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Lesson Grade Level Chart Which lessons are appropriate for your students? All schools are probably teaching many of the information literacy skills found in this body of lessons. Usually, individual teachers will tackle the process of plugging the gaps in their curriculum when an issue or opportunity arises. A sixth grade teacher may see the need to review note taking, while a high school teacher needs to re-introduce Boolean operators and review Citing Sources. Eventually, schools and districts will attempt to make sure the skills covered in these lessons are integrated into the K-12 curriculum. As a teacher, you can begin by looking at the chart below to see which lessons are appropriate for the age and abilities of the students you teach.

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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!

If you can type, you can make movies. Text-to-Movie

The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

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Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web. Watch the TED Talk video. Only about 6 minutes http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_exploration.html

Make picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks Via Randy Rogers

"Ketchup is a place for all your meeting notes. It does one thing: it makes it stupid simple to keep your notes from meetings, events and presentations organised."

Capture windows and region Capture Region Simply capture part of the screen or a specific window with the same shortcut. Simple. Portable application Capture Region No need to install the application, you can run it directly after download. Screenshot history History Don't bother to save screenshots on your drive, Screenpresso does for you. Practical Attach screenshots to emails Drag & drop screenshot from History Drag and drop screenshots from history directly to your favorite email editor. Webmails like GMail are also taken into account! Swift. Built-in image editor Built-in editor Crop, spotlight an area or comment parts of captured image. Efficient. Capture scrolling part Capture scrolling part Can't fit it on the screen ? Make a unique image thanks to the stitching mechanism. Smart. Add effects Add image effect Look like a pro. Add drop shadow, round corners and reflection and more. Sleek. Resize bunch of images Screenpresso Resize and export Need to export images or create thumbnails at specific size, one click. Share screenshots on Twitter Screenpresso Twitter Easy share screenshots on Twitter thanks to Twitpic integration.

Join Google and Clarkstown Central School District in this webinar to learn how the district created a collaborative curriculum portal for teachers across all their buildings and campuses using Google Apps Education Edition. Hear what factors helped them decide to "Go Google" and the results they've seen with school staff and students since making the switch.

"Why use VideoLobby? Until now running a live webcast was complex and labour-some, VideoLobby provides a simple yet powerful web-based production solution that makes publishing a professional live show as easy as setting up a blog. "

via Dean Mantz Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

"Safely entertain and educate your child online Zoodles is a safe online service that makes learning fun for young children!"

"TeacherPlus Account A single teacher account gets unlimited access to all GoAnimate4Schools features, The teacher can also post animations to GoAnimate4Schools public gallery. Students accounts have access to following features: - Make animation up to 2 minutes long - Upload own music - Text-to-voice and voice recording "

"To see and use these templates, you must have a Google doc account and be logged on. Make a copy of each template to your Google Docs and begin using. I have used the templates with students as young as six, but they can be used for any purpose that is appropriate."

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

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.

Make a bibliography. It's free, easy and OttoMatic.

Turn a boring old spreadsheet into an interactive web-based map, timeline, or table with some simple HTML using the free, open source Exhibit project. Exhibit takes data sets up to about 500 rows, plots locations on a Google Map, dates on an interactive timeline, and displays images and links in a tabular or thumbnail view. The viewer can sort, search, and filter data in any Exhibit view without reloading the page. You can make Exhibit do all this with a single HTML file and a spreadsheet-no hardcore programming required.

Makes a page more printer friendly without a lot of extras or miscellaneous stuff on the page.