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Entries from July 17th, 2010

What can your social network do for you?

July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Search Tools

Jane Hart has published a free, clear (and concise) user’s guide to social networks.  You can find A Practical Guide to using Social Media in Your Job here. Major topics include: Finding things out on the Web Keeping up to date with new Web content Building a trusted network of colleagues Communicating with your colleagues [...]

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Feed the chameleon

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Content - Language Arts

Need help with your punctuation?  Then maybe the Comma Chameleon will help.  This is one of the Sheppard Software games (see earlier post here). Special thanks to Georgia Baumann for sharing this site.

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Plant a question, grow an answer

July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Classroom

What is your favorite classroom technology tool?… at AnswerGarden.ch. Here is a new tool to quickly take a pool.  Visit Answer Garden, enter a question and it will create a word cloud with the answer.  You can link to the question or embed it.

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More sweet searches

July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Search Tools

Back in February, I shared a post on Sweet Search- a search engine with student appropriate resources (the links are reviewed by their staff).  The same folks now have a new site for younger learners.  Sweet Search 4Me is now in beta trial.  Check out a search and see how it might work for your [...]

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