ScreenHero – collaborative cross-platform screen sharing

Screenhero – This services helps you sharing your screen, work with others.

It supports Mac and PC. Just install the files then done.

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Application for Education

The worst thing of this services is price. As this services in beta version, that means it might need to pay later (see their FAQ). Left behind this, I really like that when I want to give a hand to my students in computer lesson.

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Popcorn Maker – Mix online video just a second

Popcorn maker let you “mix” online video (like YouTube and Vimeo) with several tools.

All jobs can do it online. No installation needed.

Popcorn Maker - home

1) Just click ” start a project”.

2) Add “media” from online video source (like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, HTML5 videos)

Popcorn Maker - step 1

3) you can edit the video by “mute” video and audio output of this video. Amazing! I can make my own Music Video!!

Popcorn Maker - step 2

4) Then, you need to add pop-up, text, etc to your video.

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5) Be careful! If you want the pop-up or text show above on your clip. You must rearrange the “Layer” order. (I.e. Video is at the bottom.)

Popcorn Maker - step 5

Popcorn Maker - save

6) After all your creation, you can sign in and save your project.

7) You can share and email your stuff to your friend.

Popcorn Maker - share

Application for Education

It’s free to edit and mix your video. You can embed your stuff on your blog. It’s good for students to present their work!

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clippingmagic – online remove image background easily

ClippingMagic – This online website provide a professional image editing tools (like Photoshop) but Free!

You can upload or drag your image to website. then you the tools it’s provided. System help you remove the background of your image. That is pretty awesome!

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Like the dog’s image above, the red line means “erase”. On the other hand, green line/dots means “masks”.

Application for Education

I really like this service when it’s free on this stage. Because it’s in “alpha” stage, after that, it might need some bugs.

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Quizlet – create quiz to your students easily

Quizlet  is an online services which is work with mobile device and desktop.

In general, you just type the “matching words” , system will turn your words into the different type of games.

By the way of that, system can pronounce the word for you in over 60 different language (list here).

Quizlet - home Quizlet - signup

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After you create your exercise, you can play with voice on your mobile devices or desktop.

Application for Education

Can’t imagine this service is FREE! If you want to add your own image on your questions, you need to upgrade. Otherwise, free account just suitable for most users.

 

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2 sites to help you transfer your files on multi-platform

1) Ge.tt (temperately Desktop to Desktop/Devices)

- upload files at desktop (pretty fast around 20kb/s)

- Get the shorten download link

- Open your desktop / devices browser , type the link and download.

P.S. 250M(without sign up for 30 days) / 2G(sign up), It can stream audio and video files, create folders, resume download.

Ge.tt - home

Ge.tt - uploadGe.tt - download link

 

 

2) Just Beam it  (Desktop to Device , Device to Desktop, Device to Device)

- Drag or select the files to upload (For mobile device, like iPad, will open “camera roll ” instead)

- Generate the download link / QRcode (only can using once, valid for 10 minutes) FAQ is here.

JustBeamIt - home

JustBeamIt - download link

 

Application for Education

These 2 web services quite useful for teachers to deliver course material to students. After a quick try,  the speed to upload and download is satisfied for me. Give a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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PAT – The free, open source, portable atlas

PAT - This serivces provide  a offline map download. Free!

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Application for Education

Students need map on their presentation. PAT should help them a lot!

 

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Bird Infographic

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As I delve into the last leg of my sabbatical I am working on Infographics, among other things. You may have seen a pattern lately in my posts, the work is mainly bird related. Well my sabbatical has been all about birds and art/design and during the first part of it I focused on my bird photography, which you can follow on my…

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