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Photos of happy, smiling faces on patient education websites may engage readers, but they also may have a negative impact on older adults' comprehension of vital health information, especially those elderly patients who are the least knowledgeable about their medical condition to begin with, suggests a new study.

Some are a little goofy (hair make-overs!) but others could be of use.

"00:48'12 Well, the proposal is to replace notice-and-take-down with notice-and-termination. We go from a regime where content is removed from a website, to a regime where customers' DSL connection or cable modem connection is severed."

Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.

One of the pages in the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (c4lpt) website listing tools for learning in a very clear and organised way. According to the site, about 70% of the tools listed are free

There's no "right" way to author your about me page. Some read like resumes, and others read like fun stories. Designers have the skills to add a little (or a big) artistic flair to their blogs' autobiographies, but you don't need to be a designer to be creative. Most pages at a minimum include the author's name, purpose for creating a website, and links to the author's other online content. It's all about presentation.

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eduTecher is a non-profit web resource that was created in 2008. The website's sole purpose is to help educators around the world better integrate technology into their classrooms and schools. eduTecher offers links to valuable websites, product reviews, as well as hosting lesson plans and activities for teachers to use with their classrooms.

What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation

FluxTime Studio is free - you can create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards to friends and family. Paid account adds Save and organise your work. FluxTime clipart and animation can be reused as components, you can build collections of clipart in your own style to quickly animate and tell a story. Share clipart and animation with other animators, use the graphical mail system to collaborate. E-mail animation clips as e-cards to people who have no FluxTime Studio account. Show animation clips in the FluxTime Animation Gallery where they can be seen by a global audience, and embed them in your own website or blog. School membership includes a teacher account and administration panel to manage student accounts.

Use your native language to search for images from foreign language websites.

website for collecting text, image, etc.from web pages. Might be usful for students doing research on the web. Very visual, drag and drop interface.

If you want to download YouTube Video/Movie in Google Chrome, you can try following JavaScript plugins, it will instantly get the video URL from the webpage even if it's not yet finished loading. No Website or software is needed.

This is online image converter website for free. It supports over 100 major image formats. You can convert files up to 5Mb in size. Converted files will be stored on our servers for 5-10 days. You will receive an links to converted images in download page.

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.