Digitised newspapers

digitised newspaper as old as 1883
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Issue/stweekly18830108-1

comics for science

http://www.toondoo.com/PurchaseHighRes.do

Text to speech

Like this text to speech website http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Just paste the text and you can download the audio file

Adding music to powerpoint slideshow

1. Insert audio - select "insert audio from file"- browse for the file and click on ok.
2. Click on animation pane and the animation pane will appear on the right hand side.
3. Right click on the audio on the animation pane.
4. A pop up menu will appear - choose start playing from slide 1. Choose stop playing on slide X - X being the last slide you have on your presentation.
5. Click on transition - make sure you choose advance slide after 1 second or your desired timing for the slide transition.

Sharing by ETO

Sharing by Mr Shasi

http://portableapps.com/apps

Sharing by Su Ping:

http://www.wallwisher.com/

http://tricider.com/en/t/

Creating a sticky note and embed in your blog

After you have created an account with http://linoit.com/ just follow the following steps.

Import and export favorite links on Internet Explorer

My colleague shared with us a very useful link with us today - how to export and import favourite links on our internet explorer.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-SG/windows-vista/Import-or-export-favorites-in-Internet-Explorer

Using Mind42

Sign up for a new account at http://mind42.com/mindmaps
You can invite members of your group to add on to the mindmap – collaborative learning.

ICT Face to face session 2 Aug

Learnt a useful tool for webquest today. Trackstar - Outline some links to articles and feed into the trackstar to create a thread no.
Customized search - List with the recommended articles and comments on top
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/

e.g. Volcano - Mt St Helen
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrackMembersFrames.do?org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TOKEN=ae4cdb41915891eb997897d9762b2371&number=234811&password=







alternate social working website:

Togetherville – social networking
Edmodo – social networking

https://sites.google.com/a/moe.gov.sg/humanities-face-to-face-meeting-online-discussion/home

Some other ideas by the teachers:
Glogster - eposter

SS- Governance
Group work – each group work on getting a source related to a selected issue
Scaffold for students’ learning

Fieldwork – videotape the hypothesis and others comment on it
Collate data using Microsoft Excel
Fieldwork – google site – upload photo, video – open up coveritlive for discussion.
Goanimate and Xtranormal
Diigo – webquest on project, process of research more visible – 2 page handout on migration – critical thoughts shown on their research.

Voicetthread
Google maps on coast – input on the pictures/map- coastal protection

http://www.mind42.com/

Tagxedo - a form of word cloud, however need to install silverlight

Pixton – comic strips to create storyboard

Newsmaker
Photostory

Passion day sharing - Blog Design

1. Register for a blog account

Register for a blog account at http://www.blogger.com/home

2. Click on create a new blog on the home page. You can also view your other blogs if you have already created them and edit or publish new posts.

3. After you have clicked on new blog - a pop up window will appear as shown below. Type in the title of your blog as well as the url address. You will be prompted to change the address if it has already been taken.

4. After you have created your blog, you can start a new post.

5. You need to enter a title for your post and remember to click on 'Publish' to post it on your blog. However if you choose not to publish it yet, you can click on save to save what you have written. You can insert pictures and video using the menu above the space which you write your post. You can also add a label to categorise the content of your posts.

6. Adding a Message Box
You can get your own cbox (chatbox for message) at http://cbox.ws/?r=3-2160578 After you have created an account with cbox, click on "publish" and you will see the html code. You can then copy the code into your blog design.
Click on "design" on your dashboard, followed by "page elements" and then "add a gadget" - "html/javascript". Just paste the code which you have generated from cbox in the popup window.



You can also control the messages posted by banning those who spam and delete the messages which you feel is inappropriate. With cbox- you can also trace the IP address of those who post the message.


7. Adding the flag counters

Log onto http://www.flagcounter.com/index.html to create your counter and then copy the html code.

In your blogger.com, follow the same steps as for adding the gadget for cbox earlier.


8. Adding the count down timer for an event on the side bar

You can get the html code from http://www.usflashmap.com/component/countdown_timer.htm?component_cdt=1

Again add the gadget - html code