Useful Gadgets!

Clocks
Nice clock •
Linear Clock •
24-hour Clock •
[more flash clocks] •

Alarm clocks: 1 - 2 •
Stopwatch full screen •

World Clock •
World Stats •

Earth and Space
Google Earth •
Google Sketchup •

Flash Earth! •
+ contours: Earth Tools! •
MS Live Local •

NASA •
Eyes on the Solar System
(needs a plug-in)

MS Telescope •
Stellarium •
Hours of Daylight •
Hubble gallery! •

Mapping systems
Google Maps •
Multimap - Streetmap •
OS Maps 1940s/50s •

GeoCaching events •
Where's the Path? •
Streetview-map-aerial •

QR code generator

Interesting Ways ...
to use ICT in the classroom
(Tom Barrett)

RapidDefs dictionary

Sun Clock
(Mapmaker.com, UK)
Image Digitiser
(Digitizing still images - Sheffield Hallam Uni)

FOUND IT!!! Replacements for the Wacom Pen Tablet No more dodgy bluetooth connections Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Model CTH-470K-EN for PC and MAC 28x18cm overall 15x9 15x9cm drawing Tel: +44 (0)800 294 4516 £67 +VAT Wireless kit £29 +VAT GENIUS MousePen M508W (Taiwan) (needs 3 x AAA batteries) £90 +VAT from Misco for PC and MAC Tel: +44 (0)800 038 8880 30x25cm overall 20x12cm drawing HANVON Wireless Tablet (China) Model WL0604M - for PC only £106 +VAT from ColourConfidence Tel: +44 (0)800 977 4167 25x23cm overall 16x11cm drawing

Things to Google search for (images/videos)
- Age BMI - Analemma - 21 Interesting Ways (ppt) 38 Ways!

Essentials
• Jing! (quick demos and screen-grabs to upload or save)
• KeepVid (downloads streaming vid) or YouTube Downloader
- can now download as MP4

• Online whiteboard (AWW)
• White-board emulator

• WolframAlpha
• The fastest, and oddly named search engine: heapr
• Microsoft Mathematics (v.4, free download)

• Copernic Desktop Search (from Quebec, Canada)
• TinyURL - NotLong - Goo.gl (URL shorteners)
• How fast is your Broadband?

Image Manipulation
• GIMP (FREE, from Cambridge , Mass, USA)
• IRFANview (FREE, from Austria)
• Snagit (Techsmith, USA) - All kinds of screen grabbing
• Sizer (sets a window to a certain size (useful for Jing recordings!)

Google tools
• Google Trends - Google Insights for Search
• Google Calculator - Google Language Tools
• Google Ngrams - Google Docs

Miscellaneous
• 'Pin' any Window app to be on top (eg calculator or iplayer)
• Second Life (Education) - main
• Sudoku planner and solver
• Gutenberg Project (free e-Books!)

• Currency conversions
• XENU: finding broken links in your website!
• Handbrake (video converter)
• Vocaroo - for creating voice emails!

Using Unicode symbols in HTML
• Complete treatment (Alan Wood)
• List of common Maths symbols HEX and DEC (.xls) -
• Encloding email addresses (anti-spam)
• Converting HTML symbols code (anti garbage!)
• Converting hand-written mathematics to LaTeX or MathML -

PREPARING
DEMONSTRATIONS

IN THE LAB

• 'Language-lab' control, for the cost of about one more computer
No more shouting to get their attention: you can control their screens.

SMART Sync Classroom Management (Canada)

Net Op School (Denmark)
Net Support School (Net Support Ltd, UK)
Snetclass (China)

Autograph