Google Translator

Another nifty tool for translating different languages into your preferred language. Simply copy and paste the URL over and the content will be translated say from Chinese to English. Or key into specific phrases and see what it means in English.

http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|

Easy Peasy Podcasting

Podcasts are useful for reflection purposes and also for interviewing others, and and then getting people to subscribe to regular updates or for downloading. Podcasts can be done easily using free software from Audacity, at http://www.audacity.sourceforge.net/


The audio file needs to be exported in the .wav format. Next we can post the podcast to http://www.posterous.com. This can be easily done by merely sending an email to post@posterous.com and voila! you have created your very own podcast. Note: there will be a return email with your own URL for the podcast :) Cool stuff !

Good for project teams to send their podcasts using to a common space using one email address.

Here are the samples created:

http://doris-cpya2.posterous.com/podcasting-lesson-episode-2

Free photos

To get pics to enhance Powerpoint slides, we can go to

Flickr for those pics (Attribution licence with creative commons)

We just need to attribute using creator's name and cite source (URL). For example, for this pic ...


Trufas From Ana-Fuji
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_fuji/4075678147/

Real time Classroom interaction tool

For better classroom interaction, there is this new web-based tool that enables a group of people to share thoughts, ideas, brainstorm, share answers simulataneously. The best thing is that all can edit at the same time. But the downside is that only text is allowed. Each person's response is colour coded for ease of identification.

If pics/ videos are to be included, the way to get around this is to create a link to pic or video..

Go to
http://sync.in and create a new public note, and when the link's created, the group can be given the link. Best part is it is free and it is hassle-free as well. There is no need to create an account to access this service.

For reference, go to
http://sync.in/ep/pad/view/303jqrakiu/latest

My journey continues...... Alpha Wolfram

Just learnt that there is this super smart search / computational engine which can make your searches more efficient.
You can get instant information on the GDP of US vs GDP of China, or stock price of Microsoft vs Apple with just ONE search, and not two separate searches on Google. Sources of information used are also provided in the information presented. However, information may not be the most updated available and information may not be available for all countries.