Sorting, searching, and making sense through thousands of e-mails can be very messy. Even if powerful e-mail clients today like GMail and Outlook can handle being your conversation assistant, you still end up spending more time searching past e-mails to
Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work
We’ve been living in the 21st century for a decade now, and it’s time more of our classrooms looked like it. The good news is that process is not only easier than ever, it’s also easier to receive support as
Twenty Google Tools Tutorials for Teachers
Some of the tutorials you will find on the Google tools tutorials page are: Creating Self-graded Quizzes. Embedding Videos Into Google Maps. Embedding Google Maps Into Wiki and Blog pages. Creating Data Visualizations in Google Fusion Tables Removing the Navigation
Find the Person Behind an Email Address
You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly
Metricly: Cool Web Metrics Dashboard For All Your Online Stats
If you are running an internet business that is popular across a number of online platforms, then tracking and managing it over all those platforms can become quite a hectic task. Keeping its traffic stats in check along with managing
Learnopia – A Place for Hosting Online Courses
Learnopia is a new service that offers hosting for online courses. Learnopia is also a place to find and take online courses. If course creators make their courses free for others to take, then hosting is free.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/10/learnopia-place-for-hosting-online.html
Resizer.co: Dynamic Image Resizing On The Fly
A lot of web-based image resizing tools require you to upload the images in order to resize them. But Resizer.co is different. It helps you resize your images dynamically through a URL.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/resizerco-dynamic-image-resizing/
18 Free Screencasting tools to Create Video Tutorials
Screencasting tools are available both as desktop applications (Free and commercial) and web-based services. The good news is that there are a growing number of screencasting tools that are completely free to use; some do not even require a registration
LearnBoost: Free Online Teacher Gradebook With Lots Of Features
Teachers know that managing a class is no small task. They have to manage grades, rosters, and at times, even seating arrangements. LearnBoost is a website that tries to merge all these features into an online interface, with a focus
Introducing the Public Preview of Project ROME, a Content Creation and Publishing Tool for Virtually Anyone
Adobe has just released Project ROME, an all-in-one content creation and publishing application for use at home, work or school. It is intended for virtually anyone who wants to add the power of video, audio, photos, graphics, text or animation
6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Comics
Comic strip enthusiasts who want funny but don’t care about pretty drawing can have their strips, those who want artistry have theirs, and even those with very specific tastes can find something just right. The best part about these developments
Twiducate – Social Networking for Schools
Twiducate is a free platform for creating your own micro social network in a Twitter-like format. Twiducate allows you to create a private network for posting assignments and messages to your students or other people you invite into your network.
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100+ Google Tricks for Teachers
From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Top Tools for Learning: Emerging Trends
This is a two-part article that looks at the emerging trends in learning tools and the implications for Learning & Development. In this part, Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, looks at