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38.Inkscape Replaces Illustrator ($599), CorelDraw($399) Another tool for graphics professionals, Inkscape is a vector graphics drawing program with many advanced features. The Inkscape website also includes links to a library of open source clip art that you can use freely in your illustrations. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X 39. Paint.Net Replaces Photoshop CS5 ($699) This Photoshop alternative has been described by reviewers as "impressive" and "just about perfect." It boasts an intuitive interface, fast performance and some advanced tools like layers, special effects and unlimited history.
John Price Online – The Ultimate [Updated] List for Finding FREE Stock Images for Your Blog
Are you a blogger? Ebook writer? Always looking for incredible (and FREE) images for your website? I’ve found the best websites to get free images online to use for your stock photo needs. Last year, I was purchasing every single photo for my blogs and client projects. Crazy right?
21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary l Dr. Kimberly's Literacy Blog
If you follow this blog, you know that I believe effective vocabulary instruction is just about the most important instructional activity for teachers to get right. For lots of reasons. Vocabulary influences fluency, comprehension, and student achievement. How’s that for starters?
Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps
Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them. “The conversations I had were radically different than they were a year ago,” said Michelle Luhtala, the librarian for New Canaan High School and host of an Emerging Tech webinar on edWeb.
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Introduction to fake websites Librarians and educators need to be able to illustrate to students and users alike that websites cannot always be trusted to provide truthful and accurate data. This page provides examples of websites that are full of lies, inaccuracies or false information - either for amusement or for more worrying reasons. The list does not include phishing sites however; these are intended to fool a person into believing that they are visiting a legitimate bank site for example; there are already plenty of links to these online already. Fake websites - scientific and commercial
Everything You Need to Know About F8 Announcements: 8 New Things You Can Do With Facebook
Whether you’re a social media professional or a regular netizen, Facebook has become so ingrained in our lives that we can’t help but care deeply when we hear news about it. With Facebook, it’s always personal—whether you use it for business or pleasure, actively posting or casually browsing from time to time. For many of us, Facebook was our introduction to the concept of a social network.
Betrayal
Betrayal traumatizes your body, heart and mind. It cracks open the defenses we have built to both the infantile and existential traumas built into our human nature. The overwhelm produces a massive emotional crisis, a make-or-break event. We are social creatures, wired for attachment. Sudden loss of our primary attachment always shocks and hurts and must be grieved. When the loss is complicated by betrayal of the person you most counted on to protect you, your trust, identity, and very soul are on the line.
CcSearch
will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon utilizing Creative Commons enabled search services at Google and Flickr. You can also access this tool via the Firefox web browser. Find out more about Firefox and CC Search. Why is this important? Copyright applies fully and automatically to any work -- a photograph, a song, a web page, an article, pretty much any form of expression -- the moment it is created. This means that if you want to copy and re-use a creative work you find online, you usually have to ask the author's permission.
What Does Facebook Know About You : The Scary Facts
If you’ve read a news website, turned on the TV or not been under a rock over the past few weeks, then there is a good chance you’ve heard of a guy named Edward Snowden. He’s the US analyst who is currently stuck in a Russian airport looking for asylum because he exposed that – surprise, surprise – the US government/NSA had been spying on pretty much everyone. (parody) via BoingBoing.com This case has helped bring to the surface a vocal part of the internet that is – rightly so – pushing and promoting this issue as much as possible in an attempt to let people know: ‘Hey, these guys are getting information on you without you knowing!’ It’s a pretty shitty thing no doubt, but it baffles me that this comes as such a surprise to many.
Broken Link Checker
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Features Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).Detects links that don't work, missing images and redirects.Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.Links can be edited directly from the plugin's page, without manually updating each post.Highly configurable. Basic Usage Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other content and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more.
25 Common Phrases That You're Saying Wrong
Being a freelance writer, I often find myself messing up common phrases. When I’m unsure, I do a quick Google search to make sure that what I’m writing is actually what I’m trying to say. This inspired me to come up with a list of common phrases that people frequently get wrong. Some of them aren’t completely our fault because the incorrect way of saying them has actually become the “norm”.
