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"Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page."

The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.

Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen!

Stop copying and pasting... Start making your notes online. * Annotate the web With WebNotes you can highlight text and stick notes to web pages. Click for live annotation demo *Organize your notes - All highlights and notes are stored in folders within your WebNotes account. Click for screencast * Share your comments - Pages you annotate can be shared through email or online links. Click to view shared annotated page

I figured it was appropriate to make number 800 one that is likely to be the most popular post that I've published since I've begun this blog - the annual one highlighting The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education.

Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Just paste in difficult English (or enter a web page URL) and click the yellow button. You'll see an easier version, for fast understanding now. You'll learn what the hard words and phrases mean with our Smart Highlighting. (Click it or tap it.) You'll read (and teach) better tomorrow with vocabulary lists, learning activities, quizzes, flash cards, and more-that you get instantly, with answer keys-from any block of text you enter!

"It is essential that educators be supported in their time of need. We have created the Help Desk website to provide more support and materials to help you be successful as you utilize the SAS Portal. Here you will find system requirements, answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs), directions for uploading videos to your website, and documents that highlight SAS and our tools for teachers."

Focus on K-12 strives to solve a problem or fulfill a dream using technology. The magazine is for administrators, teachers, technology instructors, technology coordinators and technology managers at individual schools and school districts across the United States. EdTech highlights areas such as one-to-one, tablet PCs, professional development, 21st Century classrooms and lesson plans.

The purpose of this wiki is to explore the potential of Diigo in our classroom. Diigo is a social bookmarking web 2.0 tool that allows users to highlight, annotate, and share online articles. It's a great collaboration tool for research.

This space is intended to highlight and showcase all the great things the teachers and students of Wissahickon High School are doing with technology. It will contain information, links and resources pertaining to coursework, projects, assessment and so forth. Please stop back often to see what's new and what we at Wiss are doing!

Link directly to quotes in Web pages. Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

haring and reviewing documents and presentations with others can be quite a pain. crocodoc was built to change that, alleviating the need to email attachments back and forth, print and pass around hard copies, or install expensive collaboration software. crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. All files are stored securely on our servers, and can be password protected and encrypted for maximum security.

We believe today's students have tremendous potential, are interested in making connections between their academic study and careers, and deserve widely accessible career information. Who are we? Our World Interactive is a not-for profit web and film project jointly produced by WHYY (the Philadelphia and Delaware public broadcasting affiliate) and GlenDevon Group (a private company), Life Science Career Alliance (an industry and education partnership) and the Chester County Intermediate Unit (an educational service agency). . WHAT We offer EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE is an interactive website for job and career exploration targeted to teenagers and young adults in middle school through college and the mentors who advise them. OUR WORLD is a film series highlighting a broad spectrum of careers within one or more industry clusters.

"Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text."

"If you've heard the buzz about Library 2.0, but don't quite understand how to implement it, you've come to the right place. The internet is full of webinars, presentations, and tutorials designed to help you take your library to the next level, and we've highlighted some of the most useful of these here. Read on to learn how your library can get with the times."

Highlights for High School: Advanced Content and Interactives for Science and Math.

The site includes more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes, and assignments taken from actual MIT courses. The site organizes these resources to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology, and calculus curricula.

Explore the President's desk. Object that shine are interactive. Click on a highlighted object to learn more about its significance and the United States' 35th President

"Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority." Great blog post highlighting the reasons why you would do eportfolios with students.

You've probably heard people talk about Google Wave being a game-changer, a disruptive product, or maybe even as an email killer. But while keywords and phrases like these grab people's attention, they don't explain why or how Google Wave could be a paradigm-shifter. In this article, we explore these questions by highlighting some of Google Wave's most unique and promising features. By exploring these features, we can better understand the potential of this new technology.

"Once again this year, there are a number of tools appearing for the first time on the list, so in this article I am going to highlight briefly 10 of these new tools that I think are useful, innovative, cost effective and certainly worth considering for 2010. "

The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education (IJMCE) publishes cutting edge research and substantial in-process reports and theoretical accounts of mentoring and coaching in educational contexts, including schools, colleges and universities. IJMCE provides overviews of how mentoring and coaching are evolving as well as circulating critical engagement with theoretical and practical issues. It enables insights into variations in mentoring and coaching on a global platform, evidencing their situated nature and generic characteristics as well as reporting on emerging issues in mentoring and coaching theory and practice. This unique journal highlights what is recognised as effective practice in specific contexts, as well as evidencing why this is so and discussing possible transferability to other contexts.  IJMCE regularly features informed reviews of mentoring and coaching publications and provides conference reports from events that have global significance.