Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Rearview Mirror 10/8/2011

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

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Monday

Toronto-based Dataport is a free web-based service offering an easy and accurate Scantron alternative for scoring and grading tests.

Tuesday

Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform, and story sharing community.

Wednesday

Sometimes it's useful or necessary to be able to edit the text in a PDF document in MS Office, OpenOffice, Pages, or whatever word processor you prefer. Here are a pair of free online tools, ABBYY FineReader Online and PDF to Word Free, that will make it possible for you to grab the text from that PDF (or other types of documents) and convert it into an editable format.

Thursday

Moneyville is an educational and fun website that was specially designed for school children 5-9 years old. With its entertaining games and various activities, your students can explore where money comes from, what money is worth, and how they can prioritize and save up.

2 comments:

Julie said...

It would be helpful to know which websites will work with the iPad 2. Our school is now 1 to 1 iPad 2 for students JK-4.
Thanks!

Julie said...

It would be helpful to know which websites work with iPad 2. Our school is now 1 to 1 iPad 2 for students pre-K-4th grade. Thanks!

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