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Tools

My Top 10 Learning Tools

In a recent post on his Half An Hour blog (which he declares to be “A place to write, half an hour, every day, just for me.”), Stephen Downes struck a chord with me, for what he writes and how … Continue reading

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Noises

Ambient noise can be nice and useful. Here I have two noise generators which may be great apps. The first has a wonderful name, Coffitivity, and generates the sounds from a coffee shop.  And you can download an app for … Continue reading

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A very good Timeline Tool

I have here a good example of a visually pleasing timeline which also aggregates lots of information. It has been done (by my daughter Flavia!) with a great tool: TimelineJS. Interestingly, it uses Google Drive to store a spreadsheet containing … Continue reading

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delicious resources 12/23/2011

Great delicious resources in this pre-Xmas post! Happy browsing. Skitch – Annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images…fast. (Bought by Evernote) 74 Great Films To Watch On YouTube Not to be missed! Really great movies here, old and new. … Continue reading

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Books! [Finding]

Many tools help to collect books and articles’ metadata and create a bibliography. WorldCat.org is the latest I found and it captures my attention because it is a very well done tool. First it can find books from all over … Continue reading

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