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Looking for the best cloud computing software for your school? What about a way to remotely store homework and other assignments? It's time to figure out which web 2.0 tool is right for you!

This free online course will help you switch to Excel 2010 from a previous version of the software, and will give you a thorough knowledge and understanding of Excel and its applications if you have never used it before. You can use Excel to analyse data, for example, in accounts, budgets, billing and many other areas. You learn how to navigate this revised version of Excel, exploring the menu bar and the different tasks that can be done with it. You will work on sample spreadsheets doing basic math, adding and deleting columns and rows, and preparing the worksheet for printing. You will learn how to represent your data visually to show trends, patterns and comparisons between the data in a chart, table or other template, and how Excel 2010 will automatically do all the calculations for you once you add in the formula. This course will be of great interest to all professionals in business, finance and many other areas that need to analyse data in accounts, or keep records of stock or schedules, and to anyone trying to keep track of their personal finances at home. Excel and spreadsheet use has found its way into daily life that few of us would ever have imaged just a few years ago. If you have done previous ALISON courses such as our Microsoft Excel 2003 course or ABC-IT, our comprehensive free introductory computer course, you will find MS Excel 2010 is the perfect next step to bring your spreadsheet skills to the next level.

Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?

"Educator-created tutorials on how to use technology in the classroom to engage and empower learners. Get Learning Suite - over 20 of our most popular software, tools and teacher resources in one easy download. "

"Sending video messages with Eyejot is as easy as sending email. There is no software to download or install. Just login to your account, record or upload your video, and send! The recipient gets a friendly email message telling them they have a new video message, and they can watch it with a single click. No registration required. "

"This free online computer skills course is a highly-demanded compilation of Web-based training for five Microsoft Office 2010 software products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook. This is a perfect course to do as an individual seeking to increase one's desk-based productivity. It also makes an excellent new employee induction training programme, or can be used as a required course for up-skilling your organisation's current staff. For those who happily use older versions of Microsoft Office, particularly 2003 and 2007 versions, the new feature sets of Microsoft Office 2010 will be a revelation. You will get an excellent return on your time and energy by updating your Office productivity skills via this free online course. For those who have completed ABC IT, our comprehensive introductory computer course, the Microsoft Office 2010 course is the perfect next step as a means of getting your Microsoft Office skills up-to-date."

Several teachers shared that keyboarding was the cornerstone of their elementary-age technology program. Others confessed their Admin wanted it eliminated as unnecessary. Still others dismissed the discussion as moot: Tools like Dragon Speak (the standard in speech recognition software) and iPhone's wildly-popular Siri mean keyboarding will soon be as useful as cursive and floppy discs.

"dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.For content consumers (readers), we have developed a bookmarklet for modern browsers (desktop or mobile). And, if you are a Chrome or Firefox user, you can install the dotEPUB extension in your browser."

"Improve Behavior Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback.  Share Data Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff. Save Time Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class, with just one click: NO extra data entry required."

"The Archivist is a Windows application that helps you archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis. Start a search with The Archivist and get as many results as it can. Then, leave The Archivist running and it will poll Twitter for that search. " Export your saved tweets to a tab delimited text file and view the information in Excel. From there, run charts, graphs, or other analysis on the tweets and discover trends. Save the tweets you care about onto your computer. Use The Archivist to run searches on Twitter and then save those tweets for your archives or data-analysis.

"Import article PDFs from your computer. Your articles immediately become full-text searchable so you can find what you want. ReadCube will automatically identify the author, title, and journal citation information of every article."

"Test their knowledge with an online quiz The perfect tool for the classroom, colleagues or just for fun. Create quick and fun quizzes to test their knowledge."

Making and receiving payments has never been simpler. SWAP Mobile, a South African company, has developed a world-class payment system that compares well with similar systems used abroad and is as useful as having PayPal on your cellphone.