Saturday, April 25, 2009

Exploration and Experimentation

Librarian Chick Wiki
http://librarianchick.pbwiki.com/
Links to all sorts of Web2.0 tools organized by category for easy access.

Learning Event Generators
http://www.newtools.org/showtxt.php?docid=737
One of a set of "generators". This one has 2500 possible activity challenges for learners to try. There are a couple of other learning event generators listed here. Source: EdTech Women of Web2.0 podcast25/03/09

Skitch: Snap, Draw, Share
http://skitch.com/
Skitch is The Internet Camera™ for Mac users who want or need to capture on-screen content. Click on the snap button to take a picture of the screen, then annotate or draw. The pic of the Nano speaker below was easily grabbed, an arrow was quickly added and the image was annotated in seconds. Look here for another way to use Skitch...as part of a screencast tool set - http://learningischange.com/



Google Earth Tour of the Great Lakes
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pr/ourlakes/gl_tour.html
The Great Lakes comprises the largest freshwater system in the world holding 18% of the world's freshwater supply. " To highlight some of the interesting coastal and subsurface features of the Great Lakes, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has assembled a narrated Google Earth tour. "

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