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EduDemic » Every Teacher’s Must-Have Guide To Facebook A guide to a collection of resources about Facebook from an educators perspective and some cautions about using it.
- Discover and Explore Macbeth – Main Menu The homepage offers an Interactive map of where different events in Macbeth take place. Also offers brief history, overview of the play, the scenes and characters along with some multimedia
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Shakespeare Theme Page This CLN (Community Learning Network) page provides links to general sites about William Shakespeare and lesson plans for teachers
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Abbreviations and acronyms dictionary: Find definitions for over 4,219,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms This is a dictionary created specifically for finding definitions to acronyms. Covers: common acronyms, computers, science, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
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DE Tools: DE Tools of the Trade «DE Tools of the Trade A blog with posts about many useful online tools for educators
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WebSlides – Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows… WebSlides is an interesting tool which enables you to display a group of bookmarks directly as an embed in your site or as in this case as a link to a slideshow. Each of the bookmarked sites is active within the slide window with any annotations and/or sticky notes also active. Clicking on any links within the displayed page will open the link in a new tab on your browser.
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Official Google Blog: Our new search index: Caffeine From the Google Blog. Google’s new indexing system, Caffeine. “We analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. Google Caffeine will provide 50% fresher results than their old indexing system. “
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About us | veezzle.com Veezzle is a “free stock photo search engine”. Exactly like google but for free stock photos ONLY. So instead of wasting your time by browsing 25 different sites, you can type a search and find results from all those websites, immediately.
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Heapr.com – Search Google, Twitter, etc. super fast! This search engine that aggregates results from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Flickr, and other sources in near real-time
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Finding questions that Google can’t answer – Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education Post by Ewan McIntosh. Finding questions that Google can’t answer. Article looking at the questions we ask and the problem-solving sbilities we are teaching students
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Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project | edte.ch Some interesting ideas for using google earth and other cool resources to teach maths
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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ”This page contains guidelines as to when links should and should not be used, and how to format them. Detailed information about the syntax used to create links can be found at Help:Link. The rules on linking applicable to disambiguation pages are set out in the disambiguation style guide.” Will Richardson
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Free and legal music downloads – Jamendo Jamendo is a site filled with nothing but Creative Commons licensed albums that take advantage of all the various versions of the license. Before using any of them, make sure you understand which version the album is using.
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Plug pulled on students’ virtual chatroom Article about the Victorian Education Department pulling out chat and befriending on the virtual classroom on the Ultranet.
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10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
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CSI: The Experience Web Adventures | Bright ideas ”Any school studying forensic science will probably be interested in this site. Funded by the US National Science Foundation in conjunction with other organisations, CSI: The Experience Web Adventures provides three adventures, one each for beginner, intermediate and advanced. Registration is free and players can either sign up or play as a guest with no login”
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Detecting Plagiarism for Free – Learn How to Prevent Plagiarism in Your Classroom A good site about Plagiarism. It offers facts about plagiarism as well as some definitions and tools for detecting it, with examples and finally tips for discouraging it
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Plagiarism Checker This tools gives you the option of checking against Yahoo as well as Google
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The Plagiarism Checker The Plagiarism Checker allows you to run a Google search on large blocks of text. This is easier than cutting and pasting sentence after sentence.
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Elizabethan Costume Part of a site created by Scott R. Robinson from the CWA Department of Theatre Arts (Department Chair – Professor of Theatre Arts). It includes information on theatre history, costume history, architecture, creative dramatics and children’s theatre
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Patrick Ness – Diary The Author’s website. It is a place where he writes “info on me, my books and other writings, what I’m up to, and the inevitable deeply self-absorbed blog.”
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Markus Zusak : Home of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger This URL is a link to a very interesting video clip of the author discussing his book. Contents: Fiction. Written from the point of view of death, The Book Thief describes the life of a young girl in Nazi Germany
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Markus Zusak : About the Author The author’s own website with information about him and his books
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William Nicholson – Screenwriter, playwright and novelist » Home
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Startpage Web Search A metasearch site for the web for phone, video & pictures. A private search engine that also provides a proxy service for their results. With Start Page results and its proxy service your IP address isn’t recorded, no cookies are stored or fetched by websites you visit.
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Readability – An Arc90 Lab Experiment Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability in your Web browser.
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