New Tools And Services For Presenters And Visual Communicators: The Best From Sharewood n°7

Photo credit: Marta Rostek

1. Cutting-edge painting software
2. Flickr-based free images search engine
3. Free online content storehouse (1GB) and sharing platform
4. Software for creating professional photo albums at home
5. Teacher Presentation And Monitoring Software For The Networked Classroom

1. I/O Brush
   
   
   I/O Brush is a fascinating new physical drawing tool allowing users to “pick up” colors, patterns and textures from the real world and use this new synthetic “ink” to paint on a computer screen. I/O Brush is a project of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is not yet available on the market. The device looks like an oversized paintbrush, but hidden inside are several LEDs, a CCD camera and touch sensors that work together to capture the look and feel of the surface. I/O Brush software then saves the attributes, allowing users to create art using a completely original and personalized palette of colors, patterns and even moving images. Watch this QuickTime video showing off I/O Brush’s abilities (available here as .mpg). I/O Brush is designed to allow artistic pieces to be appreciated not only as stand-alone works, but as a by-product of the artist’s environment, so that “stories about the evolving creation are part of the creation that could be shared, and hopefully appreciated by its viewers.”
   http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/





2. Flickr Creative Commons Image Search
   
   
   Here is another super great resource to search for photographic images that require no permissions or payments to be freely re-used. It is the Flickr Creative Commons image search facility, which allows anyone to search Flickr huge catalog for photos available under a Creative Commons license. Flickr’s Creative Commons search uses simple icons to divide photos into the various licensing categories (including Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works and Share Alike) so anyone searching for photos can instantly know what usage restrictions the image authors have placed on their pictures.
   http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/





3. eSnips
   
   eSnips is a new online service allowing you to store most anything you can find online while providing you with the ability to easily share it with anyone else. eSnips offers 1GB of free web storage space in which you can save real web content and not just links, text snippets, digital images, web links, files, audio and video clips, PowerPoint presentations and more. You just upload your document and files from your computer and can later access all of your stored contents from any computer connected to the Internet. eSnips is secure and does even track who and when accesses your online stored "snips". Totally free.
   http://www.esnips.com/
   





4. Zoomalbum
   
   
   ZoomAlbum is photo album software that specializes in creating unique, professional image galleries that users can print out easily on any inkjet printer. Users only need to upload photos from a photo camera, select the preferred order of display, add captions and print the photos on one of ZoomAlbum's specialized, high-quality photo sheets. Users can then proceed to fold the photo printed sheet according to a set of specific instructions which allow the easy-creation of a pocket-sized photo album. ZoomAlbum comes with several creative templates and themes, and is even equipped to turn your digital photos into attractive album covers. ZoomAlbum can also import PowerPoint presentations. The software can be freely downloaded. ZoomAlbum is Windows-only software and it is available both in English and Chinese. The price to buy it is $25 (€20) and the photo paper refills cost $18 (€15).
   http://www.zoomalbum.net/index.php





5. Redianet Class
   
   Redianet Class is a network program that gives instructors access to their students’ PCs while in the classroom. It allows instructors to directly display content on their students’ screens, observe the screens from the teacher terminal, guide the students browsers, and use an enlarged on-screen pointer to bring attention to specific locations. Redianet Class enables teachers to show multimedia presentations on all screens simultaneously, eliminating the need for using VCRs and DVDs. A trial version is available, but loses usability after 30 days.
   http://www.redianet.com/en/products/index.htm
   

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posted by Robin Good on Wednesday, August 30 2006
Monday, October 31 2005

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