Sharing the Addiction

This is the first of about three blogs I am going to post about some cool tools. This is a short, quick entry about the Directory of Learning Tools. There are a huge number of tools indexed by type here and I think this is a site that is going to keep me busy for quite some time (now there’s a change

I have also found a couple of tools that I think I really exciting.

Photo Album Builder
The first is one that makes digital learning objects for you to use with your class and it is called Photo Album Builder. You find some photos to create the activity about. You type in all of the content for the learning activity to match your photos. Either you or your children could build one of these.

• There is a starting activity in which the student spells words.
• The main activity consists of matching captions to photos in the album.
• Selecting an image brings up background information about it.
• The student then answers a multiple-choice question about each photo.

PikiWiki

PikiWiki is very different from other wikis I’ve worked with. You can record audio or video directly onto the page and each object you add to the page ends up in a moveable box that can be dragged anywhere on the page. If you upload pictures, they appear on the page whereas all other files turn into links that people can click on to download them to their own computer. Quite a cool concept! I’ve had a go at making a page which you can visit and edit at:
http://pikiwiki.com/ews/editor.jsp?2YUd3B2K6Pl1moy9oNZBuNQ
Some features seem a big buggy and I had to change over to Safari from Firefox to get the file upload feature to work. When I pushed save and then close, it kept me in edit mode which was a little frustrating. Still, I think this could be a really cool way to use a wiki!

I’m still playing with an awesome graphics editor called fotoflexer and will post on this shortly.

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