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>

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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>

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

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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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30 days of Web Tools:#5: Create your own multimedia Qwiki

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQNqT-xI37zucwb4AIIfXMS_Ae4yk5uz_OV26-2xRwi18neAg40BuyCV-dt" /></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I first read about this tool (</span><a href="http://www.qwiki.com/">http://www.qwiki.com/</a>) <span style="font-size: small;">on the blog of <a href="http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Educational Technology Guy,</a> who found out about it at a Teacheet in the USA. That is how news spreads! This tool looks really great for students to use to create informative, interactive multimedia presentations very easily. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Qwiki encyclopaedia</b></span> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have always known Qwiki as a visual encyclopaedia with over 3 million entries but somehow I can’t find a way of getting there directly unless I add a URL that I already know. From there the other resources can be accessed. For example I clicked on this URL about Ancient Egypt (</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.qwiki.com/q/Ancient_Egypt" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.qwiki.com/q/Ancient_Egypt</a>) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and came up with the search site button seen on the top right of this image below.</span><a href="http://www.qwiki.com/q/Ancient_Egypt" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsKBe3DT06GU2AKOJzLe0mKt33O71D1OpFH19DHLrHImlOeBwdFw-11xBCSVy1o6c7-FBT6hUKrEWlnpc1-GVhiCiRGTSeidOj1ff3uWKMBqk9LfDLhVxgumkR4QYsFdU9zp9N35jIpp4/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkfjfOZQGkGMfnI8Ef-EGw7Ob9aDjGFd63n9NRGawJXUkPaLum4iK2XP3TarMd9NWGj5ntYrKiIPPEikwe6Sh3gQPDALWBbAEoGZ3hCLAC0i4mPOsVPsX_lgBYIktZzs-IvhmPIF91W1Y/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: 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: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What exactly is a Qwiki made using Qwiki creator?</b></span> </div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now Qwiki has added a Qwiki creator. This Qwiki creator is a type of a search engine that aids you in creating a lovely multimedia presentation on a topic of your choice. It doesn’t give you links but rather creates a multimedia presentation around your search item. Consequently it creates a story consisting of images, text, audio and video on your subject. You can add narration or use their digital voices. The recording above gives the idea of how a Qwiki multimedia presentation plays.  You’ll notice a film strip that appears below which enables you to ski to another part of the presentation.The site provided a demo video </span></div><div class="qwiki-embed" id="OiJp80-6CaEEW"><a href="http://www.qwiki.com/AboutUs?q=6CaEEW" target="_blank">Play the Qwiki: Qwiki Demo & Background</a></div><script async="" class="qwiki-embedder" id="OiJp80-6CaEEW" src="http://s1.ikiwq.com/embed/2.5/embed.min.js"></script> <br />  <br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How to make your own Qwiki </span></b></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. Sign up to the site. <br />2. Once you have signed up it will be a good idea to watch their introductory video that tells you all the steps. I have embedded it below. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="qwiki-embed" id="ZRpLql-TVD2ZV"><a href="http://www.qwiki.com/Tutorial?q=TVD2ZV" target="_blank">Play the Qwiki: The Qwiki Creator</a></div><script async="" class="qwiki-embedder" id="ZRpLql-TVD2ZV" src="http://s1.ikiwq.com/embed/2.5/embed.min.js"></script> <br />  <br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Upload your content or link references in the exact order that you wish everything to appear. This necessitates careful planning. Voice recordings are limited to 20 seconds. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. Caption your content. You are presented with a grid to caption your all your content. This is where you insert your links. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br />When you sign in it seems that everything is clearly indication at the place where you create your Qwiki.  </span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Qwiki in the classroom</span></b></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. I haven’t actually created my own Qwiki yet, but plan to! It seems to be a great way to get students creating a multimedia presentation for a project. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. Students could also use the Qwiki encyclopaedia site to learn information from their 3 million plus entries.  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. Teachers could also create great resources for their classess using Qwiki. </span></div></div>

30 days of web tools Qwiki Web tools 30 days of Web Tools:#5: Create your own multimedia Qwiki

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30 days of Web Tools: #4: Curating with Paper.li

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal</i><br />Have you discovered, like me, that Twitter is a very beneficial way of learning from a  PLN (Personal Learning Community)? I find most of my ideas stem from my educational Twitter community. Every day I come across an educational newspaper that has been created by a PLN member using Paper.Li and their Twitter feeds so I decided it was time to try it out for myself.</span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><h3> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />What is Paper.li?</b></span></h3></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWnfFD1vmlgFBCTS-rncsG2cmxH_GZoMrFc8O4Lsgt-i9RZ3YmbY-YtzAtH7W61YTaJDupJ3MeLDpt0d1QTedtx0C99ybbPULHFmRfNwq_BwE9X-ay4NEUfASlOVPxUcY85HUC-ztKN0/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgq_Julq0MNrB4I-1qPvDRoYrRVgHNBBvuSKqHjzbC4rw3HXN5bndwL69uiUJYqMH0IQ4eweog-7QOBdnuszgPb15TYnDBtFGbwBeRtYP6I7Ka-jc08hQCjFNGEWB6bsCwY53gTbuDFk/?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> <br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Curation, as you probably know, is the new buzz word. Paper.li is a free curation tool that takes Twitter links from people you follow or specify and automatically publishes a digital newspaper on a daily or weekly basis. What happens, in more detail, is you tell it which sources to use. Paper.Li then pulls from those sources and arranges the material in different categories. Very clever!  After you have signed in you will be asked to <i>Start your paper</i>. <a href="http://paper.li/"><b>Paper.li</b></a> is a free service that takes links from the people you follow on Twitter and organizes those links into a virtual paper for easy reading. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><h3> <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Finding sources to add</b></span></h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZhhoWnFNz5r5VMYvXrbniaBuJDRZMZR9tD6MJU5uZJngiY28XNGHBSIUbqT1JggXYgu2ks5JP7chUgOT6boIUPDbDh1D-2I2yPNc9CdC8hiTLMxlQCnZiFXE3CUcURTEYR6Hu8G3wpU/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8DIE8hpBcuRjTzVPhw29-WN6g5LUHErjb6rcVdsgmPsdL8jLKxVCir272q_AwLNhUl-xv0Ealmj0fOt3-SBUbJIPpudoWqBvW80zec-_LLWNHPVkZFm0PalW1fvOEn7pdpUu2sQuYPo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once you click on 'Start your paper' as shown on the right you will be required to choose your sources. One has to be choosy in who you add as your sources if you have a desired outcome for the final version. Paper.li allows you to add around 25 sources from traditional news sources, Twitter hashtags, or Twitter list feeds. I experimented about four times with this not realising that each time my Paper.Li might have been circulating among my Twitter followers! Oh dear! If that happens to you, then delete the newspaper each time when you start again because it saves automatically. </span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzV_XXERsvQjbQLSdrXIMsEFyXDhlxxhPMaXcauNb3CKGuxqFygvCuwNqKl9ior0Z8PoGxjNKLsUd2rITM9HdeKJiKSxAALY0RUMxeG-fGNa-8jnP_9wRG-8MTsnAiHR6jSSTEsKG7xEU/s1600-h/image%25255B10%25255D.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEN85bgtqnfiIE4DF8rdl32Da7DBM9qiPEPIcKdHs0QJpVFwmWBri0Ve0JxJeZc8VyQbdUvQbD0LXeWfs5U0XSoOmhK3YqgsBUaDD7x1-Qmet71XDazr36jrk8uI2BimL5195ZGOuJtcE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The diagram on the left shows how the page looks when you are adding your various sources.At this point you have to be very selective and only choose the sources you really want to draw from. Make your selections from the left grey bar, or add your own hashtags to the window at the tip of the middle column, and drag them accross. </span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br /> </b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">How to make your own Paper.li</b></h3></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So let’s get started. Give Paper.Li a try. Here is a short basic list of steps: </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. Ask Google for<a href="http://paper.li/"> http://paper.li/</a><br />2. Select “Start your paper Paper”.<br />3. You will be prompted to sign in using Twitter.<br />4. Select “Create a newspaper”<br />5. Provide the sources for your paper – lists, hashtags, or twitter accounts from which you want the paper created </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />I came across a very good screencast from an educator saying how she went about making her first Paper.li so I am going to embed it here. </span><iframe frameborder="0" height="396" src="http://www.screenr.com/embed/92Ss" width="420"></iframe> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.screenr.com/92Ss" title="http://www.screenr.com/92Ss">http://www.screenr.com/92Ss</a><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><h3> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>The structure of a Paper.li (click on the thumbnail)</b></span></h3></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://paper.li/fibeal/1341787139#" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnBx4O0m8-DIx-GKihdKxTiap5h6cffWEN7MnFfPHbcFiCmptmlDZotXphWpy1r0OkGSGhXbnbSTavILzStIfHONl_wan05piwBfcEcyh32ryMiSG5xMpdO_Hi-s_DJt1_FduOniKS8Y/?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><span style="font-size: small;">This picture shows how a Paper.Li turns out. Basically you don’t much say over what appears – the tweets are sourced by Paper.Li from the sources you provided. I found that I deleted a number of the tweets as they weren’t relevant to what I wanted, and then Paper.li just added another.  If you click on this thumbnail you’ll be taken to the actual paper I created which gives a good idea of the structure. If you are unsuccessful here is the URL: </span><a href="http://paper.li/fibeal/1341787139#" style="background-color: white;">http://paper.li/fibeal/1341787139#</a></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><h3> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to use Paper.Li as an educator</b></span></h3></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Set up a class hashtag if your school allows it.  Recognize that tweets with links to articles, videos, and images, make the best content for Paper.li. You could even create a relevant  paper a week for your students. </span></span><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />2. Student’s could use paper.li to create newspapers that are aligned to a particular topic. They would then have to source people who write or tweet on their topic, or a hashtag that is used for that particular topic. Here are three examples of subject specific Paper.Li’s from Lucy Grey. One is devoted to <a href="http://paper.li/elemenous/global-education">global education</a>, another to <a href="http://paper.li/elemenous/1339386897">mobile learning</a> and a third focuses on her <a href="http://paper.li/elemenous">favourite general education resources and thought leaders</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />3. You could set up a hashtag based on a Unit of work you want to cover,  and then tweet a series of web pages, videos, articles, etc. on that topic. Your students could then read your Tweet Paper for the day to get information.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Undoubtedly as you read this blogpost your mind will be jumping to ideas that are relevant and specific to you for trying out Paper.Li. Would love to hear about them!</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><h3> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Further reading</b></span></h3></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) A newspaper of tweets:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mullinshe.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/a-newspaper-of-tweets/">http://mullinshe.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/a-newspaper-of-tweets/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2) Revisiting paper.li as a curation tool:<br /><a href="http://www.lucygray.org/weblog/2012/06/revisiting-paperli-as-a-curation-tool.html">http://www.lucygray.org/weblog/2012/06/revisiting-paperli-as-a-curation-tool.html</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3) Provide students with a personalised newspaper every day<br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/10/provide-students-with-personalized.html">http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/10/provide-students-with-personalized.html</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4) Kate Morgan: Curating the classroom<br /><a href="http://community.paper.li/2011/10/12/kate-morgan-curating-the-classroom/">http://community.paper.li/2011/10/12/kate-morgan-curating-the-classroom/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5)How to use Paper.li</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.stayonsearch.com/how-to-use-paper-li-the-daily-twitter-newspaper">http://www.stayonsearch.com/how-to-use-paper-li-the-daily-twitter-newspaper</a></span></div></div>

30 days of web tools PaperLi Web tools 30 days of Web Tools: #4: Curating with Paper.li

Submitted by Fiona Beal Have you discovered, like me, that Twitter is a very beneficial way of learning from a  PLN (Personal Learning Commu...

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30 days of Web Tools: #3: Vocaroo.com and other great free online audio recorders

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Internet has a wonderful array of free online recorders that can be very useful in a classroom. In this post I will mention seven of them and in the Slideshare that follows I have added instructions on how to use them. Most of these are really easy to use, especially as they don't require one to download any software. Audio recordings are very useful for reading - I have used them in a project where a class shared the books we were reading with another class.  Apart from that they can be used for quick audio messages on a blog or wiki. </div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">1.Vocaroo.com</span></b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJYk0WIMMdnqkcn41b0sLdAFXi5eHUUbv3mF06azzeksgdmGM3nO2N6RER3kSGuj2uTmzlP0xG3b-Q8-fN6deGhp9d4C0-wicdSll7UbLMi4_9ZBU8uMtVd5AhZ8Wj-rw32u-5S2pGHw/s1600-h/vocaroo13.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="vocaroo1" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_A-y-zQ25vq2wdI1yaRPOWRLFEDsKlOxv98bwDcn9-XIt0c9tqbd9TA9VkiJrbrM0RPpA33PczQJKSvp1lzt8U3QCbiygDsVOSWjbLXMCcU-mDNi_eQilKcrS3eye92jTJ9fayT0hP1s/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="vocaroo1" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vocaroo.com has long been a favourite of mine when it comes to creating a quick sound file to either display on a blog or wiki, or even send by email to a friend or colleague. It is also useful to use for projects. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">2.Lal.io.com</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl5lTjX1tCw-0A-scfp9tsek-oMRFWTGEALLl7bKgjqYYzZHjhdiiQjHtueLixhHfPXmzxaOsLfTyOqNItNP7EtBD_Aw1Eo-BIalkGzqxUCKbDMuCVPY5qf-AiOqb7wzYi7mLYBDdX6ck/s1600-h/image4.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61d378YtWu8LDL6klLJFfqgr61c043eWG69caSmBAgwTfp_vipw0tfbVb5v4pMMKr6qcWp9qn1OId2tsnFb9SwKXC0Tf9aS0NEIDjV71LHYSlUKvTdaFajyYU4BQpBHg9DGEoWS-otAc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A useful site where you can type a message and it is read out using a voice synthesiser. There doesn't seem to be a limit to the length of the message. You can share the link to share the message. You can change the pitch, speed and more. It's a great way of giving instructions or homework over the net.</div><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">3.Yakitome</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5DX_R9ABAubExavKeiSMaUvkGYVOO1CGj14F06sL9dskXSW7x7XfzY-E_wF7DbK8_H-SCcZpqSx0Z2rCtLkpJ5iJijpNiejY83RnScHkSw9lVEvDZkrmMCASeLLCfIROpe2gCaG8j6E/s1600-h/image8.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmUCFp4McCvJYBegM9msMIMYDe99kwsElZogst5ZOQK9-y0WO65oE6yuZdF63EPi8c9ZTLPUPNklMKHLWMZ5bZK7vb0Xe24_7mNJ_COXY3RctJRzkw8a6JfHyHolfVC7h77dt5llegrzk/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Free text to speech. Uses the world's best text to speech (TTS) software. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's fast and easy to use. Get started right away! No software to download or install. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Unlike all other TTS websites, YAKiToMe! is 100% free!</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">4.Audioboo</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObl1XTTNVHAeBVYkkztqLmiLIVnosiOwrOKtyfnZEJBXeWFD8KfsNoLj65Y2ZYA5CDgj67NZAe7chdS3F8rx1QeRem29XndXEJX539kI3btWJsWLcyX-4a_s7V-uqMmkTIuGsxPTf39c/s1600-h/audioboo1%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audioboo1" border="0" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDAma_NK4h0KsMm7kATyshvt0-8Du33orDl4VhluJKVbWTh7SY44P4ZQfJ1vBeaIPGYnwZKhC_fK6-CjgZkw2px9FUcz_4HRetasjevLKgvnPexDOkg-yhedaDzJYkg29B_DnYf0CBA8s/?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="audioboo1" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Audioboo is a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and share audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.  You can use it for reporting, for story-telling, educational use or quick tips.</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">5.Croak.it</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcM6zSk7HAopWlPjCxSLL-UZlXYLEnvbko_a3t0Gu7zBzICalYNUzYAzHea8KuY8vRT620Bypl9wyTZhZE8N6To_9KoN97eBESXl9Qd0Q_axwLG0cOctthm59neXq0zCdhmDJ5J3agtPA/s1600-h/croak.it1%25255B2%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="croak.it1" border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwJxzeKOYF603m6z0UhT1F6-1yt3GH0cy7tX8RwzgqagH5e6LGy0FEtkQLgw4flw0flFcwx6DKSvGMhttfhXGXWrG6Ws8CVFxSFx5w0CG8GwtssgkiFwhjbiNMEzT5vBo0Cl8_NT4MKE/?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="croak.it1" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Croak.it is an online recorder where you use your voice everywhere. Push! Speak! Share! There is a video with instructions on Facebook </span><a href="http://bit.ly/NdQvaq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://bit.ly/NdQvaq</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Your crak.it can be shared via Facbook, twitter ora mediukm of your choice. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">6.Talktyper</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4O_hvy1oQI_mCdgDVFtTm1azX65rYSh9yNWA7QAVVnnAluofK19Mr9BlYdp82xpGrsNBt7VC6eemvYNhUhD86JSHXWIBJrHN7sup_lCl2vU9n6J1ii8dUmHF4qhsJVHmXUJ0a6_4c2A/s1600-h/Talktyper%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Talktyper" border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWsaxOx8h1XeaTVTQZRAUV41ajO4HKf90jsygMXRNggQrMQKzqKIOU15iMEEYQenCz74tu9yuCg1SQZ11YhQYK0RJjhpXK64OKLZa5ubg93j3vk1NBb7elOueZSLuKW7cDtzpfwMhC7E/?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="Talktyper" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talktyper is free speech to text dictation software in a browser. To work Talktyper you click the microphone and speak. The dictated words appear in the upper box. Dictate about one sentence at a time. When the speech is recognized, it will appear in red. Note that you can also dictate basic punctuation by saying things like "period", "question mark", "new paragraph", etc. You then edit and click the arrow to move the text into the main body of the application.</span> <br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">7.Vozme</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp4uQerUnbPlF6ZYNe4ITB6vJL34p-eEXDemnIFnTuZspHeEDSDVv7kqKMV0Uaj63_PeEeNbt0bAMbOP3Om65fEO3M0nVzfuxb0X5AQp_WTqhtydhEJrNwylDhFTsALW2HxCBjgjIE4OY/s1600-h/vozMe1%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="vozMe1" border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk83u77S6Txe8VrJWSc6s-XM39GgrKSNanLLU75AniQVzacDj3KstfhxOPt8YAw7VqY5buyLi79bGwz-N_fZi3IA1eJTJ6YvQw61Z70vVkiuxZIcscLupToGx4evL0K1h3v8WlrNZi8KA/?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="vozMe1" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">From text to speech (speech synthesis). online tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech. vozMe uses speech synthesis</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to use these online audio recorders </span></b><br /><div id="__ss_13575876" style="width: 425px;"><b style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/online-audio-recorders" title="Online audio recorders">Online audio recorders</a></b><object height="355" id="__sse13575876" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=onlineaudiorecorders-120708092054-phpapp02&stripped_title=online-audio-recorders&userName=fionabeal" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed name="__sse13575876" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=onlineaudiorecorders-120708092054-phpapp02&stripped_title=online-audio-recorders&userName=fionabeal" 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/fionabeal">Fiona Beal</a>.</div></div><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/25-free-digital-audio-editors/">http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/25-free-digital-audio-editors/</a></div>

30 days of web tools Vocaroo Web tools 30 days of Web Tools: #3: Vocaroo.com and other great free online audio recorders

The Internet has a wonderful array of free online recorders that can be very useful in a classroom. In this post I will mention seven of th...

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30 days of Web Tools: #1: Use Storify.com to capture a tweetchat

<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/AVvXsEjVIHfc6PbJbPelIckezWQptaxx4DGZ6ETPXPnUTHLe5hcq3AGBDyZevYv1EHrC0etS8DuSb9vSLhpBqBdHBg-lkAuysXbeU9WEiWdyCCCMQ_vr7pfZD2mhaYG2dAhOt7heH0IId4tXqQk/s1600-h/image3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="43" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigbxMc3DMjRjxC7Cemig_Zlny1v9GV0pAGAMrAFSWmZmzusbUlGuhwU7dmaI4uvBTcwJgAUlaeB3Q2JFz_tmMYWkngWGcQBLjyBPeephJID3ciAb3qMJKFg05a31V7efHMXoZkv-vEe68/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="183" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today sees the start of a series called <i><b>“30 days of Web Tools”</b></i> where I plan to either focus on a single Web Tool that could interest teachers, or on a collection of Web Tools.  Recently I discovered this amazing tool called <i>Storify</i> where you can turn an event into an interesting media story and I wrote a blogpost about it yesterday showing my first attempt - <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/using-storifycom-to-summarise-tweetchat.html">Using Storify.com to summarise a tweetchat from #edchatsa</a>. Today I would like to focus on using Storify to document all the tweets in a tweetchat. As my example I am going to use the tweets from our #edchatsa discussion last night on the topic '<i>What can be done in South Africa to enhance the status of the teaching profession?' </i></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>Other tweet capturing tools I have tried</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Using Twitter as a hashtag at an event is very common these days, and generally one wants to capture the tweets before they disappear into cyberspace after a few days. I haven’t been very successful in finding just the right tool I want to use for capturing hashtag tweets. What I am looking for is a tool that:</span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">captures all the tweets</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">puts them into chronological order</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">allows embedding</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">can be made into a PDF </span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1. Tweetdoc</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrrkNEBWIwy_KMGWamyciyRLOiBEnRsTErPqEdhoWuaVxuY3jQsFJuv4zNQ6rwlxO-hZJj4ACXRD1G9m48BnOvkXjHU7jEHQSxNdat6KbFEVJrRcumOO13rladMVTLze3oxHoMQHu7tKY/s1600-h/image6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfmWDa21Ew2gCiuscpufE9IbxFSNj_ghuBO331YdeKyXlBq2lDKxElEPDSJLrqv67Ne5OMQgVeonz9xwjEsBsKsaVEQ1XcA7k40R2rxrtf5hu3QLQjtdkPZ1hWPOgwoEfycIqgZY8tHhU/?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 /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.tweetdoc.org/">Tweetdoc</a> could be a great tweet capture tool if only it worked for me! More often than not I just haven’t been successful with creating a PDF with Tweetdoc. </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><span style="font-size: small;">2. Archivist</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPgf3KdCuNpaAV325myMBd-l54I0kaPvb0Gxb2vCc60NMo16gIrvzw53g8_4NjLhZp-5QJKXt0k3F08O1BhWPsbIW8air_P9xDFt8BG-o-tOrJlHka7aprSRLSOtPTvQZwPvRXu4f_iqg/s1600-h/image11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMH5ZmDtupgBfQT05g9hAmkYhXn1aeDPmmddgr5mBNDl1BGH2e5LSR9O5YdbZe3fUUXBFmJT6zLfpqEeD0FPfVUMTzhGtLBfXWq-T3S7E-zj_XGap2dj8yiPOMQEPihbLzIInlwmsAxUk/?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;">I have <a href="http://archivist.visitmix.com/">The Archivist</a> installed on my computer and I sometimes use it as an online application. It captures all the tweets beautifully, but as far as I can see you have to use the application to read them.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Using Storify to capture tweets</b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Storify seems to fulfill my requirements mentioned above.  It captures all the tweets, you can change them to chronological order, it allows different kinds of embedding and one can create a PDF document by sending your Storify document to Google Docs using a Chrome extension called '<i>Send to Google Docs</i>'.  I would like to show you the process of doing all this.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><u style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></u></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><u style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>First</b>,</u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> as mentioned yesterday,join Storify, log in and click on Create a story. A window for writing in opens. Write the title of the chat in the first box and a description of the event in the second box.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtLaf3_UY8BeFw3ktLnpYfAxj53QQHbqo3kbQxjgb112KJLcbPFWLLds-Yh9LLvj38uXhPBJMBGYGTEFLLh12VPn01-pNmJ8trJTTSc5yvEfy1JQCDmDFEEIwd04vfyo-9bRWl-lF3rQ/s1600-h/image43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68FiqtkZuPixz5LttAv-xtVgBCxaDXmmIu_4wfL6d6xg8PpHdPfUsspn9qUISJQAlWs3paltrm9jVBszpNremGN3dcqRP_8sK5JHpG4EmturbooCZ4ZgOT_kR-8-1eRQq6hy99mIXmJ4/?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;"><b><u>Next</u></b>, in the section on the right hand side click on the Twitter icon and enter the hashtag. Soon all the tweets will appear starting with the most recent tweets, 20 tweets at a time. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK57RvQ5IyXOuRGlpRlkHYnlztv0odymEsjaiedcD06Nf1f7bZPrrFvS9sYfob_1lyfPbg7hKuStStThCldBZZNAqBNfc-7l2ASukdHIe5lfgobkUJZvdVRUFh_GjbKms_siTrCDimHcw/s1600-h/image24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnOQhn_MyeNXU0WOuX44l4i47rWlgHbi0SWCWnEC3n55aWCHQwapYpy0Jv6WpMJJeqvHJFs1MlBZKPLCETSTA3JpTdN_ayIFKSy34izklNst_kH4TorGM7GkgXhTiY0tCqt9VxCknz-M/?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;"><b><u>After that</u></b> choose <i>Add them all</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/AVvXsEg0z7kUFl_QXUuam-etunLZlPlhcy9VuFpQ-Drq9kaF3etxjCIALVtKXSU6FnLhaI94d9fUHxee1ROIMxunUDlwxXgTMgJNQcguKMfaTSGJgEyh9FagpT3yzjhMe7wbXSJ4Bdi_YVeCGzk/s1600-h/image28.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLA0mT8m-eTtDYV00LoHZzEw54ZLI1WH8XjTlI6XR3zE8ZTsZfYmbdbFFrWF1VUoZyCwDOqee-JAoa1U2yBBgQpKuCsA-5kQmg6akZdtZZxqnrtRmCXa07CkZ1kL62qlsMDsv460vj3w/?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;"><b><u>Continue</u></b> doing this until all the tweets for the discussion have been added.</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/AVvXsEibq0cdpUcO1wy7cY7QgCtwBEyU27cXZ-9mVOYwbRqUmiiKu5hEjg6uJ3_kJiTvLNRJ8_9RCTwpOzkBIN3nktqPj-kbwVg7LHHx25B9EtLshC3_xcoXBFjehOT5ma0_PfzlcQwPrvZXap0/s1600-h/image32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgCG3ejkfvkSIiVtxjjerOL7Zs8ypMumWQ7v3eDpQ0dZJneHEAFftKUlaVgvefHM1Xuf_x_5svZKJlUAfG21s68pgobdIGbg6wj5bCx1IQko52eafnxuHqqba3XQq7HzdqUWjWfns3tIA/?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;"><b><u>Now</u></b> you want to put the tweets into chronological order from the beginning to the end. Choose the relevant arrow at the top of the 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/AVvXsEjwq5aHHbvct3V1fDdl_ssJPQk35F6rigQ1H0TgNi_bbkap3lU2AQiXnWKg7HdeqwMux_Sme0B5SOrHspQTZJslcqXo0RL6yNLgYjh7h5ua8T3bUkhlivSwFWim-A12nS9XWUa_-8P5qjE/s1600-h/image36.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkn_MtOjdbd1zfiW2YiO0cTp4NaqioyeBpm61-efP_y3IuNSarKgXFxvMT7qPFRd48rZ7Co1CgLmg96ue3IQBto6_g5YsB4Bb4eAO-yRf9pperCGFH5iQSlcRYuKPTquqgLKM4GUC_c_0/?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;"><b><u>Finally</u></b> publish your tweet summary. At the top of the page choose<u> </u><i>Save now</i> and then <i>Publish.</i><span style="font-size: small;">The final published document appears.</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/AVvXsEgKftU5INiqGCyPr8FGkDXzHnZ6WdObDHmzrCaMC1k8RHCAqHKrGHfvyz2JODytebVia22C7unTWMA7IxOIrvcsg1FBHqK2qfZSOX6a8YzguHIpzjKTpsiDIu89mDy90CHun5FuocBKP38/s1600-h/image51.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF-wu8EWN9LuG-9oMTulmtM6tI1czrW7588UvIDRLG4ZXuvvsofHe6N6Fw7l1lztwY0EAExQ2EVJxIfzVNFd2V8gvMGIdE0ThNHWRIQmFNUFDTzNEEE4IMB0_K1QMNznOeNdT0FMjTFU4/?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;">If you would like to take a look at the final tweet summary that was created, please open this link: <a href="http://storify.com/fibeal/what-can-be-done-in-south-africa-to-enhance-the-st">http://storify.com/fibeal/what-can-be-done-in-south-africa-to-enhance-the-st</a></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Exporting your document as a PDF</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Storify gives you a number of options for exporting your new document – to a blog, share, embed.. but it <u><i>doesn’t </i></u>mention creating a PDF! So the way I create a PDF is as follows:</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.   On your Chrome toolbar add a free extension from the Chrome webstore called ‘<i>Send  to Google Docs</i>’.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.   Click on that extension icon to send the Storify document to Google Docs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.   Once in Google Docs choose ‘<i>Download the original’ </i>which it then does as a PDF.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Relevance to education </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This could be a great way for teachers to capture a Professional Development event.</span> If one member of staff is attending a Conference they could use this to capture the conference tweets and share them with other members of staff. Storify could also be used to capture a lesson especially if you have a twitter hashtag that you use for your class.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div></div>

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Using Storify.com to summarise a tweetchat from #edchatsa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Submitted by Fiona Beal </span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>#edchatsa</i> is the hashtag for our weekly twitter chat for South African teachers on topics of educational interest. These chats take place on a Monday evening from 8:30pm – 9:30pm. This blogpost aims to show you how I went about summarising a chat using Storify.com</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdM0olfueJzrRpOOkYnid94n8XIzkU46SyLmvkT3af4ShUJ_IEQoxBeZocylBB1bm58nuAygyIIfNs7mNHOF_Ft_0NiWv3nIr_g7dloKvhnZWA_uS_yoP1-npHu8wIuXe0DfH___JZYvU/s1600/storify.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdM0olfueJzrRpOOkYnid94n8XIzkU46SyLmvkT3af4ShUJ_IEQoxBeZocylBB1bm58nuAygyIIfNs7mNHOF_Ft_0NiWv3nIr_g7dloKvhnZWA_uS_yoP1-npHu8wIuXe0DfH___JZYvU/s1600/storify.JPG" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today curating is the buzz word with many amazing sites available to do just that. Storify is a form of curating – one can gather tweets, comments, videos, images and other media from all around the Web and put them into one post. Basically it is a way of creating stories using social media. I thought I would try out <i>Storify </i>today to see how it all works. I decided to use it to summarise our last #edchatsa talk on 25th June 2012 from 8:30 – 9:30pm, namely: </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">‘How can we ensure fair assessment in collaborative learning when not every child contributes equally?’</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At first it took a while to get my head around Storify, and then suddenly I realised how very easy it actually is!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Step 1: Open <a href="http://storify.com/">Storify.com</a> and join</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once you have joined you click on <i>Create story.</i> A lovely big screen for writing opens up.</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/AVvXsEj9dTVRDLSeZdDtrXrHFTpATNAGkCfWu-7tT6gVV-NWrHuwzE90rJUgWfjGmT2iWzPm5ovyr7XTbwLr1HjfN_FzRmamkTvEV4dduv9U-EIlgLpflkCUONLoxLSBplIpXSWz0FDqjR0pEZY/s1600-h/image%25255B2%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3gor9HEe9w-fBdwRPQ4cs5q6lMvd4FAAagoYnFYwDBYB3sTyt0Jj8euFvgVWMn97lnJaHICiSkmEL7-zYfFQg5h8T7axDmhnCF1hAVIr4Nqanm1WRNfOIx-7xGDMCWCkLOcAKeaig-0/?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 /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Step 2: Find your media</b></span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the right hand side of the big screen is another section that contains the place to find your media.</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/AVvXsEhaZ0EIFACTmTn5ztavwwk5bq5aLWPIZKpCTWzGkLEGgn_OELgJrdhR1Enq9lAv3ZB1Sy_MRYvZ0N4W651mNNLgH0FzC8-YeHKY9OwggR1HdIbgGtKbJ-R35XV719t_h3uZWgyeutgaG8o/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvrvJRYRGxO_dDnoc9QaxbhNDz-wmPHep3oF7R4vA2TiYaZH5perv3dt1ClSlaU6JAZJDAkAKIXLnwU02_h7HdSaaPpI8yKtiP6VEBGfe5e6MBYrxlJDk2kRnFWK2NPlckNkQwBKGlvM/?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="247" /></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;">Since I was keen to summarise a Twitter chat I asked for the Twitter hashtag <i>#edchatsa</i> and then searched for the date and the time I wanted to refer to </span></div>.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Take a look...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1P-0YJbb_HRtoaTQgOZewOxICDGNxuFAZGxlyO8Q46zOeirjvZRwMpKcQu5csGbfIIFsOx4UWIWG9wIgPtwmQyS72mB9WtDI-9SU1IlXhhVn6IBWwP0TWEqIGDhn_9F7Hr0INSZElDMI/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ-ZRGxZK6iw3Tclq7FeFnELKOSXvB9KbngdWbctXDSaislXd-tNBAis-i7cxXWElWcukseVnh0-hFaVHduZ4pxDffkf4UcZ7P5NKHfEs_sb8hFmHodVpCxPdh_CAf-0bh3taW-Oyfng/?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 /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you would like to see the finished result please open this link. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://storify.com/fibeal/how-can-we-ensure-fair-assessment-in-collaborative">http://storify.com/fibeal/how-can-we-ensure-fair-assessment-in-collaborative</a><br /><br />If you would like to read all the tweets separately here is the link:<br /><a href="http://storify.com/fibeal/tweet-summary-edchatsa-25-june-fair-assessment-of">http://storify.com/fibeal/tweet-summary-edchatsa-25-june-fair-assessment-of</a></div></div></div>

Tutorials Twitter Web tools Using Storify.com to summarise a tweetchat from #edchatsa

Submitted by Fiona Beal #edchatsa is the hashtag for our weekly twitter chat for South African teachers on topics of educational interest. ...

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