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LiveBinders: Your Online 3-Ring Binder. It's hard to put a bunch of links together in any meaningful format, and sharing a group of URLs is cumbersome for everyone—the sender and the receiver.

LiveBinders: Your Online 3-Ring Binder

Have you ever looked through your bookmarks list and forgotten what they are all for? The solution? LiveBinders. Live Binders lets you do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk—organize them into nice containers—like 3-ring binders on your shelf. At LiveBinders, you can create as many binders as you need to help organize the stuff you collect and share over the internet—for free. The killer feature of LiveBinders is 'LiveBinder It', a bookmarking tool that you can install on your browser tool bar. Watch this video to see how LiveBinders works. CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS The obvious use is for teachers to create LiveBinders to share interesting resources with their students, but why not get your students to create their own LiveBinders and share them with the rest of the class. LiveBinder It. The English Blog. ProfHacker.

Many of us have favorite tools that suit our workflows well, helping us accomplish our tasks and keep track of needed bits of information.

ProfHacker

Below you’ll find a list of applications, services, and utilities that I use almost daily. Workflow. I’m a big fan of ToDoist, my preferred task manager. For the way I work, it’s a better option than Apple’s Reminders. The catch is that it doesn’t integrate with Siri, which is really handy for adding items on the go. I know I know. Let’s backtrack a minute. A few weeks ago, coincidentally during Day of DH 2016, it was brought to my attention that Voyant, a web-based text analysis tool, had upgraded to Version 2.0. This has been a popular tool with ProfHackers (I’ve written about using it as has Brian), and the new version is a great improvement. A cleaner, crisper appearance better cross-platform and mobile device support (all tools in HTML5, no Flash or Java Applets) advanced search capabilities, including wil… I was involved in multiple ways.

Nik's Quickshout. Nik's Daily English Activities. Kalinago English. Teacher Phili's ICT in ELT. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Tech Chef 4 U. TechChef4u App: See the TechChef4u app Snapguide!

Tech Chef 4 U

Educator Reviews: “Wow! What an amazing resource for apps, iKnowledge, and iPad expertise! A must-have app for any district using iDevices.” – Carl Hooker. “This app should be the first app that every teacher downloads as they begin their iDevice planning. App Features: Educational App Store: Search for apps by Platform, Grade Level, and Category.Search Featured apps. Why FREE apps?

Who is TechChef4u.com? Calling all Guest iChef’s. TechChef4u app by TechChef4u LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Thedaringlibrarian - home. TheConsultants-e list of tools&resources. Ruben R. Puentedura's Weblog. CanadianTechEd.

iPad for Teaching & Learning. B's Life with English. One day you may experience a situation when you need to post something on the web fast (but not necessarily furious :)) and you don't want to use your blog for this purpose.

B's Life with English

What can you do? Use one of the numerous web services which promise to publish your article immediately. I have already written about such sites before but it seems that they keep mushrooming in steady rows and we get new possibilities offered again and again. I have used some of them and there are moments when they are really convenient and helpful. Now you can post a single picture on the web and get a unique URL to send it to whoever you want. Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century. The Age Of Relevance.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post submitted by Mahendra Palsule, who has worked as an Editor at Techmeme since 2009.

The Age Of Relevance

Apart from curating tech news, he likes analyzing trends in startups and the social web. He is based in Pune, India, and you can follow him on Twitter. What’s the Next Big Thing after social networking? Research Management for Professionals, Web and PDF Annotation. The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators. Richardbyrne's Profile. Tech and the ESL Teacher. Web tool recommendations (#eltchat summary) This is the summary of the second #eltchat on Wednesday 29th February.

Web tool recommendations (#eltchat summary)

To find out exactly what #eltchat is, click here. (Since this post is full of links which may change/move at a later date, please let me know if any of them are broken. Thanks!) “If you could recommend one particular webtool for the classroom, what would it be, and why?” eFront Learning: Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning.

As an e-Learning consultant I was always a fan of open source software.

eFront Learning: Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning

Why? The answer is simple. Because I could use them as I wish, for whatever I wish, without long-term commitments and with the extra bonus of a community of professionals that use, extend and support them.