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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lauren Tran

Lauren Tran

Canva - 1 views

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    Canva is a newly launched service for creating elegant projects, such as flyers, infographics, photo collages, and greeting cards. Canva provides its own layout templates, text boxes, and backgrounds as well as a library with an abundant collection of both photographs and clip art. Finished Canva projects can be shared as links or as PDFs or PNG files.
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Pearltrees - 0 views

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    Pealtrees is a great site for students to organize and arrange their favorite websites into webs or mindmaps. Each bookmark of a website is made into a circle, which is a "pearl." The pearls can be connected to each other in any way, which serves as the branches. Pealtrees also allows others to share their webs with others on the site. With this site, students can make digital portfolios of all of their work created online, such as blog posts, in addition to any offline work.
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Braingenie - 0 views

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    Braingenie is a site that allows students to master math and science skills by first learning, then practicing, and finally quizzing themselves. The math subjects included are Algebra I to Pre-calculus, while the science subjects range from Biology to Physics. Braingenie is geared towards all students from grades K through 12. There are hundreds of math skills for all ages as well as hundreds of science skills for grades 6 and up.
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SlideSnack - 0 views

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    Slidesnack is an easily accessible tool, allowing for others to convert PDFs into presentations with a recorded voice in the background (slide casts). In addition, students or teachers can download their presentations as videos. Slidesnack allows for students and teachers to share their presentations without the worry of having to email a large file size.
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Mind Cipher - 1 views

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    MindCipher is a site filled with riddles, brain teasers, and logic puzzles on subjects ranging from math to science. An additional feature is the difficulty level of each puzzle. Moreover, puzzles can be sorted by "most popular" and by difficulty level.
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Mashpedia - 0 views

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    Mashpedia serves as a median for finding a variety of research sources on a specific topic. Searching up a topic will direct you to a page full of videos, news, and the Wikipedia page relating to that topic. With this website, students will be able to access the most up to date information on a topic--all in one place.
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JST Virtual Science Center - 0 views

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    The Japanese Science and Technology Science Center provides countless virtual and interactive lessons on a variety of topics ranging from physics to space science to psychology. The lessons are taught through the use of flash and animation as well as words. Although originally in Japanese, the lessons are available in English.
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Tackk - 0 views

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    A versatile and easily accessible site, Tackk allowing users to create simple webpages filled with images, videos, and audio files of their choice. Users are also given many design options ranging from color schemes to backgrounds. The purpose of the webpage can be just about anything. Another feature enabled to users is searching through existing "tackks" or webpages by featured or popular tags.
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Symbolab - 0 views

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    Symbolab is practically like Google, except it is geared specifically towards math and science students. Instead of using words in a search engine, you can use mathematical and scientific symbols. An included feature in the website is a step-by-step solution of an entered math problem.
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Word Sense - 0 views

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    Word Sense is a convenient site, combining features of that of a dictionary and thesaurus. Searching up a word will give you not only the definition, but words related or connected to that word.
Lauren Tran

Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Plagiarism - 1 views

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    This tutorial specifically is useful for a quick overview of plagiarism. The tutorial is told through cute animations, but is not limited, as it does includes words on the side.
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Geodia - 1 views

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    A merge of Google Maps and timeline, allowing for history students to explore regions of the Mediterranean to better understand the culture.
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Quizlet - 0 views

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    This site is great for visual learners, as it allows students to make their own flashcards and generate tests from the flashcards. This site makes studying less tedious for students of all ages.
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