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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