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LIBRARY.NU: Free Online Library

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:14 GMT

Greetings,

LIBRARY.NU is an online library indexing volumes, usually in PDF format which can be downloaded for free.

LIBRARY.NU is an online library of sorts. It doesn’t actually house any of the content it lists. Instead, it’s more like an index for downloadable documents, usually in PDF format. No all the documents are in PDF format (most [...]

MINDMAPS: Web Based Mind Mapping Tool

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:46 GMT

Greetings,

MINDMAPS is a free, easy to use, online mind mapping tool.

If you’re a fan of DE Tools, you know that I’m not a fan of mind-maps. Perhaps I’m just too linear, sequential to appreciate the graphic display of thoughts and ideas. I’ve also found that many of the free online tools are clunky and difficult [...]

ARTICLE CHECKER: Free, Online Plagiarism Detection Tool

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:00:04 GMT

Greetings,

ARTICLE CHECKER is a free, web based plagiarism detection tool.

Today’s site — ARTICLE CHECKER — offers a service that’s near and dear to the hearts of many educators — plagiarism checking.

One of the downsides to the digital world is the ease with which content from one source can be copied and pasted into another. Unfortunately, [...]

NEWSPAPER MAP: Free App To Access Newspapers Around The World

Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:00:53 GMT

Greetings,

NEWSPAPER MAP is a Google Maps, Google Translate mash-up which provides access to all major newspapers, around the world.

If yesterday’s offering — Google Body — was impressive, then today’s site — NEWSPAPER MAP — must quality as “OMG”. This site takes “impressive” to a whole new level.

Once again, Google plays a large role but, this [...]

GOOGLE BODY: Free, Web Based 3D Human Body Image

Anonymous — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:31 GMT

Greetings,

GOOGLE BODY is a free, web based, 3D human body.

Usually, I don’t delve to subject specific web sites primarily because I don’t feel I have the knowledge and/or experience in many subject areas to provide informed, intelligent comments. Today, I’ve made an exception for a couple or reasons: I was blown away by the site [...]

SCIWEAVERS: A Website With Many Great Services

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:00:39 GMT

Greetings,

SCIWEAVERS is a website offering several great and free services such OCR, web to PDF conversions and more.

Today’s could be a very welcome addition to the DE Toolbox for it offers several very useful services. Let’s begin with my favourite, “iWeb2Shot”. When writing a blog like this, the ability to screen shot a [...]

BRAINHONEY: Free Online Gradebook, Quiz Tool, Content Delivery & More

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:00:30 GMT

Greetings,

BRAINHONEY is an web hosting facility for educational services such as grade book, attendence, quizzes, online curriculum and much more.

Today’s site is one more in a growing list of websites offering a wide variety of educational services such as online curriculum hosting, grade book, quiz tool and discussion forums, messaging and more. Other sites include, [...]

GLEANWHOIS: Free, Online Tool To Find The Owner Of A Web Site

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:00:25 GMT

Greetings,

GLEANWHOIS is a free online tool which assists users in determining who owns a particular web site.Today’s site is from the same folks who created the Boolify search tool which, (IMHO) is one of the best search interfaces on the web, especially for school aged users. They have now entered the media literacy arena [...]

GRIMACE PROJECT: A Flash-based Facial Expression Tool

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:00:02 GMT

Greetings,

The GRIMACE PROJECT is a flash based facial expression tool that displays a range of emotions on a comic-like face. It’s Sunday again. Time for some rest, relaxation and perhaps something a little different. Actually there’s been a drought on new, fun, internet sites lately which is why I’m offering something out of the oridinary [...]

TYPEIT: Free, Online, Foreign Text Editor

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:00:41 GMT

Greetings,

TYPEIT is a free web based text editor which specializes in foreign language text with accent marks, diacritics and other non-English characters. In Canada, we pride ourselves on being a bi-lingual country – English and French. Unfortunately, most of our technology comes from the uni-lingual United States so, trying to type a message or email [...]