Cloud Computing: Survey of Online Applications for Education

I am presenting a session at the Minnesota Online Education Association (MNOLA) Conference on Friday called, Cloud Computing: Survey of Online Applications for Education. This is the presentation I put together. I am enlisting the help of a virtual co-presenter called Seymore (named after Seymore Papert) who will goat me through the presentation. Of course, if you are only viewing this on my blog you will miss most of the content but you can get the gist of it here. I will try to find someone to record my session so I can share both sides of the story. Enjoy:

New Items Added to the Digital Backpack

It has been quite a while since I have been able to update the Digital Backpack. Today I spent a couple hours adding some new services. So, here they are:

• -make your own custom interactive maps out of any image
• - Build 3D building for Google Earth
• - Free online audio mixer similar to Audacity or Garage Band.
• - make your own video avatars with your webcam
• - online flowchart creation tool
• - online flowchart creation tool
  - Visual information organizational mindmapping tool
• - SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator
• - online optical scanner, converts text from pdf and jpg files into movable type
• - View sheet music online, record yourself over accompaniment track, or use it for online karaoke
• - create music videos with your own clips and pictures online
• Twapper Keeper lets you archive #tag discussions from Twitter
• - Free online interactive whiteboard
  
• - Free online interactive whiteboard
• - Free online interactive whiteboard
• - Free online interactive whiteboard
• - Free online meeting space that includes an interactive whiteboard, document sharing, and a shared web browser
• -Not only does SafeShare.TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to crop videos before sharing them.
• - huge directory of educational videos in all educational categories
• Couchit - Very simple wiki development tool.
• - Apple iTunes AppStore Search Engine
• - iPhone and iPod App Search Engine
• - online collaboration space where you can run team projects with document collaboration and task management
• - over 2000 free audiobooks online
• - make animated gif files out of YouTube videos
• - Non-linear slideshow presentation web app similar to Prezi
• - Online music creation program. This one is hard to explain, you just have to try it for yourself.
• - publish email as a webpage

Digital Backpack Updates

It has been a while since I last updated my "Digital Backpack." I know a lot of people use this tool and it is starting to burst at the seems with links to tools. So, I thought I would just highlight what I added last night:

• - Send files to fax machines for free.
• - Online application that lets you create your own animated gif files.
• - Upload a photo and this tool will render it like a David Hockney collage.
• -simple online tool for making animated GIF files.
• - Online audio editor.
• - It's a simple service to convert the web pages to PDF files. No need to install applications on your computer. It's free and without registration!
• - free online file converter
• - Free online file converter
• - converts text messages into proper English.
• - Send and receive free text messages from your computer to others cell phones.
• - Free online whiteboard.
• - Broadcast video live online from your mobile phone.
• - Free video hosting for schools. (like YouTube but specifically for student projects.)
• - Like YouTube but for school lectures.
• - Interesting YouTube Search Engine
• - Semantic Video Search Engine
• - Online application that lets you build your own 3D games.
• - Neat site that is kind of like a mashup between Google Earth and Twitter.
• - Convert an RSS feed to a PDF newsletter.
• - Combine multiple RSS feeds into one.
• - combine multiple RSS feeds into one.
• -PDF search engine
• - Chop a section out of a YouTube video.