Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Create Thumbnails
Thumbizy allows you to create a thumbnail of a web page. You can save it to share or store as a reminder. Just to see how it works, I plugged in my blog address and this is the result of selecing small, full page, no effect:
Besides size and visible page or full page, there's an option to choose a reflect for the image. Text along the top which gives you scrolling directions indicates a new release is coming which will offer more options.
Below is an example of medium, visible page, reflect effect:
The process was very easy to use, took a bit of time to produce the results so be patient (probably my slow internet connection), and was easily saved as an image to share or save for reference. The only things missing on the thumbnails were flash applications which don't show up in any other screen grab apps either. This is a useful tool to add to a blogger's toolbox.
Besides size and visible page or full page, there's an option to choose a reflect for the image. Text along the top which gives you scrolling directions indicates a new release is coming which will offer more options.
Below is an example of medium, visible page, reflect effect:
The process was very easy to use, took a bit of time to produce the results so be patient (probably my slow internet connection), and was easily saved as an image to share or save for reference. The only things missing on the thumbnails were flash applications which don't show up in any other screen grab apps either. This is a useful tool to add to a blogger's toolbox.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Thing 16 - Student 2.0 Tools (RPC & AC)
Both the Research Project Calculator and the Assignment Calculator are designed to help students manage the time they have to effectively use it and finish their assignments on schedule.
There are lots of print outs to help them and their teachers get this accomplished. Two of the handouts are particularly useful for students even if they don't use the calculator as designed. These would help them focus on what they are to do and how to go about it. They are: The research process: questions and answers and What's my angle? Generating topics and research questions. These should get them organized and help move them along. The printable material under brainstorming would also help them find a topic that interests them which always makes the project more fun.
The Assignment Calculator does much the same thing, but assumes some familiarity with the process. There are lots of links to online helpful sites to get them going based on the subject area assigned.
The trick with both of these would be to introduce them to the students and get them to use them. Great tools that need to be introduced to students and probably show them how to be used to be effective.
They would be great assets to a self-directed learning project too.
There are lots of print outs to help them and their teachers get this accomplished. Two of the handouts are particularly useful for students even if they don't use the calculator as designed. These would help them focus on what they are to do and how to go about it. They are: The research process: questions and answers and What's my angle? Generating topics and research questions. These should get them organized and help move them along. The printable material under brainstorming would also help them find a topic that interests them which always makes the project more fun.
The Assignment Calculator does much the same thing, but assumes some familiarity with the process. There are lots of links to online helpful sites to get them going based on the subject area assigned.
The trick with both of these would be to introduce them to the students and get them to use them. Great tools that need to be introduced to students and probably show them how to be used to be effective.
They would be great assets to a self-directed learning project too.
Thing 13 - Online Productivity Tools
As it happens, having recently gotten a new laptop for work, I had just set up my homepage to have handy those things I use frequently or like to have at my fingertips. I used Google and my home page has these things on it (with more to come as I have room to spare): notes (like stickies), cat of the day, T olkien quote, Ebay search box, Betty Crocker recipe of the day, Wii news, Gmail, Dell support, online English grammar, news, gmail tools, word of the day, google calendar, google map search, babblefish translator, lyrics search, youtube videos, tetris, google search, weather, wikipedia search, dictionary/thesaurus, and still have lots of room for more. The widget supply seems unending.
I investigated Pageflakes and my Yahoo in addition to Google and they look just as easy and similar. I chose Google because Dell had made it easy for me to customize and their link were already in place, besides having accounts with them already meant no new passwords to create and remember.
The lists of other tools available had lots that I had already looked at or bumped into, but have more to investigate. One tool I have used quite a bit is tiny url. This has made it easier to refer long web addresses when doing reference work for others so they can see the results for themselves.
Remember the Milk and some of the other list applications look interesting, but you'd have to have almost a constant ability to contact it to be really useful. Seems like it might be kind of labor intensive to me. I think I will stick with my handy "filing cabinet"(pants pocket) where I put the notes of what I need to remember and then pull them out at night before they hit the hamper. It's worked pretty well for as long as I've worked in libraries and I am accustomed to using it. And, you don't lose access in power outages.
Backpack looks like a great management tool for group projects and includes a calendar feature. It might have worked well for something like planning the 23 things project, or when working on selecting an automation system with the ability to share documents and input with others in your group.
Going to have to come back to these tools and investigate more possibilities to add to my homepage.
I investigated Pageflakes and my Yahoo in addition to Google and they look just as easy and similar. I chose Google because Dell had made it easy for me to customize and their link were already in place, besides having accounts with them already meant no new passwords to create and remember.
The lists of other tools available had lots that I had already looked at or bumped into, but have more to investigate. One tool I have used quite a bit is tiny url. This has made it easier to refer long web addresses when doing reference work for others so they can see the results for themselves.
Remember the Milk and some of the other list applications look interesting, but you'd have to have almost a constant ability to contact it to be really useful. Seems like it might be kind of labor intensive to me. I think I will stick with my handy "filing cabinet"(pants pocket) where I put the notes of what I need to remember and then pull them out at night before they hit the hamper. It's worked pretty well for as long as I've worked in libraries and I am accustomed to using it. And, you don't lose access in power outages.
Backpack looks like a great management tool for group projects and includes a calendar feature. It might have worked well for something like planning the 23 things project, or when working on selecting an automation system with the ability to share documents and input with others in your group.
Going to have to come back to these tools and investigate more possibilities to add to my homepage.
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