Sharing the Addiction

I was trying to go through all the Mashable posts in my reader (it has to be one of the most prolific blog out there!) and so far tonight I have found a few really interesting tools as a result.

Mango

This software is for free language learning. Lessons are structures on slides. I am learning Spanish at the moment so I checked out those lesons. There were just over 100 lessons with each lesson having around 70 slides. That’s a lot of content! The only thing I found slightly frustrating was that there was no way to skip the instructions on each slide when they weren’t necessary at times. You can to beat the clock to give your answers and the time you have can be adjusted. They are offering lessons for Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Mandarin, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Greek, English for Spanish speakers, and English for Polish Speakers.

oSkope Visual Search

This is an interesting search tool that lets you look for content from Amazon, eBay, Flickr and YouTube. It then gives you a visual display of the results which you can say how you’d like them displayed such as in a stack or pile. If you want to keep one of the results, you can drag it into your folder for safekeeping. Quite interesting but I think it needs a few new places to get results such as Google Images and I think it would be handy if it let you do a search for Creative Commons work.

TalkShoe

This service allows for up to 250 people to join into a TalkCast. Each person can use phone or Skype to access this. They provide free unlimited recording, free storage, free bandwidth, and uploading of existing podcast episodes. People can listen to, download or subscribe to the TalkCast afterwards from your stored recording. You can put widgets for your TalkCast on your blog or wiki. This could be a great tool and I’d like to have a play with this at some point so let me know if you want to join me for a TalkCast.

Tjoon

This tool allows you to record 30 seconds into four separate areas in a split screen so that you can be your own band or pretend to be the Partridge family with your friends. I thought this would be fun for a music lesson where you were doing rounds. Kids could each record a different part to play together at the end. You could have recorder parts or make up actions for a song with each action being slightly different. I could see that this would be a lot of fun!

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