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Backboard automates the process of getting feedback and approval on all your projects-it can handle almost any type of file, but it's especially good with mixed graphical and text media. It only takes a minute to start a Backboard. Upload the file you would like feedback on, choose a security level, and select the email addresses of one or more reviewers. Each reviewer will receive a link to your file, where they can come and leave feedback on your document. Every kind of document can be annotated and marked up in the same way, so reviewers do not have to learn several commenting systems. Better yet, you can view all reviewers' feedback in the same place, so you'll never again find yourself merging several documents with different "tracked changes." via http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/12/18/best-applications-for-annotating-websites/

We've heard many ingenious ways that teachers have used Google Docs in the classroom. Here are just a few: * Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc. * Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet. * Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths. * Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students' timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet. * Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class. * Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share. * Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document. * Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time.

"Show Document is a Net Meeting platform for instantaneous and spontaneous online meetings where people can work together on the same document at the same time. All the Net Meeting collaborative services can be used to work together at the same time. The web meeting platform offers the following interactive services: * Share Documents *Shared Editor *Share Google Maps *File Sharing *Share Viewing a Web Page *Share to Mobile *Interactive Whiteboard *Share YouTube

Ideas for document cameras/webcams

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Use your digital camera as a mobile scanner to scan documents, business cards, whiteboards, and books. Snapter makes camera photos look like scanned documents!

In this workshop, participants will discuss what Google Documents are and then create a project. Google Applications is a tool which has many uses inside and outside the classroom. It can be used for collaborative writing, revising documents and presentations, and sharing and publishing student work online.

embedit.in supports most common file types: * Documents: doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, wpd, odt, ods, odp * Images: png, jpg, gif, tiff, psd, bmp, eps, ai * Text: txt, rtf, csv

The Applications You Need On The Devices You Want. Liberate your applications from the PC. Use Microsoft Office on any device and edit your documents in the cloud. Use rich web applications on mobile browsers. Device independence has never been this easy! Optimized Experience For iPad, Browser, Whatever. Tap, browse and use your applications the way that makes sense for you and your device. No complicated launchers to install, no remote desktops to connect to. Use them on iPad or just use a web browser. The choice is yours.

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Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

Google Docs is one of the favorite free online services for creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. There are different ways to upload a file to Google docs service from your desktop like web upload or using an desktop uploader. So here are the easiest way to upload files to Google Docs.

The hardest part of teaching movie making is making teachers and students realize that planning, scripting storyboarding make EVERYTHING go faster and easier.

Scripting This is the process of writing down on paper what the video is about. Is your piece a comedy? A Drama? Are you interviewing someone? Are you documenting an event? These questions and more are answered during the scripting process.

OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents.

Adam brings life to your dusty old static documents. With a flick of your wrist and a click of a button, you can add videos, HTML, stylized text and more to a static PDF or image file. In less than 20 minutes, you can have a dynamic web page to showcase your products, services and multimedia content. It's uber simple, from print to web in four ridiculously easy steps.

They just did a big update on this so sorry if you already had it bookmarked.

Collaborate & Publish Everyone works on a document at the same time. Collaborators get your changes immediately, or only when you save-your choice! Share your flow charts as a web page, PDF, or image. Publish an always-updated image of your work.

a multimedia site that tells the story of the 101-year-old organization and documents the civil-rights movement in general through words, pictures, and video.

"What this tool can do for you: * Help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code. * Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. * Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example], which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. [why is this important?] * Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."

This has a template for Pages to export the standard format for iBooks ePub compatible documents via @teach42

Mac OS X Lion includes an Auttomator action, named Text to EPUB File, that is designed to make it very easy to convert selected text or text documents into EPUB books, ideal for transferring to iPads and iPhones. Additionally, the created EPUB books can include images, MPEG audio, or MPEG video files.