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Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces. TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing. 50+Ways - home. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. Before & After | Home. Kuler. The Three Effective Ways to Search The Web Educators Must Know about. Using websites in the classroom is one of the easiest and less stressful ways of integrating technology into teaching. There is a large and constantly expanding collection of resources and learning materials online.

The web with its growing repository of information and knowledge has certainly turned into a window on the wider world outside your class, and is of course, a readily available set of authentic material.Acessing the content of web sites and using it with students in the classroom is not a task with no risks. There are a set of measures and steps to be taken before one can ensure the usability and appropriateness of what to include within a course book. Several educators underrate the ability to efficiently and quickly search through Internet content and find suitable resources thinking that it is a simple task that any internet user can use with such an ease that no prior search knowledge is needed.

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Nanoogo - Center Stage for Young Talents to Share Their Daily Excitements. Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith. BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos. Five Great Free Screen Capture Tools for Teachers and Students. I have recently received some emails from teachers asking me about some free screen capturing and annotating tools.

In fact there are several such tools online but only few work effectively for us in education. There are also various extensions and add-ons for both Chrome and Firefox users that let them exactly do the same thing these tools do. Anyway the following is a meticulously prepared list of tools teachers and even studnets will find useful particularly when preparing annotated pictures for tutorials and other lesson related activities. 1- Bounce Bounce is a great screen capturing tool. 2- Awesome Screenshot This is my favourite and I have it installed on my Chrome browser. 3- Aviary Aviary is a great photo editing software that I have already covered in a seperate post a year ago. 4- Jing Jing is a cool that allows users to :Share their screen captures with othersEasily capture a screenshotIt provides awesome annotation toolsIt is free but it also offers a pro version for $15.

10 Must Have Bookmarklets for Teachers. Here are some examples of interesting bookmarklets for teachers and students: 1- Pin it This is for Pinterest. All it takes is a single click to pin an article. 2- Scoop.it This is for Scoopit , the content curation service, if you are a Scoopit member then install it on your browser. 3- Short URL This one here shortens long URLs using the Bitly service. 4- Capture Screenshot You can use this to capture screenshots of the web page you are browsing and upload it to Flickr, Evernot and other services. ( when you click on this link scroll down to the bottom to find the bookmarklet to drag). 5- Google Site Search This one here allows you to search any website for the content it has regardless of whether it has a search facility or not. 6- Readability It lets you change the layout of a page in ebook or newspaper format. 7- BugMeNot As its name suggests this bookmarklet is used to log in to websites that entail having an account with them before reading their content.