http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org The purity of purpose is to prosper other people Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:49:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you get fed up with those 'follow' emails you get from Twitter. They tell you someone is now following you, but nothing about them. Well take a look at Twimailer Twimailer demo from jon on Vimeo. This little app sends you a more detailed email so you can, at ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/10/04/managing-twitter-followers/ From Dean Shareski via Twitter http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/09/01/using-google-docs-a-love-letter/ From David Warlick via Twitter 100 Most Educational iPhone Apps You probably carry your iPhone with you everywhere, so why not make it an integral part of your education? These apps are all educational in nature and will have you learning about math, science, geography, history, English, and foreign languages; help strengthen ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/09/01/100-most-educational-iphone-apps/ This site seems very good for those of you who would like to allow your children to make their own avatars. Myavatareditor is really simple and intuitive to use, probably needing no instruction at all http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/08/30/building-an-avatar/ Have you ever had a bit of a youTube video that you wanted to use or send to someone else? Download the video, edit out the bit you want, upload the video, email Or, you could use TUBEchop TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/08/27/tubechop-edit-youtube-videos/ Trying to get hold of royalty free pictures can be a bit difficult - especailly if you want to illustrate your website. Mike Williams has put together a collection of sites that can help you on your search - do check out the site licensing details carefully though http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/08/27/12-best-places-to-get-free-images-for-your-site/ The stop motion animate is simple to use animation program. The program allows the user to easily build stop motion animations by recalling single video frames. It also allows the user to do something impossible to do with film: the user can play through all of the previously recorded frames ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/07/24/stop-motion-animator-with-onion-skinning-2/ Again from Wes Fryer's podcast, Yotophoto - royalty free, Creative commons protected images - ideal for  anyone using web images -  a simple one stop search for usable images Who's using Yotophoto? Designers, Bloggers, Educators, and Digital Artists from all over the world are adding imagery to their projects for free. About the ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/07/24/yotophoto-royalty-free-photos/ Have you ever wanted to make a really big poster sized picture?  Well now you can do this online and free at Blockposters Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be printed via Lifehacker http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/07/24/create-any-size-wall-posters-from-any-size-images/ PhotoWipe is a revolutionary image processing tool that magically removes unwanted objects from your photos. Just paint over them in black, and click go! Uncovers hidden details in your photos. Sit back and watch as cage bars disappear from the zoo, and your old girlfriend or boyfriend fades away. It removes wrinkles, ... http://openresourcecentre.edublogs.org/2009/07/24/photowipe-remove-unwanted-objects-from-photos/