The Visual Dictionary Online is “an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach“. There are 15 major themes to access with more than 6,000 images and words to view.
The Visual Dictionary Online is designed to help you “find the right word at a glance“. Simply click on any word in the diagram to see the corresponding definition.
What I really like about the Visual Dictionary Online is that an audio pronunciation is also included for every word – so really you could think of this site as the ’Audio-Visual Dictionary’!!
A game of the week is also included where you can build your vocabulary or test your knowledge by associating words with images – archived games are also available.
Wondering how to make use of the video function on your mobile phone?
Well, have a look at this great little example of an instructional video created with a Nokia and uploaded to the computer. No expensive equipment or setup needed. Just a bit of inspiration!
Bite size instruction – This could be really useful for students who miss the ‘real thing’ or need a second look.
Subjects are divided into various categories including Arts and History, Business and Management, Education, Health and Lifestyle, IT and Computing, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Modern Languages, Science and Nature, Society, Study Skills and Technology.
OpenLearn also provides a ‘labspace‘ where users can reuse and remix the open education resources.
Labspace is a great place to collaborate and contribute as it “makes many different open educational resources available to you, all of which you are encouraged to take away, re-use and remix to suit your needs as an educator“.
htm2pdf is an extremely easy tool to use to convert your website/blog pages to pdf format. At htm2pdf, you can either enter the web address or paste in ‘unpublished’ html code.
What I particularly like about this tool, apart from it being free, is that it has an option to preserve your links and flash content. So, htm2pdf could easily be used to produce interactive pdf documents without having to buy any expensive software! Here is a one page example from the International Edubloggers Directory – with links intact.
I like htm2pdf – thanks for finding this tool Jane!
Project Gutenberg is the largest online repository of free eBooks, presently containing over 20,000 titles.
In fact, the stated mission of Project Gutenberg is “to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks“.
You can search the catalog using author, title word/s or etext number. It is also possible to simply browse through the titles or choose one from the latest top 100 downloads.
The downloaded eBooks are limited to text, html or audio format and this is where NetBook comes in.
NetBook is an eBook reader/listener for Project Gutenberg, which lets you easily search the database, download and read/listen to the eBooks and store them in cache for offline use.
NetBook also automatically downloads the “new books” and adds them to the catalog list.
Downloading videos from the web couldn’t be easier with RealPlayer11.
As you hover over the video with your mouse the ‘Download This Video’ option immediately pops up as shown in this clip here.
The downloaded eBooks are limited to text, html or audio format and this is where 
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