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    July 1st, 2008 by misterel

    In my ‘I can’t do this’ post yesterday I had a mental block on many of the things I wanted to post about so will try and cover a few more here.

    There’s a chap I follow on twitter, Lee Lefever, who’s videos I stumbled across last year. He and his wife have produced some of the most simple yet compelling video tutorials I have ever seen ( apart from the ‘you suck at photoshop tutorials…but they’re in a category all of their own). Basically they are videos using whiteboards, voice over and paper cutouts that explain all things web2 and more. If you are interested in seeing them, then head on over to the Common Craft Show.

    Also a guy called @iusher on twitter also introduced me to the world of issuu via a link to a new moodle book.  Issuu allows you to upload pdf files and then converts them into virtual books.  I am definately going to use this to publish resources for staff and kids. Also I have found that some nice people have also uploaded some Batman comics.(I’m a bit of on old school boy really and comics are one of my vices).

    So there are 2 more things that I am currently a fan of. However there are still more chugging around my head.  For example, I use a website called Adrive for backing up my resources.  This is a fantastic site as it gives you 50GB storage free.  It is extremely easy to use ( as long as you have java enabled) and will even upload your complete folder structure.  The added bonus is that it will allow you to share files if you want to.

    I’m going to be a tad lazy now because there is another blogger, Mark, who has just blogged on his blog a whole list of other web based reosurces that he uses and explains them a lot better then me.  However I have only jusrt downloaded evernote and am now going to have a look at toodledo.  I’ve been using remember the milk, but am finding it a tad clunky.

    There are three more things I am going to mention…. seems like it has taken all night just to write these.

    Firstly, if you wish to while away an evening flicking through websites that may or may not interest you, then look no further than stumbleupon.  All I will say about this is beware, once you start you may never stop stumbling…

    Secondly, I would like to point you in the direction of animoto. (Thanks goes to DAJBelshaw for theads up on this one). Animoto is a fantastic website which allows you to turn still images into the most fantastic and interesting video clips.  If you go to their education section they will also give you a promo code to allow you to make full length movies.  I have used animoto to create adverts for the ICT Department on our school website.  Personally I think it works well.

    Was going to mention microsofts Office live workspace..but it doesn’t seem to want to work..lol.  But I can say that it does intergrate very well with office 2007 and 2003 and creates a virtual drive to save work on.  Enough said…. think I’m going to go and stumble now.

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