Saturday, November 1, 2008

ShowDocument

Not quite Google Docs or Zoho Writer, but still a pretty nifty application.
Show Document
Upload your document
and invite your friends to view it with you

ShowDocument.com is a free application that we have made available to users to use for their own needs to meet and discuss document in a real time fully synchronized fashion. The platform requires no download and / or installation. Just click and use.  We like to hear your feedback as far as what you think we should do to further improve the performances of this interactive platform.  Please feel free to click on the “feedback” button once you are in the application.

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PollDaddy

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PollDaddy.com, engage your audience


With your free account from PollDaddy you can now create surveys
and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.


Find out what your visitors are thinking today. Create your surveys and
polls using our custom templates or create your own. Use our in-depth
reporting engine to aggregate, print and export your results. More...

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Essential Chemistry - cool Flash learning objects

clipped from www.mhhe.com
GradeSummit is an innovative product that helps students make the most efficient use of their study time. This Internet exam preparation service provides a variety of ways for students to analyze what they know and don't know in order to quickly guide them to those subject areas where spending their study time will help them most. By revealing subject strengths and weaknesses and by providing feedback and direction, GradeSummit enables students to focus their study time on those areas where they are most in need of improvement. Each GradeSummit product contains thousands of unique exam-like questions written by professors and peer reviewed for quality and accuracy. These questions are the vehicle to invaluable information students can only get here.
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Swirrl - online data collaboration

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colourful teams
Swirrl combines the flexibility of spreadsheets and the power of databases with the collaboration features of a wiki. In addition to the normal
wiki features, you can also share and manipulate structured data as a team.
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Copybox

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What Copybox basically does is that it enables copywriters and creative directors, people that are not very tech savvy in general, to squeeze out everything that the Internet offers in terms of technology and data smartness.

CopyBox is built like an ordinary word processing software, but has some unique add ons that makes it easy to write interactive and dynamic texts.
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Cool Tools for Schools

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Preezo

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clipped from preezo.com
Preezo is an Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share
professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.
Goodbye, PowerPoint. Hello, Preezo!
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EditGrid

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EditGrid - More than Spreadsheets

EditGrid is an Online Spreadsheet service delivering Data on Demand.
  • Spreadsheet. With majority of Excel features, EditGrid allows you to start working easily.
  • Online. With sharing, collaboration & publishing features, EditGrid serves a big set of use cases better than Excel.
  • Data. Connected to live data sources, EditGrid delivers data on demand.
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    Lino

    clipped from en.linoit.com

    Free online stickies - lino

    Post stickies not only from your PC, but also from outside via Email. Paste it, see it, and peel it off anywhere.

    Just drag and drop stickies to where you want to post. Organize however you want by moving and changing the color of stickies.

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    Springnote

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    springnote
    Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files. Springnote is also a great tool for group projects as it allows group members to easily collaborate. Advanced search, numerous templates, and 2GB of FREE File Storage are only few examples of how Springnote can help you. Of course, you already know that Springnote is an Internet service, meaning you can access it from anywhere anytime.
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    Splashup - online photo editing

    clipped from www.splashup.com
    Welcome to Splashup.com
    Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
    Photo sharing services all work the same in Splashup, including Splashup itself. Edit your images easily, from anywhere.
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    ChartAll

    clipped from www.chartall.com
    clipped from www.chartall.com

    Registration is free and anonymous, and enables you to save and edit your charts,
    make them private, link to them from your web pages or share
    them to everybody or to some user groups.

    Saved charts can also be accessed from your Google Homepage using our
    Google Gadget
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    Beth Kanter - Using Social Media for Good Causes

    clipped from www.youtube.com
    Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc) to support nonprofit. She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation. She is an experienced coach to "digital immigrants" in the personal mastery of these tools.
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    Cost to Drive

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    Cost2Drive


    Want to know how much it costs to drive somewhere? Find out at
    CostToDrive.com, the easiest way to discover how much it costs
    to drive anywhere in the US.

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    FileURLs

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    FileURLs.com

    Need to share a large file? Upload your file to FileURLs

    and get a link from which others can download it!
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    Twitter widgets for blogs

    Reblogging Jamshed Wadia from Social Media Today ...

    I have been on an ongoing basis been looking at Twitter widgets that would work well into my blogs and facebook profile. Here are five of the many options available to choose from.(not in any order of priority)
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    NutshellMail

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    Access, Manage, and Monitor Messages From All Your Email and Social Networking Accounts
    Through Any Inbox You Already Use


    NutshellMail Transforms Your Most Commonly Used Email Account Into a Universal Inbox

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    Bojam

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    image

    Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music.

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    Schoopy - list of books and reviews by category

    clipped from www.schoopy.com
    Schoopy

    A weekly list of books based on the highest rated and most reviewed books on amazon.com

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    Graspr - social online learning videos

    clipped from www.graspr.com
    Graspr - How To Videos
    clipped from www.graspr.com

    Graspr is an online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics. Our mission is to make the world a smarter place by bringing together people who possess different kinds of expertise, and helping them share what they know with others. We want to make knowledge more accessible, and thus empower users to explore new interests, cultivate new skills, and become even more proficient in the subjects they know well.
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    Knowtes

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    Knowtes Screenshots
    Knowtes optimizes your study. By adding a card to your Knowtes memory, it becomes due at optimized intervals. The Knowtes Adaptive Learning Engine then adjusts how frequently you have to study cards in your memory based on how well you do on them. No more wasting time on cards you already know by heart.
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    Eduslide

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    Tutorum

    Browse thousands of lessons. Create your own and share the knowledge.


    Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge. Within the system we offer different ways of presenting information, as well as testing modules, wikis, chat, blogs, slideshows, and more. So far, we have over 20 different lesson types and adding more as we grow.

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    Book A Lesson

    clipped from www.bookalesson.com

    Search for lessonsbook a lesson

    1. browse categories

    2. find an instructor

    3. book your lessons


    Students

    Book a Lesson allows you to enhance your lesson experience by giving instant access to your favorite instructors and their schedules. No waiting for voicemail, callbacks, dropped cell phone calls and other annoyances of the old ways. Book A Lesson is like having your instructors schedule in your hands at all times!
    Instructors

    Imagine being free of phone tag, email pileups, and inaudible voicemails. Your calendar will fill up while you are out giving lessons. Grow your business while making lesson scheduling easy for your students. We'll do the dirty work, and you can focus on teaching and delivering the services you offer!
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    Friday, October 31, 2008

    Happy Halloween! - Carve a Pumpkin!

    BumpTop

    I'm considering giving this a try. Anyone using it now have any comments?

    Reblogged from Lifehacker.
    clipped from lifehacker.com
    BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk. Break free from the rigid and mechanical style of standard point-and-click desktops. Interact by pushing, pulling and piling documents with elegant, self revealing gestures. BumpTop's stunning interface makes clever use of 3D presentation and smooth physics-based animations for an engaging, vivid user experience.
    clipped from www.flickr.com
    bumptop pic by electrikjesus.
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    Tuesday, October 28, 2008

    Directory of Learning Professionals (& Others) on Twitter

    Thanks for adding me, @akipta, Jane!
    clipped from www.c4lpt.co.uk

    This Directory lists (in alphabetical order by Twitter username) learning professionals from both education and corporate training, as well as other related professionals and e-learning products and services on Twitter. If you are a learning professional who wants to connect with others via Twitter and would like to appear in the Directory, email us with the entry details you would like to have.

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    Cool Google Reader Hacks (for Firefox users)

    Okay. I’m only a day into using the new updated Google Reader, and I’m hooked. It’s slick. It seems to actually let me read feeds the way I want to - as soon as each feed is updated. I can read ALL my feeds, or sub folders, or a single feed. It also seems to be VERY clever in the way it displays each item, often including graphics and other features I don’t see in some other readers. And this is all in my browser, so no software to install.

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    Grammer Girl's Strunk & Twite

    Grammar Girl's Strunk & Twite: An Unofficial Twitter Style Guide (in which every entry is < 141 characters)
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    Google Reader Tips and Tricks

    I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader a few weeks ago, and my life has forever changed for the better. Here's the list of tips and tricks from what I've discovered so far.

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    FriendFeed Tools - a comprehensive list

    A comprehensive list of FriendFeed tools.
    clipped from friendfeed.com
    FriendFeed

    For when you need that extra something, here are some ways to customize your FriendFeed experience, make it a little easier, and maybe even have more fun...

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    Smart Google Reader Subscribe Button

    I use this to subscribe to blogs I want to read often. I don't think I could do without it now! From persistent.info.

    Already subscribed to in Google ReaderA few months ago, Jasper de Vries made a Greasemonkey script that places an unobtrusive feed icon in the upper-right portion of the screen, allowing two-click subscription to feeds that are encountered. Then, today I saw Pete's Greasemonkey scripts wish-list, which included on it a "You’re Already Subscribed To This" script. I figured it would be pretty easy to take Jasper's script and modify it to add this functionality.

    My version of the script adds an overlayed check icon when you're subscribed to at least one of the feeds that the site advertises via auto-discovery.
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    Better Google Reader Firefox Extension

    Another behind-the-scenes tool I can't live without.
    clipped from addons.mozilla.org

    Preview web pages inline in Google Reader, collapse the header and sidebar for more reading area, get a Mac OS X like skin, add favicons to feed subscriptions and more with Better GReader.

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    Chinswing - creating conversations

    clipped from www.chinswing.com

    Chinswing is a global message board where anyone can add voice messages to ongoing topical discussions. Share your personal interests or hobbies, debate hot issues or find answers to questions. We've combined features of podcasting, text forums and live voice chat to create a whole new way to talk.
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    Monday, October 27, 2008

    Tutorial: Copyright-cleared images at your fingertips

    clipped from www.jisc.ac.uk
    A new online tutorial was launched today to help users locate copyright-cleared images on the Internet, for use in learning and teaching materials. Created by TASI2 (JISC’s Advisory Service for digital media) and Intute3 as part of the Virtual Training Suite4, the free Internet for Image Searching tutorial5 is designed to facilitate quick and hassle-free access to a vast range of photographs and other visual resources online, most of which are entirely free to use. 
    Mindful of the minefield that is copyright law, Sharon Waller from the Higher Education Academy6 calls the 'Internet for Image Searching' tutorial ‘an excellent resource for anyone needing to know more about where and how to find images online. The fact that it concentrates on copyright-cleared images will make it even more valuable for busy learning and teaching professionals, researchers and students alike.’  
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    Sunday, October 26, 2008

    Google Lit Trips - a mashup of literature and Google Earth

    What an awesome idea!

    "GoogleLitTrips.com is flat out a fantastic project with deep examples of the way technology can be meaningfully integrated into the curriculum. Too often in technology there is a lamentable lag between promise and classroom realization. Jerome Burg closed that gap with GoogleLitTrips. Classical works, modern literature, and wordless primary illustrations are given new life, new access, and a critical new perspective for classrooms. Media, literature, and the earth itself converge here in one of the most exemplary technology integration sites on the educational world wide web. The project's bonus feature is that Jerome himself is a resource who will help you learn from and build GoogleLit projects. By all means, visit, share, and build!"
    clipped from web.mac.com

    This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

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    ArtPad - digital canvas


    Skrbl - an easy to share online whiteboard

    clipped from www.skrbl.com
    Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together.
    Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download,
    nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen,
    everybody gets on the same page
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    Dumpr.net - upload photos, create cool effects


    An otherwise lack-luster snapshot of the cat (eating a maple seed?!) suddenly becomes something interesting and fun. This "Art Museum" effect took about 30 seconds (mostly upload time) to make with Dumpr. Extra cool. Try it! A Pro account with extra effects and no advertisements blinkin' at ya is currently $12 per year.

    ZenCub3d

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    ZenCub3d
    clipped from zencub3d.com

    ZenCub3d (pronounced 'zen-cubed')  is an easy-to-use and free 3D animation package, that lets you paint stories as vivid as your imagination.
    ZenCub3d is a free 3D animation package that allows our users to tell stories with no 3D modeling skills.
    - There are an assorted variety of resources shared among community at your disposal;
    - Users can freely mix-n-match and customise to create your unique characters and scenes;
    - No tables and forms, no icon hunting, if you can play games you can make movies.
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    Web Kaleidoscope toy (Flash)

    Twitter your lesson plans

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    How about a quick lesson plan? How abouttwitter.png a way to keep a shorthand record of daily class activities? Then how about twitter? Start a Twitter profile (a separate one just for teaching, so not to annoy your friends), and at the end of each class day jot down what you did in class (see below for my Monday, Feb. 11th). Networking with other subject area teachers will encourage collaboration on similar lessons. And possibly (though we teachers would hope not in a 1984 kind of way), an administrator could link in and keep tabs. If I were a curriculum person in an administration, the first thing I would do would be to set up accounts for each teacher to post one daily update. It would give me insight on my school and encourage my teachers to keep a running record of what was accomplished (as opposed to the lesson plan, which usually is not accomplished). As a teacher though, I’ll just use it to keep my own head on straight.

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    40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART

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    The web is rich with creative and amazing fonts, and one of the most unusual source of Beautiful Fonts are those you can find on deviantART fonts gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible FONT which you can use for web or print design. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful fonts we’ve found on deviantART.
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    50+ High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources

    clipped from www.noupe.com
    Hundreds of thousands of incredible Textures are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
    texture
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    del.izzy - del.icio.us bookmarks search engine

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    del.izzy - delicious bookmark search engine.

    del.izzy is a free service that lets you search through your del.icio.us bookmarks.

    del.izzy lets you search through all content, including title, description and page content, for all your bookmarks.
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    25+ Incredibly Useful Twitter Tools and Firefox Plugins

    clipped from www.noupe.com
    Twitter is an amazing service that we all love, everyday we notice a new twitter tool or service that makes using it more easy and fun. Today we wanted to highlight more than 25 of our favorite Twitter add-ons, tools and services that won’t resist.
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    Citation Machine

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    clipped from citationmachine.net
    Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and
    independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's
    intellectual properties. To use Citation Machine, simply...

    1. Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite,
    2. Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source, and
    3. Click MakeCitations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations.
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    Citebite - link directly to specific quotes in web pages

    clipped from www.citebite.com
    Citebite

    Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

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    The Talking Cat - create your own animation

    gif animation