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Jeff Johnson

Free 'Quiz School' Resource Adds Analytics, Integrates with Flickr and Google Maps : Au... - 0 views

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    ProProfs has upgraded Quiz School, a free online resource that allows educators generate custom assessments. The new version, launched this week, adds integration with popular social media services and includes new analytics and reporting features. Quiz School is designed to let educators create online quizzes and practice tests for their students. In addition to custom quizzes, the service provides a library of pre-designed quizzes, which range from K-12 education to technology certification, SAT and GRE prep, and general trivia. Students can take tests without logging onto the system and receive instant scores and personalized feedback, including tips for improving performance, according to the company. Users can also assign keywords to specific quizzes for easy retrieval.
Dwayne Abrahams

Research - 4 views

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    "Footsteps2Brilliance, Inc.™'s Academic Language Program for Students (ALPS) delivers a robust library of stimulating ebooks and educational games to parents, children and teachers anywhere/anytime through innovative mobile gaming technology. Developed by educational experts usingthe latest research on cognitive development, ALPS provides young learners with 1,000 essential vocabulary words through interactive eBooks that are sure to engage today's digital students whether at school or home."
Jerry Swiatek

Terms of Use - Surf at your own risk - 0 views

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    The FLVS library is a collection of links and sites that have been reviewed for educational value, currency, and accuracy.
Heather Sullivan

Top News - Free text reader to help print-disabled students - 0 views

  • a partnership that will give print-disabled students a free text reader to access electronic books from the Bookshare.org library.
  • those who receive special-education services and who are unable to read standard print materials owing to physical limitations.
  • At the start of the 2008-09 school year, qualified students will be able to use Don Johnston’s Read:OutLoud Bookshare.org Edition text reader to access more than 36,000 books, magazines, and newspapers in the Bookshare.org library free of charge.
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  • The Bookshare.org Edition text reader offers text-to-speech capability, embedded reading comprehension strategies, and instructional supports that align with state educational standards. The software includes audio feedback, electronic highlighting, and note-taking features that allow students to capture their ideas, as well as a bibliographer that logs and organizes sources in a structured, step-by-step process.
Cassie Banka

Intute - Home - 20 views

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    Intute is a free online service designed to help students find and use the best academic web resources. Intute is a product of the collaborative efforts of seven universities in the UK. A couple of the services offered by Intute are a catalog of reviewed websites and a series of virtual trainings to help students develop web research skills. The virtual trainings offered by Intute are designed to teach students how to locate, evaluate, and utilize the best of the web. Trainings are tailored to meet the needs of students studying a wide range of topics including mathematics, economics, medicine, philosophy, and much more. Intute also offers a virtual training on locating and using images from the Internet. Applications for Education Intute's resources are best utilized by high school students and college students who are in need of some guidance in locating resources for their research projects.
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    Intute is a free online service designed to help students find and use the best academic web resources. Intute is a product of the collaborative efforts of seven universities in the UK. A couple of the services offered by Intute are a catalog of reviewed websites and a series of virtual trainings to help students develop web research skills.
Professional Learning Board

Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Aug 18 - 25, 2012) - 3 views

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    Go Animate Create animated lessons and videos online. Stupeflix Create videos online by mixing photos, clips and music. Classic Reader An online library for classic fiction, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, and more. RESOURCES Krebs A video to teach citric acid cycle. Code Academy Interactive, fun and easy way to teach basics of programming.
Ako Z°om

some apps for edu - 0 views

  • The simulator includes an efficient dynamic pricing scheme that can be evaluated in considering multimedia distribution scenarios.
  • With InkSeine, you can circle a handwritten phrase within your notes to create a query.
  • Web code that displays a user interface to enable users to search, assimilate, and compare maps rapidly from an extensive corpus.
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  • MapCruncher lets users quickly convert existing maps into an online format that’s as fast and easy to use as Virtual Earth.
  • Classroom Learning Partner Instructor Authoring Tool
  • . Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC uses shape recognition to help you create and define bodies and forces
  • Community BarThe Community Bar is an Internet Explorer plug-in that adds context-dependent content to the Web-browsing experience. As a user browses the Web, he or she can exchange notes from other people who visited the same page
  • With the ConferenceXP 4.0 Reflector Service, you can enable a ConferenceXP client in a unicast-only network to receive multicast transmissions over unicast.
  • Functional Reactive AnimationFran is a Haskell library (or "embedded language") for interactive animations with 2D and 3D graphics and sound.
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    yeah i love the labs where creativity is still there, just before the "belived market" 187 softs ... but the searchtool is awfullt buggy ...
Sarah Smith

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb - 0 views

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    Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
Nedra Isenberg

ELI7055.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 13 views

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    7 Things you should know about Google Wave from Educase
Joseph Alvarado

Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities - Bookshare - Acce... - 6 views

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    Any student who has a reading disability will find this extremely helpful.
Jim Farmer

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - 1 views

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    One of the best math sites I have ever found. Excellent online resources and manipulatives!
Maggie Verster

iTALC-(intelligent Teaching and learning with computers)- network cotrol (opensource) - 12 views

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    "iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!"
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