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Search Result. Top 3 Ways to Make Your Search More Accurate Most of the time, you just want to find content that has a particular phrase.

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Here are the three easiest steps to get what you want: Enclose your search phrase in quotes. A search for "black cat" is going to return content with the phrase "black cat". (If it's in there, of course.) More Advanced Help Here are a few more tips for getting the most out of your searches. You can exclude certain words. You can also: Search for content that has certain words, but not necessarily all of the words in order. This is the most basic search. Black cat adoption This will search for documents containing the words black, cat and adoption. Movie Maker. Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1. With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics.

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1

With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolodate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested. These services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office Applications”.

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3 Red Arrows indicate personal favorites with education in mind. Organizers Gradebooks Teacher! For Teachers, Clubs, and Management. Www.comancheisd.net/default.aspx?name=TechTools. ActivInspire - List. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.

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Collaboration tools. Tools. Blog/document. Software training online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple &. Technology Tools. Education World offers new technology content every day.

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Some of our pieces related to technology tools can be found in this archive. We do update these aritcles reguarly, but given the changing nature of technology, we cannot promse that every piece will be on the cutting edge. Please visit our technology front page for the latest, most up-to-date tech stories. Social Media in the Classroom? In this information age, we can now talk to each other in ways we never imagined. Five for Fun Lots of image generators are available on the Web. Hardware and Software Essentials We asked members of the Education World Tech Team to tell us what hardware and software they consider essential -- or invaluable -- for todays educator?

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Yarp - Simple Invitations and Surveys. There are many free options for creating surveys on the web.

Yarp - Simple Invitations and Surveys

Yarp may be the simplest of all the options. Using Yarp you can a simple one question survey or one line event invitation. To create a Yarp survey select "survey" on the homepage, type a question, then select your answer format. All answer formats present only two options along the lines of "true or false" or "yes or no. " Yarp invitations use the same format styles as Yarp surveys. 4Teachers : Main Page.

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Assessment. Web Doc - Multimedia Conversations Made Easy. Web Doc is a new service that is best described as a blog platform that offers rich multimedia commenting.

Web Doc - Multimedia Conversations Made Easy

If you've ever tried Tumblr, Web Doc will initial look familiar to you. An Expat Educator in Asia. Transforming Classrooms One at a Time » By Paul McMahon on Feb 15, 2010 in Ideas for Great Lessons, Learning for a Flat World | 5 Comments It has been a long, long time since the last post, something that I have been acutely aware of!

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As any reader can gather from previous posts, there has been a lot going on in my life that has kept me from the keyboard. Not the least of these is this little time-consumer The performer Probably a bigger reason is the change of working life that I have had in the last 6 months or so now that I work full-time for Mathletics. I have got to say that I may have thought that working for someone else was going to reduce the opportunities that I had to influence what happens in classrooms in schools in the Asian region. Literacy & Technology Integration at The Literacy Web. 30 Posts About Free Education Technology Tools & Resources. The Internet Is Rich With Free Tools for Educators.

30 Posts About Free Education Technology Tools & Resources

Here’s A Bunch. I’ve been meaning to put together this list of the many free apps that I’ve blogged about, and make it available as a tabbed section on the site. I’ve got the list mostly together now and realized it would make for a nice mid-week post. All of the articles below reference free technologies and/or resources. The posts are simply listed in alphabetical order (I haven’t quite decided how best to organize them otherwise). Of course, the king of free tech for educators is blogger Richard Byrne and his “Free Tech For Teachers” site. Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog —————————————————- Upgrade your IT knowledge with pmp dumps.

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