Alison Hall
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- Adelaide Australia
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- More than one sector
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- music education, blogging, BeginningTeacher, Music, learning, learning objects, choral music, Choirs, Brass bands, history teachers
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This week I have found a few really cool tools that I feel will be HUGE timesavers for teachers!
The first is a handy little tool called Screenhunter. Screenhunter is a screen capture tool that you can use to capture anything you see on your computer screen, instantly and only the bit that you want.
Let me explain: The old way to take a screen shot would be to press the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard, then paste into an image editing program where you would need to crop, resize it, and then save it so you could then use it. The new way with Screenhunter simply involves hitting a 'hotkey' and bypassing all that messy editing. Yes that's it!
The basic Screenhunter tool is free to download and once you have it installed you can start grabbing only the bits of your screen you want, and using them straight away, very very quickly. You hit your 'hotkey' and then just drag your mouse over the section you want to capture and it captures it in a BMP, JPEG or a GIF format and saves it straight to your desktop. You can then upload it straight away, move the image to a folder to keep, or simple delete it when you are done. Simplicty at its best.
The second cool tool is called Quizlet. As the sites
author states
"Quizlet eats flashcards for breakfast!".
Oh BTW he only graduated from
high school a few weeks ago!
Quizlet is a vocabulary learning tool. You can make a
list of words, add definitions and then learn the words in a
number of different formats including a few familiarising
flashcard like activities, a test with mulitple choice and true
and false answers, a space race and a mix and match game. You can
make as many sets as you like and the best part is that you can
embed the code from the scatter activity into a html block. have
a play with one created for the Human Skeleton below.
You can see a few examples of what I was able to do with quizlet in the Languages Matter project in OzProjects.
Tags:
cooltools
snapshot
timesavers
quizlet
screenhunter
web 2.0
Posted at 03:11PM Jul 09, 2008
by Alison Hall |
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