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"How to Create a Screencast Like A Pro with These 6 Free Online Tools"

essays on uses of digital tools in schools

""Curation" may be one of the big buzzwords of 2011. As the amount of information accumulates thanks to the Web, it becomes increasingly important that we use tools to help us find information that's relevant and useful. The role of the curator has always been to help pull together and oversee collections of materials. But just as Web 2.0 has expanded the traditional role of publisher to almost anyone, the role of curator now too is changing. Anyone can "curate" online material, pulling together their own collections."

"30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use"

"45+ Free Online Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts"

"A cool new (free!) productivity tool"

50 tools and resources to enhance your Digg experience.

A large collection of presentation tools.

There are a wide range of social media tools schools can use to get more interactive - to communicate and exchange information with students, colleagues, parents.

Several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others.

Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time with drawing tools, chat, voice, images, videos, plain text, documents, emails, and GoogleMaps.

Never leave the house without two things: 1. a Swiss Army knife, and 2. your camera. Why the knife? Because it's a multitasking tool that you can use a kajillion different ways. Why a camera? For exactly the same reason.

100 Twitter Tools to Go to The Top - Ultimate Collection!

Dear Teachers: Choosing the right skills is WAY more important than choosing the right tools. http://bit.ly/fhZ6Zp #edtech #edchat

"Teachers considering the benefits of flipping the classroom and have an iPad available may want to try the following very reliable iPad Apps to assist with this endeavor. While it may seem a daunting task to put all of those into action with one's students, they are easy and actually fun to use and do not require a lot of technical skills and experience. Over the course of the last school year, the teachers at my school in East Tennessee have found the tools described below very helpful in managing their flipped classrooms."

Build it: Create a Help Desk with Google Apps Tools http://t.co/FeUXaRfLVv

"There's no doubt the Internet opens up an enormous, ever-expanding world of resources when it comes to gathering information. But if well-founded, quality research is what you're after, the Internet is hit or miss. Don't get us wrong -- a good ol' Internet search is great to use as a guide when you're starting to research a topic. When you're writing a research paper, however, the paper will only be as strong as the sources cited. Since Web searches tend to pull up many results that have the potential to be far from credible, students need to break the "just google it" habit. To steer them in the right direction, we've narrowed it down to 12 of the best tools for quality research and proper citations."