You may have noticed recently that the images have been lost from some posts. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. I believe the issue has been resolved.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Featured: 4-18-2013 Science NetLinks [Science]
Science NetLinks is a K-12 science education resource where you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all free.
Science NetLinks provides K-12 teachers, students, and families with quality resources for teaching and learning science. All of the resources are Internet-based and free to everyone.
Standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific learning goals and grade ranges are the central focus of Science NetLinks. Each lesson uses research-based instructional strategies and is tied to one or more learning goals. Though written for the teacher, lessons include student-ready materials such as reproducible student sheets or online esheets. Many of the interactives, esheets, and tools work well on an interactive whiteboard or in a computer lab.
Science NetLinksTools are a collection of the best resources on the Web, including original interactive lessons developed by Science NetLinks as well as annotated reviews of the best STEM resources on the Web. Each Tool includes a description of the resources and suggestions for using them in the classroom.
Other content includes Collections compiled around a theme or topic, the latest Science News, 60-second Science Updates radio programs, and Afterschool activities grouped by age.
Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Featured: 4-17-2013 GradeMark [Assessment]
GradeMark saves time and improves feedback through an online grading system where standard and customized annotations appear directly on the student's paper.
By making it possible to provide students with richer feedback on their work, GradeMark helps instructors have better interactions with students thereby improving writing levels.
GradeMark offers five types of 'rich' feedback:
Reduce plagiarism with an Originality Report.
Quickly drag standard or custom marks and comments directly onto the paper using QuickMark Sets.
Voice Comments provide personalized audio feedback that conveys your 'tone' and clarifies comments.
Communicate clear expectations and speed grading with pre-loaded Common Core-aligned Rubrics, or create your own.
Write broader, in-depth General Comments to give students overall feedback about their papers.
Comprehensive statistics and graphs help you analyze and identify areas of concern, or track improvement.
GradeMark is completely online and available 24/7 through any modern web browser. GradeMark is a product of Turnitin.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Featured: 4-16-2013 Widbook [Writing]
Widbook is an intelligent platform where authors and readers have the opportunity to share their best digital content with people worldwide.
On Widbook, you can begin a book from scratch or upload your already completed or in-progress content in order to publish it. The Editor Tool enables users to visualize their work and use features such as keywords, bookmarks, highlights, real time chat, and more.
Invite people to make comments and add suggestions to your work. Widbook is a creative way to share content and spread ideas. Give some suggestions to another author or add a comment to a book.
Using Widbook, friends can share and post their favorite books, stories, and comments on their social network. Find books, save the favorites onto your bookshelf, and follow the authors.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Featured: 4-15-2013 Presefy [Presenting]
Presefy is a just-out-of-beta web service which allows you to store and control your presentations anywhere you are. All your presentations are available and can be controlled via an Internet connection.
You can broadcast and control your presentation using any web-capable mobile device. Presefy lets you use a smartphone or a tablet to stay in charge of the presentation, jump to any slide with ease, and more. Your audience can follow your presentation in their own browser, or a computer connected to a projector can serve to broadcast the presentation.
Store and share presentations securely in the Presefy cloud. Presentations are ready to be presented anytime, anywhere. The basic plan limits you to having two presentations stored at any one time.
At the moment Presefy supports PPT, PPTx, and PDF. Presefy is designed with HTML5 so it is compatible with all platforms without any setup. There is nothing to download or install.
The basic version of Presefy is free. A Pro plan that will allow the storage of up to 20 presentations and other additional features is under development.
Recently I posted here about a similar service, ElectricSlide, which is iOS app-based, whereas Presefy is browser-based and platform independent.
Note: I my trials of Presefy, I found that slides are presented in their entirety without support for builds and transitions. Also, there seemed to be an issue with images being cropped.
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