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Free Cloud Storage Providers
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Cloud Storage
Cloud storage allows users to safely store their files on the internet. The files are stored on a number of virtual servers for better security. During the last few years, several cloud storage companies and services have been launched offering a variety of plans. Here we are going to list only the providers that offer free cloud storage.
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I blogged this because – I think there are words of advice for anyone who is trying to get a message to kids/or adults for that matter that not in their peer group…No matter what the issue…
A bad bullying prevention program or PSA:
1. Relies on gimmicks, like anti-bullying T-shirts, useless slogans like, "Bullying isn't cool. Don't do it," bracelets, pledges, and celebrity appearances as the principle educational strategy.
2. Depicts stereotyped situations.
3. Shows all white people at the center of the plot, or has token racial diversity. For example, the Queen Bee white girl with her backup Black and Asian friends.
4. Presents suicide as a natural consequence of being bullied and as a revenge fantasy against the bullies. Kids don't have to have suicide thrown in their face to take bullying seriously. Emphasizing suicide will make children think that any feelings less than that aren't worth reporting.
5. Portrays no realistic and comforting adult presence.
6. Provides no skills or strategies to stop bullying beyond, "Tell an adult" and doesn't acknowledge that telling an adult often doesn't help at all.
7. Assumes that bullying is always one-way.
8. Gives the primary motivations to not bully as that you will be punished or feel guilty.
9. Emphasizes blame.
10. Ignores the fact that most bullies think they're defending themselves or are at least justified; e.g. the victim deserves it. This is one of the primary reasons why a bully won't see themselves in these types of campaigns.
Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions
RoadsideAmerica.com is a caramel-coated-nutbag-full of odd and hilarious travel destinations -- over 9,000 places -- ready for exploration.
Since our first book, Roadside America, introduced readers to the world of offbeat tourist attractions, we (authors and road trip know-it-alls Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins) haven't slowed down. In fact, we're speeding up! Or maybe it's just a bad optical illusion...
Site visitors often tell us our write-ups help them plan their own trips. We provide directions to attractions and even maps when available; otherwise, just drive to the town and ask a local. It's more fun that way.
We list some attraction hours and admission prices, but be wary -- these change frequently at many offbeat places.
Hours are sometimes a crap shoot. Graveyards are open all the time; but lone fanatical collectors may be off digging up petrified leeches, or getting their medication when you arrive. You take your chances. Call ahead if you're going way out of your way.
For reasons that grow hazier with time, we produced a thicker, more depraved sequel, New Roadside America. The books chronicled tourist attractions throughout the continental United States -- from the World's Largest Twine Ball to an obscure monument to a patriotic pig.
After a series of Hypertours in the early 1990s, the Internet found us (or vice versa). In 1994, we guided AOL and Hotwired users on the web's first real-time, coast-to-coast "virtual vacation" -- a Hypertour from California to New York.
We launched RoadsideAmerica.com in 1996. Here's a 10 Year March of History.
Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions
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Digital Research Tools (DiRT)
This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
# iCyte enables you to highlight and save text on any webpage, allowing you to recall the most relevant information. You can save sections of webpages or the whole thing. # Powerful search tools Webpages you Cyte are saved on our server, letting you return to your research even if the webpage has been deleted or modified. # Simple user sharing Invite colleagues and friends to join your projects, discover new research, and share information.
How to Become an Internet Research Expert: Find Anything Online | WebMasters Software
Look for Tutorials
Depending on your topic, you may be able to find tutorials. For pretty much any practical skill (and a whole lot of unpractical ones), you can find an online tutorial that teaches you how to do it.
You can find tutorials through search engines (just add “tutorial” or “instructions” to the end of your keyword search). You can also find them on these websites:
Instructables is a general tutorial website that offers step-by-step instructions on projects in categories such as arts, crafts, food, kids, music, outdoors and pets. Every tutorial has photos and/or diagrams to illustrate the process.
eHow offers categorized instructions and tutorials created by users. They include both text and video tutorials on a variety of topics, including law, health, food and drink, electronics and computers.
WikiHow is a user-editable how-to manual that covers a ton of different topics. Because of its wiki format, tutorials and instructions are constantly being improved.
The Tuts+ Network offers tutorials on a variety of tech topics, including Photoshop, web design, Flash and photography. Its tutorials are split into separate blogs based on topic and are written by experts.
Tutorialized offers tech tutorials for a variety of software programs, including Photoshop, GIMP, Flash, Blender and Illustrator.
Good-Tutorials offers up tech-related tutorials, covering CSS, Flash, HTML, Photoshop, PHP and more. Tutorials are categorized and searchable.
How to Become an Internet Research Expert: Find Anything Online | WebMasters Software
Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
Home to millions of audio & video episodes from thousands of podcasts and media sites across the web, Odeo.com is part search engine, part media directory, and part social network. Users can search & explore media channels covering just about any topic or area of interest – from automotive to technology, comedy to cooking, education to entertainment. With Odeo, it’s easy to subscribe to channels and be alerted when new episodes are published, save favorites & create playlists to share with friends.
Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.
14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs
14 Application Cheat Sheets & Posters for Popular Programs
Sep. 14th, 2009 By Varun Kashyap
It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature.
To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point highlighting only the important aspects. Something like an application cheat sheet or a poster that you can print and pin to a board or keep on your desk.
Here are some application cheat sheets for commonly used software that will hopefully make you more productive.
ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public. ResearchChannel is now available to nearly 38 million satellite and cable television subscribers and our Web site is visited by 2 million visitors each year. The channel is also available on more than 80 university-and school-based cable systems in the United States and in other countries.
Remarkable speakers, researchers and scholars present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel. The University of Michigan, the George Mason University and the National Science Foundation are just a few of the world-renowned institutions that participate and whose programs are featured.
These distinguished research universities and institutes also actively participate in testing and developing next- generation technologies to distribute video and interactive media content worldwide. ResearchChannel uses advanced streaming and broadband technologies and is working with partners from around the world to test new methods of global video distribution and interaction. New technologies are essential for enhancing collaboration, reaching a wider audience and providing alternative, high-speed exchanges of video resources.
Programs on ResearchChannel appeal to a wide variety of general and niche audiences. Many medical and technology professionals regard ResearchChannel as a critical source of new information in their fields. Other viewers are excited by the opportunity to delve deeply into topics that have captured their interest. Online visitors from 210 countries around the world tell us that their lives are enriched by direct access to content from the best and brightest thought-leaders from our world-renowned member institutions.
Viewers access programs online via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,500 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
ResearchChannel is headquartered at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
To learn more about ResearchChannel, explore this site or call us at 1-877-616-7265.
Note: From time to time the ResearchChannel makes awards, grants and enters into contracts. In so doing, The ResearchChannel policy on awards, grants and contracts is that it will not pay any form of institutional overhead or indirect cost.
Really wanted to add some images to remember this site but snagit and jing weren't working......HSM
File conversion sites -- HSM
Zamzar - Free online file conversion-- Zamzar - Free online file conversion
Online MIDI to MP3/WAV Converter -- http://www.hamienet.com/midi2mp3
Some websites, some software
SUPER: http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
Total Converter: http://total-converter.reviewstown.com
media-convert: http://media-convert.com
The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption
September 29, 2004
by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Diane Ravitch
Statewide textbook adoption, the process by which 21 states dictate the textbooks that schools and districts can use, is fundamentally flawed. Textbook adoption distorts the market, entices extremist groups to hijack the curriculum, enriches the textbook cartel, and papers the land with mediocre instructional materials that cannot fulfill their important education mission. The adoption process cannot be set right by tinkering with it, concludes The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption, the latest release from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Rather, legislators and governors in adoption states should eliminate the process and devolve funding for and decisions about textbook purchases to individual schools, individual districts, even individual teachers.
The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption is the first of a new Fordham Institute series, "Compact Guides to Education Solutions," that provides practical solutions to K-12 education problems for policy makers, legislators, school leaders, and activists. These concise guides are meant to help drive reforms at the local, state, and national levels by offering actionable policy recommendations.
HOW TO: Make Firefox Your Productivity Machine
Firefox extensions I’d pay for
Last, but definitely not least, I’d like to mention a handful of plugins I use every day and would most likely pay for (attention extension developers: do not send emails asking me to pay):
- Evernote - The Firefox plug-in from Evernote allows you to highlight and clip text or entire pages to your notebooks.
- Sharaholic - If you use Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, and similar sites - save yourself the hassle of having plugins for each site and just use Sharaholic to spread all your link love around.
Customize Firefox to Fire up your Research | locate, evaluate, and use effectively
Customize Firefox to Fire up your Research
I am a big fan of the open source web browser Firefox, mainly because it is so highly customizable.
Following are some of my favorite add-ons for academics. Some of these have been around for a while, but have recently introduced significant new features to beta or stable versions.
zotero - an open source citation manager created by scholars at George Mason University. Any web page can be saved with notes and organized into folders you define. If the page happens to contain bibliographic records - Amazon, most library catalogs, WorldCat, etc., you will see a small icon in your browser address bar that allows you to import the record with one click. Records can be imported and exported to/from several formats including html pages and rtf documents formatted to any of several common citation styles. I am currently using the latest experimental version, zotero sync preview, which allows me to save and sync work across multiple instances of Firefox - but it does only work where you have Firefox.
foxmarks - sync and backup your bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers. This one doesn’t require you to have Firefox installed on every computer you use, because you can log into the website and access your data from any browser.
Read it Later - provides a simple one-click method for saving web pages to read later. How is this different from ordinary bookmarking? The intent is that bookmarks are for sites that you want to return to again and again. This extension simply creates a reading list for pages you don’t have time for now, but want to come back to. One click to save, one click to mark as read, and it keeps your real bookmarks folders uncluttered. It also syncs across multiple machines and can cache pages for offline reading, for example on your laptop when you are away from a Wi-Fi hotspot.
WebNotes - allows you to highlight and annotate web pages and easily share the annotated version with others, which will make it useful for collaborative research and for Information Literacy instruction.
Sage - this is an RSS feed reader built right into the browser. It is perhaps not as functional as a Google Reader, but it stores your feeds with your bookmarks, so if you are also using foxmarks, you will always be able to find and check them.
Google Toolbar - This one has definitely been around a while and has its detractors as well as fans. Some library colleages even think of Google and Google-style searching as the enemy of Information Literacy. I don’t intend to get into that here; I just want to tell you about the latest beta version of the toolbar, which allows me to sync my search settings, notebook clippings, and (the most useful in my opinion) web history across all my machines. That’s right - if I visit a site on one machine, all my other Firefox machines remember it, so I can easily search for and find that site I forgot to bookmark or mark with Read it Later.
Do you notice a theme here? These tools are are each made all the more useful because they make it possible to sync my data across multiple computers where I use Firefox. That’s true even if I need to use a public machine with no admin privileges, because I keep a portable copy of Firefox on my usb stick as well. No matter where I find myself, my bookmarks, RSS feeds, citations, and annotations go with me. Recently this phenomenon has been called “cloud computing,” and I think this is just the beginning.
Customize Firefox to Fire up your Research | locate, evaluate, and use effectively
Tech Tip ~ Note Taking | Liberty Hall Writers
Tech Tip ~ Note Taking
Published by Mike Munsil on January 31st, 2009 in How-To, Reading.
Take Note, Writers!
Everyone has their own way of doing it. Some like it hot; some not. Some do it on paper, others do it on the internet. However you do it, it’s all good.
KISS ~ Let’s keep it simple:
I am NOT going to recommend using MS Word for note taking. That’s just ridiculous. Notepad is better, far better, and that’s ’cause Notepad strips out the non-essentials and just gets down to basics.
So, what ARE the basics of note-taking? Well, to me the basics are NOT trying to copy everything verbatim; nor is it trying to reword and rewrite the source material. To me, note taking is capturing JUST ENOUGH of the essentials to meet your needs, and making sure you refer others to the source of the information you use.
So, here it is, in a nutshell:
~ Firstly, define what your needs are; it won’t take long and it really pays off.
~ Once you know what you need, the hard part is done. Capture that info and if doing so with pen and paper is what works for you, just do it. No need to get fancy if you don’t want to.
MEMEME ~ If you’re like me:
Nah!
That’s too easy. I’m going to use free, reliable and easy to use software to do it, instead. There’s plenty of it out there and here are some links to a few of them:KeyNote, TreePad Lite and MemPad are notable for their simple file-tree organization system and the
ability to maintain many notes within a single file.ENoteFile is very flexible and allows you to attach images as well as taking notes ~ EnoteFile
Tiddlywiki
is an amazingly extensible single-file program that can be read and used in any internet browser on Macs, Windows PCs and Linux boxes. The generic form of Tiddlywiki in particular is very well supported. The TiddlyBackpack version is specifically aimed at note taking.GEARHEADS ~ Coffee and the Internet… a potent combination:
No, no, no! That’s too easy and none of it even includes the internet! What ARE you thinking?
Okay, if you’re REALLY like me, you can make it more complicated and do it on the internet, as an application that accesses the internet, using an application that resides in your browser, or implementing Web 2.0 technology by putting your very own Wiki up on the web.
EverNote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using
whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.
Dokuwiki is a standards-compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required. Installing it is as simple as copying all the files via FTP to your web site, and executing ‘install.php’.
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Jake says:
I’d like to recommend a note taking software called NoteScribe. It’s great for creating, storing, and organizing notes on your computer, as well as creating and generating sources and bibliographies, attaching files (images, audio, video, spreadsheets, PDFs) to your notes, the ability to share notes, and much, much more.
In the coming months there will be an online version available in addition to the desktop version. The online version will make your NoteScribe database accessible any where you go! Visit http://www.NoteScribe.net to learn more about the program!
Jake
