multifarious mushrooms

Like all of these wikis, wetpaint has the ability for you to make a web page for free and be interactive at the same time.
They would be useful educational tools.
My wetpaint wiki is here

Posted on February 4th, 2008 under computers, education, personal, wikis & widgets. Tags: wetpaint wikis. Comments: None

I collect free versions of graphic editors I ignore demos, trials and shareware.
PCadvisor.co.uk is a magazine which if you buy, you can use the free software which comes with it. Otherwise, you can go online and search it and download it.
Most of the list I’m about to give you are images to be used [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 under blogging, computers, education, photography, software, web design, web graphics. Tags: free clip art, free graphic editors. Comments: 1

We all know that we can’t rely on wikipedia as an authoritative site because anyone can edit it. Imagine all the political figures and political groups which are described in different ways.
Who too is a terrorist group and who are freedom fighters?
Well there is a site which lists the pages in Wikipedia which are [...]

Posted on January 2nd, 2008 under education, politics, wikis & widgets. Tags: wikipedia. Comments: 1

These are great for educators. Mine is here but I haven’t done much with it as I’m no longer a practising teacher.
PB wikis have upgraded as they go along.
Here are some examples from the PB wiki blog.
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/11/01/edu-case-study-pbwiki-at-bentley-college/
Here is a new feature.

http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/10/18/new-feature-create-your-own-template/
Here are a couple of ways educators have put PB wikis to use.

http://thefedpage.pbwiki.com/August+27-31+Lesson+Plans+
http://professorgordis.pbwiki.com/
I look back [...]

Posted on November 17th, 2007 under education, wikis & widgets. Tags: PB wikis. Comments: 1

http://www.dapper.net/dapp-howto-use.php?dappName=ozwebhub
Here is an example of a dapper I have created for my own site.
What Dapper does is allow you to extract content from any web site and save it as RSS, XML, HTML, Google gadgets and so on. You can also distribute your own content and create your own dapp.
Here’s how it works

Url is [...]

Posted on November 11th, 2007 under blogging, education, templates, tutorials, web design, wikis & widgets. Tags: dapper. Comments: None

Finally Google has managed to digitally produce excerpts from a huge range of books, fiction and non-fiction. Previously they had copyright issues to overcome. They wanted to reproduce entire texts. AS a librarian I should check the percentage of text allowable without breaking copyright laws, but I guess google has done that.
http://books.google.com/
You can browse [...]

Posted on November 8th, 2007 under education. Tags: google books. Comments: None