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How To Search Emails In Gmail Efficiently
When Google launched Gmail they revolutionized emailing. Until then, the focus of email clients and services had been on sorting emails. Google is a search engine. Consequently, Google’s email service provides many different ways to search your Gmail emails, while …
Puniz: Listen & Easily Download Free Audio Tracks
There are tons of sites that offer you free music, the problem is that the number of songs available is quite small. Puniz changes that by offering over 500 million audio tracks and claims that all of them are free …
Moodle Cool Courses Competition: Winners
Here you can see the winners of the “Moodle Cool Course Competition”, divided in many categories: Best application of Moodle activities, Best use of media, Primary (ages 6-12), Secondary (ages 12-18) and Tertiary (ages 18+).
Crocodoc – Share and Mark-up Documents
Crocodoc is a simple service that allows users to quickly share and edit PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint files. Using Crocodoc does not require you to register for an account. To use Crocodoc just upload your file, select your marking …
100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark
It doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses — finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is …
What Is The Difference Between 32-bit & 64-bit Windows?
People ask me on a daily basis, “What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating system?” Most of you are running Windows XP or Vista in its 32-bit iteration. But as hardware gets cheaper, people are curious …
Easy YouTube Caption Creator
If you are looking to quickly and correctly add captions to the videos you upload to YouTube, then Easy YouTube Caption Creator could come in handy. It makes the entire process of adding captions really simple and easy.
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/easy-youtube-caption-creator/…
Web 2.0 & Students With Disabilities
Many web2.0 sites have great potential for students with disabilities. Many of these sites help meet the concepts of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for …
Zentation: Combine & Sync Presentation With Video
Powerpoint has changed public speaking, in that those listening to a presentation have visual cues and point forms to glance at. These cues and points often give context to a speaker. Zentation aims to bring the advantages of a PowerPoint …
Augmented Reality: does it have a place/future in education?
Augmented Reality (AR) is still in its infancy, but as people like me look further afield to find interesting technology to use in (and out of) the classroom, it has been on my radar a bit recently. So, what is …
Pixorial
Pixorial is an online video service where home movies and people interconnect. Customers can collaborate with others by adding and sharing full resolution home movies in the secure Pixorial service. Customers can edit and remix this online content to create …
Exploratory and Collaborative Learning with Diigo
For those of you unfamiliar with Diigo, it is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to annotate, archive and organize websites. With Diigo, you can save websites into a public or private library, highlight information within text and images, …
Nuance PDF Reader – Read and Convert Your PDF Docs with This Cool Free App
A few PDF tools have succeeded in carving out some space from Adobe’s omnipresent software – the Adobe Reader. Is Adobe rueing the fact that they made the PDF document format open?
We wouldn’t know, but the openness has brought …
Highlighting E-Readers
Making e-book readers more like books actually impairs their usefulness, according to a study. “Because it was difficult to take notes on the Kindle, because PDF documents could not be annotated or highlighted at all, and because it was hard …