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Aviary is now Flickr’s default photo editor. (Click on Actions when you are looking at a Flickr photo.) "It is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing." Its image editor Phoenix, is a super-simple tool now designed to work with Google Drive

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Feeed is a simple and elegant web-service which allows you to easily create a visual magazine by aggregating any number of blogs or RSS feeds. You input the URL of your blog, Twitter channel, and any other site or feed you may want to include (up to 8) and Feeed will automatically aggregate and display all of the incoming content into a neat visual page.

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It’s all about the history of education technology and it could be used to educate just about anyone on how far we’ve come in a short period of time. The infographic from CTU can be viewed below or downloaded as a PDF here

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Talks about sites and tools used to visualize data and create “infographics.” The post discusses tools such as Wordle and Visual.ly, among others

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This promising tool allows you to add voice to PowerPoint, documents, images, speadsheets, or videos. (MyBrainshark supports nearly 100 video formats.) Polls may be inserted. Users may add narration with their phones or computer microphones or by uploading a pre-recorded MP3. Speaker notes may be displayed as a support. And visual dashboards allow creators to track viewing results.

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A post about using Google Docs to facilitate the writing process. The author identifies some of the useful features available in Google Docs to support writers. Ideas about how to take advantage of document sharing and comments for feedback and collaborative writing.

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Research Guides. Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References. "Citation software (also called "bibliographic software," "citation managers," or "reference managers") helps you to: import citations from your favourite databases and websites. Build and organize bibliographies. Format citations for papers. Take notes on articles and save them in your collection of citations. Save and organize PDFs, screenshots, graphs, images, and other files for your research."

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A good site for supporting lesson and unit planning. "The goal is to design student-driven learning experiences that are fueled by standards-based Essential Questions and facilitated by digital tools to provide students with flexible learning paths."

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An interesting site that provides webs of related words. To use type any word into Graph Words to see a web of alternative word choices. Click on any word in the web to generate a new web of more related words.

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Article by By Dirk Singer about free tools that are not for measurement, but instead evaluation. They will give you some form of meaningful data to use in reports

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This is a simple tool for quickly creating and posting polls. Go to the site, type a questionand then type your answer choices. The poll you created can stay online for up to seven days. Kwiqpoll assigns a unique url to each of the polls created so you send that url to the students that you want to participate.

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"This infographic shows some interesting stats, courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via Socrato.The graphs show that the vast majority of teachers (US) agree that technology helps in the learning process. The teachers they polled even agree that ANY multimedia can help in the process of learning. That includes magazines and newspapers."

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This article draws on the experience one school had in implementing an iPad - 1 to 1 scheme When making the move towards using the mobile devices in the classroom, there were a number of practical considerations to bear in mind. They made some mistakes but learnt from them. The experience is shared in the hope that other schools can learn from both what has worked, and what hasn’t.

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This is a collaborative/cross platform tool that can accommodate all of the sources you are trying to utilize. projects can either be private (by invitation) or public

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Check the edcenter area at Bookemon. Makes nice looking interactive “books” –and you do NOT need to pay or print them. (Here is a review: http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=10404). I think multiple students can collaborate. I don’t like the commercial “look” of the site, but the tool itself is easy and free.

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A thorough guide to using Facebook in education, with different tips and hints for using a secure Facebook site in the classroom

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An iBook converter comparison

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Rather than just throwing those wasted papers left at the officer/school printers into the recycling bin, you can use Reprint Me to turn them into weekly or monthly planning calendars. Reprint Me offers PDF templates for weekly and monthly calendars. Run that paper through the printer again, printing on the blank backside to create a calendar with a Reprint Me template. New calendar templates are released each quarter so that you can print a couple of months in advance.

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