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Google wants you to attract more of the traffic you are looking for, and help you turn more visitors into customers. Use Google Analytics to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. Make informed site design improvements, drive targeted traffic, and increase your conversions and profits.

Analytics Settings - Google Analytics

https://www.google.com/analytics/settings/home

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

Cubescape - Your own digital landscape

Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape! Update: You can no longer save cubescapes but you can still have fun playing around with cubes!

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/index.php

xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines

Download Microsoft Mouse Mischief (Thai) Before you may install or use the software you must accept the license terms below. If you do not accept the license terms, installations will not proceed.

http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/en-gb/

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ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for educa

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! [more]

http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/en-gb/learn-more.aspx

Learn More | Microsoft Mouse Mischief

Mouse Mischief is an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 that allows teachers to create and play multiple-mouse lessons that students interact with on a single display, individually or in teams, by using their own mice. Q. What are some of the ways I can use Mouse Mischief to make lessons engaging?

Group conversations around images, documents, and videos

Por María Teresa Zaidlearn , a quien sigo en Twitter, recomienda un artículo de GuidetoOnline School.com que contiene interesante data sobre el plagio en los Estados Unidos. Es así que, el 80% de los estudiantes universitarios admiten haber acudido a este engaño al menos una vez; 52% de 1.800 estudiantes de nueve universidades estatales, han copiado frases de páginas web sin citarlas; más de 1.400 estudiantes de 21 facultades copiaron o plagiaron el trabajo realizado por otro estudiantes; 15% de los estudiantes universitarios admiten haber conseguido trabajos en páginas web; 50% de los estudiantes de secundaria entrevistados por Rutgers Univesity señalaron que no veian nada extraordinario en este engaño; 90% de los estudiantes creen que quienes plagian nunca son atrapados o nunca son amonestados. En base a estos hechos, GuideToOnLIneSchools.com recomienda algunas herramientas de uso libre, que ayudan a detectar los trabajos plagiados: