BLINKX

This is the world's video search engine. More efficient that Google or Yahoo.

http://www.blinkx.com/

Digital Native Wiki

This wiki appears to expore and discuss the impact of Digital Media on youth and our society. Worth checking out I think.

http://www.digitalnative.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Lost Generation

Just thought this was interesting

Cool Tools for Schools

Another wiki listing valuable resources!

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Open Thinking Wiki

Found this wiki and it looks like a valuable resource for teaching with Digital Media.

http://couros.wikispaces.com/

Vocaroo

In developing the Digital Media course, I have discovered some resources. This weekend I am working on the Digital Audio unit and will post what I find.

First, I found a supremely simple voice message recorder. No frills here, no account necessary, just hit record! You can embed the recorded message.

It's called Vocaroo.

Voicethread

Great tool for presentation and collaboration.

www.voicethread.com

TRAILS

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. The assessment items are based on the Ohio Academic Content Standards and Information Power.

http://www.trails-9.org/index.php?page=home

ISTE Webinars

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/WebinarSeries/20082009Webinars/Webinar_Series.htm

Free Rice

Free Rice has some changes, including a "Famous Paintings" section. Check it out.

iSpring

iSpring (I haven't tried this yet, but I was looking for something like this).

Now your presentation can turn from PowerPoint to Flash in one click and get all advantages of Flash format, such as compactness, easy distribution, high compatibility with all browsers and OSs. iSpring creates high quality Flash movies with vector representation of standard PowerPoint objects and keeps most of advanced PowerPoint features.

PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003/2007 Hyperlinks and action buttons Animations and hyperlinks on Slide Masters 180+ PowerPoint animation effects All PowerPoint slide transitions

One click conversion Embedded music and audio narrations Synchronization of animations and sounds Embedded video clips and Flash movies Flash based Player

More about Social Bookmarking

Tonight 4 students in my Online Course Design Class gave presentations about social bookmarking. They shared some S.B. sites that I have not heard of and they are linked below:

Buddy Marks -The Online Bookmark Manager. The Web's best online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.

Scuttle - Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

Furl | Your Favorite Bookmarked URLs, Fast. Furl.it! - Furl is a social bookmarking site that makes it easy to save, share.

StumbleUpon: Personalized Recommendations - StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

CiteULike: Everyone's library - A free online service to organise references to academic papers of interest and share them with others.

Ulinkx - Video Search Engine and Video Bookmarking - Social video search engine, which aggregates videos from Youtube, Google, Myspace, Metacafe, Yahoo and many more video sharing sites.

reddit.com: what's new online! - User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.

Today's Top Voted Bookmarks | Infopirate.org - Dec 4, 2008 ... Share Bookmarks - Make Money. You Share Your Bookmarks, We Share Our Revenue. Try it!

AuthorGen

http://www.authorgen.com

Deanna told us about this in a BSN Developer's meeting. Through this site, you can convert Powerpoint to Flash and preserve transistions and animations.

Top 25 Tech tools

Glen found this list.


http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/25Tools/index.html

Diigo

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and ...

Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community.

"Diigo goes one step further than just bookmarking. Installing the Diigo toolbar on your browser (works on Windows, Linux, and Mac) allows you to highlight text on a website and add those highlights as notes to the bookmarks you save. Thus, you can easily draw a student’s attention to a particular passage or simply save time in writing descriptions of bookmarked sites by highlighting a relevant bit of text.

Similarly, it’s easy for you and/or those in your network (your students, for example) to add comments to to your bookmarks. Diigo actually offers educational accounts that lend themselves to this sort of collaboration among students. As the Diigo education site explains,

# You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation)
# Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums.
# Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them.
# Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors.

Certainly makes those little lists of links seem very 2002, doesn’t it?"

-from blog by Christopher Dawson is the technology director for the Athol-Royalston School District in northern Massachusetts.

Wesch Video

Wesch Video - A college Anthropology professor shares ways in which he uses Web 2.0 tools such as Netvibes, Facebook, Wikis, etc.

Google Docs

Google Docs - online document creation and sharing.