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News Map – Visual Display of Trending News
News Map organizes and displays news stories from around the world. News Map uses Google News to source the stories displayed in the grid so the content is frequently updated. The stories are displayed in a color coded grid reflective …
Memonic – Capture and Organize Your Web Findings
Memonic is a relatively new tool for curating collections of information from the web. Memonic’s key function is to give users the power to clip sections of websites and build them into a personal collection. Along with the clipping of …
Using Shmoop to Make Learning Relevant
Students often ask – “Why must we learn this?” Shmoop helps educators answer this question through its digital resources that make learning fun and relevant for students. The online resource uses relevant and current cultural points-of-reference to help students see …
How to Create a VoiceThread
Over the weekend I stumbled across a great wiki dedicated to the use of VoiceThread in education. The wiki is appropriately titled, How to Make a VoiceThread. On How to Make a VoiceThread you will not only find directions for …
Prezi Announces New, Free Education Licenses
Prezi, a great service for taking presentations beyond bullets and pictures, has just announced that they’re offering a free education license for teachers and students. The new education license will allow teachers and students to keep their content private. The …
3 Awesome Tools To Add More Functionality To Your USB Drives
USB drives are ubiquitous these days. Almost everyone has one but what do you use them for? Storage? Is that all? We recognize this and we have covered a plenty of tools and applications that you can use with USB …
Five Platforms for a Classroom Back-channel Chat
Many people use Twitter as a backchannel, but there are some people who would prefer a different solution – because, otherwise, audience members must obtain Twitter accounts participate, which they may not want to do, and the conversation may be …
Top 50 Blogs for e-Learning Tools and Tips
If you want to learn a new language or if you want to know how that e-learning tool works, you have plenty of online help to reach those goals. The following list of fifty top blogs for e-learning tools and …
5 PowerPoint Search Engines To Seek Out Publicly Available Presentations
Some estimates put the number of presentations on the web close to 30 to 50 million. But we have to search them out. Using a general search engine with PPT as a filetype query is one way. But if you …
9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams
With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it’s a great time to consider how you could benefit from online collaboration tools for producing great documents. Whether it’s a proposal, press release, manual, or other …
5 Online Photo Sharing Sites Which Are Free Alternatives To Flickr
The free version of Flickr (www.flickr.com) is nice but really lacks if you want to use it as your main photo storage. Only the last 200 photos will be shown for instance and you don’t get to view and share …
Digital Dialects – Activities for Learning 55+ Languages
Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.…
8 Free and Easy Tools Innovative Educators Can Start Using Today
The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log …
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List