Resources

= = =Resources and Info (alphabetically)= Students: Thanks to Will I. for beginning to add and edit resources to this page. May I request that students provide some description (annotation) about each resource? For example:

[|Wordle] []

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ I think every possible educational resource is listed here. . . take a look

@http://www.splicd.com/

8 tracks - Handcrafted Internet Radio a online "radio" tracklist where you can search different KEYWORDS and "tags" to find music that suits what you like. You also can create playlists for others to listen too. It allows you to create your own account so you can "like" playlists and are able to come back and listen to it again.

AntBar Video Downloader (Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer) - AntBar Video Downloader allows you to download in .flv format almost any (if not any) streamed media from youtube and many other websites. VLC player will allow you to play these .flv's and any other file format

BitTorrent

Bloglovin - keep track of updates on blogs you follow

Couch Surfing - "We are a community, and we are a movement. If you believe that all types of people can share fun, trust, and friendship, then you belong here." Couch surfing is a traveler's dream... When you join the Couch Surfing community, you meet people from all over the world. You can share your hospitality and your city with people who need a place to stay. You can skip the crumby (and expensive!) hotel experience by staying at the home of a local. You get a perspective on the city you're staying in from someone who actually lives there! You don't have to necessarily host people to stay overnight - this can be a little scary for some - but even just offering yourself and your time for a cup of coffee or an afternoon of touring someone around your city can mean the world to a weary traveler! My friend and I were on a road trip this summer to Halifax and we stayed at someones house... and it was an incredible experience. Check out the site, I highly recommend putting yourself out there as a host.

craftgawker - Like a social media website, people share photos of their crafts,and DIY projects. Taking a look can inspire a new craft or a way to recycle an old item.

Creative Commons - this site lets you get creative licences on content you create for free! It let's you choose from 6 combinations of licences, depending on what you want to be shared or not. You'll get credit for your work and let other people spread it around, it's win-win! There's a video on the site explaining how it works.

Disqus - discussion on the web - keep your web identity unified.

foursquare

[|flickr] - for photo sharing.

[|Good Reads] - A place where bookworms unite! You make a profile and are able to rate books you have read in the past, indicate books you want to read, and based on your preferences and ratings of books the site will offer recommendations of new books that are related to your interests. You can also belong to online book clubs or groups, partake in online discussions, and become friends with members. Gravatar - one single avatar

Guelph Craigslist

List_of_social_networking_websites @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites - A rather comprehensive list of social networking sites upon this link, a few are more popular than others, but it's worth taking a look to see when each site took off, how popular they are, and how certain blogging and microblogging sites are specifically designed for different groups or interests.

iTunes U

[|Jango] Online radio [|Jing] - Screen capturing presentation maker.

Kiva

lifehacker - Lifehacker is a website that gives all sorts of helpful tips and tricks about things such as smartphones, computers, even cars and household items. It's got a great amount of resources, and even has instructions on how to do things such as root an android phone, or jailbreak an iphone if you want to use the full potential of your device (at your own risk of course)

Limewire

[|LinkedIn] [] - A social networking site aimed at professionals who are looking to communicate with others in their profession or to review possible candidates for jobs. It is an online resume, listing all your experience, skills, and people in your industry that you have worked with.

Listorious - find people who share the same interests as you so you can follow them on twitter.

[|Mashable] - this deserves top of list status. You think you know stuff about social media and then you read what Pete Cashmore and his team have to say and everything you know becomes old news!

MLA List of Works Cited- this link will take you to the Bedford St. Martin's Page for a full list of how to cite anything following MLA.

Net Neutrality

[|Online Video Guide]

[|OpenID] - shed time off of long sign ups on several websites

P2P (aka Peer to Peer)

Pinterest - A fun picture-centered social bookmarking site. I have found it most useful for crafts and recipes. Similar to Delicious but it seems less academic.

[|PostSecret] - PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.

Prescreen.com - Prescreen is a website where you can watch trailers for and rent limited release movies. Their mandate is uniquely apt to what we've been talking about in terms of the response to piracy. I think this website is one that really gives us a good mandate. From their FAQ: "Prescreen is a curated social discovery video-on-demand platform designed to promote and showcase premium content. We feature entertaining, enlightening, and educational content with the goal of creating conversations around movies and helping content owners find an audience they otherwise would not have the ability to reach."

Prezi

Ravelry - Ravelry is a yarncraft website that provides knitters, crocheters and weavers a place to catalogue their projects and yarn, find patterns from corporate and independent designers for free or for sale, and to connect with other like-minded individuals around the world.

[|Reddit] - Social news website where users (with accounts) post links and self-posts (text) to different sub-reddits which are divided by subject or interest. Other users give each post "up-votes" or "down-votes" depending on what they think of the post or material shared. The posts that get the most "up-votes" move to the reddit front page, "down-votes" lower the posts ranking and put it closer to the bottom of the pile.

[|Shareaza] - Because of the school's position on file sharing, Limewire tends not to work on ResNet. However, I found one that works quite well actually, and gives great search results: []

Skype

Stumble Upon

[|TakePart] - Social Action Network

TinyULR- This makes sharing, or referencing ULRs very simple

[|Training Peaks]- tracks your exercise online:

[|USTREAM] - Free LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Online Broadcasts. Create webcasts, video chat, stream videos on the Internet.

[|Video to MP3 Converter]

VLC - VLC Player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

Vuze - (Previously known as Azureus) - Is a BitTorrent client that is more secure and more stable than BitTorrent or uTorrent.

Wallwisher - This could be a fun, simple project idea

[|Engagement]

Youtube Mp3 - Convert youtube video's to play them on iTunes and upload the songs to your iPod.


 * // [|Zotero]  - This Social Media device looks as if it was designed with us (students) in mind. Ch e ck it out!  //**

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