Friday, June 18, 2010

Free PDF to Word Converter


PDF to Word is a tool that extracts the text of your PDF document to your choice of a word document or rich text file (RTF). To use it simply upload your PDF document, choose Word or RTF conversion and enter your e-mail address. (don't forget to opt-out of markeing e-mails, unless you like spam). PDF to word will e-mail you when your file is ready for download.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Veezzle - Find Free Stock Photos


Veezzle is an image search engine that should bring some clarity to that process. An image search on Veezzle will yield results that contain only royalty-free, free stock images.
Applications for Education: Your students could use the advanced image search tools of Google and Yahoo, but those options aren't always easy for students (or teachers in some cases) to understand. Veezzle provides students with a simple way to find images that they can use in their digital presentations

Thursday, June 3, 2010

THIRTEEN launches new Regents Exam test prep video collection with REGENTS REVIEW 2.0


THIRTEEN, one of the public broadcasting stations of New York, in collaboration with the New York Network, a service of SUNY, presents a newly launched collection of 50 short-segmented video resources on VITAL New York, an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television. These resources are designed to help students prepare for the Regents Exams. The videos, presented by New York State teachers, cover Chemistry, Earth Science, Living Environment, Physics, Global History & Geography, U.S. History & Government, Integrated Algebra, English Language Arts, French and Spanish.

Regents Review 2.0 on VITAL NY
Regents Review 2.0 Broadcast Schedule on WLIW21

Regents Review 2.0 Full Length Programs from NY Network

VITAL NY: http://vital.thirteen.org/
Posted by: Jim Fargione
District Lead Teacher for Instructional Technology
Three Village School District