280Slides

280 Slides

Create presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.

authorSTREAM

authorSTREAM is a platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the Internet. authorSTREAM makes it easier to share your PowerPoint slideshows through blogs, websites, on YouTube and even via iPOD. What's best is that it's all FREE! Just sign-up, upload presentations and start sharing..



Share your presentation
Upload as many Presentations as you want. Once uploaded, you get a unique URL for your presentation and a code to embed your presentation in blog or site. The embedded presentation plays as a Flash slideshow and the viewers do not need to have PowerPoint software.

Share on YouTube
If you had set up 'Rehearsed Timings' or have recorded audio 'Narrations' in your PowerPoint file, it would automatically be available in a video format (MP4) that you can upload and share on YouTube.

Share on iPod via iTunes
Your presentations will also be available to be downloaded in iTunes. Your viewers can then sync their iPods and have your presentations available even when they are not online!

Download PowerPoint
As a viewer, you can now download PowerPoint files if their respective authors have given their permission to do so. This is a great feature for those who like presentations and want to use a slide or two to enrich their own.

Keep your PowerPoint private

Scibblar

Scribblar is free!

Create your own free scribblar room now and invite others to join you.
You will be up and running in less than 10 seconds - no registration required!

scribblar is great for

* Online training and tutoring
* Revising artwork and images
* Creative brainstorming
* Sales and product demos
* Interviews and tests

Features include

* Real-time multi-user whiteboard
* Image upload and sharing
* Userlist and text chat
* Live audio communications
* No downloads, no user limits

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

What is Missing from this graph? VoiceThread example

This is an example of voicethread in it's infancy. The two comments teachers have been asked to contribute an answer to are either.
1. What this graph is about?
or
2. What is missing from this graph to make a great graph?

Feel free to leave a comment.

debategraph

Debategraph a really smart way to lay out your thinking to look at all sides of a problem or situation.

Debategraph is browser-based web-application, so there is nothing to download and install. All you need is a Windows, Macintosh or Linux computer with a modern web browser and a broadband connection.

I have found it a little tricky to use but I haven't read the instructions yet :-)Visually it is very appealing.

Screenbot

If you press the box below you will see slow scrolling text.
I'm not sure why it doesn't display the animation in this blog post.
If you do check it out you will need to press the back key in your browser to come back to this blog......



screenbot

WIZiQ

WizIQ is an online environment for educators WIZiQ

WiZiQ is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching.

As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun.

READ WRITE WEB - Web trends for '08 and Beyond

Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

Richard MacManus looks at the top trends covered on ReadWriteWeb in early 2008; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.

From: ricmac,
8 months ago

Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: semantic 3.0)

SlideShare Link

STAVCON Vodcasting Presentation

STAVCON 08 Web 2.0 and PowerPoint workshop

A short presentation on Web 2.0 in particular vodcasting type activities.
This is from a workshop I conducted for Science Teachers in Victoria. Though some of it needs further explanation (e.g. Students would have to ask the artists at myspace for permission to use their music and for unsigned bands generally this would not be a problem).
It briefly outlines the difference of Web 1 and Web 2 in terms of how we get students to use the web.

STAVCON 08 Web 2.0 and PowerPoint workshop

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: stavcon powerpoint)

SlideShare Link

If you would like to know anymore about vodcasting please contact me any time.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tools learning)

What's a VoiceThread anyway?

Glogster

This application looks cool, a bit busy but cool anyway. You create your own poster page.

Glogster

Eyejot

Eyejot is the first, comprehensive, client-free online video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. It offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. With no client to install, you can start using Eyejot immediately with any browser, on any platform.







Note: Eyejot doesn't cope on a heavily filtered network, the video can be slow and a little disjointed (making for some unattractive facial expressions). But I like the ability to put a short cut to eyejot in the toolbar.

25 Free Tools for educators

I only question pBwiki instead of wikispaces from this list (presentation). After using both (though pbwiki only for a short time) I prefer wikispaces. It is easy to use and I find the team really helpful if a bug turns up

25 Tools

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: learning tools)

Google docs in Plain English

Quizlet

Quizlet

• Study vocabulary or almost anything
• Create your own flashcards - sign up free
• Share flashcards with your friends
• View the quick guide or watch the video tour

Here is an example on Cell organelles using Quizlet

Cell Organelles

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Bitstrips

Comics pretty simple

Bit Strips would be a great way of getting students to present information in a different way. The bitstrip can be played like a book and embedded into another website or page. You can change the characters and backgrounds and the focus point. It is also easy to use.

animoto

Animoto - a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.



Yes it is my eldest, he uploaded his to youtube :-)

Dabbleboard

Dabbleboard is a powerful online whiteboard that's actually easy and fun to use. With a revolutionary new interface, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw.
Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Share and collaborate in real-time. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil.



Here are the Top 10 Reasons you should use Dabbleboard:

1. Dabbleboard is easy and fun to use. Unlike other whiteboard applications, Dabbleboard feels as natural to use as a marker on a whiteboard, or a pencil on a sheet of paper. Just draw strokes and Dabbleboard will detect most common shapes. Click anywhere and start typing to enter text. And if you need to modify anything you've already drawn, all the tools are there right next to the selected objects. No more visiting the toolbar a hundred times just to make a quick diagram!
2. Dabbleboard is fast. Since you don't need to spend time constantly changing tools in the toolbar, you can draw much faster. The natural interface also requires less of your attention, so you can focus on your ideas rather than on the software. Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw.
3. Dabbleboard is flexible. Everything you draw can be moved, resized, deleted, and replicated. Even freehand strokes. And with unlimited Undo and Redo, you'll never have to think twice about trying something new.
4. Dabbleboard produces pretty drawings. Okay, we admit you don't need your whiteboard drawings to look like works of art. But other applications that make you scribble with the mouse produce messy drawings that your friends or coworkers would have trouble even understanding. Unlike a marker or a pencil, a mouse is difficult to control precisely, so Dabbleboard steps in and cleans up your strokes for you.
5. Dabbleboard lets you easily reuse previously-made drawings. With drag-and-drop simplicity, you can add drawings to your personal library, and copy something from the library to your current drawing. You can even visit the public library and copy drawings others have made. You'll never have to draw the same thing twice. The more you use it, the more useful Dabbleboard will get.
6. Dabbleboard allows sharing and real-time collaboration with anyone anywhere in the world. Your friends and coworkers can view and edit your drawings whenever they like. Or you can log in at the same time to brainstorm ideas together.
7. Dabbleboard works with hardware you already have, including your favorite computer. Unlike some other solutions, there's no need to purchase additional proprietary equipment. You can even use it in a conference room with a projector.
8. Dabbleboard works with other software you already use. You can upload images made with other applications and embed them into Dabbleboard drawings. And you can download images made with Dabbleboard for use in other applications.
9. Dabbleboard is secure. Unless you make your drawing public, each drawing can only be viewed by those you've shared it with, and by no one else. We even make sure no one can guess the location of your drawing by using random 160-bit keys. Soon we'll offer premium accounts with SSL protection as well.
10. Dabbleboard is free! We want to help the world think and communicate visually, and we won't let a little money get in our way. Of course we do need to pay the bills, so we will be offering premium accounts at reasonable rates shortly.

Sharing Charts online

Hmm not sure about this one yet ;-)

Screencasting

Screencast.com is a TechSmith solution for business and academic professionals looking to manage and share videos, images, documents, or anything else online.

They only offer a 60 day trial for free though ............

Converting Presentations with Ispring

Ispring Free
Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. Generated Flash presentation will look as if it has always been a Flash movie.

Below is a tutorial from slideboom showing how to use Ispring

What is SlideBoom?

SlideBoom gives you a place to share your PowerPoint presentations with the world. We want to help everyone reach a worldwide audience. Of course, it's up to you who can view your creations.

SlideBoom is free and everyone is welcome to publish their slideshow here. You can find a lot of awesome presentations and insert them into your blog or web site.

The site's social feature lets you find people with similar interests, leave comments, and rate their presentations.

We appreciate users' contribution to the life of SlideBoom. We invite everyone to become a partner in helping SlideBoom grow and improve!

What is a Flowgram?

Flowgram
e are building a new communications platform that lets anyone package and share anything on the internet in ways never before possible.

Flowgram combines the advantages of slide presentations and screencasts with an interactive user experience that fully exploits the fact that almost all the information we might ever need is already on the web.

Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, documents and more on any topic, and add a voice narrative that provides context, emotion and consistency. This uniquely personalized package can be shared as an embedable widget, email or as a link to either a private group or with the world. Flowgram recipients can interact with any of its pages by clicking on links, for example, or playing and pausing videos.

Thousands of compelling Flowgrams have already been created for education, training, sales, photo journalism, humor, website walkthroughs, and tutorials etc.

What's a VoiceThread anyway?

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies.

Why use SlideShare?

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations.

- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.

SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!

Some of the things you can do on SlideShare

- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
- Synch audio to your slides.
- Market your own event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original PowerPoint / Pdf file

SlideShare Quick Tour - Summary of features & capabilities

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tutorial howto)

Camtasia tutorial on youtube

Follow the link to a basic tutorial on Camtasia from techsmith

Different technologies

What are the best technologies to use in Education?