This update of the Digital Backpack includes a lot of services that have been around for a long time (like Google Sites, Wordpress.com, Scribd, & TED) that I have been meaning to add but keep forgetting. It also includes many new services. Enjoy:
New Additions:
- - Like YouTube for documents. Can find lots of published academic resources here.
- - Place post-it notes on any web page and share them on Twitter
- - Twitter Analytics
- - Share documents (up to 15mb), pictures (up to 10mb), and video (up to 25mb) on Twitter.
- - Share files (up to 20mb) over Twitter
- - Online application that lets you create your own platform & first-person shooter video games and share them with others.
- - Text visualization tool.
- - Simple embeddable whiteboard for collaborative drawing
- - Upload and narrate your slide presentations.
- - Broadcast live and recorded video on your website.
- - Create timelines, share them on the web.
- - Generates hexadecimal codes from color palettes derived from photos you upload.
- - Generates thumbnail screenshots of websites.
- - Free photo effect generator
- - Converts text you enter to an image composed of letter images found on flickr.
- - Stock photo search engine.
- - Image Search Engine
- - Search Flickr by color.
- - Explore Google Earth through Panoramic images.
- - Create and share custom maps with a built-in threaded discussion forum.
- - Social Network for academic research.
- - allows simple clip snipping of mp3 files
- - Generates 30 images from a video flv file
- - Create your own professionally styled, custom branded, live webcast in less than 5 minutes
- - Generate a help URL so friends and family can send you instant screen recordings to help trouble shoot computer issues. (Service by Screencast-o-matic)
- - Watch and listen to talks by the world's leaders in industry, government, and academia.
- - Watch and listen to talks by the world's leaders in industry, government, and academia.
- - Watch and listen to talks by the world's leaders in industry, government, and academia.
- - Watch and listen to talks by the world's leaders in industry, government, and academia.
- - Watch and listen to talks by the world's leaders in industry, government, and academia.
- - Watch over 3000 television channels from around the world streamed online.
- - Simple method for downloading YouTube videos
- - Generate PDF versions of websites
- - Large collection of free audiobooks
- - Create games, quizzes, & crosswords, share them with students online then analyze the results.
- - Free wiki host that integrates well with other Google products.
- - Free blog hosting service.
- - track where visitors to your blog or website are from on a map.
- - track where visitors to your blog or website are from on a globe.
- - Social Networking platform that translates into 27 different languages.
- - Search the internet for mentions of your website.
- - Build your own mobile application.
- - Create your own 3D avatar.(14 years and older)
3 comments:
I am geeking out about a few of these tools that I haven't seen yet! Just spent the better part of an hour playing, just what the doctor ordered for a Friday afternoon. Thanks!
Thanks for putting all of these in one place.
You find the coolest things to play with. Thanks for sharing and organizing all of these tools. I can't wait to explore all of them.
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