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!
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.
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.
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.
A very cool little website which is far, far more than a world clock. This website estimates current statistics about the world for the current time - eg. population numbers, broken down into births and deaths, production numbers of cars, bikes and oil. Have a look and see what you think.
This is an incredibly fast dictionary. It begins to predict your words and come up with the definitions before you even finish typing the words.
Someone from work forwarded me a link to this site. It is almost like an identikit creation site. I tried really hard to make a picture that looked like me but it really really doesn’t! I guess it just proves how different we all are and that even with 72 different options for mouth shape there are still lots missing!
You can see the face I made here (which looks nothing like me), I managed to capture and save as a PDF - not great I know but I really struggled to get it off the site.
Wow… this is cool… haven’t played with it yet so I can’t tell you how it works or anything… but basically you get to produce your own TV show and you can upload all your own files and kind of mash it together with machinima…
Send me a link to your TV shows if you have already made one… I would love to know more about it but seriously do not have the time right now…
Check out this video about it.
Be A TV Director With TVnima (online Machinima Application) - Funny bloopers R us
