Apr 12 2013

Picosong – share your mp3 easily

Picosong – it is a easiest way to share your mp3 without any sign up and account!

In general, if you want to share your mp3, you may use online cloud storage like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc. Also, you may email your song to your friends. All these way means you need at least three steps: sign in/log in , upload and share. But now, Picosong offers the other way in two steps: upload and share. NO need to sign up at first and no log in procedure on every share moment.

Once you upload your mp3, you will get a link. But, remember if you want to del the mp3 later, you should copy down the link in the “RED” dialogue. It is because it only appears one time.

Also, Picosong only upload one mp3 at once. So, if you want to share the whole album, this services may not your cup of tea! For my opinion, just send a mp3 to friend under several situation is awesome, like: Church Worship Team demo song, Drama background music or your work you written.

Apr 10 2013

Padlet – collaborative tools for idea sharing (updated)

Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher)- it is an online tool to share ideas. No need to install the program, the “wall”, you create, can display at different devices included iPad.

You can post texts, images and even a song! After you post such items, for example an mp3. You can play the song right on the iPad. That is directly streaming the song to you. If you use Padlet on your iPad, you can also use the camera and Photo Album to import your ideas to Padlet. That’s really powerful!

For sharing, you can email the link to your friend, posted at social media tools, like Facebook.

Also, you can export as PDF. And embed the code on your blog.

If you a Math lover or as a Math teacher, tools can display your math formula is important. This tools support LaTeX. That means you can write the code at the post. Then Padlet will convert code into math formula!

If you not familiar LaTeX like me, you can take the post about its history, wiki and example. (Other using LaTeX web is here)You may copy and paste some of the code to Padlet to let your math formula display.

But before and after the code, you need to type two $ at the beginning and the end of the code (offical faq). For example:

$$x = a_0 + \frac{1}{a_1 + \frac{1}{a_2 + \frac{1}{a_3 + a_4}}}$$

Application for Education

This tools like lino (my review), but it is better than it especially math formula features! As you can display very complicated math formula, you can use it at higher form in the school.

Padlet Feature Great to Have (dougpete.wordpress.com)
Padlet Streams – A Simple Way to Create a Group Blog (freetech4teachers.com)
We Recommend: Padlet! (educationismylife.com)
Padlet (Wallwisher) adds print option (philbradley.typepad.com)
Padlet Creates an Wall Where You and Others Can Share Messages, Links, and Files (lifehacker.com)

Updated:

If you want to edit/ write LaTex on iPad, you can check this apps out, tutorials is here. Enjoy!

Apr 8 2013

Pictaculous – Get your image’s colour palette (Updated)

Pictaculous – No sign up, It’s totally free. This website gives you a convenient way to check your image’s colour palette.

Once you upload your image (i.e. PNG, GIF, JPG), wait for a second, website will show your own palette from the image.

After that, you can download it as .aco (Adobe colour file / Adobe swatch file). This file is used to add colour palette in Photoshop to help your work.

After I upload the file (thanks doceri), system show the best 5 colour palette at the top. Under the best 5 palette, it has another 10 suggestion from other website.

Now you can download the best 5 colour palette as “Adobe Swatch File”. You can import the “.aco” by double-click it if you installed Photoshop already. You can see the new swatch right on your Photoshop.

pictaculous - before (Before) pictaculous - After (After)

Application for Education

This tool is suitable for students to clarify their Artwork in what colour palette. It helps the designer very much!

(Update ): After testing on iPad, its work. Just tap the blank website bar on iPad, it shows “Take Photo or Video” or “Choose Existing” these two option. Then you can also use this services right on your iPad. Cool!

Discover This Amazing Colour Palette Generator (bigskiesjewellery.wordpress.com)
10 Tools for Creating Brilliant Color Schemes (mashable.com)
10 Time Saving Online Color Tools for Web Designers (line25.com)

Apr 5 2013

Who Pooped – Learn animal from poop

Whopooped – It’s a Flash website to learn animals (hen, cow, goat) from their poop.

It’s funny to me. When I playing the games, I learn a lot. This site is powered by Minnesota Zoo from USA.

Take a look some screen shot within the games.

After you played the games, you can got a “poop” Certificate

whopooped_certificate

Application for Education:

I think this site is really funny for students. You can learn animals from their poop. Even you can know what their poop’s called. Like cow, it’s called “Cow Pes, Mmmm pie”.

Students Will Enjoy Learning About Animals on This Fun Site (freetech4teachers.com)

Mar 27 2013

MDL2 – Free Moodle services

MDl2 let you create your own site for e-learning which is powered by the latest Moodle.

The site claimed itself NOT a company, so this services required to donate some bugs as you want.

Registration is easy: 1) enter your site name 2) your email address

After you enter information above, you will received an email about the login details.

Also, base on this free services running smoothly, your site may be disabled under some conditions:

Unused sites will be automatically disabled after 30 days without a valid login (only a week if the site is empty).
Disabled sites will be permanently and irreversibly deleted from our backups one month later.
If you are an active donor your site will not be disabled.

Application for Education

I really appreciate about their work. No any cost, no limit on bandwidth, no limit on disk space. It’s awesome and kind!

The aims of this services is spreading the use of Moodle. Check this out if you also interested in!

helping us to give this service for free to other users who cannot afford it.

Mar 12 2013

Coggle – Beautiful Online MindMap Services

Coggle – It’s an online mindmap service. After you sign in with your google account. You can start to create immediately!

Simple and clear UI let you easy to create a mindmap as you want.

Basically, you need to know two methods:

1) Press “+” to create the new and Press “Ctrl” to move/ blend.

2) Hold “Ctrl” and press “X” (at the end of line) to delete

You can 7 colors to create your Mind Map.

After you finished, you can share to “Facebook” or download it as “PNG” or “PDF”

My Work 😛

If you want to share with your students or friends, you can copy the link like this. Or enter their email as co-workers.

Application for Education

For teachers, the share link helps you show the MindMap for students in teaching. For students, you can edit your MindMap collaboratively. One more that I found this services is great – its support various language input, like Chinese!

P.S. After testing on my iPad, it works! You can also “touch and move” to blend the line. Also, you can add/delete when you “touch and hold” the line. Redo and Undo also available when you “touch and hold”! Amazing!

Coggle – A Simple Mind-Mapping Tool (freetech4teachers.com)

Mar 7 2013

StatWorld – Interactive Maps

State World – This site provides an interactive action to create the Maps in different field.

This is established in Flash technology. You may better use it on PC/Mac.

It has 11 types of data to handle:

Digital Divide & ICT, Drugs & Crime, Economy & Development, Education, Gender, Health, Language, Politicial, Population, Rankings.

After you select different types of data, you can select “indicators of that field”, “your forced region”, and “time-period”.

If you continue click the city, your graph with show different data all in one!

After you select the data, you can export as “Map”, “Graph” and “Data” in PNG format.

Application for Education

Using a graph to show the data is one of presentation skills in learning. All these data is verified with trusted sources. It should be trusted in learning.

StatWorld – Interactive Maps of Development Data (freetech4teachers.com)

Mar 4 2013

Wideo – online create cool video

Wideo – Online create video services. You can create your video with photos, then share it to Facebook, Kickstarter etc.

Mar 4 2013

MapMaker Interactive – Customize your map

MapMaker Interactive is powered by National Geographic. The world’s famous photographic / geography website.

Its has three free tools for you to customize your own map!

– Themes

– Drawing Tools

– Markers

For Themes, you have 6 themes can choose to overlay the map.

After you choose the map, you can use drawing tootls to make it fit your style.

Finally, use makers to get it better.

Application for Education:

Now, you can create your own maps with these tools. No Cost, No registration, but high value in teaching!

Create and Share with MapMaker Interactive (education.nationalgeographic.com)

Mar 4 2013

Quizdini – Online Quiz creator

Quizdini – It offer you a Free services to create the quiz for your students.

After sign in, you can create Multiple Choice as your quiz. After that, you can embed code on your website, email the link for the students to use. It support non-english characters, liked Chinese!

Application for Education

This services doesn’t has tracing services on their quiz. As ref on Q&A, they set the aim of this services is teaching nor assessment!

What makes Quizdini different?

At Quizdini, our goal is to help you teach and your students learn! Since we wouldn’t want anyone tracking our children – a practice we actually find quite creepy – we don’t advertise or store sensitive information on your students. We don’t believe in behavioral targeting and all that goes with it, so we are committed to providing you a simple easy-to-use, easy-to-control, cost-free system that helps you help your students.

Feb 27 2013

PiktoChart – Online Infographic creator with multi-language input support

PiktoChart – It’s an online infographics creating services. It gives you all kinds of tools to create your own infographics.

After simple sign in, you can create your infographics immediately. It has 6 FREE theme to start. All its look awesome!

All you needs tools are here!

The best thing that I highly recommend is : It supports different languages while input the text!

Of course, you can add shapes, graphics, text(with different English fonts).

If you want more themes, you need to pay. It’s worth. 😛

Application for Education:

Teaching students to do their own infographics with their language. That means it suitable for all kind of students in the World!

Easel.ly – Create Infographic ONLINE (wongsiridea.wordpress.com)

Feb 22 2013

PixaBay – Free quality images (Public domain images)

PixaBay – It provided online free quality images for download. All images can be freely to use in various ways, school, commercial, etc.

No need to sign up. Whenever you like and download the images:

“You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author.”

So, It’s awesome!

Various size of images available.

You can also found “Popular images”, “Editor’s Choice”, Leaderboard” from “Explore” on main page.

If you interested in one of their photographers, you can click ” Photographer” from explore for more details.

OR, if you only interested in what tools they used, click “Camera” from Explore.

Application for Education

Education need free images when students do their work. This site is easily to use and free to use.

It also has 20 languages to choose to change the interface. Fit for different country students. It’s awesome. It makes the job better!

Feb 21 2013

SoShare – File transfer (P2P) by bittorrent

SoShare is a new services powered by bittorrent. Bittorrent provided a great P2P( peer to peer) method to download which is so called “BT”. Now, SoShare make them into web-based file transfer services. It has three advantages:

1) The fle size up to terabyte in size, totally free.

2) Sharing is as easy as email. They get the files, you get a receipt.

3) The SoShare plug-in enables pause/resume and fast transfers.

As refer from Bittorrent Blog, SoShare is used bittorrent web browser plugin to make it happen. So You need to download plugin before you send or receive the files (system will prompt you). The most awesome function is : you can pause and resume the download when you received a “BIG SIZE” file.

Read more: Bittorrent Blog, SoShare Blog.

Feb 6 2013

Easel.ly – Create Infographic ONLINE

Easel.ly – It’s a web 2.0 tools to create stunning infographics online.

After you register of this site, you can log in and start to create.

IN working space, you can found several “templates” to drag and drop.

Also, It provide several tools for you, like background(UPload Photo!), Objects(ie. arrow, jumping people, etc.), Text. Each tools have the different option to fine tune the tools. For example: it has fonts to choose after you click “Text” tools box.

After you finished, you can share your work or download as Jpg file.

Here is my work:

Application for Education

For primary student, this online tools let them create infographics for presentation easily. The most disappointed thing is : It doesn’t support Chinese Characters input. But, the other way to let it make, export to Jpg, then import to PowerPoint to do the rest.