Image Effects x2 - Science - Real-time Search - Video Clip - CPD PowerPoint
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The number of Unique IP Address Listeners to the audio version of the blog, since 7th June 2009, is 31; 24 from the UK & 7 from 4 other countries.
Well in spite of yesterday’s prediction I’ve found time to do one more blog in June – number 11. I’ve also past 100000 miles supporting learning providers across the northwest of England.
Today’s Finds include…
1:
I've included a large number of online photo generators before, where users can upload a photograph and add effects to it.
PicJoke has hundreds of 'fake' image effects to choose from. See your images on everything from road signs, banners, graffiti, billboard ads and posters. To ensure that you never get tired of them, the site adds one new effect everyday!
A very quick way for Managers, Administrators and Practitioners to create images for publicity and/or for advertising courses etc.; the right image with the right effect could be very powerful...
Take a look at the effects and try them out at http://en.picjoke.com/.
Here is one I tried earlier...
2:
Wii Fit at Trafford College
Anita Appleton, Head of department for Supported Learning at Trafford College, explains how they are making use of the Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit with learners. Anita explains how they have used the Wii Fit and balance board to improve balance, concentration, fine motor skills, confidence and social interaction with students. She highlights one learner who got out of her wheel chair, to have a go, something which she had not done at college for some time.
To download the podcast go to http://www.garageband.com/mp3/Wii.mp3?|pe1|WdjZPXLrvP2rYVS3Z29tDg.
For a complete list of podcast interviews (as well as detail on how to subscribe to future episodes) go to http://www.garageband.com/user/JISC_RSC_NW/podcast/main.
Note: - Discuss this podcast on our forums at...
http://moodle.rsc-northwest.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?id=1887
3:
Attractors
Apparently this is a game. Well, to be exact, it’s physics, a simulation of the effect of forces.
To get the 'game' started, users can...
- move the dots about — which attract the particles, making them swirl around or
- tilt and/or move the platforms to get the particles to 'bounce' back.
Screen captures (using CamStudio or Snippy etc.) would allow users to freeze frame particle behaviour, as I have in the image above.
It also works very well on an interactive white board.
Go to http://www.lovesthreadless.com/attractors.html to engage/interact with the simulation.
4:
All the Tweets (stories) on Twitter should be taken with some healthy scepticism, but Twitter’s establishing itself to be the place for real, up-to-the-second coverage.
Scoopler is a fast, real-time or in other words live search engine for Twitter - It does its main job well, and adds just enough features to make it miles ahead of Twitter’s own search facilities
Scoopler also searches results from...
- Flickr,
- Digg,
- Delicious,
- and a few other sites
– given the relative slowness with which these sites are updated, Twitter tends to both dominate search results and be the most functional use of Scoopler’s search.
Scoopler’s search is truly real-time. When you search for a word or phrase (pick your own, or use one of the popular ones Scoopler suggests), Users are taken immediately to a waterfall-like column of tweets, that updates as new ones come in.
Users will find quite frequently, that it’s too fast to read, especially if they’re tracking a popular subject; they can easily pause the updates if they need to catch up.
Scoopler also extracts all the videos, image, and links to a convenient sidebar, where it organizes them by type, and by the number of shares. Users can easily share anything on Scoopler, too, just by clicking “Peek”
Scoopler seems to be one of the best of a small number of Web applications that let users search and track what’s happening on Twitter try it out by visiting http://www.scoopler.com/.
5:
Web Site Story
If the internet was a 1950s Broadway musical, it would feature
- eHarmony,
- Pandora,
- Evite,
- Twitter,
...and anything else that rhymes well enough for a song.
To really enjoy this, you have to...
- be old enough to be familiar with West Side Story and
- be young enough to know your way around the internet.
That must be me then...
View at http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1913584
6:
Joe Dale continues to produce some excellent CPD resources take a closer look at...
Improved drag and drop in PowerPoint
by going to http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2009/06/improved-drag-and-drop-in-powerpoint-.html. (http://powerpointcpd.notlong.com)
The initial Posting (before improving) is at http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/10/drag_and_drop_i.html.
The macro enables practitioners to produce so many drag-n-drop resources.
This clip provides an overview...
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7:
Update your profile by using Facebomb, an image editing site which focuses on spicing up profile pictures, by applying variety of effects.
Users can...
- add all kinds of symbols/pictures based on various themes
- apply effects to the photograph and
- add custom text
To update a 'profile image', simply
- upload a picture,
- select the area,
- apply effects on the selected area and then
- download it in JPEG format.
Try it out at http://facebomb.com/.
Here is one I made earlier...
