New Media Tech

Read The Words

Toni Twiss — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:02:56 +0000

This is a site that will read any text you give it - cut and paste direct into the site or upload a word doc, pdf plus heaps more.

You can choose the reader and read in French, English or Spanish.

You can control the speed at which your text is read.

Then, you can save the sound file as MP3 to upload to your website or play on your iPod. Neat aye!

Make Your Own Snowflake!

Toni Twiss — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:11:39 +0000

I LOVE this site - super cute.

They fold a virtual piece of paper for you and you snipity snip with your virtual scissors, then they open it up and viola your snowflake! Then you name it and they add it to the gallery.

Who thinks of this stuff anyway?!

Find Sounds on the Internet

Toni Twiss — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:15:02 +0000

This is a cool site for my media studies students who are always looking for sound effects.

A site totally dedicated to sounds on the internet. They give you lots of categories to start with and you can also search for your own. They seem to be of quite good quality and it is all very easy.

RSS feeds

Toni Twiss — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:31:33 +0000

I think I have already posted about RSS before. If you enjoy reading web pages like this one that are constantly changing through being updated, you can join a service that will track all these changes and present them to you in email like form. I use Google Reader.

Andy Beal is encouraging people to sign up to his blog - Marketing Pilgrim - through RSS by holding a competition to win an iPod touch if you sign up before 1 March. All the details about the competition are here.

Bio friendly accessorising!

Toni Twiss — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:53:21 +0000

Online shopping just got SO MUCH BETTER! After commenting on someone’s handbag, I was directed to this site. Freitag is a Swiss company making bags out of recycled truck tarpaulins. So they are bright and extremely hard wearing. You can buy them in shops OR you can design your own bag on-line. They have this neat little program that shows you a photo of the tarp (there are 12 to choose from) and you drag the shapes the bag is made from onto the tarp and it instantly shows you an image of what your bag will look like!

Sleeve Face

Toni Twiss — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:51:04 +0000

This is a neat blog where people send in photos of old record album covers that are put over various body parts to create an illusion… here is an example…

Animated Heart Tutorial

Toni Twiss — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:45:30 +0000

This isn’t typically Web2.0. However, it is a good example of the fantastic range of teaching tools available on the internet.

Click here to view site.

This site provides an animated demonstration of a working heart. It includes graphs which show where the beating heart is at at each stage.

6 Billion Others

Toni Twiss — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:43:04 +0000

This is an amazing project which aims to “create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet’s inhabitants”.

The site contains video interviews of a large number of people from all around the world, asking them questions about life, love, happiness. The site is still growing and is amazingly well produced. Make sure you have plenty of time to visit and have a good look around.

This is truly a global project which shows the power of the internet, being used for good.

Popurls

Toni Twiss — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:28:11 +0000

Just came across this site called popurls.com. What a fantastic site. It basically lists the headline posts of all the current most popular web2.0 sites like delicious, youtube, reddit, digg plus heaps and heaps more. I really encourage you to go and have a look… just make sure that you have plenty of time! Really interesting to see the titles that make it to the top of a number of really popular sites!

Visible Body

Toni Twiss — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:16:30 +0000

This looks like a site with amazing classroom potential. It is basically a fully interactive breakdown - bit by - of the human body. The detail is incredible and it is very usable for students.

Unfortunately as I don’t have IE I can’t access it. However, the tutorial looked amazing and I will have a look at it as soon as I get the opportunity. I have registered and watched the above You Tube video and you can certainly get a good feel for what it would be like. As always, I would love to hear from you if you have used this site.