Visual Bookmarking and Sharing with Pearltrees

Create and share tiled bookmark collections with Pearltrees.

An excellent way to share links and resources with colleagues and students - collaborative lists can even be set up. One of the best features is the ease of sharing bookmarks using Pearltrees, with options to share to Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Reddit at the click of a button...

...and my absolute favourite, the ability to embed your bookmark tiles into a webpage:

ELearning Tools, by wgsbelearning
This can be done on Moodle too, allowing you to share links in a much more attractive and engaging way!

eSkeletons

eSkeletons: an interactive website where you can explore and compare skeletons of mammals using high quality images of specimens.

Just a quick post that may interest the Biologists today.

eSkeletons also provides a variety of printable teaching resources including puzzles and life-size skeletons (although Lord Sugar wouldn't be impressed!).

GifYoutube: create short looping .gifs from YouTube clips

GifYoutube is very easy to use, just find your clip on YouTube, go to the GifYoutube website and paste the YouTube link into the box on the front page. You can then set the starting point of your gif using a sider or typing in the time in the box, with a handy preview of the video to help you. Use the right-hand slider to set the length of the clip (maximum 15 seconds)

Example

First I select the YouTube clip for my source video:

Skip to gif start point

And here is the end result:

Click to open on GifYoutube site

I'm sure there are many uses people can think of for this, but I wanted to show some short video clips as part of a starter activity: showing the clips through YouTube would have meant timing the starts, restarting the clips manually and possibly even showing each clip one after the other. What I decided to do instead was to create a table to display my four clips, side-by-side and ask students to sketch an energy profile diagram to represent what was happening in each.

Reaction A	Reaction B
Reaction C	Reaction D