Marie-Josee-Mill showed us a couple of things tonight which i would like to demonstrate on my blog.Some more interesting free programs that can be used as teaching tools.

http://www.jingproject.com/

Jing allows you to capture screenshots and record your desktop and your voice as a video. It is perfect for creating tutorial videos.

http://animoto.com/

Animoto is a great application that allows you to make photo presentations similar to PhotoStory3. However, this is a web-based application

http://www.voki.com/

Voki allows the user to create speaking avatars. This could be useful in creating tutorials also. In fact you could conceivably create a tutorial with all three of these applications.

Also revisited Google docs. I have used Google doc before but would like to use it in the future as a way of creating dynamic collaborative online documents both with other staff and students.

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Oh and the other nifty thing that Euan showed us was the laptop light for those times when you are in darkness and need to see the keyboard. It's the Fn + PgUp keys which are the bottom left and the top right keys.

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Tonight we went through some of the different search engines available. Sue Tapp showed us the following site which will prove useful in student research.

http://www.search-cube.com/
A fantastic visual experience for visual learners and a good way to create presentations.

http://www.searchme.com/
Give a visual guide of the pages that you are searching for. Great for sifting through all those junk pages masqurading as useful.

http://www.silobreaker.com/
A very good engine which looks very project based. Lots of maps, graphs, videos, and text based articles.

We also viewed a video on Teacher Tube about how students are digital learners and how teachers should try to be utilise technology in the classroom.