TOOL FOR QUOTING WEBSITE

Here'a an interesting tool to quote any website. The online tool is kwout, http://www.kwout.com/

It is quite a simple tool to use. The beauty of this tool is that it allows you to take screenshot of any part of the webpage in the form of an ImageMap. This means the portion sut out from the webpage is retained with all its hyperlinks intact. Simply paste the link of the website you want to quote in the space provided and there it goes to display the mentioned website/ webpage for extraction.

Now, with the introduction of 'kwout everywhere', it surely helps quote anything on the website (blog, etc.) much easier and with a purpose. Look out for kwout everywhere on this blog of mine as well.

HIGHLY USEFUL RESOURCES BY 3M

Writing about two highly useful reosurces by 3M.



In these times of "Climate Change", it becomes essential that the younger generation understand "living". The first resource is on Sustainaable Living, 3M Worldly Wise. Indeed a great site with separate sections for Teachers and Pupils. "Town Plan" is a great way to make pupils understand various concepts like Carbon Footprints, Renewable Energy, Recycling, etc. The Students also understand the applicability of these concepts in our daily living. It is real fun to browse through the " Town Plan" and understand things that matter to us for a "Sustainable Living". The teacher section has a range of Activity Worksheets to help teacher deliver the concept to pupils.




The second resource is 3M Streetwise, which is about "Child Road Safety" where there are three sections - for Pupils, Teachers and Parents. The resource has a range of options like Quiz, Science behind Safety, games, road safety knowledge, etc.
Though these resource are more applicable to UK and Ireland but still be relevant
for countries like India and others.

Hats off to 3M for such wonderful resources.

FREE CLIPARTS FOR TEACHERS

Writing about an extremely useful site for free clipart images, www.fg-a.com

The site offers a good collection of free images with multiple categories and sections.

The site offers code to embed the cliparts blog, etc.

A good useful site

SITE WITH KID ACTIVITES

Writing about a cute website, EdHeads, http://www.edheads.org/ with interesting activites for kids ( if i can say so !). Though the activities listed are few but are well presneted and delivered. Also, the site contains lots of useful and relevant website resources and lesson plans for each of the listed activities. I am sure the number ( of listed activites) would go up.

Indeed a very impressive and useful site.

SITE FOR WORD AND IMAGE CONVERTER

Here's a useful site, DOC2PDF , http://doc2pdf.net for converting the following

• word to pdf
• image from one format to another. you may visit the link, http://image.doc2pdf.net/ for image converting.

After converting, the files can be directly saved to desktop.

Hope you find it useful !

ONLINE TEXT 2 SPEECH CONVERTER

If you are looking for a simple, easy to use text 2 speech converter, here is a simple site/ tool - Spoken Text, http://spokentext.net. With its easy to use interface you may record text and save/ download it in various audio formats. You may record the text from among the following options

• text entered
• PDF document
• HTML/ Website

Please ensure you take care of the following :

• types of file supported
• size of files supported
• type of converted audio file to be downloaded

Quite a useful tool even for non-English teaching instructors/ teachers

Hope you enjoy using the tool !!

FREE VIDEOS FOR DOWNLOAD

Here's an interesting site, Next Vista for Learning, http://www.nextvista.org/ to download videos. Though the collection is not huge but the site looks clean with videos put under well identified categories.

A good site to explore for your subject needs and for some general topics as well.

Hope you like the site !