Free templates, samples, resources, examples, articles, tools and diagrams, tests and quizzes - free materials for download - for training, human resources, management theory, sales, business, personal and organizational development
These free templates, examples, samples, diagrams, tools and articles help the process of management and development of people, organizations, sales and business.
Joyce Valenza and Kristen Swanson, have assembled a good collection of Web 2.0 tools and guides for teachers. The collection is part of STHS Library Guides. Their new tools catalog is organized by function (wikis, podcasting, etc) and topics related to technology use in schools (media literacy, fair use, privacy).
Applications for EducationIf you're the technology integration specialist or just the "techy" person that everyone goes to, the STHS Library New Tools is a good site to refer your colleagues to when they need a quick reference to learn about new tools.
The Avalon Project is a site from Harvard University that contains thousands of documents relevant to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. These documents also include links to supporting documents that were referred to in the text.
The documents are sorted by date range and go all the way back to 4000BC. The documents are fully searchable and are also sorted by collections such as American Revolution, Jefferson Papers, Geneva Convention, the Middle East, and more. There are even transcripts of witness testimony in the Nuremberg Trials. Pretty amazing stuff.
This is a priceless resource for any educator or student, teaching or learning, reading or researching these topics. These documents are primary sources and can be used for a variety of learning.
Flapon is a topic-based social networking service, which means that users interact and create social networks based on mutual interests.
Flapon features include an interactive blogging/forum function called "Flap" which allows users to write about and discuss topics of mutual interest, as well as upload images and video from their computer or the web(google image search, youtube video search).
Users can easily meet new people based on those mutual interests, without having to muddle though thousands of forums on the web.
Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use.
Sci2ools is a free online suite of productivity tools that are very useful for your daily use such as, Convert scanned documents into editable text - OCR, Convert Latex equations to high resolution images to embed in documents, Convert web page to printer friendly PDF, Convert web page to high resolution image or wallpaper, Split and Merge PDF, Extract Images from PDF as JPEG, Convert PDF to Thumbnails, Text, or Postscript, Repair Corrupted PDF if possible, Convert Office Documents to PDF, Image Converter, Converts Latex Documents to RTF, and much more.