Vuvox Collage

Vuvox

Pear Trees

100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Minutes)

Compendium

Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

My Showcase

MyShowcase is an open source content aggregator, mapper and showcaser for e-portfolios to support learning and personal development. It allows users to integrate learning evidence from a range of online sources to showcase for continuous professional development, career planning, and lifelong learning. Users can bring together RSS feeds, Twitter accounts, Flickr sets, files, and weblinks and to create rich evidence streams of their online content. 

Google Tricks

Use Google search to demonstrate a maths equation on a graph Google Love

Other tricks here

Blogging for learning?

An absolutely fantastic way of way of evidencing a learning journey, developing literacy and e-skills around a particular theme. Have the students set up a blog about a topic, e.g which is better Xbox or ps3, have them research features, costs, aesthetics etc and then discuss findings on there blog. Using mobile devices they can upload pictures / videos outside of the classroom, maybe on a trip or visit to pc world as supplementary evidence. Obviously consideration around blog safety and security is paramount however they can be set to private if not within a domain and also permissions can be set.

Embedding SkyDrive or Google Docs files in website

SkyDrive and Google docs allow you to embed Office docs in to your website or vle such as moodle. The main differences for me are that skydrive retains alot of the functionality of excel as you would expect for eg conditional formatting where as the google apps suite is better designed for collaboration in my opinion. Eitherway this is a great approach to getting learners working collaboratively on projects.

Exchange Web Mail

Have you synced mail and calendars to your mobile? Once you have created an event on your calendar structure the notes to form an all in one template including agenda items, minutes, action records etc. using Siri or voice to text can speed up this process. This makes all your meeting records available on the go. Another trick includes using hyperlinks in the notes which contain links to files stored in the cloud. Therefore papers for meetings do not have to be carried around again. Finally and notes and papers can be photographed and sent from your device to be attached to the event later. Be sure to set the meeting to private. Any video or audio recordings can also but saved.

Mobile Learning Infographic

GoAnimate

Google Forms screencast