Greetings, EVENTBRITE is a free event registration tool. Recently, a group of colleagues and I organized and hosted an EdCamp event called “EdCamp Fraser Valley” (Thank you to everyone who attended). My job was to create an information web site and online registration system. For that I turned to good old Google for web space, an online [...]

Greetings, SPIDERSCRIBE: is a free, online, mind mapping tool. It’s been awhile since a mind mapping tool was featured, so here’s a new one that is still in beta. It’s called SPIDERSCRIBE and it promises a simple and easy to use service. SPIDERSCRIBE is certainly easy to use, for the most part. The reason is functionality. [...]

Greetings, FORGEFX offers several free, online 3D educational simulations.FORGEFX makes these 3D simulations available because that what the company does – create realistic interactive 3D simulations for business, industry and education. As the web site points out, “… interactive 3D simulations fully engage users, transforming them from a ...

Greetings, I WRITE LIKE: is a free online writing service that will analyzes a person’s word choice and writing style and compare it with those of the famous writers.It Sunday again, a time for rest and relaxation. Some people like to relax by writing. It could be as simple as a journal entry/blog post, or [...]

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 ...

Greetings, MANUALS ONLINE is an online web repository containing more then 300,00 product manuals.Not long ago, I blogged about a web site called RETREVO which also had a plethora of product manuals . I was amazed by the response that post received. That response prompted me to include todays site – MANUALS ONLINE. Like RETREVO, MANUALS ONLINE ...

Greetings, MYNOTEIT is a free, web based student note taking and organizing service. Trying to teach students to be organized can be a tough job. Most schools I’ve worked at issue students a small notebook/daytimer/homework reminder/organizer to help them stay focused and on task. That may have been okay 20 or even 10 years ago but [...]

Greetings. “15 Ways to Find an Hour a Day of Extra Time…for Focused Learning” is a blog post focusing on ways to help users find time to learn. Wow! It seems like the summer is almost over. I had such good intensions about taking some time of to delve into the mysteries of CSS style sheets. [...]