There are tons of sites that offer you free music, the problem is that the number of songs available is quite small. Puniz changes that by offering over 500 million audio tracks and claims that all of them are free …
Crocodoc – Share and Mark-up Documents
Crocodoc is a simple service that allows users to quickly share and edit PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint files. Using Crocodoc does not require you to register for an account. To use Crocodoc just upload your file, select your marking …
Web 2.0 & Students With Disabilities
Many web2.0 sites have great potential for students with disabilities. Many of these sites help meet the concepts of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for …
Zentation: Combine & Sync Presentation With Video
Powerpoint has changed public speaking, in that those listening to a presentation have visual cues and point forms to glance at. These cues and points often give context to a speaker. Zentation aims to bring the advantages of a PowerPoint …
Pixorial
Pixorial is an online video service where home movies and people interconnect. Customers can collaborate with others by adding and sharing full resolution home movies in the secure Pixorial service. Customers can edit and remix this online content to create …
Exploratory and Collaborative Learning with Diigo
For those of you unfamiliar with Diigo, it is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to annotate, archive and organize websites. With Diigo, you can save websites into a public or private library, highlight information within text and images, …
An Awesome Free Guide to Digital Storytelling
Silvia Tolisano, author of the excellent Langwitches blog, has an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators is a 120 page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for …
Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online
Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to …
Word It Out – Creating Word Clouds With More Options
Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the …
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: A Resource for History and Fine Arts Teachers
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. The Metropolitan Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff research …
Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos
When I was a middle school and high school student, mathematics was the one subject for which I had to have visual demonstrations in order to comprehend its concepts. Unfortunately for me, when I was in high school I couldn’t …
Readfresh – watch your favourite websites in real-time
Readfresh watches sites for you and brings the most recently updated sites to the top, so you can see what’s new at a glance. To add a site, just type its URL into the box and click Add Site.
Engaging Students with Voki
Voki is a free service that allows your students to create personalized speaking avatars and embed them on a blog or wiki or send them via e-mail. This service provides numerous features to help students personalize their speaking avatar’s voice, …
Free Webinar: “Web 2.0 as a Medium for Sharing Knowledge” (February 17th, 2010, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm)
Dr. Enrique Velasco will be on site from UNAM University in Mexico with his students (college teachers) to present his experience on using Web 2.0. He will explain collaborative knowledge building, why it is important, and how we can facilitate …
5 Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activities
Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. Unfortunately integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students’ learning is often a difficult process. Below are some questions to …