It’s always useful to learn of new tools that other teachers use. Here’s some from Mark Buckland.
Sites
http://mbuckland.blogspot.com/
Web2.0 in Education Blog – http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/
Tagxedo – http://www.tagxedo.com/ (makes world clouds)
tutpup – http://www.tutpup.com (Has online competitions that can be played against other users around the world)
CompFight – http://www.compfight.com/ (image search from flickr photos)
Apps to download
Jing – screen shot capture. You can drag to record the parts of the screen you want, and record audio thorugh the microphone
Mindnote – mindmapping application. Only text based (can’t add images into mind map)
Highlight – http://krugazor.free.fr/software/highlight/ (allows you to write on the screen)
Image Tricks – Search for “Image Tricks” in the App Store. (simple photos manipulations such as tints, backgrounds etc)
Apimac Timer – http://www.apimac.com/mac/timer/ (simple countdown timer)
Sizzling Keys – http://yellowmug.com/sk4it/ (adds into System prefs to control iTunes and other basic funtions)
Firefox addons
Cooliris (allows you to view images in Google images, facebook and other sites quite slickly) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
Download Statusbar (manages downloads without opening another window) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
Awesome Screenshot (not only takes screenshots of parts of a page or the whole page but also allows you to annote the image with highlights/arrows/lines etc) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-screenshot-capture-/
Sets home page is web snippets of favourite/most used pages:
-Fast Dial – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fast-dial-5721/
-Speed Dial – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speed-dial/?src=search
Firefox Themes – http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/
