Technology Review: Five Technology Tools to use Today

2009 has been touted as the year of the "widget." Widgets are interactive tools that can be easily added to webpages, blogs or used inside ANGEL.

Grammar Girl Quiz Widget http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/grammargirlquiz
Directions for putting in your course:
• Go to the website
• Click the </> icon and copy the code that is produced

• Go to the ANGEL announcements page
• Add a new announcement
• Click on the HTML editor
• Paste the code that you copied into the announcement and save


Countdown Clock YourMinis
Countdown Clock: http://www.yourminis.com/minis/yourminis/Dappere/mini:dddd
o Create your clock (with a title, i.e. Assignment #3 is due in)

o Copy the Code
o Directions for putting in your announcements:
o Go to the Add Announcements page
o Add a New Announcement
o Click on the HTML editor
o Paste the code above into the window and save


VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/#home
• You can add this to your discussion forum. Don’t have a mic, don’t worry, all you need is your phone and you can record your comments.



• Speaking of Widgets, sites like http://www.widgetbox.com/ contain thousands of interactive tools that you can add to your start page


Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/
• Is a citation building Firefox extension that allows for automatic capturing of citations from webpages
VoiceThread

Allows you to create an auditory and visual discussion board. Participants have 4 ways to interact by microphone, telephone, text chat or file upload.
Once you've created a voice thread, you hav add it to your discussion forum in ANGEL.
Check Voicethread out:
http://voicethread.com/share/409/

Netvibes& Pageflakes
Are personalizable homepages that allow you to add custom widgets, as well as managing all of your links.
####### Speaking of Widgets, sites like http://www.widgetbox.com/ contain thousands of interactive tools that you can add to your start page