Explore the World

Explore "makes documentary films and photographs to showcase extraordinary nonprofit efforts and leaders around the world" opening the door to a world you might otherwise never get to see, a world neglected by the mainstream media.

Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Sudan, Darfur, Rwanda, China, Tibet, India, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, The Vatican, The Arctic, Greenland, Costa Rica, Canada and many U.S. cities are all included.

Explore's film and images "document how people from all over the world, from every walk of life, are taking positive steps that have local impact and global relevance".

Many research articles and links to other relevant websites are also provided.

A great resource for travel and tourism students!!

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Technorati Tags: explore, tourism, travel

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Choosing your Destination with Hyperwords

Hyperwords is a very useful Firefox add-on, which makes all the words on a website instantly interactive.

Hyperwords works in a similar way to the code from Answers.com previously reviewed in 2008. However, the advantage of Hyperwords is that you do not have to manually install code on every website where you want to use it.

Once added to Firefox, you can select a word and then choose from multiple suggested reference sites. Easily search for related text, map, image or video information with just a couple of clicks.

Hyperwords works nicely within a Moodle site and you can even post directly to Twitter!! Translation, of the selected text, to a number of languages is also provided.

Yet another reason to switch to Firefox :-)

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Photos Galore at Photos8

Photos8 provides a huge collection of high resolution photographs. A great resource for presentations and projects alike, across many subject areas.

The Categories include:
Animals, Architecture, Art, Backgrounds, Birds, Electronics, Flowers, Food, Furnitures, Insects, Landscape, Macro, Miscellaneous, Money, Objects, People, Plants, Religion, Sky, Street, Sunset, Travel

The owner and creator of the site, Sam, explains what the site is all about:

Photos8  is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. As the owner I have explicitly placed it in the public domain. If you do use any photo, please consider linking back to this site or giving credit to this site. Just something like, "Photo courtesy Photos8", This is not required, but its a very good way to support the site efforts here.

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Join in at NECC Unplugged & Edublogger Con

NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference, running from 28th June - 1st July in Washington DC is rapidly approaching and promises to be a great event not to be missed.

But, don't worry if you can't travel because, the good news is that, you will be able to attend many of the presentations virtually.

You can even present virtually on any topic of your choice, if you so wish. Check out the NECC Unplugged wiki for all the details. Book your slot now!!

Likewise, you can attend Edublogger Con virtually. It runs all day Saturday 27th June. The schedule will be continually updated as the conference approaches.

THE CONFERENCE DATES AGAIN! - Sat 27th June to Wed 1st July

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Apture includes a Twitter Viewer

Apture, reviewed earlier, just keeps getting better and better and now includes a new Twitter Viewer that lets you embed the whole Twitter experience right on your website next to relevant content. 

Visitors to your site can view live Twitter streams without having to leave the page - pdonaghy's twitter. This also includes Twitter search results - mathematics search.

In fact, from within the Twitter Viewer, you can also view any multimedia content that people are twittering about - without leaving your page!

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Create Data-Rich Interactive Pages

Exhibit lets you easily "create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations".

With Exhibit you can create dynamic visualizations of your data collections without having to resort to complex database and server-side technologies. Your data can be searched and browsed using faceted browsing. Various different views including tiles, maps, etc can also be provided.

To keep things really simple, the data can easily be created and accessed from a google spreadsheet.

Although not necessary, a rudimentary knowledge of HTML and CSS is beneficial and will enable you to enhance the basic appearance of the webpage. Several examples are provided to help you get started.

Exhibit would be an excellent tool to support an integrated project involving spreadsheet/database and web design modules.

This website was created with a little data from the International Edubloggers Directory.

NB: Best viewed in Firefox or Chrome. Some formats appear to be lost when viewing in Internet Explorer and sometimes the page is redirected!!

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Neat Application Launcher

Appetizer is a neat application launcher, or dock, for Windows.

Appetizer lets you organize your shortcuts and folders into a convenient dock, enabling you to tidy up the desktop. You can even run it from a portable device such as a USB drive.

With Appetizer, you can easily add/remove shortcut icons, re-order icons and even create groups for related icons.

Appetizer certainly tidies up the desktop and would be very useful for organising important shortcuts on computers that are used in a computer lab/classroom.

Thinking of using this on our college machines next term. Do you know of any better application launchers out there?

Update: 6th May 2009. Have just come across RocketDock, which also looks very promising!

Update: 15th May 2009. And yet another one, FreeBar, which could also do the job nicely.

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