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FOR THE BUSY TEACHER!
Useful Gadgets!

Clocks
Nice clock

Nice timer
World Clock

Earth Views
Google Earth - Tools
Google Sketchup

Flash Earth!
MS Live Local
MS Telescope


Online Calculator
eCalc

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Essentials
Jing! (quick demos and screen-grabs to upload or save)
Splandoo (saving videos to .flv format, eg YouTube)
- note: add ".flv" to the file name after downloading
or: Zamzar [converts any URL or file to another video format]

WolframAlpha -

Copenic Desktop Search (from Quebec, Canada)
TinyURL - NotLong (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

Google tools
Google Trends
Google Insights for Search
Google Calculator
Google Language Tools
Google Docs (word processor and spreadsheet online)

Miscellaneous

'Pin' any Window app to be on top (eg calculator or iplayer) -
Second Life (Education) - main
Sudoku planner and solver


CLASSROOM
HARDWARE
Graphics Tablets:
Wacom Graphics Tablet
Sahara CleverPad 3
Smart Airliner

Interactive Whiteboards:
Summary from Ambra and Wedgewood
Hitachi Starboard 77 Duo
Smartboard 2-minute tutorials

Interactive Panels:
summary Wedgewood
Visualisers:
summary from Ambra. eg:L-1n (ELMO)

Tablet PCs (ink-aware laptops)
Table of comparison - Support from Microsoft

PREPARING
DEMONSTRATIONS

Discrete Recordings - [can be saved as Flash into HTML pages]
Turbo Demo (D&G, Germany)
..- examples from the Autograph web site - 'How to' tutorial

Continuous Recordings:
Camtasia Studio (Techsmith, USA)

Creating Flash Menus
Amara Software -really easy to use!

Web conferencing
Elluminate - 3 participants FREE!!

Downloading YouTube Videos
23 possibilities!

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.
Imperata (from Divace, Finland)
Net Op School (Denmark)
Net Support School (Net Support Ltd, UK)


Autograph





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