Archive for April, 2008
Google Scholar: Researching Faster, Not Harder
http://scholar.google.com/
by Tim Cushman
The best part of my library experience during grad school was the fact that I never had to actually go to the library to get the journal articles I needed for research. The digitized collection, readily available online with student login, was a tremendous time saver and an efficient means of staying current on educational [...]
Read the Words
by Tim Cushman
Read the Words is a fabulous, FREE web service for converting text into speech. Instantly, many teachers will think of using this site for their special education and non-English speaking students. I would argue that the applications for this web tool is far wider.
Think about the flow of the normal school day. Hectic? [...]
Need More Computers? Practice Multiplication…
by Kevin S. Merritt, Instructional Technology
A recent article in eSchool News highlighted two products that can help schools save on hardware, software, and infrastructure costs. The products are from Userful and NComputing. The products take a slightly different approach to making one computer become multiple computers. Both approaches, however, were born from the same concept.
Think about how most schools [...]
Quizlet. Learn it fast.
by Tim Cushman
I did a lot of memorizing as a kid. At least, I was assigned to do a lot of memorizing as a kid. No “Fact Left Behind” could have been the unofficial tag-line of my primary education. How did I deal with all of the memorizing? My strategy was simple. I would procrastinate [...]
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