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The six top free online tools were selected from available web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning using presentations, blogging, and bookmarking online resources. There are many excellent online tools available in these three categories, making the selection difficult at best. However, the selection was made based on reviewing available online resources along with other contributions and feedback from teachers.

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The idea that this is the first real battleground between the political establishment and the open web is very arresting. It also forces journalists and news organisations to demonstrate to what extent they are now part of an establishment it is their duty to report. Some like the Guardian, which has a long tradition of free speech attached to it, has been at the heart of disseminating Wikileaks cablegate information.

Clockmaker Icon Generator is an Adobe AIR app that lets you generate cool CS3 style icons or Web 2.0 badges. The app is simple to use enter the text you want to appear in icon and select the background color, it will generate the icon automagically. Click on the Create icon to save the icon to your desktop. It generates 4 icons with variable sizes in PNG format, 128×128 px, 48×48px, 32×32px and 16×16px. If you like to use it as Favicon for your blog you can convert this png image to Favicon.

创建个性化搜索插件，可定义自己在其他网站的UGC为搜索范围，查看统计

Social bookmarking allows individuals to share resources and links. Del.icio.us and Digg are two prominent examples. Digg and del.icio.us are surprisingly effective at capturing the zeitgeist within a group of web users. Bookmarks grow in popularity based on how frequently they are saved. Bookmarking serves as an information filter - if thousands of individuals found a particular resource to be valuable (or at least of interest), it can be assumed to be of greater significance or originality.

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(...) Je me vois imposer un choix : 1. Je continue à m'abonner aux bases bibliographiques payantes (Inspec, Web of Science, Pascal, etc.) et à professer le même discours sur les limites de Google Scholar : Pas d'indexation manuelle systématique (donc un sujet commun, comme le sida, doit faire l'objet de recherches répétées avec les mots alternatifs : Sida, Aids, VIH, HIV, immuno-déficience, etc. 2. Google Scholar cherche à la fois dans des notices d'articles (métadonnées : titre, auteur, sujet, résumé) et dans du texte intégral, et retrie ça grosso modo par PageRank (les articles les plus cités en tête), si bien que si le mot "sida" apparaît dans une note de bas de page d'un article très cité, celui-ci apparaîtra avant un article très pertinent portant exclusivement sur le sida. Je remets les choses complètement à plat, et je me demande, sincèrement, si l'achat de bases de données bibliographiques reste utile avec l'existence de cette base gratuite. En gros, je laisse une chance à Google Scholar de l'emporter. (...)

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