The Rearview Mirror 5/26/2012

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.

Monday

Needful Things is a group of useful and convenient apps and services for Mac OS X from DEVONtechnologies, the makers of DEVONthink and other apps based on unique artificial intelligence technology.

Tuesday

ArtsConnectEd is an interactive Web site that provides access to works of art and educational resources from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center for K-12 educators, students, and scholars.

Wednesday

ThinkBinder means to change how students study with their peers. They have constructed a study group environment around a simple, focused set of tools to allow you to work more efficiently.

Thursday

Fold3 believes that it is the web's foremost collection of original military records, providing convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

COD - 5/24/2012 - Fold3 [History]

Fold3 believes that it is the web's foremost collection of original military records, providing convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

Original records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about America's everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them.

Fold3 is a redesign and rebranding of a site previously reviewed here, Footnote.com, as part of a move to focus on creating the premier website for military records.

The site's name, Fold3, comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served their country.

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COD - 5/23/2012 - ThinkBinder [Study]

ThinkBinder means to change how students study with their peers. They have constructed a study group environment around a simple, focused set of tools to allow you to work more efficiently.

ThinkBinder believes that group discussions, shared notes, and real-time interactions should be maintained in a private hub uncluttered by e-mail and generic cloud solutions.

ThinkBinder has tools to:

• Discuss. Ask questions, upload videos, share links, and more.
• Chat. Study live with your peers via text and video chat.
• Share. Share videos, pictures, and links directly with their bookmark button.
• Collaborate. Work on problems together with a collaborative whiteboard.
• Manage. Keep your group calendar and files organized in the cloud for easy access.

Watch a video: Meet ThinkBinder

ThinkBinder tools are designed to facilitate seamless communication and collaboration. Sign on and, all in one place, ask a question about homework, work through a problem on a collaborative whiteboard, then video chat with study partners.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0

COD - 5/22/2012 - ArtsConnectEd [Art]

ArtsConnectEd is an interactive Web site that provides access to works of art and educational resources from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center for K-12 educators, students, and scholars.

With Art Finder, ArtsConnectEd users can search over 100,000 of the museums’ digitized items including works of art, texts, audio and video, and interactive resources.

Art Collector makes it possible for users to save, customize, present, and share items in Art Collector sets. Everything can be commented on, tagged, and rated.

Ask an Educator allows users to submit questions about using ArtsConnectEd to real teachers who already use the site.

Through a train-the-trainer model, ArtsConnectEd is training teachers who conduct teacher workshops in their regions. So far, more than 3500 K-12 and pre-service teachers have participated in workshops focusing on the effective classroom use of ArtsConnectEd.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0

COD - 5/21/2012 - Needful Things [Tools-Mac]

Needful Things is a group of useful and convenient apps and services for Mac OS X from DEVONtechnologies, the makers of DEVONthink and other apps based on unique artificial intelligence technology.

The apps:

EasyFind finds files and folders by name or content using advanced Boolean operators.

Grid moves and resizes your windows with a single keystroke.

PhotoStickies shows your favorite pictures floating and borderless on your desktop.

ThumbsUp creates thumbnails for your website in seconds.

XMenu adds one or more menus to the right side of the menu bar that provide access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and text snippets.

The services:

Blueservice sends selected text to Bluetooth–compatible devices directly from your favorite app with a single click.

Enter calculations into any service-aware app such as TextEdit, Mail, or Safari, and CalcService calculates the result with a single keystroke.

WordService provides a large number of commands for working with selected text, such as Reformat text paragraphs; Clean up tabs, quotes, line endings; Remove unwanted text parts; Sort lines or paragraphs; Change case; Insert date, time, or file path; and more.

PDF2RTFService is a filter service that allows applications capable of reading rich text files, e.g. TextEdit, to open and save PDF files as paginated rich text (.rtf) documents.

All of the Needful Things apps and services are completely free to download and use.

DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0