Sharing the Addiction

OK - so I did actually have quite a decent break but it was also a time for me to ‘catch up’ with some web surfing and adding to the wiki a little.

The video section in the online tools area of my wiki has been annoying me for awhile now so I finally restructured it. I have now added in a series of options once you go into the initial video tools page (thanks to cooltext.com for the menu buttons)

As well as restructuring what was already there, I have added some new content such as the technical tips page and all the tools listed on the video creation tool (Marnie if you are reading this, some of these were the type of things you were trying to find last year).

I still have a lot more work to do to update the examples but that might have to wait for the time being.

Another thing that I added to the wiki in the offline tools section was a page for Timelapse tools. There are so many ways that you can use timelapse in a classroom. Some include:

• documenting a mould experiment over time
• creating a class art work
• charting the growth of a bean sprout
• watching shadows move during the day
• showing the change from a messy to tidy classroom!
• building a human pyramid
• creating a model or building something for technology

There could be endless things to try really. There are some really useful tools out there to help in the process. If you have any more ideas on how you could use time lapse, let me know in the comments. I am going to put together a big list of them to add to the site. I am also looking for educational examples of completed time lapse projects if anyone has some online.

I’ve also been reacquainting myself with some long lost software and abandoned tools. One thing I am enjoying is a Firefox extension that someone told me about ages ago but I have finally just installed called Speed Dial that gives a a Google Chrome type of experience each time you open a new tab - it displays thumbnails of sites that you select as being ones you visit regularly and then you can click on the thumbnail to take you there. Here are the ones that I picked though I would probably already change a few.

I’ve been exploring other bits and pieces as well but think that is enough for now At some point I still have to work through all those links I saved to Diigo to explore at a later date. Now that is a scary prospect!!

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