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50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to Make the Most of Google Calendar | Virtual Hosting Blog A good list of productivity tips and tricks using Google Calendar.
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Alltop – Top Children’s Literature News Compilation of great children’s literature news. Offers links as well.
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9 Amazing Software Mashups – Killer Free Apps that Work Better Together | Maximum PC Some useful windows tools
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Gnooks – Welcome to the World of Literature Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map. of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors. In the literature map – What else do readers of … read? The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both of them. Click on a name to travel along.
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Dropbox – Home – Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. intuitive approach to online storage. The program creates a user folder that acts just like a folder on your hard drive. You can drag, drop, copy, and even save up to 2GB worth of files to the cloud ($100/year for 50GB), while the service works its magic and syncs up your documents in the background. The online interface lets you track your file transfer history and download any file remotely, as well as restore any files that may have been accidentally deleted. You can even create shared or public folders to pass files along to your friends and family. And you don’t even have ot bear any online ads. Of course we’re smitten.
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Writers Talk 2009 Great information about authors – Includes video interviews, links and booklists.
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Public Domain Photos and Wallpapers A site for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, All photos on Photos8.com are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial.
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SurveyMonkey.com – Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy! SurveyMonkey.com is a tool to help you create and publish online surveys quickly and then view results graphically and in real time. There is both a free version and a professional version
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Death by PowerPoint An excellent presentation about making effective/good presentations. “How to make a presentation and not to bore your audience to death.”
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teachingwithted / FrontPage This is a wiki developed by Jackie Gerstein to help teachers use TED talks in the classroom.
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digitalresearchtools / FrontPage This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. They provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which they not only describe the tool’s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
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Flickrbits 157 applications tools and extensions) in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way.
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Technology’s Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? : May 2009 : THE Journal A piece discussing the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes. There still does not seem to be any clear answers. Recently, some institutions have decided to end their laptop programs for students because of the economic challenges facing those institutions
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Myebook – get it out there! Create a virtual online book. This site allows you to easily publish and share your own content online as well as read ebooks published by other people. You can publish your novel, comic, magazine, photo album or brochure for free
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Flashlight Worthy – the Best Books Recommended A blog that offers book recommendations, organized into interesting book lists
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English Exercises An amazing collection of exercises, related to grammar, to practice English language online. It lets you pick the age level and content and gives you an interactive exercise.
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VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber lets you automatically create lists of vocabulary from any text
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CITE Journal Article Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
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Webquests | Teaching English | British Council | BBC A 2004 article but still a good introduction
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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