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Blendspace allows you to combine multiple types of digital content into a seamless lesson. You can add pictures, video, questions, examples, etc. I would use this in my room in order to check for understanding or to help students who need extra review of a topic. This is nice because students can move at their own pace through the lesson independently.

From the American Association of School Librarians

Ideas on tech available to use.

1.About having a research agenda: 1.1."It is a list of questions to focus on, the organizing principle around which you work" 1.2.Benefits from having a personal research agenda: Keeps the track of meaning like following a thread while your thought mules over those questions. 2. Sharing of personal research questions: They turn around the future web - The Editable Web: finding "a web browser that deeply embeds collaboration and editing." 3. The fabulous "Web-utopia": "people, collaboration and usability are first class citizens; ... seamless community as a major component of the browser...unifying editing and community (Tim Berner)...collaborative hypertext... 4."How can we create communication technologies that provide ever greater levels of interpersonal connection...? 5. "How can we create information technologies of focus and minimal distraction...?" ("The law of conservation of attention") 6. On search systems 7. On transforming how we link and talk about information and docs 8. Lightening the handling of events 9. On effectiveness at creating ideas 10. On creating technologies as important as writing

A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. They can even be exported to an Archival Movie for offline use on a DVD or video-enabled MP3 player. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

Videocue is the perfect way to create your videoblog or podcast. 1. Write the text of your presentation. 2. Drag and drop your media icons (such as an iSight camera, photographs, movies etc) to the storyboard on the right of the edit window. 3. Edit the media with the controls below. You can adjust the position, transparency, scale and rotation of the image. You can even add a special border around the media to give it an individual look. 4. Click the Play button to rehearse your presentation.

Awesome Mac application for creating and editing videos for blogs or podcasts. Pro version includes fullscreen prompter. Just purchased it and can't wait to use it. ($39.99-Videocue; $89.99-Videocue Pro). Free, fully functioning trial available for download that allows 30-second video.

With the No. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman helped millions of readers see and understand globalization in a new way. Now you can have it for free. From now until August 11th, you can download the audiobook version of The World Is Flat and receive an exclusive audio preview excerpt of Hot, Flat, and Crowded.

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go.

Plagiarism, we all hate it, but how can we teach students to avoid it and how can we detect it? Just as the Internet makes plagiarism easy, the Internet also makes detecting plagiarism and prevent plagiarism easy. What follows are ten resources for detecting plagiarism and teaching students to avoid plagiarism.

online template where teachers can build primary-sourse based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time.

"Changes in PowerArchiver 2010: New Zip Engine: * Multicore compression support - 4x faster than single threaded engines. Support for dual core, quad core and i7 computers for nearly up to 4x speed improvement over competing utilities that do not have multicore zip support (WinZip, WinRar). Multicore compression is supported for deflate and LZMA methods. * Support for WinZip 11 and 12 formats. Full support for LZMA, PPMd, WavPack and BZIP2 compression methods for full compatibility with WinZip 11 and partial compatibility with WinZip 12. * Unicode support. PowerArchiver 2010 supports Unicode zip standards, compatible with all major archivers that support unicode. Windows 7 support: * Full Windows 7 support. First on the market with support for latest operating system from Microsoft. PowerArchiver supports jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays. Check for more info at PowerArchiver Blog entry.. * Skinning support with DirectSkin 6.0. First application with latest DirectSkin 6.0 engine for skinning support of Windows 7 (32bit only). PA Shell Extensions 2.0: * Added Extract MRU shell extensions. * Added Compress to MRU zip shell extensions. * Added FTP profiles in shell extension, directly ftp from shell. Backup Improvements: * Moved backup to standalone application for easier handling, faster load times. * You can add multiple folders in backup file list. * Considerably faster zip backup when handling 10,000+ files. * Better info on files/folders in file list (number/size). * Fixed major issue with 7-Zip backups and larger number of files. And much more... * Interface improvements in Modern interface - faster and better looking. * Interface improvements in Classic interface - more MRU's, more usable. * New Add window in main PowerArchiver, most usable options are now shown on first screen. * You can now select multiple folders in all folder selection windows (backup, tools, etc). * Optimized 7-Zip's Optimized compression - Ultra and Max feature stronge

"QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install QuickTime Player from Apple. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape and Google Chrome.yabroudonline.com The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR. Features of QuickTime Alternative: * Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 is a full-featured player which has decoding support for QuickTime content. * QuickTime codecs are required for playing QuickTime movies and audio. * QuickTime ActiveX control allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer. Other programs might also need this component. * QuickTime Browser plugin allows you to view QuickTime content that is embedded in a webpage. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Google Chrome. * QuickTime Control Panel is required for configuring some QuickTime settings. * QuickTime plugins are required for viewing some special formats that are sometimes used on webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR. * QuickTime DirectShow filter allows you to play QuickTime content in all DirectShow enabled players. Without this filter QuickTime content can only be played in Media Player Classic"

"Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) software is the premier platform for rapidly developing and deploying secure, portable applications that run on server and desktop systems spanning most operating systems. J2SE 6.0 is a significant release including many new features and updates while preserving compatibility and stability.yabroudonline.com The development of J2SE 6.0 was led by Sun and progressed following the Java Community Process (JCP) to include input from a variety of constituents. Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D. These applications, written in the Java programming language and access from your browse, are called "applets". Corporations also use Java applets for intranet applications and other e-business solutions. Java technology was created as a computer programming tool in a small, secret effort called "the Green Project" at Sun Microsystems in 1991. As it turns out, the Internet was ready for Java technology, and just in time for its initial public introduction in 1995, the team was able to announce that the Netscape Navigator internet browser would incorporate Java technology. Now, the Java platform has attracted over 5 million software developers, worldwide use in every major industry segment, and a presence in a wide range of devices, computers, and networks of any programming technology. Today, you can find Java technology in networks and devices that range from the Internet and scientific supercomputers to laptops and cell phones, from Wall Street market simulators to home game players and credit cards -- just about everywhere. The best way to preview these applications is to explore java.com, the ultimate marketplace.yabroudonline.com showcase, and central information resource for businesses, consumers, and software developers who use Java technology. Key features: * Write software on one platform and run it on practically any other platform

" Xlinksoft Video Converter Platinum is a powerful video and audio conversion software which can convert between all popular video & audio formats and pictures,such as MP4,3GP,3GPP(3G2),AVI, MOV, MKV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, RM, SWF, VOB, WMA, MPA, MP2, MP3, WAV, WMV, OGG, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc.yabroudonlin.com Convert video with HD video conversion supported. You can customize the output size, video and audio quality,and parameters for output media files. Plenty of codec choices are available. Function Features: Convert all popular video formats to high quality videos to fit your screen size with HD video conversion support; Convert two or more files in batches with just one click; Convert among videos like AVI, MP4, 3GP, MKV, MOV, FLV and so on; Convert video to audio like MP4 to MP3, AVI to WAV, etc; Convert video to pictures like JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc; Convert audio to audio like MP3 to WAV, WAV to WMA.etc;"

" Button Shop will enable you to create customized buttons and to personalize the appearance of your websites or applications. Presentation is everything, enhance your website with elegant buttons created with Button Shop! Button Shop helps you easily create mac style buttons, aqua style buttons,yabroudonline.com. colorful and shining web buttons, animated buttons and more! Choose between over 50 pre-made button designs, or make your own button design.yabroudonline.com.You can fully customize the buttons by adding cool effects such as glow, stroke, grayscale,yabroudonline.com. pulse animated buttons, transparency, gradient colors, font style, shadow effects and more! You can save the buttons as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, EXIF, WMF, EMF, ICON and even Animated GIF and Animated TIFF!"

"Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download accelerators and managers that segment files before downloading starts, Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process. Internet Download Manager reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve better acceleration performance. Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done. Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others. Main Features: "

Exploratree is a free graphic organizer creation tool. Exloratree users can use pre-made graphic organizer templates which Exploratree refers to as "thinking guides" or create their own templates. The Exploratree thinking guides can be used online or downloaded and printed for offline use.

WetVillage.com is a site to share what I found on internet, it can be some useful articles, online video sharing, and maybe some pretty girls who can make you wet .

London can suit every pocket. It has many attractions and hosts many events. As a result its visitors are many and varied, rich and not so rich. London can and does cater for them all.

Upload all major file formats and convert them into online publications. Can be used to: -Create digital books, e-zines, etc. -Students can become "published" authors -Alternative strategy for reports and presentations -Develop and share tutorials, study guides, etc. -Embed projects into a class site, blog or wiki -Connect with others that share your interests

I like all of the definitions in this blog post. They sound connected to past research, yet new. I know I was feeling odd at the "Digital Is..." Conference, because I don't want to let the technology disappear into uses. It's better, I think to look for what we can get out of particular technologies. That's what we are doing now with Google's Wave. "Alongside these discussions Frances Bell suggested the term Co-Digital as a better term to describe the process of "…seizing the opportunities presented by the newness of technologies to spot changes and then shape the development of the technology."" As this paragraph suggests, we still need to look at "digital technologies" to see how we can exploit them for what we need.