30 days of Web Tools #16: Use Pen.io to create a quick page with a URL
Pen.io is an interesting application for making a quick page with a URL. (Whatever you do in Google Docs will also be given a web URL but this is a much quicker method.)
1. Go to http://www.pen.io/. You will notice a straightforward page with a code in the left box entitled ‘Page name’. The code remains as the URL of your new page.
2. Give your page a password and then click on ‘Create new page’. You’ll be taken to the page where you can start writing.
3. Give your page a title...Read more
Do you sometimes you wish you could cut a funny or interesting part out of a YouTube video and make a little clip to share with your class? Well, you can with Tube Chop!
1. Open http://www.tubechop.com/
2. Type in the URL of the video you want or the name of the video to chop and press Search. I put in ‘Gotta Share’ for one of my favourite videos. The original video URL for this video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s
3. Set the beginning of the clip and then cli...
Over the last two weeks Microsoft Partners in Learning in Johannesburg has been holding weekly webinars on Wednesday evenings on assessing 21st Century skills and using the LEAP21 materials. These are held on Wednesdays from 6pm – 6:30 pm. Please use the following URL to join but if you are joining the Lync webinar platformfor the first time you’ll be asked to download an add-on for Lync and that might take a while (give yourselves 40 mins to be safe!) Here is the link: https://join.microsof...
Have you ever found that you are on a website and you want to quickly print the page or a portion of the page? When it prints it is lopsided because it was meant to be on landscape, it is 16 pages long which you didn’t realise plus you have wasted ink with a whole lot if unnecessary pictures and words (not to mention unwanted ads!)? That has happened to me so I was delighted to come across Print Friendly (http://www.printfriendly.com/) .
After opening Print Friendly, the first th...
You may run into times when you’re offline and want to watch a YouTube video, or you want to share a YouTube video with your class without going online and waiting for the video to open (a problem in SA with bandwidth). In those cases, you need an actual copy of the video rather than a link to the YouTube site. You can download videos to your computer using a marvelous free online tool called KeepVid (http://keepvid.com). This post aims to give directions on how to do this if you are new to Keep...
About Tudor…
Tudor Clee is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand specializing in Criminal and Traffic law. After a series of uphill battles in New Zealand, Tudor wanted to do something to serve a greater purpose. He decided to create a Worldbook project called ‘Touchable Earth’. SchoolNetSA was Tudor’s host in South Africa and on the right you can see him along with Omashani Naidoo from SchoolNet.
About the Touchable Earth project…
‘Touch...
Often when you are watching a presentation and you have computer access you want to make a comment on what the presenter is saying. Twitter is most often used for this. But often, if one wishes the responses to be more private a backchanneling programme like Today’s Meet is used.
What is Today’sMeet?
Today’s meet is a simple way to set up an instant live chat room. It allows participants to ‘backchannel’. This means they can get fully involved by adding their comments and thoughts...
Audacity is not really a webtool as such but it is a free tool that can be downloaded from the web. It is one of those tools that you simply cannot be without as a teacher! To put it in a nutshell, Audacity is a simple sound editing programme that is used to create MP3s.
What can Audacity be used for?
Audacity can be used across platforms from any operating system which is a big plus. It can be used to record live audio and even edit various sound files. It can export files as MP3s but f...
SchoolNet has provided a number of free online courses in technology integration this year mainly aimed at its premium members (a free membership to South African teachers). We are pleased to announce the next two short, online courses for August and September 2012, and invite you to sign up for the August course via the Google forms. These short courses are supported by weekly optional 30 minute webinars, and offer a certificate of Completion when completed.
1. ‘Technify your classroom’ fr...
