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How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning Summer learning programs have the potential to help children and youth improve their academic and other outcomes. This is especially true for children from low-income families who might not have access to educational resources throughout the summer months and for low-achieving students who need additional time to master academic content

"As schools become more savvy about blended-learning tactics- the practice of mixing online and in-person instruction - guidelines and best practices are emerging from lessons learned. Here are four crucial factors to keep in mind as schools plunge in."

Pixlr Grabber Grabber 0.5 for Chrome The Chrome extension lets you capture the whole or parts of the browser content (Print screen), edit, share or save direct in the browser.  Grabber 2.0.3 for Firefox Grabber for Firefox let you right click on any image in a webpage and load it into pixlr for editing. The firefox add-on also lets you capture the whole or parts of the browser content (Print screen)

"About QuickScreenShare.com: QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free. Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java). Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard! This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA. We use it extensively for remote user support and collaboration. The current version creates a direct peer-to-peer connection, so if you're on a super duper secure school or company network it may or may not be able to connect, but in most cases you'll find it works quite well so give it a shot!"

"Snaplr is a simple way to capture and annotate your desktop's activity. Its Free to download, a great addition for your email/collaboration tool."

"Welcome to the Web-Coders WikiEdit Welcome to the Web-Coders wiki, here you may view many different tutorials, snippits, downloads and resources for HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. We are looking for expierenced developers to help edit our pages, if you are interested you can start when you wish, and hopefully the wiki will grow."

"Vim 7.4 released! [2013-08-10] Finally, after more than a thousand patches, there is a new version of Vim. This is mostly a bug-fix release. Also, many runtime files have been improved, syntax highlighting and indenting works better. To find out the details, do ":help version7.4" after installing it. Direct link to the MS-Windows installer. " What is Vim? Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

"Embedded audios in a website generally display a simple control bar with navigation buttons to play, pause, rewind and so on. While this is great for audio libraries, it can be so much more. In this tutorial, I'll show you step by step how to add a poster image, a watermark and subtitles, using JW player from LongtailVideo."

"Plays everywhere, every time Consistent viewing experience in HTML5 and Flash, across mobile, tablet, and desktop"

"This tutorial shows how easy it is to create captions/subtitles files in WebVTT, SRT and DFXP format for subtitling in videos and audios. Depending on the media player you use, you can even provide subtitles in different languages for the same media. Subtitle files are basically text files you can write in Notepad(Win) or SimpleText(Mac)."

"Online learning is making headway-not just in traditional colleges, but in high schools as well. If you've been asked to transition your traditional classes to an online format, you may be unsure of where to start. Online learning is vastly different from the traditional classroom in a lot of ways. But there are also ways in which it's unexpectedly similar. Here are a few tips for taking your classroom online."

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"ImTranslator Translate and Speak ImTranslator offers a natural sounding text-to-speech system with translation capabilities that quickly translates text and reads it aloud at one click of a button."

"The Web Literacy Standard (specification) The Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. Keep up to date with the latest changes to the Web Literacy Standard on the wiki."

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"What it is What is mind mapping Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school and at home. The core of the software is tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and using mapped information. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed. It can be run locally or portably from removable storage like a USB drive. Application areas Application areas Freeplane supports much more than classic static mind mapping. This is illustrated by the mind map Application areas on the right which summarizes the kind of tasks supported by Freeplane. Click on the hyperlink below the image to navigate the map. Read the node called Caption to learn how to navigate the map and unhide hidden information. And click the node Demonstration creating a map to see how easy it is to make a map. In the center of the map Application areas you see an elliptical form which contains the central topic (root node) of the map. Extending from it are branches with subtopics (child nodes). At the border you see free topics which are independent of the root-tree. All topics can be formatted or styled and can contain text, hyperlinks, pictures and more; and can be connected with labelled lines or arrows. Also a topic (node) can represent hidden information which shows when the user wants it or can be automatically executed (formula). Or content can be password protected or connected to a particular time or filter."

"Installing FreeMind. FreeMind is written in Java, so it will run on almost any system with a Java runtime environment. In order to make things easier for you, we've prepared installers for the most common desktop environments: Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X. You may choose a minimum install that gives you only the basic FreeMind package or a maximum install, which includes plugins for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Portable Document Format (PDF), reminders and help files."