Useful links (Weekly)

  by  heyjudegallery 

• instaGrok | A new way to learn This is a type of search engine that finds educational content and retrieves it in multiple formats, including web pages, images, videos and even forums. It filters out non-educational content and profanity, uses crowd sourcing to rate the quality of each search result, displays search results according to grade level difficulty, provides source notes, visualizes concepts in an interactive concept map, updates the concept map as you refine your topic

• Pittsburgh – The Role of the Library in a Digital World « Workshop, Training and Presentation Resources Slideshow presented at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh June 4th, 2012

• slidestaxx – create amazing social media slideshows Slidestaxx is a presentation tool that allows its users to create social media slideshows. You can gather media from different sources and put them together in the one slideshow then use slideestaxx to embed it into a blog, website or wiki

• Zentation.com – Webinar software Zentation is a video presentation tool . It combines both videos and slides into presentationsto make a more engaging piece of multimedia. It has free and paid options.

• PreZentit – Crea, comparte y muestra tus presentaciones en lineaThis tool allows its users to create alone or with others, share and show online presentations. The presentations can be private or public with each one having its own web address. It is a tool that could be used with students. Beta at present

• Ahead. | View | PRICING | Ahead. This tool is another presentation tool for educators. It works in such a way that it instantly transforms your layouts into a zooming presentation. Has both free and “pro” options.

• Plagiarism Checker – the most accurate and absolutely FREE! Try now!  Plagtracker is an online service which will scan a block of text (eg. an essay or paper) and compare it to internet pages and a database of academic papers. It is also free. plagiarism tools education

• Home – 80 Days That Changed Our Lives – ABC Archives ABC website which has historical moments in time, as recorded by the ABC, with audio and video. The site explores 80 key events in history that shaped our world. There are a wealth of video and audio resources related to each event, along with personal reflections from ABC staff.

• Welcome – Text Classics The Text Classics series is designed to unearth some of the lost marvels of our literature, and to allow readers to rediscover wonderful books they have never forgotten. These books are milestones in the Australian experience.

• TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing Offers some of TED’s great videos in an educational platform with interactive lessons on various subjects.

• Home | MIT + K12 Making Video to Make a difference Educational science videos produced by MIT students including experiments that can be used in classsrooms

• Aviary – Tools Aviary is now Flickr’s default photo editor. (Click on Actions when you are looking at a Flickr photo.) “It is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We’re on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing.” Its image editor Phoenix, is a super-simple tool now designed to work with Google Drive.

• PicMonkey – Photo Editing Made of Win In addition to basic edits, you can add: overlays; text; cool effects; textures; a lovely array of frames; touch ups like blemish fix, wrinkle remover, weight loss, lip tint and more.

• QR Codes | Common Craft Another great video from Common Craft. The video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone.

• SimilarSiteSearch.com – The Best Place To Find Similar Websites SimilarSiteSearch.com helps you find similar, related, or alternative websites. Their goal is to generate the most relevant results for users.

• edtech VISION – edtech VISION Advice on how to make simple but effective book trailers with minimum technology

• New York City Dept. of Education Releases Social Media Guidelines for Teachers | LJ INFOdocket New York City has issued its first social media guidelines for public school teachers. The guidelines, which stop short of an outright ban, urge teachers to reject friend requests or other contact with students on their personal accounts.

• What Making an E-Book Costs, Publisher Responds | Digital Book World

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.