Over the last month here’s a number of valuable sites worth exploring in more depth. Literacy: Adolescent Literacy, literacy resources for parents, teachers, and students.  Including classroom strategies list and research articles. College/Career: Interactive 3D and maps-based college search site at Egiate.com College/Career: Google offers scholarships for minority and special needs students. Science: University of [...]

I’ve listed the top Google offerings and their potential value to educators and students.  Once you create a Google Account, you can save to one account.  Sharing of sites, blogs, calendars, etc. gives Google the edge over desktop software.  Though, of course, online services will be a bit more limited in functionality than you may [...]

Google released the Google Dashboard this week.  If you use GMail or a Google Account regularly, it’s best you stop in and check out your dashboard.  It shows you all the Google services you use, and what you’ve created.  I wasn’t too surprised by the majority of the content available in my Dashboard, except for [...]

I often recommend that teachers try out Delicious and Diigo.  Great solutions to syncing, sharing and collecting bookmarks. Here’s a short guide to using both.  Once you start using these services, it’s hard to ever bookmark within a browser. I certainly am looking forward to bookmark sync within Google Chrome.  Chrome uses Google Docs for [...]

Microsoft provides a free 25 GB through Skydrive.  Skydrive Explorer is a nice addition allowing you to copy files directly to your online storage through My Computer.   Microsoft has been one of the better providers of the ability to sync and share files across multiple computers through the cloud.  I have used LiveMesh exclusively, [...]