Tech Talk » web 2.0 http://kbellas.edublogs.org Tutorials, software, IWB, instructions, ramblings...................................... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 FILE MANAGERS http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/ten-file-managers/ http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/06/19/ten-file-managers/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:37:43 +0000 Kristy Bellas http://kbellas.edublogs.org/?p=29

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 files online and share and collaborate with colleagues.

7 Flowchart: Create charts to organise your thoughts or notes. You can collaborate with your colleagues, chat and design a flowchart at the same time.

6 Bubbl.us: Is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

5 openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organises files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). Store files up to 1GB.

4 ThinkFold: Create outlines that can be shared and collaborated in real time using ThinkFold.

3 Google Notebook: Add clips, organize your notes, and even access your notes from your mobile phone with Google Notebook.

2 Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Keep all of your documents online, and even collaborate with peers using this tool from Google.

1 Backpack  allows you to create pages to keep all your stuff like images, ideas, notes, lists, calendars, to-dos and files online. It also enables you to set email and mobile reminders. You can keep these pages to yourself or you can share them. It has the potential to be utilised as a basic intranet.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

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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 who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
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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 and blogs.
Listed below are a few social bookmarking sites.
Furl
Stumbleupon
del.icio.us


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If you can’t be a good example . . . then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning

]]> http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/26/free-language-courses/feed/ 1 Emailing photos and uploading photos to blogs. http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/emailing-photos-and-uploading-photos-to-blogs/ http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/emailing-photos-and-uploading-photos-to-blogs/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:15:17 +0000 Kristy Bellas http://kbellas.edublogs.org/2008/02/19/emailing-photos-and-uploading-photos-to-blogs/ 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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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 goats: 1, 2, 4. Local school administrators spent most of the day looking for #3.

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