A wearable device for Christmas!!!

TWEETDECK

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.

TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

A video every kids should see!!!

Webcam Social Shopper

Webcam Social Shopper


Just to show you how technology has grown. Make you think what is next and how can you use and modify this for education.

A total online shopping experience. Try clothes on and hold it in-front of you, then Facebook your friend to ask what they think.

The Webcam Social Shopper integrates the best features of Augmented Reality, Motion Capture and Social Media. Try it out ZUGARA

EVERNOTE

Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free. Really a good tool for those close to retirement.
http://www.evernote.com/

Dropbox for PLC

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system apple or window.

If you'd like to interact with other Dropbox users, check out our forums. ... Download Dropbox. "the simplest, most elegant file-sync tool ever"

Use it for Your PLC groups.

Try it out!! It is FREE.

http://www.getdropbox.com/

KeepVid

Keepvid.com - A great site for teachers that want to use videos from Youtube in their classrooms or offline. Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!

SVSD Video on Demand Server

The SVSD Video on Demand server is now active. Links to it should begin to appear shortly on the school websites or you can click here to access it. It will only be accessible internally and you will require the newest version of Apple QuickTime located here.

Siftables, the toy blocks that think

Google Earth 5 Beta

Check out this video of three new features in Google Earth. Historical Imagery, Ocean and Tour.

Is Your Job Germy?

A list of the top 9 "germiest" job environments.
It was no surprise to me who earned top spot.

National Film Board of Canada’s new website

NFB.ca is the National Film Board of Canada’s new online film site that puts hundreds of animated films, documentaries, and experimental films back in front of the people that created and paid for them.

uSEND

This is one of the simplest large file sending service that even does not need you to register. You will just need to upload and send you files and nothing else.
http://www.usend.io/

WEB toMail

WebToMail

WebToMail is a free service where you can receive web pages by e-mail. It's simple and very easy.

Just send a mail to send@webtomail.co.cc with the URL* of the desired web-page as subject.

In a few minutes you will be receiving the web page in HTML format in your mail account.

Explore-a-tree

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.



http://www.exploratree.org.uk/

Windows 7 Beta

The new version of Microsoft Windows is in beta and is available for those brave enough to try it out. Check out some of the interesting new features and changes here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

I have had it running on a laptop for about a week and it has been great. I really like the Improved Taskbar and Jump Menus.

Picnik Photo editing

Photo editing made fun

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.

It's fast, easy, and fun.

If you need to email a picture fast, edit, ext this is the free tool to use.

http://www.picnik.com/

Enjoy!

Urban Legends

I received an email recently with an enticing offer; all I needed to do was forward the message to my contact list. I got that “this is too good to be true” feeling, prompting me to visit a site called Snopes.com.

Snopes is an Urban Legend Reference Site declaring them true, false, undetermined or somewhere in between. This site is great for information and entertainment purposes.

Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study

Parents may disapprove of the amount of time their teenagers spend online but they are actually learning important social and technical skills, according to a study released on Thursday.