Sumo Paint possible alternative to Kid Pix

I am still trying to solve the school's problem with exporting Kid Pix slideshows to QuickTime. I have been experimenting with Sumo Paint which is an online image editor. You can save in sumo format or png/jpeg onto your computer. Unfortunately there isn't a slideshow option! I will continue looking but this is a great tool anyway with lots of options for creating pictures.  I have had a very quick play:

Storynory

This looks good http://storynory.com/ with a variety of stories and books and a Juniors section.

How to Download Music from youtube

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/ is a simple way to extract music from youtube videos.

Paste the url and select high quality then GO.  Then click convert to MP3 and once this is completed save to your computer. 

A very big thank you to the Desperately Seeking Blogger blog and my good friend, Kathy, for showing me how to use this super simple tool that's great to have up your sleeve.

Moodle Girl - Carnegie Library Storymaker

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/ Great online storymaker tool for children where they can consider setting, characters and plot.

Thanks to the Moodle Girl's Blog and to My Story Maker by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.  I created a story in 5 minutes and it was fun and made me think, a little, so I think it would be worthwhile activity for children.  The stories can be opened online using a unique ID number or downloaded in pdf format.

Free online Word Count Tool

http://allworldphone.com/count-words-characters.htm for counting words and characters.

Now that I have set up my Twitter account to automatically update from my blog posts I find myself trying to be aware of the character limit.  This online tool is very handy if you are in the same situation and don't want your Twitter updates cutting off part way through!

Fotobabble re Jacqui Sharp

Instantly ideas spring to mind for literacy for this site Fotobabble. Another great link from the Web 2.0 in Education blog which would be very useful for many things in the classroom. It is somewhere in between voicethread and vocaroo as it allows you to upload a photo but not more than one. So it appears to me that it would be useful for children to use a self-reflection tool that could be embedded into their ePortfolio. There could be a photo of their work or of them creating their piece of work combined with their thoughts - challenges, triumphs, next steps. Whereas with voicethread the teacher would also be able to comment this would not be possible with fotobabbly, however, the comments could be added via post comments in a blog etc.

I think the part that would be appealing to many of my colleagues is the ease with which the embed code can be obtained and then the fotobabble can be transferred into a class blog/ePortfolio etc which is sometimes the tricky part for people to manage.