25 Ways To Beef up your IT
For those that are a bit down the road of instructional design, here are 25 ways you can become a bit more techie and impress all the computer geeks down in the server room:
Note: This is just a starting list- participants can add/edit on a copy of this stored on a "PeanutButter Wiki" at:
http://cogdogblog.pbwiki.com/index.php?wiki=BeefUpit
You will need the password to enter this wiki!
In addition you may want to see:
- Build an online Bookmark collection
- del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/
- Furl http://furl.net/
- Jots http://jots.com/
- del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/
- Translate Languages with web tools (be careful as it is far from perfect!)
- Find a famous Quote
- http://www.wisdomquotes.com/
http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.quoteland.com/
http://www.wikiquote.org/
- Learn how to be a Google Expert
- New Google Tricks http://www.usrbingeek.com/a/000488.php
- Google Guide http://www.googleguide.com/
- Useful Google Search Tips and Tricks (or "Teach a Man to Fish") http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20041031.asp
- Google to the Max http://www.geekgirls.com/net_google.htm
- Googleism will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! http://www.googlism.com/
- New Google Tricks http://www.usrbingeek.com/a/000488.php
- Create color schemes
- Color Selection: Learn to use colors from nature to select a design color set: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/natural_selections_colors_found_in_nature_and_interface_design.php
- Color Scheme Selector: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
- EasyRGB: http://www.easyrgb.com/
- Color Fields Colr Pickr (uses flickr images)
- Color Selection: Learn to use colors from nature to select a design color set: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/natural_selections_colors_found_in_nature_and_interface_design.php
- Use Google See The USA
- Find your House on Google Maps http://maps.google.com/
- Go Google SightSeeing http://www.googlesightseeing.com/
- Find your House on Google Maps http://maps.google.com/
- Bibliographic Research:
- RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Turabian. http://www.redlightgreen.com/
- Connotea helps you store your reference list online, which means that it's readily accessible, it's linked directly into the literature and it's easily shared with your colleagues. Opening your references to other researchers enables you to discover new leads by connecting to the collections of those with similar interests to you. http://www.connotea.org/
- CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. http://www.citeulike.org/
- RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, Turabian. http://www.redlightgreen.com/
- Find online Calculators for almost anything
- Online Groups
- ITForum - an online discussion group of instructional technologists and instructional designers http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/
- ITForum - an online discussion group of instructional technologists and instructional designers http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/
- Keep up on Gadgets
http://www.engadget.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm
http://www.extremetech.com/
http://www.technologylog.com/
http://www.techreview.com/
- Create Your own Graphic Art
- Gnomz- create a comix http://www.gnomz.com/
- Mr. Picassohead - Now anyone can create Picasso-like artwork with this fun web drawing tool. Use this Flash interface to select differnt parts, resize them, color them, rotate tham, and than sign your art work! Results can be sent by email and/or added to the Mr. Picassohead gallery. http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
- Spell With Flickr http://www.metaatem.net/words/
- Create a Text Logo http://cooltext.com/
- Gnomz- create a comix http://www.gnomz.com/
- Learn a new Language
- Learn Brit-speak http://london.ba.com/index.asp?word=know
- Speak in text messaging language: Transl8tit.com http://www.transl8it.com/
- Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slang
- Learn Brit-speak http://london.ba.com/index.asp?word=know
- Find a classic computer game that is no longer published
- Home of the Underdogs http://www.the-underdogs.org/
http://www.freeoldies.com/
- Home of the Underdogs http://www.the-underdogs.org/
- Analyze your web sites
- Dr Watson http://watson.addy.com/
- WebXAXCT http://webxact.watchfire.com/
- Doctor HTML http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/
- WDG HTML validator http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
- Dr Watson http://watson.addy.com/
- Travel the Atlas of Cyberspacehttp://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
- Learn Unix in 10 minuteshttp://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
- Find the Lies and Generated Nonsense
- Try and find a true fact in the Uncyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Create an Acronym Lie http://thesurrealist.co.uk/acro
- Generate Educational Jargon http://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html
- Try and find a true fact in the Uncyclopedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Descipher Acronyms
- Acronym Generator http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/anym/
- Look up Acronyms http://www.acronymfinder.com/
http://www.irs.aber.ac.uk/acronyms/
- Acronym Generator http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/anym/
- Turn a long URL into a short one
- Find Free Copyright Free Images
- Find Free Copyright Free Audio
- Analyze Text
- Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. http://textalyser.net/
- Welcome to the online text analysis tool, the detailed statistics of your text, perfect for translators (quoting), for webmasters (ranking) or for normal users, to know the subject of a text. http://textalyser.net/
- Write "Hello World" in any programming language http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml
- Create a wiki site
- Send friends to the weird places on the web
- PR Bop is an attempt to catalog those weird and wonderful things that are sent over the PR wires http://www.prbop.com/
- The Bureau of Missing Socks is the first organization solely devoted to solving the question of what happens to missing single socks. It explores all aspects of the phenomena including the occult, conspiracy theories, and extraterrestrial. http://www.funbureau.com/
- Cockroach Hall of Fame http://www.pestshop.com/cockroac.html
- Cheese Net http://65.61.15.248/cheesenet/
- Ghost Pictures http://www.ghost-pictures.org/
- Urinal Dot Net Photos of urinals, worldwide. http://www.urinal.net/
- PR Bop is an attempt to catalog those weird and wonderful things that are sent over the PR wires http://www.prbop.com/
Note: This is just a starting list- participants can add/edit on a copy of this stored on a "PeanutButter Wiki" at:
http://cogdogblog.pbwiki.com/index.php?wiki=BeefUpit
You will need the password to enter this wiki!
In addition you may want to see:
- 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have by By Laura Turner, THE Journal
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