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"Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT is an evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki and makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

Thank you for sharing this, Cathy! This is a wonderful tool. So often I have teachers asking: "What can I use to do this?"....... I will send on the link to all staff.

Brevity Software is a event management software company providing powerful, user-friendly, flexible tools and also offers great degree of customization with ease of management. Get Free Quote Now!

Robin Good - Communication Designer and New Media Explorer - has compiled this great mind map of the top collaboration tools for 2011 that he updates ... weekly! Check out the other mind maps he's created from the list on the right-hand side.

What a terrific tool for creating timelines for and with your students!

Like academic libraries, school libraries rely primarily on their parent institution for financial support. The latest nation-wide expenditures figures for school library media centers in public schools comes from Characteristics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Centers in the United States: Results From the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey published in August 2013. The "Selected Findings" summary in the beginning of the Adobe Reader PDF version notes -- -- During the 2010-11 school year, public school library media centers spent an average of $9,340 for all information resources [Information resources include such items as books, periodicals, audio/visual materials, database licensing, and software. They do not include salaries, computer hardware, or audio/visual equipment.] (table 4). This includes an average of $6,010 for the purchase of books and $490 for the purchase of audio/video materials [Includes all copies of any tape, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray]. -- The number of holdings in public library media centers per 100 students was 2,188 for book titles and 81 for audio/video materials at the end of the 2010-11 school year (table 5).

"You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media is intended for anyone who doesn't know where to begin in managing born-digital materials. It errs on the side of simplicity and describes what is truly necessary to start managing born-digital content on physical media, and it presents a list of the basic steps without expanding on archival theory or the use of particular software tools. It does not assume that policies are in place or that those performing the tasks are familiar with traditional archival practices, nor does it assume that significant IT support is available."

"Create beautiful timelines - Tiki-Toki is web-based software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the internet."

Important summary of how social media works for youth and adults, and how five properties and three dynamics have a systematic affect that we all must deal with.

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"The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software."

Amazing find. Could get lost in this for hours!

"Ubidesk is an online workspace for team collaboration. It provides a web-based group space for file sharing, document collaboration, and project management. Offered as SaaS(Software as a Service), Ubidesk is accessible from any computer with a web browser. Ubidesk makes possible the real-time collaboration of your team."

Jing is free image and video capturing software that you can share instantly over the web, IM, email, or even just save to your desktop.

In this technological age a plagiarism checker is essential for protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers, students, website owners and anyone else interested in protecting their writing. Our service guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by our plagiarism software to insure that your texts are unique.

Anyone who wants to sync documents, websites and notes between their devices will find Evernote just so useful and user friendly. It's kind of like cataloguing your entire computer's contents and the ability to access them from all of your devices.

"Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!" only $12yr for Pro!