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WordSift – Visualize Text Very clever site that creates a word cloud from text, and finds images for the most frequently occurring words.t
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Google Search Tips (Ultimate Google Guide) The Ultimate Google Guide can help you to improve your search results and SERP analysis with less-known search Tips First Things First In there are some less-known google operators and search tips
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How to Use Google Cloud Print from the Desktop Explanation about how to use Google Cloud Print from the Desktop
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Photo Timelines – LIFE LIFE Photo Timelines hosts timelines featuring images from the LIFE collections. Visitors to LIFE Photo Timelines can view existing timelines or create their own timelines using images from the LIFE collections.
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Google Docs – What’s new? When people say Google is “just” search, or ads, or whatever… they forget docs is alarmingly comprehensive and (like maps) in a state of continuous improvement on multiple fronts.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Historical Facebook – Facebook for Dead People ”Facebook, the third most populated country in the world, is a huge part of many students’ lives. Students do a lot of writing on Facebook. To leverage students’ familiarity with Facebook for a history lesson, Derrick Waddell created a Facebook template for historical figures. “
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Home – TripGeo.com – Map Your Trip A tool that can help to create an animated map tour between two locations that shows the travel via Google Streetview
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Welcome to Aviary Aviary offers an online suite of free image and sound editing services
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Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review 5 easy ways to make you a better networker. Most of us are just skimming the surface in terms of the potential Social networks offer us as individuals. To realize this potential, we need to become more active orchestrators of our social networks, setting the tone and drawing out others.
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Free Pictures – Wylio.com Wylio is a little different from the other CC image portals. It’s also perfect for bloggers and web publishers of all ages. It not only finds cool copyright-friendly images from Flickr’s CC pool, it emphasizes a respect for intellectual property.
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Convert to cartoon – Convert photo to cartoon – Cartoonize Me – Cartoonize Convert a photo to a cartoon with one click. Easy way to create avatars
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100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students | Online College Courses In today’s schools, most research is completed online, and Google is a great resource for combing the web. But at the same time, it’s not always easy to find exactly what you want, given that there are usually millions of results — with varying degrees of accuracy. These tricks can help you find the best results, while saving time and making your life easier
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Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value. | Blog | False Economy Best-selling author Phllip Pullman spoke to a packed meeting on 20 January 2011, called to defend Oxfordshire libraries. He gave this inspirational speech.
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Removing barriers to literacy / Thematic reports / Documents by type / Browse all by / Publications and research / Ofsted home / Ofsted – Ofsted The aim of this survey was to illustrate effective approaches that might help others to improve their practice in literacy. Inspectors visited providers of childcare, education and post-16 learning. The providers were selected because previous inspection evidence and data on achievement and attainment showed that they were particularly successful in enabling children and learners from disadvantaged backgrounds to make better than average progress and to achieve good standards of literacy.
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What do Students Think of Using iPads in Class? Pilot Survey Results – iPads in Education ”It’s almost a year since the iPad was first released and we have been using them in a high school pilot program since September. Our intent was to explore different ways that the iPad could be used by students and the hope was that we could also transition to using e-Books instead of paper textbooks during the course of the year. The pilot has been a source of observational and anecdotal information. After four months I felt we should get a more precise evaluation of how students rated their experiences with the iPads. We had them complete a Google forms survey and collated the results of 126 students that responded.”
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Digital Citizenship Includes Rights and well as Responsibilities | SafeKids.com
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Privacy, digital citizenship and young children | Australian Policy Online ”A growing number of educators and advocates in the online safety field are now embracing the term ‘digital citizenship’ to describe education about privacy, safety, security and responsible use of information and communication technologies (ICT). There is also a growing understanding of the importance of beginning this education when a child first starts their use of ICT “
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How my students started using Evernote – Education Series « Evernote Blogcast One teacher’s ideas about how to use Evernote in the classroom…
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HLWIKI Canada Quote from wiki ”Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” All sorts of
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Transliteracy – a knol by Sue Thomas ”Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.”
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The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] ”Here’s a visually organized look at the past 30 years or so of social media history, from Usenet to AIM to Friendster and beyond. This particular infographic comes with some fun facts; for example, did you know that the first version of MySpace was coded in just 10 days?”
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