"A document camera is one of the easiest and quickest ways to integrate technology into your classroom. There are very few special skills needed to use this piece of equipment. A classroom document camera can be connected to a DLP/LCD projector through a computer or connected directly to a DLP/ LCD projector. This one piece of classroom technology can be used to actively engage students in the learning process...."

NuancePDF.com is a cloud-based conversion service that lets you turn PDF files into fully formatted Word and Excel files - right from the free Nuance PDF Reader!  With Nuance PDF Reader, you get the most accurate online PDF conversion available through NuancePDF.com - without having to install extra software. No more copying and pasting or retyping PDF documents. Just use our hosted web service to convert PDF to Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect using Nuance's industry-leading OCR technology. It's never been easier to upload, convert, and start using information previously trapped in a PDF.

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads

Use rubrics to communicate expectations with students and to standardize assessment. Our free rubrics building and assessment tool helps you build simple to complex rubrics effortlessly.

"Copy / Paste text in CarryoutText to convert it to a MP3 file that can be downloaded and used in your favorite MP3 Player. "

"Create diagrams online Real time collaboration Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."

"Watch these webinars to hear directly from school administrators about how Google Apps has helped them save money and IT resources, plus made students' lives easier with a set of tools for working together."

"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."

The Classrooms for the Future Evaluation Project completed the Year Three Evaluation Report (2008-09). This report describes the findings from the teacher and student surveys, the classroom observations, and interviews with CFF Coaches, principals, and building contacts.

"Are you looking for practical ways to improve student achievement? Strengthen teaching and learning processes with research-based instructional strategies combined with effective technology use. Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement. "

"Debatabase is the world's most useful resource for student debaters. Inside you will find arguments for and against hundreds of debating Topics, written by expert debaters, judges and coaches. Also included are background summaries, links to websites of interest and recommended books, example motions and user comments."

"ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: 1. find a topic (see example topic questions?) 2. create a good thesis statement (see an example?) 3. and generate an outline (see an example?)"

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"Help students analyze primary sources they see, hear or read using holiday themed resources from The Library of Congress. "

"# 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, 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. # Provide access to educational materials, external copyright resources, and contact information for copyright help at local & national levels."

Use this page as a guide to Google's search tools beyond that first little box! (from: springfieldlibrary)