USEFUL APPLICATIONS

Mind42 - Collaborative mindmapping (and it actually works.)

Topsy - the Twitter search engine.

Docstoc - youtube for documents. (Alternatively, scribd)

Free music samples - good quality, creative commons licenses (ie, you can use 'em...)

SCREENTOASTER - EXCELLENT screen recording application.

Gradeguru - share your notes. Or find someone else's...

SLIDESHARE - Youtube for presentations. Upload your own or search for others.

Eyejot - Send video messages!

Online presentations (forget Powerpoint!)

Slidecast How-to

Slidecast-o-matic - for a change from Powerpoint!

Collaborative brainstorming

Backchannel - comment in class

Wordle - word clouds. Very cool!

Weebly - create your own website.

Diigo - Annotate the Internet and save / share the annotations.

MINDMODO - Collaborative brainstorming

CELTX - Integrated film project package

NETVIBES- Media portal to help bring the internet to you through rss feeds & widgets

VOICE THREAD- A collaborative, multi media slide show- excellent for textual analysis

OTHER SITES

The Auteurs - Rather cool film community

Video Gaming wiki

Shift happens!

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MISCELLANEOUS

Year 6 Taster Lesson

D81 - Home of Sweded Movies

CAS - Digital Storytelling

HOMEWORK TASKS

Year 6 Taster Lesson 2009