This Web 2.0 advent calendar offers an interesting collection of recent web-based tools, all of which look useful to teachers, with some familiar and unfamiliar applications that I look forward to exploring further.
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Doug Belshaw mentioned Splashr a while back, but I’ve only just had a look. It’s a very convenient tool for displaying Flickr images and while there are lots of different styles, I made this as an example of how it could be used on an interactive whiteboard in a “guess the location” context.
Update:
Here’s another example of a Splashr presentation illustrating a field trip to London.
Doug Belshaw added an interesting video featuring Splashr in the classroom to his blog. I really like his idea of using very brief video clips to illustrate innovative classroom ICT practice! Doug also presents a nice tutorial too.
Did you come to my talk? Here’s a link to the PPT on SlideShare.
Not all the links will work, so a copy of the original PPT and all the resources is available by request. I can send this either by email or CDROM.
Jumpcut is a terrific web-based video editing application, that I discovered after Ollie Bray mentioned it on his blog. You upload movie clips and then edit and remix them. Here for example, is a short film that I created from some BBC Creative Archive footage.
The original clip is here. Why not remix it yourself?
The implications are fairly obvious; students can edit a short film as a homework assignment without requiring video editing software. Teachers can provide suitable source material. Audio clips and various effects can be added and the resulting movies tagged and shared via email, or embedded in websites. The BBC Creative Archive has been withdrawn at the end of its trial period while they consider the implications of the service. Hopefully it will be back soon.
Jumpcut is another sign that the day of a PC with zero applications installed, apart from a web browser, is approaching. Read My Uninstalled Life for more!
Earth Album is a gorgeous Flickr and Google Maps mashup. Very simple and produces many superb images.
Can it get any better? Well now that EditGrid supports charts in the latest version, I’m unable to think of any improvements. The legendary Valery35 has continued to push the possibilities with KML and his recent spreadsheet examples can plot point and line information in Google Maps/Earth as well as graphics in Google Earth (although to be honest it’s all getting a bit hard for me to follow)
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