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 Two things have changed since this screencast.
1. You can now upload 100MB files instead of 10MB. 2. SchoolCenter has had a few updates, so it looks a bit different now. However, all of the stuff still applies. |
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 Here's a screencast demonstrating ways to backup your documents, pictures, movies and music off of your laptop. |
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 As quoted by the SweetSearch website, "SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines." |
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 This site graphs different phrases. It shows the user the popularity of the word over time. The best way to understand the website, is to give it a try! |
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 "Google Squared is an experimental tool that takes a category (like US presidents, roller coasters, or digital cameras) and attempts to create a starter "square" of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web. You can modify your square by removing rows and columns you don't like--or by adding new rows and columns and having Google Squared attempt to fetch the relevant facts. Verify and correct the facts in your square by exploring the original sources and investigating other possible values. If you're happy with your square you can save it and come back to it later. Google Squared does the grunt work for you, making research fast and easy." As described by Google |
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 "WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners. We want WordSift to be a useful tool, but we also want it to be fun and visually pleasing. We would be happy if you think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language!" (As quoted in the about us page)
www.wordsift.com |
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 "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud." (As quote by Tagxedo)
http://www.tagxedo.com/ BETTER THAN WORDLE!!! (Note: poor audio the first 25 seconds)" |
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 "The Khan Academy is all about using video to explain the world, so what better way to explain the Khan Academy than through videos. If you watch four or five of the videos below, you should have a pretty good idea of how we got started and how we hope to empower everyone, everywhere with a free, world-class education." (As quoted by the Khan Academy)
GREAT MATH AND SCIENCE WEBSITE!!! www.khanacademy.org |
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 "This website allows visitors to view newspapers from all around the world. Compare and contrast the different issues effecting people from different parts of the world. This website will become a favorite for social studies and journalism teachers." (As quoted by Newseum) |
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 This is a fantastic tool for collaboration! |
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 A very cool way to search images which will lead to discussion in the classroom. |
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 This video demonstrates how to create graphs using numbers! |
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 This video will show you how to convert an existing Apple Works documents into a Word document. |
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 "Dabbleboard is easy and fun to use. Unlike other whiteboard applications, Dabbleboard feels as natural to use as a marker on a whiteboard, or a pencil on a sheet of paper. Just draw strokes and Dabbleboard will detect most common shapes. Click anywhere and start typing to enter text. And if you need to modify anything you've already drawn, all the tools are there right next to the selected objects. No more visiting the toolbar a hundred times just to make a quick diagram!" (As quoted by Dabbleboard.) |
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 This video will explore the search engine Wolfram Alpha. It is a safe search engine for students. This website uses data and numbers. Great website for Social Studies, Science, and Math teachers.
The about us page states, "The rise of computation has been a major world theme for the past fifty years. Our goal is to provide the framework to let computation achieve its full potential in the decades to come: to make it possible to compute whatever can be computed, whenever and wherever it is needed, and to make accessible the full frontiers of the computational universe." |
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