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Press release about Skype in the classroom

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"Introduction to and directions for using Google Drive and Google Documents" (deck, 2012.05.08)

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"[C]reate any size wall posters from any size images[.] Totally Free To Use!" (2012.04.22) 

Thanks to Richard Byrne for pointing out this printing tool on his blog, <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a>, in How to Print Posters Using a Standard Printer (2012.04.20).

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Yesterday I sat down and built a new guide, Google Documents for "Teachers. The 40 page guide (embedded below) is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents" (Richard Byrne, 2012.04.09, ¶1).

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"MoodleReader allows students to prove that they have done their reading via a short quiz of 10 randomized questions. If they pass the quiz, they are rewarded with the book cover added to their stamp collection on their MoodleReader page" (¶4, 2012.03.30).

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"a summary of the new features, followed by instructions on how to upgrade" if you've already installed a Google script in your spreadsheet

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"What you do before you start blogging is arguably the most important time of all" (¶3)..

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BestBloggingTips shows and tells how to start screen-sharing in a Google+ Hangout. She warns that everyone present can see your Gmail address, if you share Google stuff directly, and notes that sharing screens in Hangouts are small.

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"This site is a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products.  Welcome.  Click on any product link on the left hand side for more information on how to liberate your data from (or to!) that product" (deck, para. 1, 2012.01.26).

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Nik's Scoop.it about scrible

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"Literacy and fluency* have to do with our ability to use a technology to achieve a desired outcome in a situation using the technologies that are available to us" (christian, 2011.02.05, ¶1).

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HTML/Javascript (digital) and Flash-based (analog) clocks for website embedding: "You may place up to six clocks on a single page. If more than two clocks are used, a separate link to timeanddate.com should be provided on the page. To use the service you must be able to add HTML directly to your web page and IFRAME tags must be allowed" (Main features, retrieved 2012.01.25).

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Lists links to, and capsule summaries of, articles about features and ideas for educational uses of Google+

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"This table compares the most popular web-based gradebooks for individual teachers and districts" (Compare, ¶2, 2012.01.04).

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"This license is valid only for active students and teachers." With it Prezi provides 500 MB of storage space for free.

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"...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).

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Google Forms Self-Check Quizzes Created by Tammy Worchester – instructions for finding and using ready-made templates

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A Catalog of CoWeb UsesCollaborative Software LabCollege of ComputingGeorgia TechNovember 2, 2000

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"GROU.PS is a do-it-yourself social networking platform that allows people to come together and form interactive communities around a shared interest or affiliation with built-in apps enabling easy collaboration and communication" (What is GROU.PS, ¶1, 2011.11.15).

"GROU.PS may be considered as an improved version of services like Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups" (Helen Kershaw, Knowplace.ca, OWTools: GROU.PS - Sunday, 23 July 2006, 06:23 AM)

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UsingEnglish provides a "free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members" (Text Analyser, retrieved 2011.09.20).

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