Supplementary+Services

Check out these external online services to supplement your wiki experience. You will have to sign up for an account for most of these services, but they all provide free account options.


 * [|YouTube] is the gold standard for video sharing. Embed other people's videos or upload your or your students' videos to display on your wiki.
 * [|TeacherTube] is similar to YouTube, but is a video sharing community strictly for educators. Look here for more classroom-specific video content.
 * [|SlideShare] is the "YouTube of Powerpoints", as we said in class. This service hosts Powerpoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, and PDF slide decks for public viewing. Be aware: content is not strictly educational.
 * [|DocStoc] is similar to SlideShare, but allows you to embed Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PDF documents as well as Powerpoint slide decks.
 * [|Scribd] is another document embedding service, but accepts a greater variety of file types than DocStoc (all MS Office docs, including Office 2007, PDF, OpenOffice, txt & .rtf, and image files (.jpg, .gif, .png) //**(Please note: both DocStoc and Scribd prohibit the uploading of copyrighted material to which you do not own the rights. They may delete your documents if they find you in violation of this policy.)**//
 * [|StatCounter] keeps track of your website visitors and displays this information on maps, in graphs, and in website counters (see the number at the bottom of the left sidebar menu). You can track traffic on an infinite number of projects for free, but logs only keep data for the most recent 500 visitors (you can upgrade for a fee).
 * [|SurveyGizmo] and [|Zoho Polls] allow you to create online polls for your students.
 * [|Google Calendar] and [|30 Boxes] provide embeddable calendars for upcoming due dates, field trips, and **days off!**
 * Not embeddable, but collaborative tools nonetheless: [|Scriblink], [|Skrbl], and [|Twiddla] are all interactive whiteboards that allow users to collaboratively edit and annotate. It's like having OneNote on the Web.
 * [|CutePDF] is a small program you download to your computer. It installs itself as a printer option and allows you to create PDFs from text, spreadsheet, Powerpoints, web sites - pretty much anything you can print (**nb:** make sure you download both CutePDF **and** the converter).
 * [|Google docs] is a website that allows you to create documents and spreadsheets that you can display in your wiki. (You need to create a google account if you don't already have one.)

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