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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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in list: Educational Technology

This excerpt (Israel, 2012, Ch. 5) mentions abuses and tedium of slide presentations, as well as advantages of, and strategies for supplementing talks with slide shows.

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in list: Digital Storytelling

Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22

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in list: Linguistics

"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).

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in list: Linguistics

"The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it’s foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an 'F' pattern" (Introducing the F-Layout, ¶1).

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in list: Digital Storytelling

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in list: Writing

"UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners[,] and academics" (deck, ¶1, 2011.11.11).

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Fifth of five key strategies for revising academic writing

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in list: Writing

Fourth of five key strategies for revising academic writing, moving from global to local revisions

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in list: Writing

Third of five key strategies for revising academic writing

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"... Jacki Lyden talks to the senior editor of the American Heritage College Dictionary, now in its fourth edition, about the list of 100 words their editors think all college students (and their parents) should know" (September 17, 2002).

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in list: Vocabulary Development

"... [T]hree imperatives underlie some of the most important aspects of an educated citizen's contributions to the human record. And in my experience, blogging offers a uniquely powerful way of becoming a self-aware learner in the process of making those contributions" (Campbell, 2011, para. 2).

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in list: Educational Technology, Digital Storytelling

"Modeling design principles for business presenters, Ostewalder showed and told it all in 135 slides, including step-by-step builds and appendices..." (pab, The Writing Studio Blog, <a href="http://writingstudioblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/good-powerpoint-design-osterwalder.html">2011.08.09</a>).

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in list: Design Principles

Screenshots of a slide or two from each example, followed by a list of other presentation resources.

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Eyercise on-line training videos.

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in list: Reading Resources

"10 rules for clear, direct wording" of "business e-mail" messages

Here is "a <a href="http://www.uliveandlearn.com/userjoin.cfm">link</a> to the page where anyone interested ... can sign up" for direct mail notification of weekly tips from Always Learning (pab, <a href="http://blog.uliveandlearn.com/2011/06/business-writing-tips-checklist-for.html#comments">2011.06.17</a>)

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in list: Writing

Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.

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Online image editor, beta version, takes gif, jpg, and png files up to 800 Kb. In May 2011, Rhondda Powling said it "offers twenty-two effects" and combinations (Diigo, Images4Education, <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/group/images4education/content/imageoid-image-effects-2778691">04 May 11</a>).

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in list: Tech. Tools

Single line of code to add to HTML blog gadgets:

<iframe frameborder=0 width=480 height=240 src="http://www.jspell.com/public-spell-checker-embed2.html"></iframe>

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in list: Tech. Tools

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in list: BloggingTips