Technology Tools

Here are some of the technologies that the E-learning Team at Aberystwyth is currently exploring or using:

• YouTube EDU – special section of YouTube for university channels http://www.youtube.com/edu
• Wordle – word clouds – make a visual representation of the key words in any text document http://www.wordle.net/
• Meet-o-matic – meeting scheduler http://www.meetomatic.com/calendar.php
• Posterous – upload short video, audio clips, images, text, like a blog but no account creation http://posterous.com/
• Wink – screencapture with annotations http://www.youtube.com/edu
• Jing – screencapture up to five minutes http://www.jingproject.com/
• Camstudio – screencapture  Open Source creates either AVI files or Flash files:
  • Download site at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131922
  • Home page for the open source product http://camstudio.org/ if you get it from here, be sure to click the right download – you want the free Camstudio Open Source, not the commercial product Camtasia.
• Voicethread – online conversations based on images/videos http://voicethread.com/#home
• Flip camera – cheap and easy digital camcorder http://www.theflip.com/
• Prezi – zooming presentation editor http://prezi.com/
• Tweetdeck – integrates Twitter and Facebook feeds http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
• Spotify – listen to music online, search by song, artist, album etc http://www.spotify.com/en/
• Mindmeister - proper mind-mapping  http://www.mindmeister.com/
• MyWebspiration - online version of Inspiration for concept mapping http://www.mywebspiration.com/
• Cmap tools – concept mapping http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html
• Papershow – digital flipchart http://www.papershow.com/en/index.asp