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Notes.io: Quick Notetaking Tool

Dec 27th, 2011
by pollyalida.
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And for Day 2 (a day late!) of #blog12daysxmas:

Notes.io

notes.io

Jotting down some quick notes & sharing them couldn’t be easier than with Notes.io.   Just visit the site and start  typing, no login necessary.  When you’re ready to share your notes, click on the “short” button to get a shortened URL that links to your notes page. The short URL

notes.io

It’s easy to share the short URL via Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed.

notes.io

Not meant for long files, there’s presently a limit of 18 KB or about 180 lines of text. It appears that longer files may be possible when they add their account features.

Handy for quickly and easily sharing meeting notes, conference session reports. Very handy for students since it doesn’t require a login.

Notes.io is a web-based application for taking notes. You can take your notes and share with others by providing the shorten url to a friend. Fast: Notes.io is built for speed and performance. You can take notes quickly and browse your archive. Easy: Notes.io doesn’t require installation. Just write and share shorten link! Short: Notes.io’s url just 8 character. You’ll get shorten link of your note when you want to share. (Ex: notes.io/q)

(via: Free Technology for Teachers)

 

Make Music with Aviary

Jun 13th, 2010
by pollyalida.
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I haven’t looked at Aviary in a while. Wow, what I’ve been missing!

Aviary is a free suite of tools for creating and editing images and sound. The image editing tool includes advanced features like layers and masks. There’s a color editing tool, a vector drawing tool and more.

And they’ve just added a Music Creation (Roc) tool. Even the most unmusical among us (me!) can create some great little bits of music.  Save your creations and use the Myna Audio editor to create a complete song, the track editing, mixing and special effects are amazing in Myna.

I wish I had a free week to spend playing with all these features. If you make some beautiful music, please share!

Glogster: taking posters to a whole new level

Oct 24th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Glogster for Education lets you create online posters with graphics, photos, text, video and audio. Wow, what a great tool for student projects. I can see lots of other fun uses for this in public libraries too.

Though Glogster has been around for a while, I just heard about it today in a twitter post from Buffy Hamilton. Seems the Glogster for Education service has just recently launched.

For a great example of a class project using Glogster, check out Buffy’s 11th grade lit project on Thoreau and Emerson.

Google Maps & Wikipedia. Can you find your library?

May 19th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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When you look at Google Maps these days, you’ll see links to Wikipedia articles (and tons of other stuff too!). Yet another reason to make sure your library has an article about it in Wikipedia. Check it out.


(graphic from Google Lat Long Blog)

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(Google map for Guilderland NY with Wikipedia article in a pop up)

(via: More ways to find more than ever, Google Lat Long Blog)

Buzzword – Adobe’s Web-Based Word Processor

Feb 12th, 2008
by pollyalida.
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Just ran across Buzzword, a fairly new web-based word processor from Adobe. It has a very slick interface and lots of features. You can share your documents with others, designating them as “co-authors” with editing privileges, “reviewers” who can leave comments but not edit and “readers” who have read-only access. Multiple versions of a document are kept. The sample documents attest to some nice features and it certainly was easy to get started editing. Haven’t done a serious comparison to other online office apps like Google Docs or Zoho. Any have preferences for one over another? And why?

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