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A digital portfolio is a computer-based collection of student performance over time. Portfolios make classroom learning more accessible to parents, administrators, and other district support staff because they provide a window into student learning. A portfolio showcases both student achievement and student learning over time.

The installer is 266 KB file. It is suspected to have originated in France. It disables notification of firewall, antivirus and/or update status through the Windows Security Center

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Instructions on how to add Ghost Script to your Advanced Settings menu in Windows in order for GIMP to be able to open EPS files.  Worked for me!

"Hamster Free Video Converter is, as the name suggests, a Windows video \nconverter. The program walks the user through three steps to convert one or \nmultiple videos."

Sign up for a free account to view 3D models of the human body. Minimum system requirements: 1 gHz Pentium 3 processor, or equivalent 512 MB RAM Windows 2000/XP (32-bit) DirectX 7.0+ 3D-enabled video card Internet Explorer 6+ (32-bit) Anark Client plug-in 4.0 Adobe Flash Player plug-in 8.0+

Open source classroom mgt software. Replaces programs like Vision6, LanSchool and NetSupport School. Intelligent Teaching and Learning with Computers, aka iTALC, gives teachers the tools they need to manage a computer-based classroom without the high license fees of commercial software. Key features include remote control, demo viewing, overview mode, workstation locking and VPN access for off-site students. Operating System: Windows, Linux

This editor provides support for IMS Metadata, IEEE LOM, IMS Content Packaging 1.1.4, SCORM 1.2, and SCORM 2004. There are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is Java Swing-based.

Mendeley, free academic software for managing and sharing research papers, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Mendeeley lets you manage your papers online, discover research trends and connect to like-minded researchers. Here are some of its features: 1. Automatic metadata and reference extraction 2. Full-text search and filters 3. File management, renaming and folder monitorin 4. Bibliographies in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice 5. Sharing and collaborative annotation 6. Online management and multi-machine synchronization 7. Citation capturing in the browser 8. Research trends and statistics 9. Research profiles and newsfeeds

When reading your RSS feeds, do you prefer a local application versus one that is online-only? If so, look no further than ShareFire. Besides being platform-independent (courtesy of Adobe Air), it is also completely free and open-source. It was created with article sharing in mind, as its name implies. According to its creators, Christian Cantrell and Dan Koestler, this was a priority. ShareFire supports sharing stories to AIM, Twitter and email, and posting articles to many services including Delicious, Digg, MySpace and Windows Live Bookmarks (now called favorites).

Kindle users know they can e-mail documents as attachments to their Kindle account and Amazon will convert and upload them to the e-book reader for a 10-cent fee. Windows users aren't tied to the e-mail option, though, thanks to the Auto Kindle eBook Converter.

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I'm excited to announce that Kelly has agreed to join us for a four-day focused discussion using Voicethread---one of my favorite digital tools that allows participants to hold asynchronous conversations with one another. What that means is that you'll have a window of time to jump into this important conversation---instead of being limited to just one day (which may or may not fit into your personal schedule).

The idea is that instead of (or in addition to) running story pages that embed individual CoverItLive live blogs, a site can maintain one blog page with a perpetual live blog window. It will come alive with content when writers are participating in a live blog. A big advantage, for writers, is that they don't have to get an embed code from the CoverItLive system and then create a story to include the code in. They just start writing in the CoverItLive tool (which is simple).

You're taking a test for your online Econ course, and you figure It shouldn't be too hard to just find the answers online and ace this thing, right? Suddenly, a chat window opens, and your professor is live on your screen...

A boot disk will allow you to boot from the deskette in place of your hard disk. This deiskette can be used to fix problems that may come during the lifetime of your computer. After creating the boot dsekette write protect the diskette so that viruses would not be able to infect your computer create a boot disk create boot disk creating boot disk how to create boot disk make boot disk win xp boot disk windows xp boot disk xp boot disk

access an interactive graphic overview on tools, books, researchers in different visualization fields, as well as on key success factors of visualization. There is also an interactive organizing table that shows (incl. examples) one hundred visualization-based methods. Clicking on a particular tool, book, person, document, principle or method within a map opens the respective website or homepage in a new browser window or reveals an example