Moodstream is a brainstorming tool designed to help take you in random, but inspiring directions. You can adjust images, footage, and audio to watch and “experience” images provided by gettyimages. alternately, Moodstream has 6 preset moods and you can use the wheel to change the moodstream: inspire, stabilize, simplify, intensify, refresh and excite. The site could be used to inspire students as they journal or it could be used to establish a mood in your classroom as students walk in and get ready for their lesson.

I recently came across a new Web 2.0 tool called Pearltree, an interesting bookmarking, community-sharing visualization tool that is so unique I’m not sure I can do justice describing it. I discover phenomenal resources whenever I play with this collaborative network and could literally spend hours exploring and stringing pearls on my Pearltree. You need to register and verify your account before you can start to build your own Pearltree, but the startup process is quick and easy. I suggest that you view the videos I have embedded below to get a full understanding of how this terrific tool works. You will also find that adding your own pearls of wisdom (websites) is much easier when you add the bookmarklets in your brower. Alternately, you can install a add-on/plugin. I hope this relatively new visual bookmarking tool catches on…that way we can all dive into Pearltree to add and share more links and pearls.

Information from the site…

“We call it a human-powered interest network because its content is made and organized by its community. In Pearltrees, everyone creates its world and uses parts of others’ worlds to extend it. By doing so, everyone contributes to the overall project: building the first human organization of the Web.”

Videos that do a great job showing you what this cool tool can do…

Feel free to click on the screenshot below if you would like to explore my Pearltree…I’m still learning and adding pearls, so feel free to check back from time to time.