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NASA - Do-It-Youself Podcast - 0 views

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NASA provides directions and permission to use their videos and images to create digital media.

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Assessment Strategies - 0 views

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Assessment strategies for gauging student needs, encouraging self direction and collaboration, monitoring progress, checking understanding and demonstrating understanding.

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Tech Literacy Confusion - 0 views

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A growing chorus of experts say schools should teach students to be proficient in "technology literacy"-but the definition of it is ambiguous.

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Lessons from the art of storyboarding - 0 views

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Here is a good short video reviewing the art of the storyboard as it's used in story development and production in the motion picture industry. Storyboarding as we know it may have been pioneered by film makers and animators, but...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here is a good short video reviewing the art of the storyboard as it's used in story development and production in the motion picture industry. Storyboarding as we know it may have been pioneered by film makers and animators, but...</div>

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Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - 0 views

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Six ways to make Web 2.0 work. A Application Management Feature Article about Six ways Web 2.0 work by The McKinsey Quarterly. Free registration for most Business Technology Application Management articles. Web 2.0 tools opportunities, and how to use we

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Snapter - 0 views

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Turn photos into PDFs.

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Education - Change.org: Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critic... - 0 views

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I'm still thinking about that UCLA research saying "technology in the classroom damages literacy and critical thinking." I'm still thinking it's behind the times, in its framing of technology as "...

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Education | Diigo - 0 views

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Diigo is offering special premium accounts to k-12 and higher education faculty.

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HOW TO: Make Firefox Your Productivity Machine - 0 views

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Learn about some of the greatest productivity bits that the Firefox browser has to offer. You may be surprised that many of these don't even require an extension!

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Cogs For Blogs - 0 views

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A directory of Web 2.0 tools and tutorials on how to use them. Good stuff.

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Google Spreadsheets Data Validation - 0 views

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Google Spreadsheets has a new feature for cell validation. It will check data within a cell to see if it matches certain criteria, such as email or URL.

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Quick-UX. Quick Heuristics for User eXperience - 0 views

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Quick heuristics that consider usability, usefulness and desirability.

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ClickHeat - free self-hosted clicks heat map - 0 views

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Web analytics is like looking outside after rain - you see wet asphalt but not how drops fall. To see what visitors are actually looking and clicking at you

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31 Days to Building a Better Blog - 0 views

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This is the central page of the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project that I'm running here at ...

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ClickHeat - 0 views

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ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. Requires Javascript on the client to track clicks, PHP and GD on the server to log clicks and generate the heatmap.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. Requires Javascript on the client to track clicks, PHP and GD on the server to log clicks and generate the heatmap.</div>

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How to Get Free Books to Review on Your Blog - 0 views

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The following post on getting free books for review on your blog is by Nick from the cooking blog Macheesmo. ...

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5 Heat Map Tracking Tools to Watch What Your Visitors Do - 0 views

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Supplement your analytics with some cool visuals from online heatmap tracking tools.

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10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs - 0 views

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Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here's my collection of 10 that I think you'll find useful

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Aviary - Raven - 0 views

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Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won't find a similar tool on the web.

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F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content - 0 views

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Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

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