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Saw this at NECC and is yet another effective alternative to ‘Googling’ in the classroom. It searches any web page or atricle, and then pulls out the passages with highlights on the left. The two panes work independently. Very slick stuff. Sign up for the beta – installs right onto your browser. I’ve been [...]
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Apple OSX Leopard has a very good text to speech tool. You can highlight any text on any page then have it speak using one of Apple’s latest voices. Not much is said about Apple’s text to speech, but here’s how I’ve been using it.
You enable it from the system preferences – click the icon [...]
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My current obsession is with School TV. All started with a Cog Dog Tweet, and has grown. Just ordered some more lighting rigs for my converted TV classroom to go with the blue screen set up we did when we rebuild a few classrooms for Project Based Learning. A new professional backdrop rig should help [...]
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I am, I may modestly say, a gun at Photoshop, so I am hard to please when it comes to using anything lesser. Avairy is impressive. A collection of online tools to do a massive range of creative things. Check out some of the links … I must be slow, there are plenty of time-lapse [...]
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Once again, Alan posted a tweet that I just had to sticky beak. It linked to UStream and I fiddled about with it this weekend (in between the lawn mowing). After hiding the laptop in the cubby house and using it to stream live action for Kiddy HQ in the back yard to the mower [...]
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Mogulus – This is an on-line TV station. You can plug in a web cam and do live broadcasts. You can cue between the live feed and pre-recorded videos. You can have a ticker running along the bottom of the screen, logos or even a test card when you are not transmitting. This one will [...]
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Playstations are cool. They do play great games, the video is excellent, the audio is supurb. They do have stupid sized discs and weird memory sticks, but that’s life with Sony.
But at AU$260, they do have a better quality and sized screen than the DS when it comes to surfing the internet and no additional [...]
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Seemingly, Control C is running equal with Control V as the students favourite technology. Perhaps then this site ‘Control C‘ is something that we might all find just as handy as our students. Heres a cut from the blub on their website.
How many times a day do you copy and paste something? How often do [...]
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