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Choose one or two documents to quickly engage students, focus classroom activity, and spark conversations. Pick from one of five modes - Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, or White out/Black out - to frame documents and guide students as they analyze, focus on specific content, examine document details, and form hypotheses.

A new way to share documents with QR code

"Vook is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform. Quickly create, edit, style and publish your eBook-no special software required. You can use Vook to build an eBook out of a Word document or an existing ePub file. Once you've built your eBook to your satisfaction, you can distribute to our Vook Store - where we pay you 85% of the net royalty of any transaction - and, if you'd like, pay a one-time, $99 fee to distribute your eBook to Amazon, BN, and iBooks  through our Vook account. For eBooks we distribute for you to Amazon, BN and iBooks, we pay you 100% of the royalties we receive back from the distribution channel."

This tells us how to add page numbers to Google docs ... not for the faint of heart (like our students) but pretty damn cool.

You have to play with this to see how cool it is. I Like the colors and the player for revisions. Plays like a movie. Also no sign up and chat built in. Sweet! Export in all formats. No publish though, but can share url.

Copy editing on paper is easy: just mark everything up with a red pen. Online can get complicated. Sure, you can use the track changes feature in Microsoft Office combined with the notes function, but that's not as efficient as it could be. If you're looking for a different way, check out CrocoDoc.

Joukuu brings all of your cloud based backup files together, automatically categorizes your documents, lets you manage files on your desktop across multiple accounts, currently supports Google Docs, Dropbox, & Box.net!

et everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train staff. Demo products or just show off. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly.

Qiqqa is a document management program built from the ground up for academics, making it a must-have tool for students and professors everywhere.

In HTML authoring, there are very good reasons to include an alt attribute into every img element. The purpose is to specify a textual replacement for the image, to be displayed or otherwise used in place of the image. Thus, the prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement. This document also gives more specific suggestions for simple, common situations, and some uncommon too. For content-rich images, it recommends explicit links to textual alternatives.

W3C Working Draft: author conformance requirements for use of the alt attribute in HTML5 and best practice guidance for authors of HTML documents on providing text alternatives for images

oneDrum is a desktop application that allows users to share and work on documents together, inside their favorite applications - such as MS Office.