Day 5 of #blog12daysxmas
Last summer Evernote acquired Skitch, a free tool for annotating, editing and sharing images and screenshots. When it became available for the iPad, I finally gave in and upgraded to iOS 5. It’s currently available for Android, iOS and Mac and makes fast work of drawing arrows and shapes on a screenshot. Or adding a caption to a photo.
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ay 4 of #blog12daysxmas and that means it’s already 1/3 over. Maybe this is a challenge I can actually meet?
Yesterday I posted about Summify, a tool for monitoring social media for the articles and links being shared by people in your social networks.
Today I want to share two more tools, ifttt and Instapaper, that help me keep up with reading those articles from Summify and other sources. (more…)
It’s day 3 of #blog12daysxmas and I have a confession. I don’t visit my Google Reader account as often as I would like to. Some days (weeks?) are just so busy & I run out of brain cells.
And then there are the tons of great articles and links flying past in Twitter & Facebook every day too. Thankfully there some free tools to help deliver just the “best of” what your community is sharing.
Summify is one of those tools and the one I’ve been relying on the most lately. It monitors your Twitter, Facebook & Google Reader accounts and filters out the dreck. It then delivers a limited number of articles. As you select articles to read, Summify learns more about what you like and don’t like. (more…)
And for Day 2 (a day late!) of #blog12daysxmas:
Jotting down some quick notes & sharing them couldn’t be easier than with Notes.io. Just visit the site and start typing, no login necessary. When you’re ready to share your notes, click on the “short” button to get a shortened URL that links to your notes page. The short URL
It’s easy to share the short URL via Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed.
Not meant for long files, there’s presently a limit of 18 KB or about 180 lines of text. It appears that longer files may be possible when they add their account features.
Handy for quickly and easily sharing meeting notes, conference session reports. Very handy for students since it doesn’t require a login.
Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others by providing the shorten url to a friend. Fast: Notes.io is built for speed and performance. You can take notes quickly and browse your archive. Easy: Notes.io doesn’t require installation. Just write and share shorten link! Short: Notes.io’s url just 8 character. You’ll get shorten link of your note when you want to share. (Ex: notes.io/q)
(via: Free Technology for Teachers)
Thanks to everyone who made my work so much fun over the past year. Here’s a quick video with some photos from workshops, dinners, conferences and other fun events from the past year. Watch out when you see my camera during 2012!
This is also my first post in the #blog12daysxmas challenge that @polyxena challenged me to join. Happy to be joining my friends from Oz in this short “write a post a day for 12 days” challenge. That’s short enough that maybe I’ll finish it? I’m already a day behind, it started on Christmas day. And given that it’s already tomorrow in Australia, I guess I’m two days behind?
Since I’m working on a Cool Tools for Schools “23 things” project, I might try to write a quick post each day about a tool that I find handy or that sounds interesting.
Happy New Year!
Cool Tools for School
We kicked off another Learning 2.0 program today! This one is called Cool Tools for School and was the brainchild of J’aime Pfeiffer (Capital Region BOCES) and her colleagues at other nearby BOCES School Library Systems: Jen Henry (CVES BOCES), Deb Booth (HFM BOCES), Dee Portzer (Questar III), Paige Jaeger (WSWHE BOCES).
We all started talking about this last summer, but finally got around to setting it in motion just 2 weeks ago! Despite a quick start, we’re taking a slow approach with this program. Instead of a new lesson/thing being posted every week, we’ll offer a new topic every 3 weeks. This should give everybody time to digest the topic and have time to do more exploring. We’ll see! It will be a fun experiment.
We have just shy of 100 people signed up. And at the end of day 1, 7 people had already completed the first lesson. We’re off to a fast start for our leisurely program!
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