April 10th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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!
February 28th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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?!
February 25th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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.
February 25th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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.
February 24th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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!
February 6th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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…
February 6th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
This isn’t typically Web2.0. However, it is a good example of the fantastic range of teaching tools available on the internet.
This site provides an animated demonstration of a working heart. It includes graphs which show where the beating heart is at at each stage.
February 5th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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.
February 4th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
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!
February 4th, 2008 by Toni Twiss
so, while I hate to admit it… the summer holiday is over… and I MUST get back to work 
Just as well I LOVE what I do aye! Anyway, this post is to let everyone reading know that I will once again be blogging all of my favourite web2.0 sites. If you are new here, make sure you take a look in the archives as there is some really good stuff there - including many of the big web2.0 sites that I first blogged about. Anyway enjoy!
