Linky Thursday August 23, 2012

      

           

1.  popplet.com

      

     Today's first shared link features an interesting web tool with several potential classroom applications.

      Users add photos, text boxes, and so forth to the work area. This work area has the potential to     

      become the basis for a presentation with zooming effects similar to prezi.com, but also allows for

      flow charting, audio, and more. See examples at the site.

      www.popplet.com

2.  storybird.com

     This little web tool could be fun for personal use if you have young children, or could serve as the 

     basis for a classroom project for early childhood education students. The free application provides

     graphic images in the style of a child's picture book. You add the text. The books are printable and

     may be viewed on a variety of devices.

     www.storybird.com

3.     Student Success

Learner analytics is a hot topic in higher education right now. This article examines two case studies in a university setting.

       

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/two-case-studies-learner-analytics-university-system-maryland

4.    Geometric Shapes

These geometric shapes are in a printable .pdf document and include cutting and fold lines for constructing a 3-D geometric shape. Follow this link to download a copy.

http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2012/8/5/great-collection-of-3d-shape-nets-to-download-and-print.html

Linky Thursday: file conversion, automatic bibliography maker

1     Have you ever had a pesky file that was just in the wrong format and no way to convert it?

A handy web based service will convert the file and email it to you in your preferred format.

The free version allows for conversion of documents up to 1 MB in size.

Check it out:

www.zamzar.com

2.        Do you like to add humor to your presentations?  Add a mouth to any photo and record audio or add a soundtrack to your photo to make it look as though it can talk. Hmmmm. You never know when you might need this one:

www.blabberize.com

3.        Now, my favorite: a free automatic bibliography maker for MLA style references.

www.easybib.com

Linky Thursday

It’s once again time for Linky Thursday.

Do you ever use snippets from popular movies in your classes? teachwithmovies.org provides lesson plans and discussion guides for a wide variety of movies.

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/

Visual imagery is an important tool of communication. Create graphs and charts easily at hohli.com

http://charts.hohli.com/#cht=p3&chs=320x240&chd=s:&chf=bg,s,FFFFFF|c,s,FFFFFF&max=100&agent=hohli.com

Connexions is an open source repository for instructor created modules. Explore the site at:

http://cnx.org/

Merlot is another source for peer reviewed teaching and learning materials, sorted by discipline.

http://www.merlot.org/

One more repository of learning objects can be found at http://www.wisc-online.com/listobjects.aspx

It's Linky Thursday with a Literary Twist

Do you like to listen to great literature in your car or while you clean house? This week’s Linky Thursday is all about classic literature. Even better, all of these sites provide FREE audio files to download and play for your listening pleasure.

http://www.archive.org/details/librivoxaudio

If you’d like to listen to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens on your mp3 player or other mobile device, visit this site. This collection includes public domain texts read by volunteers and available as free downloads. There are many other podcasts here as well.

http://www.archive.org/details/globe_radio

Globe Radio Reperatory provides  classics of world literature such as Don Quixote and Madame Bovary for your listening pleasure.

http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Check a few more classics off of your bucket list with this site.

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

This site lists the titles alphabetically by author.

http://www.learnoutloud.com

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1