Ozge Karaoglu's Blog » FavesofTheWeek http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:23:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My Faves of the Week (Week 15) http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/28/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14-2/ http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/28/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14-2/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:53:35 +0000 ozge http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/?p=1840 Here comes the faves of the new week:

mailfreezrMailFreezer is a site where you can freeze an email up to 100 years and send it any time you want in 100 years of time.

editme-logoEditMe is a site to create collaborative websites. You can add, edit and delete pages, share documents and images collaboratively.

Picture1PasswordMeter helps you to assess the strength of password strings and see if your password is strong enough not to be hacked or not.

logo planetakiPlanetaki is a tool that lets you read all your favorite websites in a single page. You can keep them public or private.

send-shotsSendShots lets you film yourself and share it with others. You just choose a background and start recording yourself via your webcam.

cantandingCantanding is a karaoke site where you can watch, listen and read the lyrics of the songs.

Picture1Wordis is a site which gives words to you to complete the rest and share your vision with other people.


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]]> http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/28/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14-2/feed/ 1 My Faves of the Week (Week 14) http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/09/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14/ http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/09/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:22:14 +0000 ozge http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/?p=1788 Here are some new faves for this week!

wikispaces

Wikispaces is a collaborative platform where you can work on projects, build your content or create your own collaborative website. You can create pages, spaces. Guests can visit your pages and you can decide who can edit each page that you have on your wiki. Wiki has been ad free for K12 educators and ad-free, private, featured wikis are now free to higher education as well. You can read more here.

Picture1YouPublisher is a web tool to turn your PDF documents into flippable and downloaded e-books and get a link to place it on your blog in very easy and quick  steps.

Picture2 FontDeMusic lets you add sound and movement to the words. You write your text, select font, choose color and add movement to your words by moving your mouse up and down.

www.fav7.comFav7 is a site to create short and safe urls. Yo can add up to seven urls and it gives you one link. It also offers the screenshots of the urls that you are going to visit.


writerhymes-logoWriteRhymes is a site to help you find rhyming words. As you write your text, click on the word that you want to find a rhyme for it.

hidetextHideText allows you to convert text to image. This helps you to hide passwords, emails,personal messages, codes or any kind of information on a picture.


superlame_logoSuperLame is a site to add captions or comic style word balloons to your pictures.


]]> http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/03/09/my-faves-of-the-week-week-14/feed/ 0 My Faves of the Week (Week 13) http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/02/21/my-faves-of-the-week-week-13-2/ http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/02/21/my-faves-of-the-week-week-13-2/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:35:46 +0000 ozge http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/?p=1713 Here are the new favourites for the new fresh week:

logo_fontself_textFontSelf is a tool to create fonts from your handwriting. You just draw your alphabet, upload it to fontself, review and save your fonts.It’s online, it’s instant and available only to you.

SpeedyMarks

SpeedyMarks is a tool to create visual bookmarks to view your favourite websites. You can store it on your browser as a cookie or online so that you can reach it everywhere. You can get a widget to place it on your blog and it’s also available on the AppleStore.

upsidedownUpsideDownText lets you write upside down. ¡¡looɔ os sı sıɥ┴ ¡llǝʍ sɐ ˥W┴H sɐ ʇı ʍǝıʌ ɐ ʇǝƃ oslɐ uɐɔ no⅄ ˙ʍou ʇɥƃıɹ ʇı ʇǝƃ uɐɔ noʎ puɐ xoq ǝɥʇ uı ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ ǝʇıɹʍ ʇsnſ

pdfmyurl,1,out

PdFMyUrl is a web tool to turn a web page into a PDF file. You can also have a “PDF button” on your blog.


babelxl-com

BabelXL is an online translator. You just enter or copy any text and translate it into many different languages.

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TinyLists is a tool to create a sign up list or a to do list. It’s an easy way to track progress and organize events.

Have a fantastic week!!

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]]> http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/02/21/my-faves-of-the-week-week-13-2/feed/ 1 My Faves of the Week (Week 13) http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/01/24/my-faves-of-the-week-week-13/ http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2011/01/24/my-faves-of-the-week-week-13/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:30:18 +0000 ozge http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/?p=1628 Here is a new start to the week with my favourites:

dispoDisposableWebPage  is a site where you can create a disposable page with any content you want and share it with others. Each page has a count down clock that you can start from anywhere. when the time finishes, the page stays for two more weeks before it is deleted forever. When you create your page, you also create a key for your friends to edit the text. You can also see the history of changes, bookmark the page, add  pictures (only 5 pictures) and you can add sticky notes.

 bounceBounceApp is a fun and an easy way to share ideas on a website. You just write the url of the site and bounceapp grabs a screenshot for you to add notes and share it with others.

 

quietwrite-com

QuietWrite is a peaceful place to write. You don’t lose your text as the site automatically saves it. You can start a blog and share your ideas with others or you can export your writings to WordPress. you can also edit your writing on iPad.

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CheckDog lets you spell check your website to see how many spelling errors on it. Just copy and paste your url and get the results.

 

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MultiURL is a site to combine multiple links to one url. You can edit your links anytime by deleting or adding some more links to it, you can also assign a password for the links. You can follow who clicks on the links or who hasn’t clicked them. The site automatically shortens the links for you.

50501_318999221903_1563077_nAlarmTube  is an online alarm that wakes yourself up with the Youtube video that you choose.

 

Stay tuned for the next faves.

 

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logoKaraokeParty is a music service that let you sing karaoke and practice singing. All you need is a microphone and an internet connection.

ListenAndWriteListenAndWrite is a  site where you hear the the audio and write the words.  It’s a great site for dictation practice. You can also embed the audio to your blog or website.

 

Picture1 You type your note and get a link to send it to others with SecureTextNotes. As soon as the recipient reads the note, it destructs itself. Your note can also be password protected too. You can also attach a file to your note. As soon as the file is uploaded ,it is automatically deleted.

wondersay

 Wondersay is a site to generate animation by changing the style and customizing them. You can get a link or embed it to your website.

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ConfusingWords is a site where you can find a collection of words that are often confused or misused.

 

15669LetThemSingitForYou is a site where you write the lyrics of your song and let the site sing it for you. You can send it as an email.

 

 Stay tuned for more tools.

 

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