com/ & http://soundbible.com/ both added.
Diagramming Software
http://www.slickplan.com/ & http://cacoo.com/ both added.
Collaborative Whiteboards
http://typewith.me/ & http://woobiuseye.com both added.
Google Wave
Real world use case studies
Video Conferencing
http://www.tokbox.com/
Ready made online videos
http://www.snagfilms.com &
Mindmaps
http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm
Screen Grabbing & Recording
http://screenr.com/
OCR Software
http://www.simpleocr.com/ & http://www.onlineocr.net/ added.
Video Editing & Creation
http://www.masher.com/

That's all for now!

Cheers.

Paul.

Create PDF handouts for YouTube Videos & 2 more video resource sites added

2010-02-06T15:06:00.006Z

Hello!

Today's updates are all video related, I hope you find them helpful.

Cheers!

Paul.

Added to the YouTube Tools page:

Vidinotes - This site lets you create printable PDF handouts that can contains up to 30 images from a YouTube video so you can hi-light key points of interest for your students.

Added to the Ready Made Videos page:

Free Documentaries - This amazing site let you watch a wide variety of documentaries online, for free.
Pupil Tube - This site gathers educational videos from all over the internet and puts them into helpful categories for you to browse or search through.

New Google Wave resources & a link to the "Ultimate Plagiarism Resource" added

2010-02-01T20:35:00.003Z

Added to the Google Wave page:

Added to the Plagiarism Detection page:

The Ultimate Plagiarism Resource: Detecting Plagiarism & Preventing It

On site workshops now available.

2010-01-21T20:34:00.001Z

Hello!

Just a quick message to let you know that I’m now offering e-learning workshops to educational organisations & businesses as part of my day job.

You can learn more here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/e-learning-workshops

Thanks for reading!

Paul.

A Password Manager, Unlocking PDF files & a new screen grabbing tool.

2010-01-15T13:19:00.007Z

Hello!

A Password Manager page has been added to the site, at the moment it contains details about KeePass a brilliant free application that lets you securely store all of your passwords in one place.

Click here to go to the Password Manager Page.

Added to the PDF Tools page:

Sometimes you'll have a PDF which limits what you can do with it, such as not letting you print it out or preventing you from copying chunks of text from it.

FreeMyPDF can remove such restrictions form a PDF file.

Click here to visit FreeMyPDF..com

Added to the Scren grabbing & recording page:

ScreenPresso

Another nice screen capture tools with several unique features, worth a look.

Cooliris & Academic Posters

2009-12-03T14:59:00.008Z

Hello!

I've added a new page to the website:

Academic Poster Guides & Templates - Click here to view it.

The Cooliris page has been updated, it now contains updated links on:

That's all for today!

Cheers.

Paul.

Tweet bubbles, Flock Draw, two new tag cloud makers & an updated guide to embedding HD YouTube videos.

2009-12-03T13:32:00.008Z

Added to the Twitter Visualisations section:

Tweet bubbles
Tweet Cloud

Added to the Collaborative Whiteboards page:

Flock Draw - An easy to use collaborative drawing tool.

Added to the Tag Cloud page:

Tweet Clouds - This lets you make word clouds based upon your Twitter updates.
URL Tag Cloud Maker - This site generates tag clouds based upon the contents of a web page.

Updated on the YouTube tools page:

How to embed high quality YouTube videos

Cheers!

Paul.

Google Wave, new PC Care tools and Digital Scrapbooks & Collages all added.

2009-11-25T17:04:00.009Z

Hello!

Two new pages have been added to the site, please click on each of the links below to learn more:

Also I've updated the PC Care page with the following links:

Updated list of Lifehacker's top 5 antivirus applications
Microsoft's Security Essentials
Device Doctor - Scan and update your windows drivers

That's all for today!

Cheers.

Paul.

New Page Added: Word/Tag Cloud Makers & Run multiple Drop boxes on one machine

2009-11-13T23:02:00.006Z

Hello!

I've added a new page to the site which lists sites that let you create word/tag clouds.

Click here to visit the Word/Tag Cloud maker page.

Also I've added a link to a guide that shows you how to run multiple dropbox folders one one machine:

Click here to access the Dropbox page.

Cheers!

Paul.

A power management tool for laptops & net books, more Moodle resources & 2 new countdown timers.

2009-11-05T23:37:00.005Z

Added to the PC Care page:

If you have a laptop then you might be familiar with the concept of "Power Plans", these dictate how much power your laptop consumes and you can changed them depending on whether or not your laptop is plugged into the mains or not.

On my machines I use Aerofoil to automatically disable power hungry settings on my machines when they are just running off the battery, when the machines are plugged back into the mains then Aerofoil re-enables these settings so that my machines are always running at optimal settings.

Click here to learn more about & download Aerofoil

Added to the Moodle page:

LearnOnline | University of Canberra - This is a great collection of tips, tricks and tutorials for educators wanting to get the best out of Moodle.

Added to the Countdown Timers page:

E.gg Timer
Online Stopwatch

That's all for today.

Thanks for reading!

Cheers.

Paul.

Office 2007 cheat Sheets, Easy linking to PDF files & 2 nice PowerPoint add-ins

2009-09-21T19:00:00.001+01:00

Added to Microsoft Office 2007 Guides page:

Printable "Cheat Sheets".

Custom guide has released printable PDF guides for many popular applications, inclusing Office 2007 - you can access them all here:

>> Click here to download the printable guides <<

Added to the PDF Tools page:

Embed or Link to PDFs easily

If you want someone else to read a PDF easily then you can upload it to Google Docs so they can read it on any piece of on-line enabled hardware, without having to have a PDF reader installed.

If the PDF is already hosted online somewhere else then you can use Google's Embeddable Document viewer to allow your recipient(s) to view the PDF document online easily. This also works with Power Points presentations that have been uploaded somewhere!

>> Click here to learn more about Google's Embeddable Document Viewer <<

Added to the Presentation Tools page:

YouTube Video Add In - Similar to Authorstream this lets you insert YouTube videos into Powerpoint slides, this one is useful to use if you already know the URL of the video you want to use.

If you want to search for a video withough leaving Powerpoint, then use AuthorStream.

LiveWeb - Another free Powerpoint add-in, this one lets you insert a live webpage into a powerpoint slide.

On-line sound & video editors plus a guide to getting more out of Dropbox

2009-09-20T20:49:00.000+01:00

Added to the Sound Recording & Editing page:

Myna - a free on-line audio recorder and editor.

Added to the Online file storage page:

Lifehacker's guide to doing more with Dropbox

Added to the Video Editing & Creation page:

Pixorial - This site has free & paid for plans. It lets you upload up to 10 gigs worth of video for free and then edit it using their online video editor - worth a look.

New diagramming software, url shorteners & new tutorials for Mind 42 & Jing

2009-09-10T22:21:00.006+01:00

Hello!

I’ve added some more resources to the site, I hope you find them useful.

Added to the Diagramming software page

Creately - A nice free online chart & diagram maker, with this site you can make unlimited diagrams for free as long as you are happy for them to be publicly viewable.

Added to the mind mapping page

An series of tutorial videos on how to use Mind 42:

http://stmarycommunityschool.wikispaces.com/Mind42+Tutorial+Page

Added to the Jing page

A new guide to getting started with Jing:

http://content.screencast.com/users/jinghelpcenter/folders/pdf/media/c37e4f4c-bdb5-4647-9c50-14bf0385511a/jing-welcome%20guide.pdf

Added to the url shortener page

Bit.ly - Currently the world's most popular URL shortener, it also lets you define custom short URLs and so is my top pick.
J.mp - Powered by Bit.ly, this gives you even shorter URLs than it's bigger brother.

My thanks go to Salman Usman the Academic E-learning Developer at Kingston University London for contacting me to suggest I add Bit.ly to my site - thanks Salman!

My team’s new website & blog

2009-09-07T23:43:00.001+01:00

Hello.

This post isn't about an update to my resources site, but to let you know that the e-learning team that I’m part of has launched a new website & accompanying blog outlining it’s services to staff, students and external clients (i.e. you!).

If you are interested you can check out the site here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/

And if you’d like to subscribe to the latest news from the team via RSS, email or Twitter then you can do that here:

http://sites.google.com/site/uwnshsstells/stay-updated

Announcement over, normal business will resume shortly.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Paul.

Print out documents as PDF files, create collaborative note walls & make free online webinars.

2009-08-31T14:34:00.004+01:00

Hello!

3 more updates for you today:

Added to the PDF Tools page:

PDF Creator

Another tool that does the same job as Cute PDF & PDF Forge - this is the one I use on a daily basis.

Added to the collaborative whiteboard page:

Wallwisher - This lets you create an online notice board that students can leave messages on as virtual "post-it" notes.

The notes can include images and movies as well as text and once a message has been posted it can be moved around the board easily - well worth a look!

Added to the presentation tools page:

Zentation - This is a nifty website that lets you synchronise powerpoint slides with youtube videos to create free on demand webinars.

Using this site you can video a lesson or lecture and then combine it with the powerpoint that was used during the session so that students can experience the lesson again any time they like.

Cheers!

Paul.

More guides & support for using Delicious, Google Reader & Skype

2009-08-20T11:36:00.009+01:00

Added to the Delicious page:

A video showing teachers & students how they can get the most out of Delicious.

Added to the Google Reader page:

“How to use Google Reader

There is an excellent series of video tutorials at e-how.com that show you how to get started and then get the most of Google Reader - Click here to access them.”

Added to the Skype page:

A nice new video explaining what Skype is and what it offers:

That’s all for today!

Cheers.

Paul.

New Second Life Resources

2009-08-16T22:14:00.015+01:00

Hello!

I've added some new resources to my Second Life Resources mini site:

Added to 'Further Reading' page on the Second Life Mini Site

UWN School of Health & Social Sciences' Introduction to Second Life - A free on-line guide I put together for colleagues and students who are new to Second Life.

Second Life for educators - A great online presentation created by Dr Ashley Tan of the National Institute of Education, Singapore for the purposes of introducing Second Life to teachers.

Education Case Studies - A collection of case studies showcased by Linden Labs on how Second Life is being used to enhance education all over the world.

Added to the 'Essentals' page on the Second Life Mini Site: Run Second Life in "Text only" mode.

If you have trouble running the main Second Life viewer you can visit Ajaxlife .net or try downloading and installing Metabolt, both are "text only" Second Life clients - especially useful for students who do not have PCs or Macs powerful enough to run the main Second Life client.

Ajaxlife will run from a web browser where as Metabolt needs to be downloaded and installed before you can use it.

That's all for today.

Thanks for reading!

Paul.

Jing added to the "Essentials" page, Dropbox added to online file storage & a new JISC guide to teaching in Second Life

2009-08-09T03:00:00.004+01:00

Hello!

Some more updates for you.

Jing Added to the "Essentials" list

After using Jing almost everyday for over a year I've decided to move it onto the "Essentials" list on the site. for those of you who don't know, the essentials list contains the websites & software that I believe every teacher should be aware of.

Click here to view the whole "essentials" list.

Dropbox added to the "Online File Storage" page

I must thank both @Pixelcult and @evanrichards for letting me know just how useful Dropbox is - thanks guys!

Dropbox gives you 2 gigs worth of free online storage which should be more than enough for most people (although you can purchase more via one of their paid plans).

The nice thing about Dropbox is that it works on Windows, Linux & Mac systems and integrates itself seamlessly into your desktop - making it really easy and intuitive to use.

Click here to get a Dropbox of your own

Added to the "Further Reading" page of the Second Life mini site:

JISC's "Getting Started in Second Life" - A guide written by university lecturers for university lecturers explaining how they can enhance their students learning by making use of Second Life.

My thanks go to Helen Hodges at RSC Wales for letting me know about this guide via the RSC Wales Teaching & Learning blog - Thanks Helen!

That's all for today.

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

Paul.

Lots of new updates added!

2009-07-28T19:00:00.000+01:00

Hello!

Lots of new updates for you today – I hope you find them useful:

Added to the Twitter Page:

100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics
TwitCam - This free service lets you broadcast live streaming video, all you need is a webcam and a Twitter account.

Added to the image editing page

Pho.to - This site has many free options and services that you can make use of to edit, enhance and present images.
I especially like the 3D gallery maker.

Added to the Moodle page:

A new video that you can show to people to explain what Moodle is and how it can benefit both students & teachers - Click here to watch it.

Added to the accessibility page under Text To Speech:

Added to the PDF Tools page:

Smart Soft PDF to word converter - This is a bit of free software that you can download, it does exactly the same thing as the website mentioned above.

Added to Screen Grabbing & Recording page:

Screen Jelly - Another "one button" website that lets you record your screen just by clicking one button.

That’s all for today!

Cheers!

Paul

Embed videos into PowerPoint's easily, make scanned text editable (OCR) & an improved navigation system added.

2009-07-27T13:11:00.008+01:00

Added to the Presentation Tools

Author Stream - This is a free add on that lets you quickly and easily insert YouTube videos into any PowerPoint.

New Site Features:

Expanding navigation system added - following an update to Google sites I've added in the new collapsible navigation menu to the site, this lets you access "sub" pages quickly and easily by clicking on the little grey triangles that indicate a topic can be expanded.

eg:

Click the image above to enlarge it
New page added: Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

On this page you will find links to websites and resources that let you convert scanned text into editable text.

GDocsBackup added to the Google Docs page

2009-07-14T17:26:00.002+01:00

Hello!

One update for you today, but it's really helpful re: Google Docs.

One of the main concerns that people have re: Google Docs is that they won't be able to access their work if they cannot connect to the internet.

GDocBackup solves this issue.

By using this free utility you can download all of your Google docs as Microsoft Office files to your local machine any time you like.

You can learn more about it & download it for free by clicking here.

Cheers!

Paul.

Twitter guide book, ways to visualise Tweets, Google’s Royalty free image search & a free local phone number that calls your Skype account

2009-07-06T09:00:00.000+01:00

Added to the Twitter page:

Mashable's Twitter Guide Book: http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Twitter Visualisations example using Visible Tweets & a link to 6 more visualisation tools.

Added to the Royalty Free Images page:

Google Picassa Creative Commons Image Search - Similar to the Yahoo search above, this one uses Google's search engine to find royalty free images that you can use.

You can jump straight to the Picassa Image search by clicking here.

Added to the Video and Audio conferencing page:

Ring 2 Skype - this lets you set up a local rate phone number that people can dial using a normal telephone and then talk to you and your students in the classroom/lecture theatre your computer via Skype.

That's all for today!

Cheers.

Paul.

New page added: PC Care & Maintenance

2009-07-04T16:11:00.000+01:00

Hello!

As a response to the numerous requests I get from colleagues about how they can keep their home computers running smoothly, I've added a new page to my site.

Although it's not strictly about e-learning, it does contain links to free software that staff and students can use to keep their machines running as trouble free as possible and thus facilitates on-line or blended learning when accessed from home.

I hope that's not too tenuous a link!

Anyway, you can access the new page here:

http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/pc-care-maintenance

Cheers!

Paul.

A large collection of educational videos, 2 great services from Aviary & an easier way of linking and embedding high quality YouTube videos.

2009-07-03T13:02:00.010+01:00

Added to the "Using Ready Made Online Videos" page:

NeoK12 - This site offers a collection of educational videos that can be found at many specialized destinations on the Internet all categorised by subject.

Added to the "Image & Photo Editing" page:

Falcon - Designed to work as a standalone editor or for use with its screen capture Firefox extension Talon, Aviary's Falcon lets you edit text, crop, rotate, resize images, and more, all within your browser. You can watch a video of Falcon in action here.

Added to the "Screen Grabbing & Recording" page:

Talon -Take & edit screenshots of websites really easily by adding "aviary.com/" in front of the URL of the page you wish to capture, or just paste the URL into the box provided on Talon's main page.

Click here to see a demo.

Added to the "YouTube tools" page:

How to embed high quality YouTube videos - A nice article from Lifehacker that shows you how to link to, and embed "High Quality" YouTube videos.

New Twitter Resources Added

2009-06-20T23:28:00.009+01:00

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...

2009-06-18T20:19:00.004+01:00

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

2009-06-11T15:15:00.002+01:00

Hello!

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

Online Scanners

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.

2009-06-07T16:11:00.009+01:00

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.

2009-06-04T11:47:00.003+01:00

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

2009-06-03T12:02:00.008+01:00

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

2009-06-02T16:00:00.005+01:00

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

A new chart making website, two more YouTube tools and some great audio & video broadcasting/conferencing software.

2009-05-10T00:29:00.008+01:00

The following has been added to Diagramming Software Page

Chartle.net - This is a nice site that lets you make interactive pie charts, graphs and maps that you can then embed into web pages on your VLE or blog.

The following have been added to YouTube Tools Page

Caption Tube - This site lets you add sub-titles and captions to a YouTube video.
Video2mp3 - This site lets you download the audio from a YouTube video as an MP3 file.

Finally the following have been added to the Video & Audio Broadcasting/Conferencing page

Voxli - Best used when you need to voice chat with a group of people whilst working collaboratively using another web application.

If you need to work collaboratively with a group of people using a site like Google Docs, it sometimes helpful to be able to talk with them whilst you do it. Voxli lets you create a voice chat room for you and up to 200 other people to communicate in. It's free and easy to set up, each chat room has it's own web address which you just end to people if you want them to join.
Procaster - Best used when you need to run "live" computer training to many people who can't actually be in the same room as you.

Procaster is a piece of software that you download and install onto your computer. It then lets you broadcast a live video stream of you webcam, or any piece of software that's running on your computer coupled with audio from a mic that you may have plugged in. Viewers can then watch the video stream on a normal web page and are even given a chat room to ask you questions in.

Whilst voice chat is not provided, if you run this alongside Voxli or Oovoo/Skype you have a very powerful remote training and support system.

This means you can easily run 'live' training sessions with people if you want to, and when you aren't running a live broadcast, you can configure the viewer to show previous training sessions or videos from sites like YouTube - it's brilliant and I urge you to try it!

Click here to watch a demo of what you can do with Procaster

More royalty free music & 3 new tools for screen grabbing and recording

2009-05-04T19:04:00.017+01:00

Hello!

The following resources have been added to the site:

Royalty Free Music Sites

Free Music Archive - Inspired by the ideas and ethos behind Creative Commons licensing, the tracks on the FMA are offered for whatever use you want.

Screen Grabbing & Recording

Free Screen Capturer - Another Screen Capture tool, the interface is nice and it also lets you take a series of screenshots and string them together to make a quick animation.
PrtScr

This lets you capture with freehand movements or by region, and annotate and draw on your snips on the fly.

Watch this short video to see PrtScr in action.

Screen Toaster

Like Screen Castle & ScreenCast-O-Matic, this is a free website that lets you record your screen.

Watch this short video to see Screen Toaster in action.

YouTube tools, a Doodle Wall, more online videos & broadcasting live video from within Second Life.

2009-04-22T12:57:00.012+01:00

Additions to the YouTube Tools page.

KeepHD - KeepHD lets you download videos off Youtube in both HD and mobile phone (3GP) formats.
YouTubeReloaded - Similar in function to Mix Tube however I prefer it's cleaner interface and resulting playlist which can be embedded into another web page or blog.
Youtubetime - This is similar to the previously added Splicd, it lets you link to a specific point in time in a YouTube video.

Additions to the Collaborative Whiteboards page

DoodleWall - This is a nice site that lets you create an online "wall" that your students can draw on.

Additions to the Online videos page

Lectr - This is a knowledge sharing community where members and visitors alike can watch lectures online as regards a wide variety of topics.

Additions to the Second Life mini site

A new page has been added to the Second Life mini site. On this page you will find resources that let you video events in Second Life and either broadcast them "live" to a web page or save and edit them for later playback via your institutions VLE or blog.

>> Click here to visit Recording & broadcasting video from Second Life <<

That’s all for now!

Cheers.

ZamZar added to "Text to speech" tools

2009-04-20T13:21:00.003+01:00

Hello.

Just a quick update to let you know that Zamzar has been added to the "Text to speech" converters.

Zamzar now lets you upload Ms Word documents and text files and will convert them into spoken mp3 sound files which your students can then download and listen to.

To access the Text to speech tools, please click here.

Cheers

Paul.

One click screen recording, How Moodle can change a school & the PDF tools page has been revamped

2009-04-07T14:38:00.011+01:00

Hello.

Some more resources for you to check out:

Screen Castle has been added to the Screen Grabbing & Recording page.

Another website that let's you record your screen. The unique thing about this site is that there is just one button to press, so it's very easy to use.
How Moodle can change a school has been added to the Moodle Guides page

This is the first of 2 videos made by The video was made by Tomaz Lasic author of the excellent Human site & shows how the standard features of Moodle are used by classroom teachers in high school settings.

Part 2 shows the changes that establishment of Moodle has sparked, enabled and encouraged around the school.
The PDF Tools page has been overhauled

It now contains links to many different types of PDF tools.

Accessibility tools, text to speech converters, a new YouTube downloader & 2 new online video sites

2009-04-06T16:05:00.011+01:00

Hello!

Another update for you:

Free Reading Tools for Students has been added to the Accessibility page.

A collection of free bits of software designed to help students read the text on a computer screen.
A new collection of text to speech converters has also been added to the Accessibility page.

These will take typed text and turn it into a spoken mp3 file that students can listen to.
Kick YouTube has been added to the YouTube Tools.

KickYouTube is a very easy way to download videos in various formats from YouTube just by adding the word "kick" to the web address of the video you want to download.
Academic Earth has beed added to the Online videos page.

A great "Youtube" style site but dedicated to showing academic talks and lectures.
YouTube - Edu has been added to the Online videos page.

YouTube's dedicated Education channel.

That's all for today!

Cheers.

Paul.

30 free image resources, a new mind mapping tool, another diagram making website & the return of the Office 2003 toolbar in Office 2007.

2009-04-04T23:08:00.014+01:00

Hello!

30 Free Image Resources have been added to the Royalty Free Images page.

This page on About.com lists 30 of the best websites where you can download free images for use in your resources or on your institutions website, blog or VLE.
XMind has been added to the Mind Mapping page.

Another piece of open source mind mapping software. This is very similar to the previously mentioned Freemind and so it's just down to personal taste as to which one you should use.
Draw Anywhere has been added to the Diagramming Software page.

Another alternative to Lovely Charts & Lucid Charts, it lets you create and share diagrams online, for free.
UBitMenu has been added to the MS Office 2007 page.

UBitMenu lets you restore the old style Office 2003 menus to Office 2007 so that you aren't slowed down by 2007's new 'ribbon' interface when you first start using it.

Cheers!

Signup for updates on the UWN SHSS island

2009-02-23T22:24:00.003Z

Hello!

Just to let you know that I've now set up a separate news feed & e-mail subscription service for news about the Second Life Island that I'm working on.

http://sites.google.com/site/secondlifeuwnshss/latest-news

So if you are interested, please feel free to visit the news page and then sign up via RSS or e-mail if you so wish.

All further news about the Second Life island will be sent via these new news feeds as opposed to this one.

Many thanks,

Paul.

New Second Life site set up

2009-02-17T19:58:00.003Z

Hello.

Just a quick post to let you know that I've launched a new Second Life site to go with the work I'm doing in my job at Newport University.

Basically I'm building an island for the University's School of Health and Social Sciences that will be used by students and lecturers to enhance teaching and learning.

Eventually it will be open to the public as well to allow prospective students and interested parties to come and take a look at the work we do within the school both at home and overseas.

The URL to the site is: http://sites.google.com/site/secondlifeuwnshss/

I'll post another message out once the island itself goes live.

Cheers!

Paul.

5 new resources added to the site.

2009-02-11T13:38:00.001Z

Hello!

I've added a few more sites for you to take a look at:

Wobook added to the Digital Publishing page.

Lovely Charts & Lucid Chart added to the Diagramming Software page.

Paint.net & Sumo Paint added to the Image and Photo Editing page.

Cheers!

Paul.

Gladinet added to Online File Storage

2009-02-10T13:31:00.003Z

A link to Gladinet has been added to the Online File Storage page.

Gladinet lets you access your Windows Live Skydrive (and Google docs) as if they were local files & folders.

You can watch a video of it in action here.

Cheers!

Paul.

Google Forms page updated

2009-02-07T10:52:00.002Z

The Google Forms page has been updated so that it links to a better YouTube video and a text based "How To" guide.

You can view the updated page here: http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/questionnaires-forms

My thanks go to Dr Julian Green in the School of Heath & Social Sciences at Newport University for sending these resources my way!

That's all for now.

Cheers!

Paul.

New page added | How to Embed Videos in Cooliris

2008-12-15T12:13:00.002Z

Hello!

Another new "How 2" page for you today, it shows you how to embed videos into a Cooliris presentation:

http://sites.google.com/site/technologyenhancedlearning/powerpoint-tools/cooliris---turn-your-powerpoints-into-an-interactive-3d-wall/how-to-embed-videos-in-cooliris

Cheers!

Paul.

How to embed high quality YouTube videos

2008-12-05T23:25:00.004Z

Hello!

I've added a new page to the YouTube Tools section called "How to embed high quality YouTube videos".

>> Click here to view it <<

It shows you how you can tweak the embed code of any YouTube video to show the footage in high quality and without the newly added "search box" that's appearing at the top of every embedded video.

eg:

Normal Video

Tweaked "High Quality" video

I hope this is useful to you.

Cheers!

Paul.

What's new on "Paul's E-learning Resources"

Moving blogs!

A mobile blogging tool, some comic strip makers & how to force publicly shared Dropbox files to download, rather than just open in the web browser.

Make Dropbox Public Links Download Files Instead of Viewing Them In-Browser

E-portfolios & using the iPod to blog and broadcast audio & video AND a new site podcast!

An online podcast maker, a tool to annotate web pages & 2 more Moodle resources

Right click a file to send it to your dropbox, 3 new sites for free sound effects & music and hold meetings online with join.me

Join.me - Best used when you need to run "live" computer training to many people who can't actually be in the same room as you.

Create your own 3D animated movies, a video showing how staff and students can make use of Twitter & more Moodle training resources.

Twitter for ipad, ipod touch resource page added & allow students to upload files into your Dropbox.

A new mind mapper, a free image editor, teacher training videos & email files straight to your Dropbox.

Essentials list updated & some more free ipad apps added

5 new resources for you...

Office 2007 training videos, a new game maker & a nice PDF editor to boot!

A new collection of customisable edu-games, send files to dropbox via email and a new page on free educational iPad apps!

E-learning conference for all teachers at all levels | Can you help me pick a date?

Record and edit Skype video chats, a large collection of ready made edu-games & a new accessibility toolbar for web browsers added.

TimeLine Creation links added along with a teacher's guide to Facebook and 2 new sound editing resources.

A new guide to creating a personal learning network (PLN) using Twitter & some new tools for creating private chat channels via Twitter & Facebook.

Try Google Docs for free and two great new software collections from RSC Scotland North & East!

Research Tools added to site along with a "Donate" button.

Moodle guides & Google Wave video added

Lots of further reading for you & a nice presentation on creating game like engagement for learning.

2 more Twitter visualisation tools & a new "Remote desktop" page added.

Turn PowerPoints into flash, a new mind mapping tool and make websites easier to read.

Facebook for learning, a digital collage maker and free moodle hosting

Ustream.tv added to Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing

Free stock footage, a search story maker, more free documentaries and an updated further reading page!

More royalty free music & fx, a collection of PowerPoint games & some great lesson plan ideas.

Lots of interesting ways that you can use e-learning resources & a new music site added.

Hello!

I've added a series of excellent presentations by Tom Barrett which provide examples of how you can make use of some of the resources listed on the site within the classroom.

You can view the complete collection here.

Multimedia Broadcasting & ConferencingSound Recording & EditingSound Effects & MusicCollaborative WhiteboardsGoogle WaveWikisTwitterWord/Tag cloud makersGoogle DocsPresentation tools

A new word cloud maker, an easy way to create online photo slideshows and a searchable bank of free to use clipart.

New Page Added: Using Facebook for Social Learning

100's of teaching ideas, an online PDF merger/splitter and a new collaborative whiteboard.

2 new game creation resources & a "Further Reading" section added.

Get updates via Facebook

Get site updates via Twitter & Second Life Resources mini site shut down.

The BIG Easter update - A new game creation section and lots of new tools!

Create PDF handouts for YouTube Videos & 2 more video resource sites added

New Google Wave resources & a link to the "Ultimate Plagiarism Resource" added

On site workshops now available.

A Password Manager, Unlocking PDF files & a new screen grabbing tool.

Cooliris & Academic Posters

Tweet bubbles, Flock Draw, two new tag cloud makers & an updated guide to embedding HD YouTube videos.

Google Wave, new PC Care tools and Digital Scrapbooks & Collages all added.

New Page Added: Word/Tag Cloud Makers & Run multiple Drop boxes on one machine

A power management tool for laptops & net books, more Moodle resources & 2 new countdown timers.

Office 2007 cheat Sheets, Easy linking to PDF files & 2 nice PowerPoint add-ins

On-line sound & video editors plus a guide to getting more out of Dropbox

New diagramming software, url shorteners & new tutorials for Mind 42 & Jing

My team’s new website & blog

Print out documents as PDF files, create collaborative note walls & make free online webinars.

More guides & support for using Delicious, Google Reader & Skype

New Second Life Resources

Jing added to the "Essentials" page, Dropbox added to online file storage & a new JISC guide to teaching in Second Life

Lots of new updates added!

Embed videos into PowerPoint's easily, make scanned text editable (OCR) & an improved navigation system added.

GDocsBackup added to the Google Docs page

Twitter guide book, ways to visualise Tweets, Google’s Royalty free image search & a free local phone number that calls your Skype account

New page added: PC Care & Maintenance

A large collection of educational videos, 2 great services from Aviary & an easier way of linking and embedding high quality YouTube videos.

New Twitter Resources Added

You can follow my team on Twitter...

New Plagiarism Detection resources added

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

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

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

Online guides for Twitter, Delicious & Jing

A new chart making website, two more YouTube tools and some great audio & video broadcasting/conferencing software.

More royalty free music & 3 new tools for screen grabbing and recording

YouTube tools, a Doodle Wall, more online videos & broadcasting live video from within Second Life.

ZamZar added to "Text to speech" tools

One click screen recording, How Moodle can change a school & the PDF tools page has been revamped

Accessibility tools, text to speech converters, a new YouTube downloader & 2 new online video sites

30 free image resources, a new mind mapping tool, another diagram making website & the return of the Office 2003 toolbar in Office 2007.

More Moodle tutorials, Skype call recording & an in class countdown timer.

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Multimedia Broadcasting & Conferencing
Sound Recording & Editing
Sound Effects & Music
Collaborative Whiteboards
Google Wave
Wikis
Twitter
Word/Tag cloud makers
Google Docs
Presentation tools