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
[need a barcode reader
on your mobile phone
eg UpCode for Nokia ]
QR Treasure Hunt generator!
Some ideas for QR codes
Design tips for QR codes
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)
The Thinking Stick
blog: Jeff Utecht, Bangkok
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FOUND IT!!! Replacements for the Wacom Pen Tablet
No more dodgy bluetooth connections
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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
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HANVON Wireless Tablet (China)
Model WL0604M - for PC only
£62.50 +VAT from ColourConfidence
Tel: +44 (0)800 977 4167
25x23cm overall 16x11cm drawing |
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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 |
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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!)
• PDF Annotator; PDF-XChange Viewer
• Edmodo
• LIbreOffice DMaths plugin
• 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 -
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