30 Days of Web tools: #8: Use Mergely to edit and compare documents
Have you ever tried to open two documents to compare them? You wish you could see immediately what changes you have already made? Comparing, editing and sharing documents is really a way of life for most of us – and Mergely provides a way of doing this easily.
What is Mergely and how does it work?
Mergely is a useful online tool that can help you merge text documents and highlight changes made to existing documents. To do this you open Mergely and paste the original document into the left...Read more
What are Wordclouds?
Wordclouds are such fun to use in the classroom, especially when it comes to vocabulary building. Basically, using a wordcloud application one can transfer words into a cloud of interconnected words that can be arranged and used in different ways. Users can change the layout, color scheme, and fonts. Students love working with wordclouds. Two very popular free wordcloud webtools are Wordle and Tagxeedo, and I am going to explain each below plus give ideas of how ...
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Have you discovered, like me, that Twitter is a very beneficial way of learning from a PLN (Personal Learning Community)? I find most of my ideas stem from my educational Twitter community. Every day I come across an educational newspaper that has been created by a PLN member using Paper.Li and their Twitter feeds so I decided it was time to try it out for myself.
What is Paper.li?
Curation, as you probably know, is the new buzz word. Paper.li is a free curation tool...
The Internet has a wonderful array of free online recorders that can be very
useful in a classroom. In this post I will mention seven of them and in the Slideshare that follows I have added instructions on how to use them. Most of these are really easy to use, especially as they don’t require one to download any software. Audio recordings are very useful for reading – I have used them in a project where a class shared the books we were reading with another class. Apart from that they c...
Google Forms is probably one of the most useful and often underutilized Google tools. They can be used for so many different things as I will show you below. They can be embedded into blogs, wikis and websites or can just be stand-a-lones on the web. Each form creates its own spreadsheet that captures and collects the responses quickly and easily.
Here are some of the uses I have discovered:
•You can use them for general surveys
•You can get quick input from others on ...
Have you discovered Google Docs? It is one of the best technology finds available! What I love most about it is its versatility
Just recently I have been exploring Google Docs more fully and here are some of the things I have really enjoyed about using it:
Benefits of using Google Docs
*When you create and or store files in your Google Documents account, those files are available from wherever you go, through any computer with an Internet connection. This means that you don’t have to send f...
