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"If you want to make sure the ads don't appear next time you go there or when you send your students to the site, just copy the URL from the top of the page and use that as your link. That's what I've done here, so if you click the link now you should be able to see the page with or without ads."

If you want to make sure the ads don't appear next time you go there or when you send your students to the site, just copy the URL from the top of the page and use that as your link. That's what I've done here, so if you click the link now you should be able to see the page with or without ads.

Do you cite your sources- soon we will know.....

"Copy the link, paste it into a single program and download a video. That simplicity is what makes ClipGrab, a cross-platform program for downloading web videos to your computer, a pleasure to use. But it's the support for multiple video sites, including Vimeo, CollegeHumor and - of course - YouTube, that makes this versatile tool an essential part of your kit."

The Crossword puzzle maker is used to make simple crossword puzzles. It turns out that good crossword puzzles of the type found in newspapers are fairly hard to generate, and require a pool of lots of words, not all of which are used. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle. The puzzle that is generated will remain on this server for about two months. If you want to ensure that you have a copy of the generated puzzle, make sure you save a copy.

>SplashURL.net This form will create a short version of the given URL and display it big, so people can easily copy it from a projector to their laptop during demos.

I frequently use in my classroom is ViewPure. ViewPure allows you to display YouTube videos without displaying the "related videos" and advertisements that appear next to each video. There are two ways that you can use ViewPure. You can copy the url of your chosen YouTube video and paste it into ViewPure where it will then strip away everything but the video. The other option is to install the ViewPure bookmarklet and click anytime you're viewing a YouTube video.

I have been used this site since I started to study phonetics and this help me a lot.

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it. The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone.

Plagiarism - what's the best way to deal with it?

The speed with one can get information from the Internet also makes people feel that this information is there to be "taken" (literally).Plagiarism is a very important aspect that needs to be addressed by us, teachers. This year I had a student that to write "her" composition she first copied THE WHOLE TEXT IN PORTUGUESE from the Internet and then she used a google translator. The theme? Festa Junina. Unbelievable!