Finally finished putting this together. Waiting to use it for the workshop on Wednesday.
Download it here. (3.8MB EXE file, RAR self-extractable)
About MSN Spaces:
1. Hosted by Microsoft
2. Juz promoted from beta to ‘stable’ version last week.
3. Each ‘space’ has 30MB.
4. Very sleek and clean look and feel. Nice templates readily available
5. Able to set viewers permissions, can tie in with MSN messenger
6. Integration with MSN messenger –> easy adoption
Here’s an example 🙂
Greatest Drawback:
Can only create ONE space per .NET passport account.
Background Texture Archive
This is absolutely useful if you would like to find simple backgrounds that you can use for your blog. Featuring 5759 seamlessly tiling backgrounds! Check it out now.
Blog Software Breakdown (Server-side)
Found this list which author, Owen Winkler, has spent much time and effort putting everything together. You will get a list of comparison for the features and functionalties of the existing server-side blogging software (these software have to be downloaded, installed and run from a server, unlike blogger.com).
Some fields may not be updated, but it is still very informative.
MS Image Resizer Powertoy
Download this powertoy to very quickly resize pictures taken with your digital cameras. You can select multiple files (by using combination of [shift], [ctrl] keys and left click) and do a right-click to resize your images all at one go.
Very simple, very fast, no need for photoshop or any other imaging software anymore. The pictures are automatically optimised for screen/web quality (good small files for web).
Grab it today!
Random Daily Writing Prompts Generator
Some of us may want to employ blogs for our students to practise their writing skills and we may want them to write on some topics of their choice or related to their interest.
It is not unusual for some students to come back to us saying that they do not know what to write about. Well, to get them going, we can ask them to visit website(s) that provides random writing prompts on a daily basis. This gives them both the ‘choice’ as well as something to start with. So, try it if you think it’s useful 🙂
An example: Writing Fix