30 days of Web Tools #16: Use Pen.io to create a quick page with a URL

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pen.io is an interesting application for making a quick page with a URL. (Whatever you do in Google Docs will also be given a web URL but this is a much quicker method.)</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Go to <a href="http://www.pen.io/">http://www.pen.io/</a>. You will notice a straightforward page with a code in the left box entitled ‘Page name'. The code remains as the URL of your new page. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQBA89MjvOs-pWJ_RKYxBbTECbZoQHylSCPsmSLQUaNjlCik4fiX94upqfMBCKsIfEpbLm8-Iw4KtNq1rIAfx1uCpHuRPEFCU3KLchZiLsyhOmLCwAgPTe02Ar7Q-cHUrYlb4j4WADFi8/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihiaQkSBldU9w0mmNSNuxcisIWGCnE1258UYQ20dMr4CO_u5yWfGiqJM91YS-zmseV2-iuTCaIJkZD0v989uJ8i2gue1R7poPIUNdkQwf4FJhPQh49Hx1JBsohOfjdmniEpQIxyteA4iQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Give your page a password and then click on ‘<i>Create new page’.</i> You’ll be taken to the page where you can start writing.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkz86cZO68-yPQgr1c1kU9Y0VwJj6T1_UEmIvucrZiAzNb-w6xAzOJgEv05bxO5BQqcYzRCzhKWYSAQggpO4kHPRJCIGLBN5syAVPKwTyNZ0HPmL9YcLi2ydwOploEvVjCweF3BRuyi-Q/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoZPMR7FoCpBlBSsaoN-uNxxE6BsL80qAr5DdlQNR7x04mFcf2_-gXYrtT3V_JPfAlj7l4eC3kc3DxA02vTiTvsSrTid559FSElzRSbB23jJTyWxQfK0d6LYd5HcC09xC70PVUUuzBis/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Give your page a title and write your message. You can drag on=ver a picture from your store of pictures. It will just get a text name until you save.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6I0kAqDzXBNkyxgmYpXg-rJN0SDiusjzFv8qQBqC6JRcGozpLPE-vUrR7Q0wwSexvBCZ7luHCBYNredMe1-CiK454wz2wEtxmL6MpHTEzwGsKok3kMHupbTxrhh6_siRMBJ-BoWARCY/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYgD-DdU13YyDBK5DJ2vA15_ZyGsx0zEnp6k9-dthQMDafG6HDfYhQYfCDp6KrllQ7PbpW2npn7EQLOc575QHmvfkA4EMh5FO4DsokR_K7H0svmikHlt8uUjaLL5U0RMsnxWgUrOQgZY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. Once you click on Save the picture appears.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvpel759FaGeXoVO86BZV_w238oI5Ud4rlxceJWTNQW7FeTh0PPyv32L7o2odq3Fq_FL8uxsz7pbWsd3emhAJD95_vaO9FiVJPOqzdOSNsKZdkZaM6XujoMpPq1olcMUjkRy3gRRU5_iE/s1600-h/image%25255B15%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiUWiv_2Po3JBo6Wi-By_uWhEzqm9pUx_SvYSVFiK6uAmXbrjGi6qcH9uUjW2V3iefcYef5IfAKGBVuycMPyeXWV9fPYM1GUZ1mCPd88fNfiLe-0bWfnK4BKRT4f4zpuLcFyjU1B33FA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. There are various other things you can do with this tool. On the right you can change the background and add photos in a more formal manner. Below you can embed the file into a blog or wiki.  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY12dIFgQPUhyphenhyphenQmaQNje4pd987baIMshnX8qUKAdW0Pp2Salxn4-rO-BXWacDhVjP2dxHrw8Rr1JLvvYOl6n5VZE4-oQEEC9D2yTiskRBty1N0IMCWvVvvqFrFd-IY7GsKYgbaJMskX3g/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWl-tYOGxyKVrX8Cvwg89-D2DyhZqHlyMlFlGc3RYxh4SVepIU2u-yFM4-kthERz2ENfFe1s-IwJ1uixIOoTH9hMHlitsJBJbGqzGTgvzQqXNG1Ecw1A24mJfyBT4JbPR0DzwsCW3iKY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can also promote your page by tweeting it, pinning it (in Pinterest) or sending it to Facebook. How easy is that! I am sure this tool could be useful at times in a classroom setting which has technology. </span></div></div>

30 days of web tools Pen.io Web tools 30 days of Web Tools #16: Use Pen.io to create a quick page with a URL

Pen.io is an interesting application for making a quick page with a URL. (Whatever you do in Google Docs will also be given a web URL but th...

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30 days of Web Tools #15: Use Tube chop to cut clips out of YouTube videos

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you sometimes you wish you could cut a funny or interesting part out of a YouTube video and make a little clip to share with your class?  Well, you can with Tube Chop!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Open <a href="http://www.tubechop.com/" title="http://www.tubechop.com/">http://www.tubechop.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqbKcqn1GRkPyrnOhtGkXkHeOWKKVATD1TEw3g9U7Go5Q1zznVyLgMcF66f9IK_vfOBuCIfQ6YJ6Dkwykmkexgb-KpaXkOdIRmMIho6AjlkG4lwaiVM9PpK__LwJfC_39XaDdpdSw5Oo/s1600-h/image%25255B14%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtXaT2lkDFoWIZkvcDSGe7v4nJjeIiSGRs-szr-rqgTlZEltnCzPKFfM0u3erKlZ-RCAEjZgsgvis1OCtGmdiCVEu68AqdUCcVyOQ7ISazb0M4d9AEUJUu6q2I1Pzpc2gwCqbEdve4aA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Type in the URL of the video you want or the name of the video to chop and press <i>Search. I put in ‘Gotta Share’</i> for one of my favourite videos.  The original video URL for this video is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdeB46YXGpd5NQX4j4H8v6V-mS1lPK8tbPQnH0U58Apw6RwCZHj0c9lAiLVCYIc7dD3HpypwiC1wTx114vrEOheQMi-jRPHEVAGKZMt0KwIv7DAo_STB7WijD3v6U3COAu431ssZId6cA/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKQXdPj4rVRUct60okOxWAv5i_FT-U38ur6C2uAQy7vARazfDAg8y3BfbuY52wY8eFKC1adiDXkpVCC45Q0E2lKWwJab0dOM1CSZFis7KOcWPUQAvHXA9HYVob1VnVFuBQzLCXvhyphenhyphenKSg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Set the beginning of the clip and then click the pink line when you get to the end of the clip. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfgYR7XZVuuPt0DMgMr3gwiD4DFnEFOGal2D6xRo41i6FuAwowhibzrxaJWSmswOtFsRis_bM9CRxrQBZxyOR_OmuakyNiRcRnFDA776cW7dPnzq8LET2MDUQV2OmMR1Z4wYU6qKX4Qc/s1600-h/image%25255B13%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEBdvqY-_uXhzpJnyHkb0lLqu5JC0F6un8xpwP_WteITOAU3kUn519VDD3xZ3YyMQG_COtU9Z3vv2JIdqibNQbqkhRgZorX8HZKYqUeOt3rS5qDXhe4N-DnaYyGElF2byC8ZTwrU4fGU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. Choose Chop it and you will be given a new link and embed code for your clip, as follows<a href="http://www.tubechop.com/watch/459414" title="http://www.tubechop.com/watch/459414"> http://www.tubechop.com/watch/459414</a></span></div><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=soAk3F0wX9s&start=3.19&end=50.5&cid=459414"></param><embed src="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=soAk3F0wX9s&start=3.19&end=50.5&cid=459414" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amazing! This is a quick and easy way to make video clips.</span></div><br /><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/17-free-youtube-tools-every-teacher.html">17 free YouTube tools every teacher should know about</a></div>

30 days of web tools TubeChop Web tools 30 days of Web Tools #15: Use Tube chop to cut clips out of YouTube videos

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30 days of Web Tools #14: Use the AMAZING Print Friendly to print any web page… and much more!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have you ever found that you are on a website and you want to quickly print the page or a portion of the page? When it prints it is lopsided because it was meant to be on landscape, it is 16 pages long which you didn’t realise  plus you have wasted ink with a whole lot if unnecessary pictures and words (not to mention unwanted ads!)?  That has happened to me so I was delighted to come across Print Friendly (<a href="http://www.printfriendly.com/">http://www.printfriendly.com/</a>) . </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgbofrKAIif8Nbv1l-j2GCRtaCZsxrISAwnasNuio-H0e8bCb24RaWVtW79rGRuOZkp7i3mDUyxCHaWhj8tYrHh8lOEerLS2U3AWXQ4MHn8q3z-4MxjVohAxYwSgFP01sRHePx4xbAbGE/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQaKAqN8sICOm2Eyxn8S4rJlR3paxT0krwfKnYUfhaIOfe5CP5FGqhsPQ5FJo7_rcB3VfhDo7cdpwzCFxuxpUTmUn1eu4zQDo0hdVPVVWDgD4JG1umYabl56uhiMNN4C9ZARsStbnYw2I/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After opening Print Friendly, the first thing I did was impulsively add the little button to the browser bar so that Print Friendly is easily accessible.  After that I watched the video on how to use it! I am embedding this video below because it is very useful. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SOYKL7KYeSQ?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So how does Print friendly work?</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>1. Find the article you want to print and copy the URL.</b></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paste it into Print Friendly at the designated place</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHA-6IMlZ65sb3aOX5KAbEA0ZuV30UEVWenOvc-9JdDn7KLlz0hz4I6mae9BWW3BHTMkaDOcWf3GWZXqrODPov57yGQyd_SErELQEEEcThH0oZIJdloHjz9B4iG_K8ANuvkSa1PkocOgA/s1600-h/print%252520friendly%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="print friendly" border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29aqx9tRjpTdDQsibgz0jqJNb84PXXrCmpTgIScfC1DD-LRQLw86zSPXi6xtM2nBLFUKDXuGKdYQ9Muv43rlJB1FckzSLIw6vkLsMVgUhq8GQwVQGWmcf-LrzmjsVM7ZNE2QpUPuYWkE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="print friendly" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>2. Look at your amazing options:</b></u></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can print, make a PDF, email, make th print bigger, remove pictures and more!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2O59iPfp-wPx-fqFw9xu8e7NH2pZkNxmFegYrQMg6b9nkLP1w1irFkLq8YOccA9e2RGMdXuRmnhG8FG11jU2YFYdQJaXDVh9epfY0XQ_jcJx5EaEnXZgggZf867xj59CskmhfxMx_dFA/s1600-h/print%252520friendly2%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="print friendly2" border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWbi4dGBjH5nEx7mTuimZZXHtDrdkklFP5k5gS5PNyCUW2LpZn5amZl5HyhmZCX81cdwbN9ZXoeJ0iPVWtYvQ8gbqaWFpeDdWbQYSfYNRAWFwJTkcxiKXEZM55Mb8pCi-5KILKmrmJ_c/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="print friendly2" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>3. Let’s take a detailed look:</u></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>a) Print: </b></u></span>I tried this and it worked like a charm</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b>b) Make a PDF: </b></span></u>This is such a useful feature. I always do this using Google Docs but here is another way. When you click on this feature it gives you a button to download as a PDF. This could be WAY quicker than using Google Docs. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuwSDdwpegTfAjMHxm4boZH5NXcDSqDickDwGVpCsWaQqSWG45tBOi724jKe_-60vEhk5oVTLBDD-D6V9wTdfDx7ZRkBleEqYHE84XzEUZY3SGX3qVwcuI3pLn_VKwrRKV01vGiEvSC3k/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnUMhEISoPKnadtLMim85yVfO6-qTXFxiW5XJgLHaAo5o5HUbWNPEgH8k-1F4oqdC-O_YN-m3vEQ2C-2PpVvXvZYTm6s6GWD9NbU1s9MhWJXA0YuxuSGmzeZLJLf8qkX1Z2BMV6S0Qqo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>c) Email</u>: </b>When you click on email it opens a window. I have emailed this article to mayself so let’s see if it arrives. WOW! it worked like a charm!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjze1l8wVZj3ayEN22y5JdF2RSmJkP8cMaR41E-ZH4hIFvF4bNixQ14pkXcqrUvcmvElNN758VKl4TA0DoZdUnJ9dVB5fsnWZdcIVy9Y6QT5nBZY5Ig1UTUpQxdXG0HgXUJkJs4mXtDYp0/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmpwESVzQ6FDsWIqPrAYpj-QoxtjlVdY3XrO4knL3GjYhj34B2UWU7Zat9Gn5l9WgPUP-Z8MPrarWU41WPuoQl92SGzPaYuM7Qj7QvuPyzcOwUnyHyWq5covEPZhy3-ykw5NhUwpX5loA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b>d) Increase text size</b></span></u>: The highest seemed to be size 15 but that was okay. </div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><b>e) Remove images: </b></span></u><span style="font-size: small;">They all disappeared. Quite amazing. What I also discovered is that if you have say three images and you just want to include 1, you can click on the other two and they disappear.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4. This is the best - Add a Chrome extension</b></span></u></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being a lover of Chrome and all its extensions I used this last. It neatly added itself to my Chrome extensions on the browser bar. </span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQLJPyRyt1ZU_G9ukX7pc_ulyxpWYjETLv44oDev_986Vvlz0E-cToUyPpBMGQaPjXGCYXmUL6zTZE5FXJ6J3fTxw_xdUpLDGevmE0EJhoQhEDSsrYNMleQfwFIIg3IiPCO03Y45rL7Q/s1600-h/image%25255B24%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqOVM3zR0hXNxvUNzbp3iF4or67j0RO8mEHZcq9XszUy7GGiyk5yEFS7xQsd7rEewxf9s3G-xfnUG2d8gDUJuV9eJgz43MJCI0Xosy3UKSPMW5my6Asi2Yu6YVUMBuTsQuXAA61aS7EE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbDJE_V3KwySgNuWm0hZSEzsxOEkBmCfgc38jy-0LMw8rP5RcWYRlwE2Bk2SCHshUF2NRSSRReZgBaCuWdLbAouG15oa0sveXSjwbvfrJxOyUtQDjXDKtzF78IHOEAJr-xMvNaLP3-dbw/s1600-h/image%25255B25%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBGK3uCtpUsGUuq3diOPNjbeD1Vaz8kfq_BmwJRNy_nFypHYnsuMmqy3Kugms29kjyZ3UbyoXPas8-Mqm2jGwFrbak5zZYn4eE1WTla7V5EP3I6Vlj1TuroaAp66Qg5ImXAJVdVJpO1U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is definitely the best option! You can do so much more. You can highlight and just click on text you don’t want to include and it disappears. (So that little bookmarklet I added to my browser when i first started will no longer be used by me – I will go for the Chrome extension! This image shows some of the benefits.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyMDe0P3-_9faXggEe-Qh6gI_NB9nTQV0LZLHf6jJPKnd85S8l0twLc57lgxCNL_uyKovhAEZUWoBsVYv8QRJDvEu91SGsvbM6QjHaL9hw8CH1p_GSohJ_ZQaIuzihNr_v3XpAvSo8_I/s1600-h/print%252520friendly3%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="print friendly3" border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrw5UdT_BBr4ApSUZUcgF4pewg5UHeA3kSN7vCOne9EOECI-47JzZvLWY-0as6rrt-yZBXDWsbNbg4A8jRD_ewBimWvnYNMcOAKapwSBk5-2JflhVqlbkJ6L6ED5do0YWRARtPBZK3Ac/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="print friendly3" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is going to be a very useful tool. It will be especially important and useful for your students when they want to print something and just print bits of the page. Do try Print Friendly as soon as you can. </div></div>

30 days of web tools PrintFriendly Tutorials Web tools 30 days of Web Tools #14: Use the AMAZING Print Friendly to print any web page… and much more!

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30 days of Web Tools #13: Use KeepVid to successfully download YouTube videos to use offline

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJkUw71U1LjR3_yRCEYsee0GkTZ-XOaz-Hjgep9YGerJ_oGjGhdRVmkGjUqoEcFx1-xyiJJtQiRzCViPzj484ciHDf7XWkMGRD0iDGSsz068T1vpoPksHWykXY-bBjcFrA94Nlt1F24KQ/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JkxtTBF0bz2utlwSL0YYRoGahS6U9wHDvIPpax7wfUJiDS6DDs68lZYZxUho-G8FmMq8SsfZZ1yNWW0uzDfqV0j7ts7S8_gj1caKk9LGoGazz9W-pUFCkKuThSE0PHeNSrShLV8q5pM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may run into times when you're offline and want to watch a YouTube video, or you want to share a YouTube video with your class without going online and waiting for the video to open (a problem in SA with bandwidth). In those cases, you need an actual copy of the video rather than a link to the YouTube site. You can download videos to your computer using a marvelous free online tool called KeepVid (<a href="http://keepvid.com/">http://keepvid.com</a>). This post aims to give directions on how to do this if you are new to KeepVid</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Find the video you would like to download on </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a></span><b><br /></b><br />For example I have chose a LEARNit-in-5 video called ‘How to use Lino’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjKznCvdClpY22vStZ0ezsyUHdAmhrTHN0RkoacbO2XwJXwl44YUQJMKfNqL6k7kmPRMngf__Tiyok8QMsa8dIwrJPjdE1SU31tddmUkSxMVkHr8fIhkghflRsY6Z58anLBTvAU54OnU/s1600-h/image%25255B15%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LdKc52JA8gWk0iVRu6STKhgvUZmGjCw1pBatEHQG801aVT3PLPeNnv4GF2Sp7vjm9KiHSUTvyuQ2MTpjvSAZgyF6DF6OJ_peXZPSOuXsVqFv2o-wTPxQAVKvH0oUbIlyYyC6HupPhyY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.<b> Highlight and copy the URL from YouTube</b></span> </div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This video from LEARNit-in-5 has the following YouTube URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLYxmrNATs&feature=channel&list=UL">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLYxmrNATs&feature=channel&list=UL</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Open </span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://keepvid.com/">http://keepvid.com/</a></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.keepvid.com/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></a> in another window</span></b></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7OQPlBM89RVx9AdZBH60f_jEic9oI-Ld0rIBOYdRmt0WJR5GtVZF1FVYAL1KR7fPhzLa61r_QRgNd5YP8C79eVNjZJs9MPTs7j9SnAUuT4NT-Vu3C_bGgYKUXZ-EXqMC6dtA1B2ltzo/s1600-h/image%25255B19%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrifwC4ku_JN4YZNe1K6EQSbz_IzeMBa2uidb8-CEZHy7x6Z0CCVcxzvXoQpsYHXkbjpP8Aoe7VSh8vOtLR5K3dFQPosYFoq9_bArLzc4bXQFt4Crp1WmJ4DfGaOgG3YEWPnbBfTXI8E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. <b>Paste your copied URL from YouTube into the blue rectangle and click on Download</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Ignore any big blue and green download advertisement buttons! It is easy to click them in error) By the way you will need to have Java installed – but most computers today have Java installed in order to open a lot of web applications. It is available free online.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3db6JTemH6FfWIA8BBjcVs2AQf94Qn-feKRIC657r0weLN2da5mKh7h42g30VfzhU8RbJiaz4iC1uh9yAaips1fXomsnwMnZ4jURHZAZxCdnSkaflBX1QBHybI3mb-WYk-DNzK4g3Qqo/s1600-h/image%25255B24%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVDoT_KzDTQlBfPSRMNGCv5CaDhsIE0f8tF1tSA04gWydw566h5NPiC07sSDsHHf9RDEWBlYBCeKh1AJz1Cba_lyJi7_XLs4GYInG8kyBXAoSpNkZBe99lekIr18vzfj4svcPT80OBbk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. <b>You will always get this security warning, so accept the risk and click "Run"</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your video will start the download process and suddenly the security warning appears. Accept it to continue. </span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFyDLrnzj8qfArWf_l0SkAbHbWg0q4ahbi8zHCgBJ1hcUwZrSXBobBRKq8sZj0wpn72F5hqFwkUf6WI11jhtTGpUx8o2pDbj9Y5LKPmPstTxtljdsX7Wf-V_m6kD_8kH5GLuBmmdbnPk/s1600-h/image%25255B34%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUK5oMgKyIkjlGRFZz1bFXX7bGYiYamKQlbhWmMlAktEhyphenhyphenpUelBcdt8jeb1V5jbDGBlD1rkH7ivoo8neMJxSXkaYue4ZG-4tGLCvpDS_y3OI22uA7looWoZX_i9QOB49oA_YeJKGIA5K4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="350" /> </a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmV_iMWgccP7I02djwWJfP5vXs0O1jHk0zkbVDH38h1gNZXAh84InI3CCM3iYD1rbTWQZDUIhDFlVsb6qHHun3-C60cAruJ6K2IraCHhXwoxxEvjppbQWwSF1u_H-P8FuenDAvOvLFBU/s1600-h/image%25255B33%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYkRGCsZJVk5yW5m6edqd_yxvz_BU0H7TucOO3ulrCbx6dyT8tynqS91V8ODLVhAou2N_JCkgUmvRN4oiMqZv-NcQUCOmw1c5i_hZwE2B80EsbTlm5w4sxyEOaaeQEEreV-nJQK0uoQT4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="365" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">6. <b>Keepvid will give you many different options for the download.</b></span> </div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I nearly always choose MP4 because it will play in PowerPoint if you insert it there, but .FLV is also an option. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpt9SLdgIQKrW8DjG1g4lhgg2s7fpHgrKPRHUNnGINlrcS6HotS5xncnRJiUCRLyTbj8IA4Q8b1Fa7hVBt7K6HyET9CQnGCt-Tcc8koYt7XH-I-EnNcBDC1dTTZMKWWtYPIFvR_cCPZDA/s1600-h/image%25255B38%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVNGX39mgl-UnFzS1hmPpYIBW1p8n8ddBooauhs-VNCR9gAm3PqrDn18t6n4pmePzORMWapwI6NLmNaAORp2hRUQOvT3Vs-W3RqmovE4i692NWRinYBRfahMHM7kMLl9Ygv0FPIIetxg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">7<b>. Click the download that you would like to make and save it</b></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Save it wherever you would like to save it – probably in <i>My Videos</i> on your PC. If your computer just saves it without asking you, you will most likely find it in your Downloads file.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Your video will now be available to play whenever you need to. I have discovered in the past that this is the best way to go when you want to play something from YouTube for students in a class. </span></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><h1 class="articleTitle Heading1" data-module="article-title" id="nointelliTXT" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/How%20to%20Download%20Videos%20From%20YouTube%20Using%20KeepVid%20%7C%20eHow.com%20http://www.ehow.com/how_5837386_download-videos-youtube-using-keepvid.html#ixzz22D29YuEw"><span style="font-size: small;">How to Download Videos From YouTube Using KeepVid</span></a></h1>  </div>

30 days of web tools KeepVid Tutorials Web tools 30 days of Web Tools #13: Use KeepVid to successfully download YouTube videos to use offline

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30 Days of Web tools: #12: Use Today’sMeet for useful backchannel discussions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_rraN6MHpAzTHWYqv2L1LB-kRAWE_BaGlrAnBVqQDKK42Y0NkjgSx570X3yB2k7wguT-vlvwD1RXwsHjRZ6QdsvHiLLaK18mmJRzVrzkXZwKaCwqtjIdpH_i_I2-sTtlhyphenhyphencqVCX0Fe0/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPY20eumdhAeLCP9KEpRr6IrP1f4yUZH0f0V1h3x076Pfw4OypM7UXbTZsJlB6roD21QA3Zb8FeOHp_W0iGipBEg1g6KhWBQluCf8jZ4j7IBAIk2qY4JpBCKrvfzfz1Y2yiceIIhQZPY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Often when you are watching a presentation and you have computer access you want to make a comment on what the presenter is saying. Twitter is most often used for this. But often, if one wishes the responses to be more private a backchanneling programme like Today’s Meet is used.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is Today’sMeet?</b></span></div><b> </b> <br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today’s meet is a simple way to set up an instant live chat room. It allows participants to ‘backchannel’. This means they can get fully involved by adding their comments and thoughts for everyone to read as the presentation is being delivered. In a backchannel participants can ask questions, discuss what is being presented, share links and reflect on their learning. A backchannel is a great way to enable peer support and the beautiy of it is that you can look through it afterwards to see what to comment on or clarify. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How to create a backchannel using Today"sMeet</span> </b></div><h5 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">1. This isa web-based tool so can only be used online. Open it at </span><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://todaysmeet.com/">http://todaysmeet.com</a></span></h5><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Create a ‘room’ (this is the lingo when creating a backchannel). The following graphic is taken from <a href="http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2009/06/tap-into-backchannel-in-your.html">Nik Peachy’s blog</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqA-YPuC3smlYhmghtfswrm3GJe8dG-tzjuuru4EvSn9hpBY0Gc4NKKwIunb1ld3i5j8xEp4DIIMobhtnZ2_Jn4MlpmyQTZBTaIy06keYBkTbfHXu9ys2hksziFe5akyYWhyphenhyphenih6U1-Pc/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGa0qhadjFmiTRytJ3cxVA-BiJ0L8nQe3ovGQoq9BYdzZ5LYxxwNUdQBmrtDOi76Q5jv5aOK7_U6N4xKwJ9xjsw8mmZLuRef1Dbfb1kinpkwr29uG_aKHtfSib5gQuDJ1o3oJjjyn9lE4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="405" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you look at the image above you’ll notice that there is place to:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) Name<b> </b>your room: This might be the name of the presentation, teacher, subject or whatever you choose. You’ll see that a green tick appears if the name is available. If not available, make another choice.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">b) Choose when to delete your roo<b>m</b> and all the data. The time range can be anything up to one year.  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">c) Set a password if you wish to. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">d) Click on “Create your Room”. You can now give out the URL to others. The URL will have a specific format starting with <a href="http://xn--todaysmeet-ow6e.com/name">http://today’smeet.com/name</a>. </span><b><br /><br />How does a participant join a backchannel?</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. If you are joining a backchannel that has been creating simply type the URL into your browser. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. You will be asked to type your name in the blue box and to click join. The following two graphics come from the <a href="http://www.teachgennow.com.au/">Teaching Generation Now</a> blog</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3AwlLb6GZANRjYWKXgNBFBiDV8GEnBFUo7t_7IetGuhZmEeccejHwsllZqmAlyDQ7EPxQZucTPgcDEc40nGqLXDpmTJNt7SLsjKoIgQ62dbSca9Fy-Ev7joTiT0AD8bBqV06ePAU5U0/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqVD5cl26W2ldYFZdVaV3gqoJpOnrgWQ33vrqFfT2JLfJ5e2aJl8ohZUSkc1HZmeh3-JWomsPKq2V1YpAMTz_vqylv4eU2u4NnFVNzNC7IvGti0tuZ6lZr6orGidXmGBvNIEFB4QY1wM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Thereafter you will type your message in the blue box and click on ‘Say’. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCQKwuk11r1_AGTqJcuxSrzw6T3J8xGXUjm-zLJOtDrTLXEzFtrNmctK1OuqacAilEmW3xVqz6aqd65yesUvn8rUDj7QbXusGlmdaTR__aU3KjmT-bQqa55CjuOUo7xNHjt8jDN9qiYE/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixPsodOTHnTAKcQLZMFwqj798geLdyXKHMUUaZEFKyCuWNMEBr82G6U0D1J_b3BBfuP0tu7Lu69S075nFoHXYDBjTjiMJbJQxX0u0MijwFet1iSuCQFXKKVpzvFx7tAcS53NgzQ3Ko1oY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are using a data projector the backchannel will be displayed. At the bottom of the screen you will see the words ‘<i>Transcript</i>’. When you click on this you will be able to see the whole conversation. </span><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When would one use a backchannel in the classroom?</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Students would need access to computers. The backchannel could be used:</span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">for Skype calls </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">for listening to audio podcasts or watching educational videos </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">for revision classes </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">during debates </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">when listening to guest speakers </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">for oral presentations</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">when learning new skills</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">to teach students about online etiquette</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Further reading</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. <a href="http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/01/09/backchanneling-movie-watching-note-taking-information-scribes/">Backchanneling-Movie Watching-Note Taking- Information Scribes</a></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. <a href="http://judyarztblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/todaysmeet-super-tool-for-discussions.html">lTry TodaysMeet for backchannel chat without distraction</a><br />3. <a href="http://judyarztblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/todaysmeet-super-tool-for-discussions.html">TodaysMeet: Perfect Tool for On-the-Spot, Total Student Engagement</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">3. </span><a href="http://www.teachgennow.com.au/2011/04/35-todaysmeet/">http://www.teachgennow.com.au/2011/04/35-todaysmeet/</a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">4. <a href="http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2009/06/tap-into-backchannel-in-your.html">http://quickshout.blogspot.com/2009/06/tap-into-backchannel-in-your.html</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div>

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30 days of Web Tools #11: Use Audacity for creating MP3s and podcasts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDz-u2bjHxZOliV5BZz1kk_UfD0XuN1VsqH5niq695mX56E72NJTRbJ0J2A8i0Wi70Cdq-Z92hKxUMQQQzSevC28h76DgBiGRTIS0Y-2rS0MiKRt4KhqJdT47Aa8Ziow7YOp8h9HPfQk/s1600-h/image%25255B1%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PkM3NFVhMgDGTjr9wbglWK6FtJwZhgZaDaHV2Sqhl_ZAcsZIbPtzb9JBX9gmPzciLdKSG1iTxjL0zN6KKF9ZYTBCE53eKLXka7S_OP5bkjPVNtJQa1-fIZNP9-U5geL2zHTKRksodvU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audacity is not really a webtool as such but it is a free tool that can be downloaded from the web. It is one of those tools that you simply cannot be without as a teacher! To put it in a nutshell, Audacity is a simple sound editing programme that is used to create MP3s.  </div><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can Audacity be used for?</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Audacity can be used across platforms from any operating system which is a big plus. It can be used to record live audio and even edit various sound files. It can export files as MP3s but for this purpose you have to also download LAME along with it. Directions for doing this can be found <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq_i18n?s=install&i=lame-mp3.%20">here</a>: </span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What do you need to be able to use Audacity</span></b>?<br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. The programme should be downloaded from <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/">http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Download LAME so that Audacity can be exported as a MP3 (see below)<br />3. A microphone.<br />4. A computer</div><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to download LAME to use with Audacity</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’ll just copy and paste the directions for Windows since that is what I am using. <br />Go to the <a href="http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/">LAME download page</a>. </span><br /><ol style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Under "For Audacity on Windows", left-click the link "Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe" and save the file anywhere on your computer. Do not right-click the link to the .exe file.</span> </li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Double-click "Lame v3.99.3 for Windows.exe" to launch it (you can safely ignore any warnings that the "publisher could not be verified"). </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Follow the "Setup" instructions to install LAME for Audacity. Do not change the offered destination location of "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity". </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask for the location of "lame_enc.dll". Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Lame for Audacity", select "lame_enc.dll", then click "Open" and "OK". </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">If you prefer the Zip option for the LAME download, save the zip file to anywhere on your computer, extract "lame_enc.dll" to any location, then show Audacity where to find it as in Step 5 above. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">In case of difficulty, please view our <a href="http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lame_Installation#Windows_Instructions">more detailed instructions</a> on the <a href="http://audacityteam.org/wiki/">Audacity Wiki</a>.</span></li></ol><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Using Audacity for the first time</b></span><br /><br />1. Once Audacity is downloaded and Lame is downloaded and installed it is A for Away! The toolbar can look rather daunting at first, but once you realise that you only need to know a few of the icons and what they do it suddenly becomes a whole lot easier.  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSL8H2MMZBHkvo0UAlwh6iqwymtpiTUtWEQScX1GnjKz72KaB3vy2jP8sY-FmmX5bfadUMr1iZZgnXSIBavuKoFuNQ-WooxrYP6LCr4p9T93fFjs4cfhMgB8NKeoonADAfoAojyoWyDE/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDois0yxVVZDPs8rhWoo7LsPMSHITEdO5SnhM_LzuPnaVqate4vi-pvjNlSrpLwpX64l5Z2buCDMzwRAk8Tbd8ywi6wuesVbTVy4IdgEW1dkdggbMdq7M_FjJse80KRX-tAyzSBsSfPJ0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="435" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Just make sure Audacity has automatically picked up your speakers and microphone. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiN3-YIJ4dvOyvk0qrRkeQl3rTlGsf07ZvXIz79p74KWlin62GlhR5lqNMFnIM0fUuWXS9E8zaqC62jIAuQezQsd0-1uCbAuOZrstwnt3mKjrOj5rcLmi61r3n8BK5MjlM8Qa1l-aKpmQ/s1600-h/image%25255B13%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg764K0MKXCNhpsSn5SXsm6Az0rxLdmX76sxQvd07VgAJztc4DUWq0H5klnstaLaqyzpdGb02CY7EWEA2cZPW_2QZ62TBmH_ihkN8x_FaSU9-KoYXljkZw7YxgK-Kq5e4HrQv0tsQWNtkY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. To start recording click on the big red microphone circle. It will start recording immediately so start speaking into your microsphone right away<b>. </b>Your voice will appear as a long jagged line with rises every now and again like this:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGdzHPBTkEaGfEUrndYRMFuD97VcLyGlUK8CfrpJmFR-hga6v-nWggsrXwFPzViDBpD3wsGLLKyb00VrKat6SU36kIceJcLAKSC5NhQtZaGZF0VhZN7wrRPioY_PcGgFzJh4wl1IiXxM/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTbccJkk0i4CPRbIWLn8kJ7W7I0FHP3tLTT1UHT9coMv-L_FA2-rSkE1JK73NpmJrlqz6pn2jJtwBqiYrHBFX7CCBVB8QoSHdSqx17jqu-4n7LZ-EZIjt0jiAHlrQlULA3sJ8gE1CSZg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. When you are finished recording press the yellow square. If you want to test out the recording you have just made, press the green triangle.</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to save your file</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can just save the project at this stage if you wish by clicking on <i>Save project as</i>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv-qg1QsNURemKT5yMhVaHYnMLAj-OL8_dj8Udy04i0euXNe8gxmTT_XgbJBa-sF5kdHvvurbIdKSMh_TC_H5ZUOW0Tw5QaylO8xiELBTL_x4KTH5nJ-yRDT4mu7sYa16P9MOcSTLs8TU/s1600-h/image%25255B23%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiILM8pZ1ZfRhwrzs3jKTwBvwO_N-p-vDg6xY6ZwEpL1fk8_yUUDUGyPj-PlrE22dROFW_OgxswNzAtaIB09YizRXaRtucQK5tajhNALwv01ga2D1G4hokuy-dWuPiLhKmFI5ZOQJQ843U/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Otherwise you can do what I always do and that is export the file as an MP3. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEHOkE0h5ryROm_fIMP6Xh_yxg6te24uClVo_I43Lr2kXkVTpDTLonBOeV9xXsONsdJ399h_ZleQpNMBtowwtxv_djw2e9x9J3QcEyaLR8atGwctse301Mh_lsIrnC-Ji5eV-CjnL85Mw/s1600-h/image%25255B27%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvugKMY_vT7Ka5pqEEt0V3Ob-p7nNkC1-I5lLygxFtuhXX-Sq44x3JZA5c4QFJ6VgtzF9vNcm58Kx9ziK1NWDjWh-8fBTF8Uc5i5XqseHJptHC7MPauw7f_HMasdNBSZvM863Brw_p-g0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It will then save as an MP3 and you can save this file wherever you wish on your computer. That is how easy it is to record using Audacity. Of course there are a lot more complicated things you can do with audacity but for a teacher, this is enough to go by.Here is a YouTube tutorial that can take you though those steps again.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Mf7-2KSqj4s?rel=0" width="420"></iframe></span></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">How can Audacity be used in the classroom?</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">These are some of the ways I have used Audacity:</span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. You could record your students speaking and then upload to Voki to create speaking Avatars. this is useful on a bog to greet visitors. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">2. You can create podcasts of book reviews, poetry readings, book reading, orals etc. You can document reading through the year to note students’ progress. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">3. You can create sound files to go with  a PowerPoint presentation or a Windows Movie Maker Movie or Photostory. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a Slideshare showing how Audacity and Photostory 3 can be used together.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/62788" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/lisashusband/audacity-and-photo-story-in-the-classroom" target="_blank" title="Audacity And Photo Story In The Classroom">Audacity And Photo Story In The Classroom</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/lisashusband" target="_blank">lisashusband</a></b> </div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. You can upload these to an online recording service such as Vocaroo.com so that they can be embedded in a blog or wiki. Notice the upload button just under the little girl on the right in the image below. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLLihiqc8uACmXLAHmE-WYkvZB-gG5k7GkmBEcX75603fF_uH_XQdmw9Cy38ip1woMCsAi9wvoX_nGPl5KdYvP2iK-_SdxF0xp3bhhW4UWwFdzMv-2YntZ8N21NbyxKHyIrGa8lRS1_U/s1600-h/image%25255B31%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsLrmmO8uzqPOZCvy-mfhvHHbCYOuvRGjtBq62bu4krcsQOIOzMc6CubilRD_K_rKN-Q5ARtBBxRTz4V0mIGGC-StYUz4iKzlwNAacIqkmcOkoWNMsEOSeCqBzCR6FSYOLBAFXNljEBo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. You can record messages and email them to penfriends as MP3 files.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">6. You can record sound to add to Voicethreads. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">So, give Audacity a try! You won’t regret it. </span></div><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1<b>.</b> <a href="http://kerileebeasley.com/2009/04/08/10-great-ways-to-use-audacity-with-your-students/">10 great ways to use Audacity with your students</a></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/audacityclassroom/">How to make a basic podcasting recording with Audacity</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. <a href="http://teachinghappilyeverafter.blogspot.com/2011/06/audacity-in-1st-grade-classroom.html">Audacity in the First Grade classroom</a></span></div></div>

30 days of web tools Audacity Tutorials Web tools 30 days of Web Tools #11: Use Audacity for creating MP3s and podcasts

Audacity is not really a webtool as such but it is a free tool that can be downloaded from the web. It is one of those tools that you simply...

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30 Days of Web Tools: #10 Use Pinterest as a classroom resource

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCT8h7AQKVwSV4rHqyV_Zs2GUSNml1picXc-VEvZfCXDuGVHbC0nj91jxz9qjIs0ZUNI-Ro_OqcsQIKheBoE6p9aEIopubUHKB0jEcS8oObg-wb8e2kk0_p1mPamTkTQJrf1MSralzrhI/s1600-h/image3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRssgsIzQ-t4hZ53tbaBZPGCNqpbjIO7nAX3weiZ1nYCzBKW7Oi3dr0YnB9e6aJQKpXuCm6MeoT7ApkLDo8jAhzOejU3-W7-0vIP1EoNIBsVtPVJoTAfxgCj_x-_8Kv3SrRmKaofakMs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pinterest is one of those social networking programmes that everybody is talking about. It is one of those applications that you know you are going to have to do something about joining  at some stage! So, when a friend recently invited me to join Pinterest,  I knew the moment of joining and trying out this amazing and popular application had arrived. I made a start by reading Edudemic’s ‘Teacher’s Quick Guide to Pinterest.  <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/the-teachers-quick-guide-to-pinterest/">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/the-teachers-quick-guide-to-pinterest/</a></span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What exactly is Pinterest?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pinterest is another curating tool in the form of a visual pin board that allows you to pin images from blogs and websites so that you can easily refer to them at any stage. Recently Pinterest has added the use of YouTube videos to its features, so now with one click you can get your videos to an already existing collection on your Pinterest wall or on a new one. Pinterest allows you to tweet your pin or share it over Facebook if you chose to link your account with Pinterest. You can also play and watch the videos you include without leaving the website.. It seems that Slideshare and Pinterest have reached an arrangement as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Policies</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Earlier this year educators were worried about Pinterest’s privacy policies, but Edudemic recently advised that Pinterest has now corrected “some potentially disastrous mistakes: their </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/terms" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Terms of Service</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/use" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Acceptable Use Policy</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/privacy" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Privacy Policy</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.”</span><br /><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/why-ill-start-using-pinterest-again-after-april-6th/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/why-ill-start-using-pinterest-again-after-april-6th/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How to create a Pinterest board</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a helpful YouTube video showing how to go about creating a Pinterest board.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QtmmGA0M_yk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I also came across this Slideshare which had a lot of useful information about Pinterest</span><br /><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare</span></a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11689097" style="border-width: 1px 1px 0; border: 1px solid #CCC; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs/pinterest-slideshare" target="_blank" title="Pinterest SlideShare">Pinterest SlideShare</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/krisrocs" target="_blank">Kristie Johnson</a></b> </div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Following others</b></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the features I love about about Pinterest is that you can follow people who have interesting boards. After reading the <i>Teacher’s Quick Guide</i> mentioned above I came across this post called ‘30 inspiring pinterest pins for teachers'.  </span></span><br /><a href="http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/01/02/30-inspiring-pinterest-pins-for-teachers/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This seemed to be a good place to follow others. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How can Pinterest be used in the classroom?</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Educational technology experts have started digging into pinterest's educational potential and quite a number of articles have been written on this topic so far.<br /><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/06/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-education/">http://edudemic.com/2012/06/3-ways-to-use-pinterest-for-education/</a></span><br /><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Add subject specific images to use in an assignment or a class discussion</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Find crafts and projects for school</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. Get lunch ideas for kids</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. Use it to pin infographics</span></h5><h5 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. Find new books to read and recommend</span></h5><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. Summarise a conference or event</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/iste12/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/iste12/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Keep a record of your lesson plans</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/techchef4u/ipad-lessons/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Homeschoolers have found a great number of ways to use Pinterest</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Here are 30 of their ideas. <a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/02/homeschool-pinterest/">http://edudemic.com/2012/02/homeschool-pinterest/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Pinterest is a great tool for librarians.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/">http://edudemic.com/2012/03/20-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest-right-now/</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My Pinterest boards</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have started four pinboards to date:</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) Places to find lesson plans</span></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/fibeal/places-to-find-lesson-plans/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/fibeal/places-to-find-lesson-plans/</a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT01j8KWbQtA0Q25Xazg0X2FsRzy3_Xk2CcyYR9lqeiNVgURH9WNj20EEOC42TcdnJIIjsNDcRWkXJV0-iZu8kxKYqc5Ftw3Q7Lq9hX3IS5YQmMrh1v8a5ce5eA4peCYHJogGqDowavU/s1600/pinboard1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT01j8KWbQtA0Q25Xazg0X2FsRzy3_Xk2CcyYR9lqeiNVgURH9WNj20EEOC42TcdnJIIjsNDcRWkXJV0-iZu8kxKYqc5Ftw3Q7Lq9hX3IS5YQmMrh1v8a5ce5eA4peCYHJogGqDowavU/s400/pinboard1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> b) ESL Language Learning Resources</span><br /><a href="http://pinterest.com/fibeal/esl-language-learning-resources/" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://pinterest.com/fibeal/esl-language-learning-resources/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">c) My favourite blogs (still in the early stages)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />d) Our e-books (still in the early stages)</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Further reading</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />a) <a href="http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/blog/?p=424">Four ways to use Pinterest in Education</a><br />b)<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_691851881">A LiveBinder called </a><i><a href="http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=271703">Pinterest for Education:</a></i></span><br />c) <a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/06/pinterest-resources-for-educators.html">Pinterest resources for teachers from Cool Cat Teacher Blog</a> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d) <a href="http://pinterest.com/Palmy/teaching-history/">Teaching history</a>:<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e) <a href="http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/25660">Social pinboards</a>: </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">f) <a href="http://pinterest.com/ggcoe/middle-ages/">Middle Ages pinboard </a></span></div><br /><br /><br /></div>

30 days of web tools Pinterest Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of Web Tools: #10 Use Pinterest as a classroom resource

Submitted by Fiona Beal Pinterest is one of those social networking programmes that everybody is talking about. It is one of those applicati...

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30 days of webtools: #9: Create PDFs from webpages using the Chrome Extension ‘Send to Google Docs”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently I was faced with a problem. Some of the Constant Contact newsletter links that I had placed on the blog no longer worked…they had expired.  I thought the best thing to do would be to convert the newsletters to PDFs and upload them to Box.net with a link to the blog.  But, Constant Contact didn’t seem  to supply any way of converting these newsletters to PDF. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Google Chrome extension – Send to Google Docs</span></b>. <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then I remembered the wonderful free Chrome extensions for Google Chrome. They seem to provide the answers to many a problem. I went to the Chrome Web Store and searched for the ‘Send to Google Docs’ extension…and installed it. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloTnTsoxqQ0wi5v_8Uj2TAYsbqNdULlmlOkNrYz-IZithNk1DhnaxVZrtNnHKGti4ZLGEHMwWRFI2Xm1GwkkoN8BtwhWBYPjG0RRlOk233obiA_65e_VxnZZen52DDN8K1B_GjA3kI8g/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOtCGHPuDf8nbmXG61vxkYsG_TZ89aUzpGcy4M3kCzf1N0azsQe29FWU1rJQ3KO40Ux3wFsc7EnXyThbutg725I04zm2eRtS8ouC_mZ2dbWBmYWjouD2JhAYHUYD9SyPyGarNR6aIqYI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="361" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It neatly took its place alongside my other Chrome Extensions on the top right side of my Chrome browser. I then did what I had to do and converted the newsletters to PDFs. This is an amazing feature in Google Docs. You can take any web page and convert it to a PDF in this manner. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to save a web page as a PDF</b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Step 1</u>: Find the web page you would like to save</span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Step 2</u>: Click on the installed Chrome extension ‘<i>Send to Google Docs’</i> on the browser bar </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwL_MGR-3qLD_l2yYGRDfQFH0xvV3TQMOXW-cWEi2Inc_VdUY3Napw4mEkQh1ZAGI5ypzAuowZUIroV4RPf7xr9M23a4YOCFtqbM_jx_cLPhlRTNpxjbihNtxT82OUS5GnJY8Dg5fEpE/s1600-h/image%25255B12%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="30" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMsCq7-0FfXztL6WZBmaos8lXgUaCN_AosCX6vor6u6wIh79Ub12kMDK_NVEQSPXuGwEAWpvYkERjRDhZGTHWS14jraZW_WVU4eM99iDNFAWb2YhlyExhhkLrItC46wIE2aFq_otyqB8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The web page will appear in your Google Docs in no time at all.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzV8oP6y_o42j0F-MX15pqHncfa5nfA5bwsGUudgeOsRLPVruFnnl8N4SdqD0swy5tqy1B-jevXh8yBVqQnJYvBHdHToCS7hcGsrInqKe-Htt92Xv8RyQM9AQygbBQbo2ZgOqfRjak1bc/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW873h-hLr6DL1pE6Txtdi6AZOPB3Sroe5uxiBaHBszNAqf4umDpYi4-4ux-y3VQNB6sda8TmGF5cPU2l1kClNPbPGLMZe3XthLdc5pm07rDNJXVrjbVvuNQhfUF_YlZXAfg1oDdosOdE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="417" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Step 3</u>: You’ll notice at the top of the page in Google Docs that three options are given.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscGST-h1S5b2GPXZUUxlGu8icmZThQmH8O8PEJY2wNgLDTxGdtTnNAXo_34g42NUCfIROp-IcUdL2iI1TSaxbvbvL5FrbELC1NuicmBdeZMn1WdqX-XycKV7a6sG6-97rL0Nnvh-wztA/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Z7F4WaEQOgnLGQ7lyJZY6m2uf4m6cpnuZfT1WBets2ojSiAOeG_yLNFXEAbFU5-Lbgrt0lyxOk2lQvqK9DUsTgTot63hIZJAHpZ6hprbsnzaiGLgSFbIwEpbnsfYRYh7kU2_A5r5e_s/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="406" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />You can actually do all three! I chose to <i>download the original</i> which it does in a PDF format which is perfect. From then on you can either link the document from Google Docs to a blog, wiki or website or you can upload it to a programme like Box.net to link from there.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, why not download the Google Chrome extension ‘<i>Send to Google Docs</i>’? It is a marvelous way of saving webpages as PDFs. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div></div>

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30 Days of Web tools: #8: Use Mergely to edit and compare documents

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><img height="257" src="http://www.lostintechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/after-fork-edit.png" width="400" /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have you ever tried to open two documents to compare them? You wish you could see immediately what changes you have already made? Comparing, editing and sharing documents is really a way of life for most of us – and Mergely provides a way of doing this easily. </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Mergely and how does it work?</span></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mergely is a useful online tool that can help you merge text documents and highlight changes made to existing documents.  To do this you open Mergely and paste the original document into the left column. Make changes in the right hand version and the edited changes can then e seen in the right column</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you are finished you can generate and share a URL and send the documents to someone else.</span> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFk2i3BRv6w7Yh5J_ISmrf4TkVm2NuIG91pFK_NNRAg-gbSpKnmAJE7F_INeJqYCZx1m4Unm78owSacLmL7F8I1Dx9ti7NkbyMlmsXT5SKR0orb6PJyUzilMGeATd2hGM8e3DMpi70XQg/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmGWP9bUNeJZyvvDRjbMutnsHYpWXeFZveIo1JejuojT1ZcnM5L4WzIY5rRmLAMaQ9zpAynZ897joslDQbiw3idHVq0vqIZfJLCnEiz4_YpqVAEHvQhED64MpsYinGX53DEi_crQfc-Q/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a> <br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><b>What are the Mergely buttons used for?</b></span> </div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></b>  <br /><h4> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyjOgr36v_KI_8mEn4ciMbGy5iPT22wSNAG7iO5PToJ1tmitt_6KIXuxF8pWcsGC_7XWQ4Yj7B1KOcNFGHHBDF5v0ijhbv6yEXQKCeQI6Y5mQB4zxrKz5EMOtaklV9BD89Xir-xeYEZc/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4_kHYq8muxfdXS_5PtCKkmAoSZWTvi5muivkj3fEXHeG518xYbxONN6sAIdVtaB9oAErX_hL0RNkWAQncxP1O4o8tgc3xfGkSUBi-fuxeO4UmOsNSWOn7n-xmZ3Wewe09VNXDY2QnKg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></h4><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next to the search box, you will find seven buttons. <br />*The first one is a search button. <br />The second one lets you replace the right file with the left or the inverse. <br />*The third one is for swapping left and right. <br />*The next one clears the entire scroll area, and the last button is to download and save a file. <br />*The next two buttons are are download buttons (one as a .diff file)<br />*The last one is to open a file on your computer and load it if you so wish.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BVo1EhqFdik_Y-S1i-QWDF6w4P8FxSl7zvUXLsbiyiCYR7mw3jKBj4xR8XZUC4inJbfvPFq2ZhJt7fewbp5I7j2gGtfZ0S-T6iaoinfsIISmSyehV7sJ_IqG96phnD62B0cLhWIiXJk/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5q1R-K1WNdQMZztzsLmaYTMzUWOtNdasWHxST1HRcN2l5GP33N5d0mpsVs0Q4LdAmpxfVgT_I1wWSi6zp3VPDLvHMyLqyp0sZfsoO7LSyWV7ET2HtC5DbtcLxDEND7fSlplHbPap-qo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a> <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The main save button allows you to save a file online. When you click on save a message appears.</span></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcYjaZ0-U0YytWdHbdOzJzH6MsEUrDStatO2tU8M6rTlBSUHaocxNcGuSvMjY0rt6_VAWgKA487cA_D4zegaT3HbaB8rNkUMf75P1_9TysLpPn9V7QV0ykv0ZG5kw1oh81exgFCsWllM/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod-RxoNifkaAGRIgh9GBiIte_hv2oZVjkon2oSX1Zw5NeHkPSUDOKVbolTqjdKzWtBAbU_D4dlxrQkILXQTQJ8L1YFroo0HfqaKCgemOngsJLyeFXHON1wpESagJWmwaus68poNod348/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="365" /></a></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two new buttons appear.</span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRMbj1fpS6mtSEO-5OeY5OEIR2PCKxMZV8qRheC7c9ENe-4WrVco6WLXmR-nwkUey_McuRED-sRHwX9bexmt2ZNPPpQspngZB7zUiWhgqQeBQZCh0wrqaTDd2qASmnMIfRTJuOBA0iL0/s1600-h/image%25255B21%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLL4cRo-xC7ddnGlRyXQ4P-riLU3h_97mCTn4U_3Dq_MsqHeFYrWF3K1y1dA4p_tas2yobDXsIoYJFbVobJbyhv1IohhwECIg2lb-E97HKqXxXzTRMDkwM9Sacs4psKvfg4Ldctma7cs/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="415" /></a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Share'</i>  gives you a URL that you can share and open from any remote location.</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioN_YAP6GD58_7BfsRPq3gFI569hXANR49gQRu3bUVNBkqv_fZf-oi2OBbj1IXAB63VAjO4LO9eNaVRP01KAuaRGSORDl2BJn-91BOeJ4svFazGkAgPup7TSJf56iwC2XiHJCRGuOOt2k/s1600-h/image%25255B26%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vq0YoCBXnenLI3nOADRJmwFl9EX9RFz0oWbTc5BBSQtqL_SO8Hg-Q3WpDNTxyPhv_fqC2nGBlBMQw-c9o4GIBsVtKZYwQSyUm0DkjWqxzFlA4I8bSq5FuGdhNMD4y1NF9r-0N6xpcxE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="393" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Fork'</i> creates a new version of the same documents with a new unique URL. It helps for multiple sharing and making back up copies. </span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Summary of features</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Free and easy to use. </span> </li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Compare documents and highlight changes. </span> </li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Upload documents from your PC</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Either download or share these as a unique URL.</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Classroom uses</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">This is a handy tool for Language teachers to teach writing composition and show how to edit a document. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">A useful feature is the ability to share a URL to share with others. This will enable documents to be passed around</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Students could </span><span style="font-size: small;">use Mergely to review a document without editing the original.</span></li></ul></div>

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30 Days of Web tools: #7: Use Tweetchat to take part in Twitter discussions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5QMYnMi8TMm1XSS-MqFOOY0dBM2aTsU5YP96UpQY5QZO8GVDTGw" /></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All it took was a set date, a topic, and a hashtag, namely <i>#edchatsa</i>. SA teachers who were on Twitter were then notified that a tweetchat for SA teachers would take place every Monday night from 8:30pm – 9:30pm; and so our regular and popular tweetchat was born! Arthur Preston from Elkanah House put this all into motion. Very soon teachers told other teachers and so the news spread and the numbers are growing steadily. If you would like to know more, Arthur has set up a website <a href="http://www.edchatsa.co.za/">http://edchatsa.co.za</a> with all the necessary information. This website is also the place where we go during the week to vote from the choice of topics for the following Monday night’s chat. A new development is that the chats are being summarised each week by volunteers using Storify. You’ll notice these summaries on the website.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is the point of a Twitter chat for teachers?</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are quite a few educational Twitter chats that take place around the world, the two most well-known (to me) being #edchat and #ukedchat. Basically educationists get together to air their views and opinions on matters of education. Education world-wide is going through a major revamp and rethink! It is vital to cross-pollinate with teachers from other locations and share ideas and is so worthwhile when teachers prioritize and make time for this valuable interaction. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How does one follow a Twitter chat using Tweetchat.com?</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The best application for following a twitter chat is Tweetchat. (<a href="http://tweetchat.com/">http://tweetchat.com</a>.) <br />Sean Hampton-Cole, one of the <i>#edchatsa</i> tweeters kindly sent me a PowerPoint on how to use Tweetchat which I am embedding below. </span></div><div id="__ss_13621990" style="width: 425px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/how-to-use-tweetchat-for-a-twitter-discussion" title="How to use Tweetchat for a twitter discussion">How to use Tweetchat for a twitter discussion</a></b><object height="355" id="__sse13621990" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=edchatsahowto-120712182125-phpapp01&stripped_title=how-to-use-tweetchat-for-a-twitter-discussion&userName=Schoolnetsa11" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="__sse13621990" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=edchatsahowto-120712182125-phpapp01&stripped_title=how-to-use-tweetchat-for-a-twitter-discussion&userName=Schoolnetsa11" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><div style="padding: 5px 0 12px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11">Schoolnet SA </a>.</div></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Benefits of using Tweetchat</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">You can tweet to the chat without typing the hashtag, as well as <i>retweet,</i> <i>reply to</i> and <i>favour</i> others’ tweets as you chat. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">You can adjust the refresh speed to 5 seconds which is the minimum available </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">You can keep everything on one screen easily so as to focus on the discussion that is taking place. </span></li></ul><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Join us on a Monday night</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So why not open up Tweetchat on a Monday night, type in the hashtag <i>#edchatsa</i> and join the conversation? </span></div></div>

30 days of web tools Tweetchat Twitter Web tools 30 Days of Web tools: #7: Use Tweetchat to take part in Twitter discussions

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30 Days of Web tools: #6: Make Wordclouds using Wordle or Tagxedo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What are Wordclouds?</span></b><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordclouds are such fun to use in the classroom, especially when it comes to vocabulary building. Basically, using a wordcloud application one can transfer words into a cloud of interconnected words that can be arranged and used in different ways. Users can change the layout, color scheme, and fonts. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students love working with wordclouds.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two very popular free wordcloud webtools are Wordle and Tagxeedo, and I am going to explain each below plus give ideas of how to use them in the classroom</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1. Wordle</b></span> (<a href="http://wordle.net/">http://wordle.net</a>) <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wordle is an online tool for creating word clouds from passages of text. The more frequently a word appears in the text, the larger it shows up in the word cloud. It has so many amazing uses which you will enjoy experimenting with.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbV_Hqwa9zR6q6kNjwNI8xnPlKaby49Rejys5kO1iSiX2Mehre4heO1kyVPSFLd_xXSS-3UT7UHcmhGFe6ff8H8TTnftKIXhglguTMYLebLQRfnGUQ9SJ0UqNtoBqa9ty79RYxTpFffY/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJ4I-zLoyqjXsgCTnywJxYnAkKvGeBagq-fqV38TzkLH_x5EZllB0Glpr4NB-_UWqGNcBYQsu8cXpMj2P26mLPobL67QYaYuSb7GJ1pcppHrrSL8w7G_Euu2kpWtkBBmDjC6xlZdBhDw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Taken from Ted Teachers’ network (<a href="http://tedteachersnetwork.pbworks.com/">http://tedteachersnetwork.pbworks.com</a>)</span> </td></tr></tbody></table><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b><b arial="arial" background-color:="" font-family:="" font-size:="" helvetica="helvetica" neue="neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, <b style=;" white="white" x-large="x-large"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to use Wordle step-by-step</span></b><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />This is a great introductory video from Radford Education to show you how to sign up for and use Wordle. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1J-s68cO7-A" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">How can Wordle be used in the classroom? </span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">There are so many ways to use Wordle that several educators have been collecting ideas. I will post two of these collections below. </span><br /><div id="__ss_1512878" style="width: 427px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW/wordle-ideas" target="_blank" title="Wordle Ideas">Wordle Ideas</a></b> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/1512878" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more PowerPoint from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/JenniferW" target="_blank">ProjectsByJen.com</a> </div></div><br /><div id="__ss_7263899" style="width: 427px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gholtam/50-ways-to-use-wordle-in-the-classroom" target="_blank" title="50 ways to use Wordle in the classroom">50 ways to use Wordle in the classroom</a></b> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/7263899" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more PowerPoint from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gholtam" target="_blank">Gemma Holtam</a> </div></div><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Tagxeedo</span></b><br /><b><a href="http://www.tagxedo.com/">http://www.tagxedo.com/</a></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tagxeedo is an online wordcloud tool that takes things a step further by providing a number of different <i>shapes</i> you can choose from for your words. You can also upload a picture you like and Tagxeedo uses it as an outline. </span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcVEsA9avLJubeOIxQwh1GLRHO6tD51Hl_tCrhh6x1bpbszXuUJr36Plh6k2LTa9S6ZKZg70Z-DOv3hnDULFgdI3383RkdkBGIIhKv8cgwqpTWHG5hSxAl2AI8h1i5x0gzdU79JLtbkE/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaR024LR_WmurhU9KJHM6WTvxxvYeJ9ZAAuJResNrIaKckf955V_XL1iYG3-QkzF1hw2sk3vqCokeeR0JgF42KWbtMA7zEdKUwxIubuxljvmgM-wh9Rao9VFqUNoZdpqQGHSLFw3TOCY0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="372" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the Tagxeedo blog (<a href="http://daily.tagxedo.com/">http://daily.tagxedo.com/</a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How to use Tagxeedo</span></b><br /><div><div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This video gives the basic steps in using Tagxedo. Take a look.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZwVoqFP-NE?rel=0" width="420"></iframe> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><br /><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can Tagxedo be used in the classroom?</span></b></div></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As with Wordle, there are many ways to use Tagxeedo. Here is a slideshow showing a whole collection of ideas from the Tagxedo blog.</div><br /><div id="__ss_7994718" style="width: 427px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sandiadams/101-ways-to-use-tagxedo" target="_blank" title="101 Ways to Use Tagxedo">101 Ways to Use Tagxedo</a></b> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/7994718" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid;" width="427"></iframe> <br /><div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more PowerPoint from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sandiadams" target="_blank">sandiadams</a> </div></div><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>More ways of using wordclouds in the classroom</b></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Introduce a topic via vocabulary and use a word cloud to arrange this. You can then get the students to guess the theme, identify unknown words and make sentences with words.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />2. For pre-reading tasks. You could show students a collection of words from the new text and let them predict what the text is about.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Speed sentence writing. Use recent vocabulary for this and let the students write as many sentences as they can using the words in the word cloud. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />4. This is a good fun activity. Display a word cloud containing some recently covered vocabulary and tell the students they have x minutes to write as many sentneces as they can using the words on display. This works best in pairs or groups and is a great way to review and recycle language. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><br />5</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">. Guess the wordle idea:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">Three times a week <a href="http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/">Guess the Wordle</a> will post a new Wordle. Then based on the Wordle students can guess what the topic of the Wordle is. Guess the Wordle could be a fun warm-up activity to use with students. <a href="http://projectsbyjen.com/GTW/">http://projectsbyjen.com/GTW/</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />6. Analyse writing: </span><span style="background-color: white;">Students can enter all their text into a wordcloud and see which words come out the largest due to being used frequently. One could analyse text from website articles in the same way.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b> <br /><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-teacher-boot-camp-wordle-lisa-dabbs">http://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-teacher-boot-camp-wordle-lisa-dabbs</a><br /><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/more-wordle-in-classroom-ideas.html">http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/more-wordle-in-classroom-ideas.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/more-wordle-ideas.html">http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/06/more-wordle-ideas.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/guess-wordle-and-summer-vacation.html">http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/guess-wordle-and-summer-vacation.html</a><br /><a href="http://groups.diigo.com/group/wordle">http://groups.diigo.com/group/wordle</a><br /><br /></div>

30 days of web tools Tagxeedo Web tools Wordle 30 Days of Web tools: #6: Make Wordclouds using Wordle or Tagxedo

What are Wordclouds? Wordclouds are such fun to use in the classroom, especially when it comes to vocabulary building. Basically, using a wo...

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