What is Dropbox?
育焕 recommended me Dropbox a couple of months ago through Facebook. At first I was a little skeptical of the idea of cloud storage. Now I almost can’t live without it!
It’s really useful when you need to synchronise files with a few machines. For example, I can save a document on my laptop, print it from my desktop, view it on my iPhone, and edit it on any PC or Mac where there is Internet access. Watch this Commoncraft video!
Click here to sign up (and help me earn bonus space 
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Dimdim works great!
Today I tried Dimdim to host a mini web conference with a few students for the first time. We had a lot of fun messing around with the functions. Haha.
Pros:
- It’s free!
- It does not require any software download and installation.
- It allows 20 concurrent users.
- It has a few presentations modes – Whiteboard, Computer screen, PowerPoint and Webpage.
- It is fast and does not lag.
Cons:
- I am still learning some features, particularly the audio and visual controls. Can be a little tricky.
- Nothing at the moment!
I strongly recommend all educators to try Dimdim with their students and fellow teachers for web conferencing, home-based learning and hosting of webinars. Although it may seems like a poor man’s Elluminate, it certainly exceed all my expectations.
What Classroom/Lab Management software?
My school has been using Junglebyte for the past 3 years. Well, it’s a mixed bag. It can be pretty effective, but it can never achieve 100% control due to some reasons which my edtech and I are still figuring out.
Any recommendations?
The iPhone Could Be The Ultimate Study Machine
From TechCrunch,
We’ve all heard about the incredible growth of the App Store, which has seen more than 500 million downloads across over 15,000 applications. Much of the innovation (or at least, money) has come from games and other entertaining apps like Smule’s Ocarina
and Pandora Radio
The title alone is very intriguing. Anyway, I love my new iPhone 3G
Screentoaster – Now with jam and butter
Screentoaster with audio recording now! Toast with jam and butter 
ETD Chinese Education Portal
Looking forward to experimenting the portal the pilot project by the ministry. Though I will not be teaching with this portal, I will assist in the facilitation and administration.
Voicethread: Feature updates
Received some updates from the great people from Voicethread:
Hello VoiceThreaders,
We’ve got a number of delightful feature updates to share with you.
Put VoiceThread In Your Pocket
Take your VoiceThread and put it into iTunes or your pocket for on-the-go viewing and presenting. Whenever you export, you now have the choice to either download a full sized high resolution archival movie version or one that has been formatted to go directly onto your iPod or iPhone, or both.
Clone Your Threads
We’ve had a lot of requests for the ability to make a copy of an existing VoiceThread so that it can be reused for a fresh new audience or just to make a backup copy. Beginning today, you have that ability right on your MyVoice page (from the gear menu). Clicking ‘Make a Copy’ opens up a menu for you to title, describe, and choose the comments you’d like to include in the new version. Now you can spend the time and energy creating the highest quality VoiceThreads to be used again and again, and again.
Support For More File Formats
We now fully support Microsoft Office 2007 file formats when uploading into your VoiceThreads. Microsoft Photo Story 3 video support coming soon.
Security Update
Beginning January 1, 2009 we will no longer allow multiple simultaneous logins to the same account. While this may have been a convenient feature it was also a potential security risk. After January 1, 2009 whenever you log in to VoiceThread on a new computer, we will automatically log you out of any computers that you were previously logged into.
Submit To The VoiceThread Digital Library
VoiceThread is creating a digital library of outstanding examples of teaching VoiceThreads and we need our community of educators to help us build this resource. The intention is not just to ‘favorite’ or ‘tag’ great examples but to explore and document how they were created and what was learned. We hope the end result will be a series of detailed articles that other educators can utilize to help guide their work, so please give us as much information as possible. We hope to open the Library in January, so submit them whenever you can and spread word of the project to others. As a token of thanks we’ll be giving $20 worth of archival exports to all of the submitters whose work is published in the Library. Follow this link to make your submissions.
We’ve made quite a few interface tweaks as well, all in an effort to make VoiceThread and its features easier to use and understand. We appreciate all the feedback we’ve received, it definitely helps direct our development as we look to further improve VoiceThread. So thank you and keep it coming! We’ve got more on the way (VoiceThread.com).
Creative Commons Singapore is online!
From Creative Commons Singapore:
In all the enthusiasm after we finally made it and among the million other things each one of us is involved in we neglected to communicate the merry news on this blog. Yes, after some delay, the Singapore versions of the Creative Commons licenses are now online and available for all Singapore-based authors to use. Just head over to http://creativecommons.org/international/sg/ for an overview of the licenses.
TEACH WEB 2.0
Got to know this great wiki from Day 9 of K12Online Conference 2008. It contains links and reviews of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning. Highly recommended.
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