60 Second Recap

60 Second Recap is a new site (alpha) that is vastly becoming one of my favorite new sites for literature. This is a place where people can go to get a 60 video summary of some of the great works of literature. Think of it as a book review w/ a interactive presentation happening behind the presenter.

I can see this site being used for MS/HS students as teachers introduce new topics to help perk their interests!!


A screen shot from the review of Frankenstein.

Give 60 Second Recap a look by clicking here.

For another excellent review check out The Educational Tech Guy's blog.

Museum Box

Museum Box is an excellent site that I just found out about from Zarco English, a great blog. This is such a unique site that the only thing I really can compare it to is Digital Vaults.

MB is a site where users can upload their digital content (audio, video, pics, etc) into a "box". Those boxes are then used to defend different perspectives throughout historical times. What does this mean? This means that this is a very good site for history teachers who like to challenge their students to defend different view points throughout history.

Also, w/ MB being a site w/ an educational portal nothing inappropriate can get posted since it has to be reviewed by a teacher/administrator.



I highly recommend giving Museum Box a look by clicking here!!

Oamos

Oamos is a new and fun search engine I first read about on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. After giving it a try all I can say is, WOW. What a crazy/wild idea the way this engine works. There really isn't anything out there quite like this. Just type in a term (try your name for real fun and check out your PLN pics) and hit return. The engine goes to a new screen where multi-media images appear w/ music playing in the background, all of these image are linkable and takes you to a source, which makes it quite useful.

Give Oamos a try by clicking here you won't be disappointed.

Below is a sample video on the search term, 21st century technology...

Europeana

Europeana is a new and exciting site (beta) which is kind of hard to explain in words (I'll do my best). It's a place to harvest/garner ideas about Europe and it's culture. I think of it as the ultimate resource for European History.

At first glance you'll think of this as your standard search engine which has a nice visual appeal. However, after exploring a bit deeper you'll notice there is so much more that you can do on here. There is a very nice time-line feature which puts and tags events in sequential order. Best of all the time-line interacts w/ pictures via cover flow style (think iTunes).

Another great feature (my personal favorite) is the Thought Lab. By clicking on that it brings you to a search engine, but not just any old search engine, a "semantic web/web 3.0" style engine. Check it out if you're curious to see the way the web is evolving.

Below is a sample video of what Europeana is all about!!!



For more info click here.