http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech Watching the ever evolving web... Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:36:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=90 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?! http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=89 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 ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=88 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 ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=87 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 ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=86 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... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=85 This isn't typically Web2.0.  However, it is a good example of the fantastic range of teaching tools available on the internet. Click here to view site. This site provides an animated demonstration of a working heart.  It includes graphs which show where the beating heart is at at each stage. http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=84   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.  ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=83 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 ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=82 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 ... http://tonitwiss.com/newmediatech/?p=78