Sunday, 31 October 2010

Update - 31 October

Vozme - from text to speech

An absolutely enormous collection of free mind mapping tools ... lots of them ... here

You might find this brand new Wallace and Gromit avatar builder amusing and/or useful ...

Mark Treadwell, from New Zealand, has compiled a list of image libraries ... many are 'creative commons' but do check out the small print ... find the list here .

Saturday, 30 October 2010

Update - 30 October

Alec Couros, Professor of educational technology & media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Canada from a tweet points out that he found 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics originally posted by Sarah Kessler

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Update - October 27

The Blogger ' thecleversheep' has produced a list of digital resources to try to make some sense out of the problems associated with copyright and digital publishing.

This is what he says about them: In an attempt to bring some order to the chaos of Creative Commons licensing, I've created a list of resources that educators might share with students as a starting point for all manner of creative projects. To explain a bit about each resource, I've appended a 3 word summary to each CC tools/resource. The podcast explains how teachers might leverage these resources to teach students about the Creative Commons...

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Update - October 23

Twitter contact @digitalmaverick has come up with the amusing and potentially useful talking pet tool … try it here.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Update - October 21

Just to let you know that Rockford's Rock Opera Part 2 has just been released as an iPhone/iPod Touch App (it'll work on the iPad soon too – once Apple have released iOS4 for that device in November).

It costs £2.99, and you can get Part 2 here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id396897529?mt=8

If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch just download it (you'll need to be onWiFi) – it's got lots of new stuff, videos etc – and, give it a review and rating, should you care to.

Part 1 is free of course: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id345554761?mt=8

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Update - October 20

Simon Haughton has updated his Bonfire Night section of his Infant Encyclopedia ... find the excitement here

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Update - October 5

There are some great resources available on the SWGfL Merlin site that can be used even if you are not a subscriber. Special mentions from me go to 'Word Detective' and 'Word Wizard'