One of the presentations that I made this week was about having students create videos to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic. In that presentation one of the points that I stress is the need for students to create outlines of their videos before moving onto the technical aspects of constructing a video. Here are some tools for creating outlines and mind maps to plan video projects, podcasts, or essays.
What is that all about? It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Problem: Malcolm, Zoe, Kaylee, Simon, and River all work together on the same web development team. They are avid Twitter users and want a similar way to broadcast quick messages and updates to everyone on their team. Since these messages may contain confidential information, the team doesn't want them published to their public Twitter timelines or to any followers who are not part of the team. Solution: GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.
OpenThesaurus ist eine interaktive Website zur Pflege eines deutschsprachigen Synonymwörterbuchs. Man kann damit Wörter mit gleicher oder ähnlicher Bedeutung nachschlagen. Zum Beispiel liefert die Suche nach falsch unter anderem inkorrekt, unrichtig, verkehrt als Synonyme. Jeder kann bei OpenThesaurus mitmachen und Fehler korrigieren oder neue Synonyme einfügen. Die Suchfunktion zeigt alle Bedeutungen, in denen ein Wort vorkommt (z.B. roh -> roh, ungekocht und einen anderen Eintrag für roh, rau, grob, unsanft). Bei den einzelnen Bedeutungen lassen sich dann unpassende Wörter löschen und neue hinzufügen. Findet die Suche keine Treffer, wird ein Link angeboten, mit dem man das Wort zum Thesaurus hinzufügen kann.
Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.