Quiz Creation Software

Quiz Faber, http://lucagalli.net/ is software to enable you to create multimedia quizzes and save them as HTML documents. With 6 options to select from, the user can create a good quiz. Also, the tool provides option for providing explanation and hints for the answers.

Moreover, it allows to embed into quizzes multimedia objects as images, sounds and videos, since it is compatible with the more widespread Internet formats (JPEG, GIF, MID, MP3, AVI, MPEG), also with Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime, Liveupdate Crescendo, RealAudio, RealMedia browser plug-in.

A nice, simple to use tool for creating HTML quizzes easily.

2 More YouTube Video Downloader

Sharing with you a couple of more youtube videos downloader to help you download videos for
your students with ease for later use and sharing

YouTube Downloader 3000, www.download3000.com/download_19063.html
It allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video to your local computer. Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Start , and the AVI file will be downloaded into the selected folder

YouTube Downloader, http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!

It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid

Another (Web Page)HTML to PDF converter

www.html-to-pdf.net/free-online-pdf-converter.aspx is an online (WebPage) HTML to PDF converter which helps to save the wepages in PDF format.

Simply paste the webpage address into the URL blank space and click on 'Convert to PDF' to get a pdf version of the same.

I have found the tool very useful when visiting webpages (websites) with scrolling windows or when wanting to retain a copy of the webpage for later reading and reference

Adding Effects to Image

Here's a cute online image tool called Photofunia, www.photofunia.com for adding effects to images. At times, when you are looking to make your images look interesing, this little tool can help the cause. Simply select the effect from the list provided, choose your image and here you go, the final image with the selected effects.

The best part being that you can save the image for later use.

Image Collage Maker

Sharing about another simple, useful interesting tool to play around with images (jpeg/ jpg). Shape Collage, www.shapecollage.com/. The need to do more with images, maybe put them in a collage form in different shapes, sizes, dimensions, etc. is fulfilled by this downloadable tool. The Java version (jar) is also available for download.

The tool offers a lot of features like 'Shape and Size', 'Appearance' and various Advanced options. The images could be dragged and dropped directly or the entire folder be added.

A must try tool for some of your image based needs.

Free eAcademy for Indian School Teachers

CII-Shiksha, http://www.shikshaindia.org/, an Indian non-profit working towards Teachers Empowerment has launched a Teacher's Academy that will empower and enable teachers with free and open technologies. Visit www.eshikshaacademy.in for more details on the same.

Please note this Program is just being offered to Indian teachers teaching in Indian schools

Image Compression Utility Tool

Here's a little yet useful utility tool for image/ photo compression, Shrink Pic, http://www.onthegosoft.com/

Need for the Tool:
While uploading photos/ images, at times there is an issue about compressing/ resizing the images so that they could be uploaded properly. Rather than using a software to do the resizing/ compression, this tool would do it automatically.

How the tool works:
Once installed, the tool would rest on the taskbar (bottom right hand side of the Windows) and whenever some image/ photo is being uploded, this would automatically resize/ compress it to the best possible size. The tool prompts you when it resizes/ compresses