Archive for the ‘Links and free stuff’ Category

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Website Creation with Weebly

July 21, 2009

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Powerful, Drag & Drop Website Editor

Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.

This is a really easy to use website – safe for pupils to use, enabling them to make professional looking websites in minutes

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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

July 21, 2009

This was originally posted by a variety of people in Twitter – it comprises of many photographs categorised by people, decade, places, events and culture – it has its own search facility making it very easy to track down images to support any project you are running in the classroom – as a teacher i would find this a really useful resource to support any work i was doing in the area of visual literacy -

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

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Go Animate

November 30, 2008

I recently came across this really good site for animation – well worth taking a look at this as it makes the creation of animations a simple task for pupils.

“GoAnimate.com is an entertainment website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community. The site offers simple to more advanced innovative features that provide users with a multitude of possibilities for customizing their animations. We will constantly be enhancing and adding features, popular licenses and animations from well known comedians, animators and writers.
Historically, the creation of animation required specific skills, limiting those who can express their creativity. We designed the Go!Animate application to allow users to create animations without drawing talent or a technical understanding of advanced software such as Flash. The site provides users with a library of interesting characters, backgrounds, props, sound effects and music for use in creating their own unique animations. Creators can customize their animations with a number of tools and features that allow them to create truly unique works of expression. “

taken from their website – http://goanimate.com/go/

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Lego Digital Designer

September 13, 2008

Lego Digital Designer is a great free download that enables you to build lego models virtually and then animate them. You can find the free program here – http://ldd.lego.com/

The program is very easy to install and you will be up and running in just a few minutes. You build models by dragging and dropping the bricks onto the base board pictured below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A camera lets you view your construction from any angle and you can animate finished models. The latest version of the software enables;

  • Improved building experience
  • Quicker selection of bricks
  • Easier to connect bricks when building
  • New brick palette tool for easy use
  • More Bricks in the palette
  • Partly built models for easy start up
  • New backgrounds for model view
  • Support for the Market Street and the Hobby Train box
  • Improved virtual building guide generator
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    Panoramas made Simple

    April 29, 2008

     

     The CleVR Stitcher is an incredibly easy way of creating your panoramas. Once you’ve logged in, you can just click the button on this page and you’re ready to go. Simply drag and drop your photos and press the button and you should have a perfect panorama in a couple of minutes. It will then upload it to CleVR for you, ready to view and share. From camera to web in as little as five minutes. (text taken from website)