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Cool online tools 
This workshop is about using online tools to assist YOUR learning 
You will be able to create a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for home
The tools should not be a distraction to your learning goals {*recommended}
Lets look at tools to assist you to:
Tame the web
Research and find answers
Share and collaborate
Remember
Be ethical (Creative Commons)
Organise
Present
Customise
Mashup stuff
Tame the web
*RSS feeds point website updates towards your reader 
*Google Reader is a place to read all your RSS feeds
Instapaper is a read later bookmarking service
Readability removes the clutter around the webpage you’re reading
bit.ly shortens your links
Research and find answers
*Google Alerts keep up to date with topics of interest
Wolfram Alpha helps you to calculate
Project Gutenburg (Australia) free ebooks
bibme is a bibliography generator
Noodletools is a guide to research process

Share and collaborate

*Delicious is a social bookmarking site 
Diigo is another social bookmarking tool
*Google Docs - collaborate on documents

Remember
Anki makes it easier to study and remember
+ iPhone app
BRAINFLIPS online flashcards
Mindmapping tools

Be ethical (Creative Commons)

Creative Commons (Australia) understand licenses
Flickr the largest photo sharing site
Flickr ‘The Commons’ search the great public photographic collections
*Soundzabound royalty free music for schools
Organise
*mindmeisteris a free 
mindmapping tool
bubbl.us organise brainstorms
*Evernote will synch files on all your devices
*Dropbox -free online storage 
Livebinders collect and share resources 
Netvibes - dashboard everything
Mashup stuff
*Wordle generates word clouds
*GAPMINDER unveils the beauty of statistics while revealing trends
Newsmap.jp a mashup of headlines that shows new patterns
Customise
iGoogle - customise your 
homepage with widgets
Wetpaint - create websites that mix 
wikis, blogs, forums and social networks
Present
Prezi
Slideshare
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