Dynamic Message Board

Wiffiti is a dynamic online message board enabling you to view a stream of content.

Wiffiti has been designed "for the "Lean Back" experience of viewing user-generated content from a distance" as well as "the "Lean Forward" experience online or via text messaging".

New messages are instantly displayed in the middle of the screen while older messages fade into the background moving as an animated cloud, which provides "enough ambient activity to continually stimulate audience attention and encourage engagement".

Screens can retrieve tagged messages from content feeds such as Twitter and Flickr as well as mobile messages sent via txt.

Wiffiti proivdes an easy to use message board for school/college activities, such as sporting events, that gives you real time feedback!

This Wiffiti board is entitled "Technology in the classroom"

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Easy Photo Sharing with Yogile

Yogile must be the easiest photo sharing website I have come across. Looks like it could be very useful for the classroom.

Your whole class can easily contribute to a single album by uploading from computer, emailing or sending mms via mobile phone. You simply provide the details of your customized URL and/or Yogile e-mail address. Email notification is sent to you when new photos are added.

You can decide to share the Yogile album publicly, for anyone to see, or keep it just for your students. Simply add a password to the album. More than one album can be created so you could have different albums for different classes or different subjects. Resetting the album passwords is quite easy - if you have a new group of students or if you want to restrict access altogether!

When emailing photos, students can add their names to the subject line to identify their contribution. This will become the title of the photo. They could also add content to the main body of the email, which is added to the description of the photo. The album password should also be included in the body of the email.

The contents of the album can be viewed as thumbnails or a slideshow and each individual photo can be downloaded. Yogile provides a useful 100MB of storage.

The best thing of all is that your students do not have to register so the whole process of using Yogile really is "hassle-free".

My thanks to Anthony and Maurice, from Yogile, for the heads up on this one and for their prompt assistance with my queries!

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Technology Related Animated Explanations

Just came across Animated Explanations thanks to a tweet from @ninapeery.

Animated Explanations is a website "full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website".

Currently there are over 50 animations covering the areas of Health, Technology and Work. Great little assets for your online learning environment!

You simply select the animated explanation that you want and follow the instructions to add it to your site. Works a treat. Here is one, from the Work section, about choosing a safe password.


How to choose a safe password - Animated Explanations

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