Lingo2word

Hey, I have to say I thought this site, Lingo2word could come in quite handy in the future, as a teacher, especially in my Deaning capacity. All mysteries, or misinterpretations could come to an end!!!

If you are presented with a text type code/language which you are unable to understand, enter it in the site and it will give you a variety of relevant translations! I now feel very confident with a variety of fings I never understood! lol

It is simple, concise and doesn't take long at all... give it a whorl, or save the site for when you will need it!

flickr

flickr is designed simply to share images. You can join, upload, share and view... It is simple and effective. It also has a cool blog, which I have found a nice light hearted change.. as ironically the blog is primarily based on images rather than opinion... You can also create tag lists of photos, favourites etc, but you need to be careful to take into consideration, how many different types of sites your going to commit yourself to.

flickr does have the many of the common adaptations of modern creating personalised merchandise such as photo books (which I think are really cool), simply printing out your photos, creating large prints, calendars etc. However, I am not sure how New Zealand friendly production is...

flickr would be useful if you were wanting links from blogs, wikis or to share your images around the world.

Check out the Whangaparaoa College flickr pages...

I have one word of warning, which I think will be a regular from me, when ever you are choosing to share personal items, such as photos etc, think very carefully how you label/tag them, and what peronsal information you are prepared to share with the rest of the world. People don't realise how easy it is to track information and it would be very scary to find out someone you don't know, knows far too much information about you, as well as what you look like...

Slideshare

I have just discovered Slideshare, and what a discovery it was!

Slideslide has been established with the modern ideals of communication and collaboration made easy. Imagine, instead of uploaded a large PowerPoint type file into your blog or wiki, you simply embed a HTML code.

You could consider the aspect that you are expected to share your PowerPoint files with the web as a negative, but considering also that you are prepared to share them on your own pages, this in reality is not really a negative. Once you have uploaded your files to Slideshare, you are given a HTML code, which you simply embed into your own page. This in turn means you are not storing huge files on your own pages - and everyone knows this is a bonus!

Slideshare also has a huge variety of slides avaliable for you to embed into your work... if you are not able to create what you are looking for, instead of reinventing the wheel, see if someone else already has!!! Good luck and happy embedding

Webster's Online Dictionary

Old fashioned ideas such as finding the meaning of a word, or using the appropriate word are things we must always remember to do. Computers are not fitted the artificial intelligence which we dream of for the future... and also I strongly feel we must remember to always allow our minds to evolve, rather than let someone else do the thinking for us.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/

This is a valuable site, I often use it in the classroom to check not only the initial meaning, but varieties of meanings, interpretations as well as the evolution of the word itself.

Remember, to keep up with our ever evolving world, it is becoming ever so more relevant to expand our knowledge of the written word - this is a good resource.