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"Drop.io offers a simple upload widget that you can embed into your course blog or website" ( ¶2). Mr Byrne's 2010.02.25 post includes slideshow of "directions for installing the Drop.io upload widget on Blogger blogs and Edublogs blogs" (¶2).

Explains automated optical character recognition as it applies to image files uploaded to Google Docs

This post focuses on： The Weapons of War [Hate the metaphor!], The Problems with the Solutions, Setting Up for Failure, and Is There a Better Way? [title case applied]. "There's also an ethical issue with plagiarism checkers - the questionable use of students' work as a money maker for these services. ... Turnitin and the other services are making money off of content that they did not create. Perhaps worse, unlike Facebook where the content owner typically uploads it willingly, students have no say in whether their paper is uploaded by the teacher to the plagiarism checker. Many students and teachers are less than thrilled by this idea. Turnitin has specifically claimed fair use in defense of its use of this content, and in 2008 Turnitin's parent company iParadigms won a lawsuit brought against the company by four students claiming copyright violation. In its ruling, the court agreed that the content's use was indeed fair. 'It is clear that iParadigms' use of the Plaintiff's works has caused no harm to the market value of these works,' Judge Claude Hilton ruled at the time. That has not stopped faculty and students from having qualms about the use of students' papers in a for-profit enterprise." (The Problems with the Solution, para. 4-7)

Clear and concise introduction to using Present.me for creating and distributing video commentary on uploaded documents (.pdf, .ppt, .pptx, & Google Docs).

Access point for help and tutorials - Categories include: Getting Started; Organizing your Docs List; Creating and Editing Drawings; Sharing, Collaborating and Publishing; Uploading and Exporting; Fixing a Problem; and More.

Allows uploading photos plus voice recording, and generates embed-able widgets; free with username, password, and email registration 

"Your 'Archived' Ning Network will not allow new posting or uploading, it will only be a copy of your Ning Network as of April 2010, so that it is available to all your members, preserved on the web, searchable, shareable, and fully readable" (What's the catch? ¶1),

Allows you to mark up a web page and either save the image on your desktop or upload to a free website. Will use it to note problems with student blogs