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Cruxbot - A web application to summarize web pages
"Cruxbot summarizes web pages within seconds. Try Cruxboting Wiki articles, News articles, etc..."
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Cloud9 IDE | Online IDE – Your code anywhere, anytime
"No bug is too great when you’ve got someone to help you out. Cloud9 IDE now enables developers around the world to edit the same code and chat together in realtime. Your team and peers share in incredible productivity and higher quality code - no matter where they are. See what's new!"
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"Burn Note lets you send messages that are deleted after they are read. You can use Burn Note to send a password or have an off-the-record conversation with a friend."
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8 Great Tools to Create Webinars Online
One of the pluses of technology in education is the fact that it liberated the notion of formal instruction and destroyed its confining walls. There is an emerging breed of teachers nowadays who no longer accept the notion that the classroom is necessarily contained within four walls. They use social media and telecommunication technologies to globalize their instruction and extend their teaching to everywhere in the world.
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GrammarCheck.net – Free Online Grammar Checker
"A grammar check can come in handy for anyone. Like many, you probably learned many of the grammar rules all throughout your school years. Also, like many, you’ve likely forgotten much of what you learned. Where does the comma go, for instance? Is ending your sentences with a proposition really that bad a practice? Are there hard and fast rules for when to use who, that or which? All of these questions, as well as many more, can plague both amateur and professional writers. Doing a grammar and spell check, all online, helps to settle these questions and give you more confidence in your writing."
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"Expedition Lit Trips is a version of Google Lit Trips where students read books on various historical and modern expeditions. These geographical book reports challenge students to develop a thesis and demonstrate how it played out in the literature. By combining a number of book layers into a composite layer, students can research broad themes across a number of expeditions that occurred in different locations or during different historical periods. Some of the themes students have chosen include: gender and equality, coming of age, supply challenges, character and leadership, cultural difussion, environmental exploitation, safety, historical technology, and developments in navigational technology."
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DoodleBuzz: Typographic News Explorer
"DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories."
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"Emaths is an interactive site, allowing teachers of mathematics to share ideas and resrouces. The site contains a huge amount of free resrouces for any teacher of mathematics. Emaths was established in 2004 as a way of sharing materials. It has always been entirely free to use, and always will be."
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The Easiest and Quickest Ways Teachers Share Files online for Free
"The idea of compiling a list of some free and easy tools for teachers to share files dawned on us while we were working on " Great Web Tools to Share Large Files". As busy teachers, we often times find ourselves pressed by time even to go on Dropbox and share a file for it does take sometime."
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Top Apps for PE Teachers – Part 18 « Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek
"Top Apps for PE Teachers – Part 18"
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2012-09-08 Google Search for Educators - EdTechTeam
"Learn to access information, locate timely research, and share resources. Google Books makes the world’s greatest libraries searchable from any computer - and makes it possible to share relevant books with colleagues or students."
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Find Out More About People You Read About In The News With This Chrome Extension: Summer | MakeUseOf
"When you’re browsing the Web, reading the latest tech, business and world news, do you ever find yourself wondering about the people you’re reading about? If so, Summer is a handy little Chrome extension which will definitely appeal to you."
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Create Your Own Photo E-books Using Pholium For The iPad | MakeUseOf
"Ever since its initial release, the iPad has been for me the best mobile tool for showcasing photos. While several basic iPad image programs, including the built-in Photo app, are great for photo management and quick slide shows, the latest version of the Pholium iPad app includes tools for actually creating ebooks."
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Inside Look at How Google Builds Its Maps
"Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you’re drawing from when you ask Google to navigate you from point A to point B — and last week, Google showed me the internal map and demonstrated how it was built. It’s the first time the company has let anyone watch how the project it calls GT, or “Ground Truth,” actually works."
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Gunman Posts to Facebook During Denver Hostage Standoff
"A gunman holding a RadioShack employee hostage after a robbery attempt gone bad in Denver posted dire Facebook messages during a tense standoff with police, according to news reports."
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10th Grader Noa Gutow-Ellis: Testing Is Not Learning | TeachThought
"Schools were established during the Industrial Revolution to get children out of harm’s way in factories. Students were not being released into a society where thinking critically–and for yourself–was important. While standardized testing was at one point in time acceptable, we’re now in a position to do better. Standardized testing is not helping students or schools today — it’s hurting them."
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Evernote Adds Updates Sharing interface, Adds New Features
"Evernote updates Web, Mac, and Windows apps with new sharing interface, permissions, and re-sharing"
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Why You Don’t Need Mac Anti-Virus Software - Plus What You Do Need
"Most Mac users don’t spend much time worrrying about computer viruses, but many companies wonder if they need to install anti-virus software on their corporate Macs. Nope, at least according a recent Forrester Research report that says the performance degradation caused by most AV technology outweighs the malware risks on a Mac. But that doesn’t mean Mac security isn’t a concern."
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Free download: 19 Practical Evernote Ideas for Students | Evernote Student
"Click below for your free PDF download of 19 Practical Evernote Ideas for Students from the Evernote Student Handbook."
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Microsoft to open first Canadian retail store on November 16th in Toronto - Neowin
"Microsoft is set to open its first retail store in Canada on the 16th November at The Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto. Microsoft currently has 23 stores in the US, and plans to have a total of 44 stores by June 2013 as they expand internationally in the future."
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Microsoft: 'Update your security certs this month – or else' • The Register
"The good news is that Microsoft's next Patch Tuesday, due on September 11, should be a breeze, bringing just two security updates. The bad news is that October's Patch Tuesday will be a game changer, and Microsoft has cautioned Windows admins to take advantage of the lull to make sure their security houses are in order."
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New Technology in Your Classroom This Fall? | Common Sense Media
"Do you have new technology in your classroom this fall? Matt Levinson, head of the upper division at Marin Country Day School has some helpful tips on iPads and classroom use. Levinson is the author of “From Fear to Facebook: One School’s Journey.”"
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Infographic: Are You Revealing Too Much on Social Networks? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
"Social-networking sites are a hacker's dream: a sometimes public online community where unsuspecting people post personal information. But what information can and should be posted on social networks?"
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