http://kbellas.edublogs.org Tutorials, software, IWB, instructions, ramblings...................................... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:56:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Free online file managers 11 Notecentric: Using Notecentric, you can not only organise your notes online, but also share them with your classmates. 10 Box.net is online file storage. You can create shared folders to collaborate with colleagues. The first 1GB is free. 9 DropSend enables you to send large files up to 1GB. You can ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/ten-file-managers/ The KDE education project  is a collection of free educational software. Students, parents, children and teachers, can freely use KDE software, copy it, modify it to their needs and enjoy learning! http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-kde-education-project-tour/ Tux Paint is  free, open source drawing program designed for primary students. http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/04/15/tux-paint/ Google added a feature that allows you to use google to find the meaning of any word. Preface your search term with "define:" and google will display appropriate definitions from multiple different sources. Below I show how to google define "blog."Google  Search for the Following  define: blog       Thomas Edison Quotations “Many of life’s failures are people ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/google-has-a-new-define-function/ Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet. The advantages of using social bookmarking are: All your bookmarks are in one place regardless of you loction or the computer you are using. Share your bookmarks with a group of colleagues and see ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/03/07/social-bookmarking/ Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you're learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Native speakers and a friendly instructor guide you through a unique ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/free-language-courses/ I found a great application called shrinkpic that automatically shrink photos to attach to emails or upload to your blog. Once installed on your computer you never have to do anything! It works automatically and silently in the background. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/emailing-photos-and-uploading-photos-to-blogs/ sending_an_attachment_in_edumail.doc Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/18/how-to-send-an-attachement-in-edumail/ When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.  Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organised for students (but available to anyone. The cd can be downloaded at http://softwarefor.org/ 7-Zip  MP3Gain Notepad++ OpenOffice.org ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/18/software-for-starving-students/ I have added the following guides on the tutorial page: Setting up a Edublog (by Rachael Williams and Getting Started with Edublogs by John Pearce. I hope you find them useful. In Montana a group of students let three goats loose in their high school as a prank. Before they let them go, they painted numbers ... http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/01/06/4/