Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 also back up all your [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
Tux Paint is free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.
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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 their bookmarks. Promote your websites [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 experience for refining the art [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 is research.
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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
Paint.NET
Pidgin
POV-Ray
PuTTY
Scribus [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Kristy Bellas
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 on the sides of the [...]
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