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Gifsoup turns YouTube vids into animated GIFs | Web Crawler - CNET News
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Gifsoup is no exception--you just point it towards any YouTube video and it turns it into an animated GIF.
To do this, it first downloads the clip to its servers, and then gives you simple controls to choose when you want it to begin and end. When you've picked out that perfect 10-second (or less) section of the video, you just hit a single button to finish the job. The GIFs are then hosted, and ready to be embedded elsewhere; you're also able to save it to your hard drive in one of three sizes. Either way, it retains a small Gifsoup watermark that sits in the bottom right-hand corner of the image.
The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies
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Study finds people who multitask often bad at it | Science News | Comcast.net
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Google Docs goes multilingual | Enterprise | News | PC Pro
Google has folded its translation technology into Google Docs, allowing the office suite to instantly translate documents into 42 different languages
Mobile Learning Institute
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Are Students Really Studying More than Social Networking?
SurveyU, students went on the record to say that they are much likelier to spend more than three hours studying online each day than participating in any other online activity, such as using FacebookFacebookFacebook or other social networking sites.
StudyBlue, an online academic network that aims to help students study smarter, used SurveyU’s high school and college student panel to survey about 1,500 students, ages 13 – 24, about their online study habits. While we expect students to actively use the web to enrich their study experience, we’re a little surprised that studying won out over social networking. After all, we use Facebook and TwitterTwitterTwitter all day long.
The study found that 60% of students plan to study online three hours longer than doing anything else online, while only 26% of respondents predicted that they will spend more time online social networking than studying. Thankfully, 84% of surveyed students think the web has helped them perform more effectively and efficiently in school, and 54% have plans to increase their online studying habits this year over previous years.
A few other interesting stats from the survey:
College students are about twice as a likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on going to social network sites (26%), communicating (email, IM, Chatting, etc…) (28%), or watching TV, Videos and online movies (22%)
College students are more than 6 times as likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on spending playing online games (9%)
College students are three times as likely to plan on spending 3 hours or more a day studying and doing homework online than they plan on reading blogs/news and other content (18%)
On a semi-serious note, however, social media is proving to be an educational resource and utility,
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