Sunday, December 26, 2010
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Microsoft Word Addin Tabs - Office-Addin.com
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Microsoft Word Addin Tabs - Office-Addin.com
One thing that I don’t like about Microsoft Word 2007 is the lack of tabbed documents. That is, when you open multiple Word documents, each document has its own icon in the task bar. You need to purhcase a hunting license if you have 3 or more open along with other applications. Not any more. I found the solution. This free add-inprogram gives you Tabbed browsing in Word 2007 and 2010. Navigating Word documents is now as easy as navigating websites in multiple tabbed browswers. And, the add-in is free.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Amazon.com: The Ungame: Toys & Games
The leading family communications game. Players progress along the playing board as they answer questions such as, “What are the four most important things in your life?” and “What do you think life would be like in 100 years?” this non-competitive game can be a great ice-breaker or a serious exchange of thoughts, feelings and ideas. Ages 5 to adult, and for 2 to 6 players.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Television and Video Game Use Among some children
http://bit.ly/dKy42o The influence of television and video game use on attention and school problems. The results will surprise you.
Friday, December 10, 2010
GuardingKids.com
GuardingKids.com: "This web site supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on educating children, parents, educators and other stake holders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more. Russ's most recent book and workshops are primary resources for meeting this mission."
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Defining Twilight, Brian Leaf - Defining Twilight
Defining Twilight, Brian Leaf - Defining Twilight
Enter To Win 100 SAT/ACT Test-Prep Workbooks For Your School!
Test-prep author Brian Leaf is hosting his annual 100 book giveaway.
Enter to win a prize package of one hundred copies of his SAT/ACT test-prep books, which include his new book "Name That Movie!: A Painless Vocabulary Builder."
Leaf's previous books have been featured in teenvogue.com and MTV.com . You can learn more about Name That Movie! on Amazon and the author's website ( www.BrianLeaf.com ). Leaf's facebook page (www.facebook.com/DefiningTwilight ) has more than 75,000 fans.
To enter, simply email BrianLeafSATBooks@gmail.com . One entry per person, but everyone from a school may enter.
One email will be chosen at random to win.
In addition, Brian has made part of one of his books, "McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills for a Top Score: SAT Critical Reading and Writing," available for free download. You can download, print and photocopy, post on your website, or even forward the free pages directly to students' email inboxes. Leaf has committed to being available to College Counselors and Teachers who have questions about the book or SAT/ACT prep in general.
The download is available free at http://www.brianleaf.com/sat-critical-reading-and-writing.html .
Friday, December 3, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Schoolcounselor.com eNews #122
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SchoolCounselor.com eNew #122 Welcome to SchoolCounselor.com, an electronic newsletter designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella at newsletter@schoolcounselor.com. |
 Did Captain Jack Sparrow use the words macabre, belligerent, and superfluous in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? The answer is "Yes!" So, see if your students can Name That Movie! as you test their movie trivia knowledge and help them learn more than 1,000 SAT, ACT, and GED vocabulary words taken from Step Brothers, Iron Man, Mean Girls, The Notebook, Pride & Prejudice, Miss Congeniality, Shrek, and more! |
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- – Stand Up to Cyberbullying - OnGuard Online
- – It Gets Better" (Broadway sings for the Trevor Project)
- – President Obama: It Gets Better
- – Damn It, My Mom Is On Facebook Filter (funny)
- – It Gets Better: Google Employees
- – Atom Wave Solution Focus
- – Valley school counselor convinces faculty to take on bullying
- – The Formulation of Achievable Goals
- – GSCA 2010-2011
- – Sit, Pray, Eat (funny)
- – Adaptation of the Solution-focused Scaling Question
- – Mozilla Seabird 2D: The Future of Phones?
- – Seeing Red Cars with Laura Goodrich
- – Continuous Chest Compression CPR—University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center
- – Solution Focused Parent-Teacher Conferences
- – Umeric 'Until Now' 2010 (amazing video CGI)
| Postings from Russ Sabella ... – Keeping Kids Out of High Tech Trouble. This blog supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on educating children, parents, educators and other stake holders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more. Russ's most recent book and workshops are primary resources for meeting this mission. – SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter. The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic publication designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. – Must See Videos. When I see a video that would be useful, inspiring, enlightening among counselors, I post it here. – Twitter. Postings about all thinks counseling, life, humor, and more. |
The Importance of Making Appointments
http://bit.ly/on-call-counselor.
Full magazine is online at http://bit.ly/93K79X
Alternate address for the column:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/508472/available%20upon%20request%20from%20fsca%20mag.PDF
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TIPS AND TRICKS
DownloadTube is another free web service which allows you to specify the YouTube video and then convert and download it to different formats online. All you need is to specify the YouTube video URL and the format to download the video.http://downloadtube.org/
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PC Security Checklists
A series of free 15-point checklists to help you ensure that your computers and files stay safe from viruses, hackers, phishers, trojans, and all other threats.
http://www.defeatingthehacker.com/securitysavvy/freestuff.html
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Microsoft Word 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts
Source: http://homeworktips.about.com/od/computertips/a/shortcuts.htm
If you are lilke me, you can work faster by keeping your hands on the keyboard instead of going to the mouse. Here are some common keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word. You’ll probably find that the more you use them, the easier you will remember them.
If the desired function involves a section of text (words you have typed) you will need to highlight the text before typing the command. For instance, to BOLD a word or words you must highlight them first.
Bold: CTRL + B
Center a paragraph: CTRL + E
Copy: CTRL + C
Create a hanging indent: CTRL + T
Decrease the font size by 1 point: CTRL + [
Double-space lines: CTRL + 2
Hanging Indent: CTRL + T
Help: F1
Increase the font size by 1 point: CTRL + ]
Indent a paragraph from the left: CTRL + M
Indent: CTRL + M
Insert a footnote: ALT + CTRL + F
Insert an endnote: ALT + CTRL + D
Italic: CTRL + I
Justify a paragraph: CTRL + J
Left-align a paragraph: CTRL + L
Mark a table of contents entry: ALT + SHIFT + O
Mark an index entry: ALT + SHIFT + X
Page Break: CTRL + ENTER
Print: CTRL + P
Remove a paragraph indent from the left: CTRL + SHIFT + M
Remove paragraph formatting: CTRL + Q
Right-align a paragraph: CTRL + R
Save: CTRL + S
Select All: CTRL + A
Shrink Font One Point: CTRL + [
Single-space lines: CTRL + 1
To type a Subscript: CTRL + =
To type a Superscript: CTRL + SHIFT + =
Thesaurus: SHIFT + F7
Remove Hanging Indent: CTRL + SHIFT + T
Remove Indent: CTRL + SHIFT + M
Underline: CTRL + U
Undo: CTRL + Z
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Word 2007 Demo: Build a document with building blocks (video)
Fear the blank page no longer. With the new building blocks feature in Word 2007, you can create sharp-looking business documents more easily than ever. You assemble your document from galleries of pre-designed parts, add your business information, and save the building blocks to use again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyzAqQ7D6mk
Related: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20018679-68.html
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Prevent People from Forwarding or Replying All in Outlook
If you frequently send out mass email news letters and keep getting users replying to all recipients or need to disable the ability to forward an email, Microsoft Exchange and Outlook have you covered. Exchange and Outlook enable their own special flags that can disable this functionality and it can be extremely helpful if you need more control over your sent emails.
Click here.
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AT&T Natural Voices Wizzard Software is pleased to offer Version 4.2 of AT&T Natural Voices Text to Speech (TTS) for Windows and Linux, an award winning text to speech technology developed by AT&T Laboratories. Natural Voices is believed by many to be the most natural sounding TTS available, the "highly scalable" multi-threaded technology can automate and add tremendous interactive and humanistic value to a wide variety of applications and projects.
http://wizzardsoftware.com/att_nv_landing.php
Also see http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
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21 Videos on the Solution-Focused Approach
http://solutionfocusedchange.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-21-videos-on-solution-focused.html
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The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Guide [DOWNLOAD]
Like Facebook, but wish your information wasn’t so public? Time to lock your settings down. Facebook doesn’t make this easy, however; features are constantly added and the default for each new one seems to favor transparency instead of privacy. The result: there are hundreds of little changes you need to make to truly control where your information goes. Enter "The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Manual". This handy guide outlines everything you could ever want to know about locking down your privacy on Facebook, and a few things you probably didn’t even know you wanted to know.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-unofficial-Facebook-privacy-guide/
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Demo Slam is a new site that showcases Google technology in new, creative ways to help more people understand the free tools available to them. You can watch new slams each week, vote for your favorites and create your own slam. It's a place where tech demos become more exciting and engaging, thanks to the creativity of Google users.
http://www.DemoSlam.com
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Sample Anti-Bullying Report Form
http://www.d300.org/form/20756
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| Posters Beautiful ... Inspiring .. Motivational ... Touching Counseling Posters for your Office and Home |
http://edublogs.org/
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Blio is a FREE eReading application that presents eBooks just like the printed version, in full color, and with all of the features you’d want from an eReader.
http://www.blio.com/
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Google Chrome Extensions at School: Get more done!
Whether you’re writing a term paper for your classic Greek literature class or collaborating with your lab group over IM, Google Chrome extensions can also help you keep track of all the important things you have to do during the day.
http://googleforstudents.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-get.html
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What’s new in Google Docs
If you’re new to Google Docs or don’t use it very often, the new Google Docs YouTube channel is a good place to start. These videos give a high level overview and steps to get started. And since each video is focused on one feature, its easy to only learn about the ones that matter most to you.
http://www.youtube.com/docs
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Rohos Mini Drive. Free edition.
Creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. If you have many private files on the USB drive and want to keep them in secret, you can protect them by a password and strong encryption with Rohos Mini Drive.
http://www.rohos.com/
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ToneCheck
Studies show e-mail messages are interpreted incorrectly 50% of the time.* ToneCheck™ is an e-mail plug-in that flags sentences with words or phrases that may convey unintended emotion or tone, then helps you re-write them. Just like Spell Check… but for Tone.
http://tonecheck.com/
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Microsoft Expression Encoder
Are you looking for a screencasting tool for Windows that doesn’t cost a dime but can still help you create high-quality screencast videos? Read on.
http://www.labnol.org/software/best-screencasting-tool/17855/
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4_Overview.aspx
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Convert web page to RSS feed
Page2RSS is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS reader.
http://page2rss.com/
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The Things You Would Have Said
Whether the person has passed away, contact was lost, or the strength needed at the time was lacking, this is a chance to say what you have always wanted them to know.
http://wouldhavesaid.com/
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Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.
http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
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SuperF4 kills the foreground program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4, which only asks the foreground program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself what to do.
http://code.google.com/p/superf4/
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Dimensions
Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
http://www.howbigreally.com/
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AndreaMosaic is a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. A photo mosaic is an image composed of many tiled photos.
http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/
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PhotoWipe is a revolutionary image processing tool that magically removes unwanted objects from your photos. Just paint over them in black, and click go! Uncovers hidden details in your photos. Sit back and watch as cage bars disappear from the zoo, and your old hearthrob fades away. It removes wrinkles, or it can remove entire facial features.
http://www.hanovsolutions.com/?prod=PhotoWipe
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Boogle. Google with a nugget of inspirational wisdom.
http://www.boogle.com/
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
Dr. Sylinda Gilchrist Banks for ASCA President
One of my colleagues, Dr. Sylinda Gilchrist Banks is running for ASCA President Elect. I am lending my support as I believe that she has what it takes to lead and advance our profession.
I would like to pass on a statement from Sylinda:
Dear School Counseling Colleague,
Sincerely,
Sylinda Gilchrist Banks
I would like to pass on a statement from Sylinda:
Dear School Counseling Colleague,I hope this email finds you well. My name is Dr. Sylinda Gilchrist Banks and, if you have not already, I want to encourage you to cast your vote in the current ASCA Governing Board Elections. You may have read in the September/October issue of the ASCA magazine that I am a candidate for the position of President-Elect. I want you to know that I have the experiences, expertise, and dedication to lead and advocate for our school counselors.
Currently, I am an Associate Professor in the counselor education program at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA.. I have worked as a high school counselor in both urban and rural public school divisions, as well as a high school director for an alternative high school. Before becoming a counselor educator, I served as the school counseling specialist at the Virginia Department of Education. My work includes being co-author of “The Virginia Professional School Counseling Manual” and “Choice Theory: Using Choice Theory and Reality therapy to Enhance Student Achievement and Responsibility.” I am also former president of the Virginia School Counselor Association and currently ASCA's Southern Regional Vice President.
It would be my privilege to lead this association to ensure that we equip school counselors with the resources needed to overcome the challenges ahead of us. We must partner together to do what is best for our profession, for school counselors, and for our students. It is my goal that all students throughout our country participate in a comprehensive data driven school counseling program. And, I endeavor to help counselors build programs that ensure equity and access for all students.
To cast your vote, please go to https://eballot.votenet.com/asca/login.cfm. You will need your ASCA username and password. If the above link does not work, than go to the ASCA home page http://www.schoolcounselor.org and look under ASCA Happening to cast your vote. Elections will be open until November 12, 2010.
Currently, I am an Associate Professor in the counselor education program at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA.. I have worked as a high school counselor in both urban and rural public school divisions, as well as a high school director for an alternative high school. Before becoming a counselor educator, I served as the school counseling specialist at the Virginia Department of Education. My work includes being co-author of “The Virginia Professional School Counseling Manual” and “Choice Theory: Using Choice Theory and Reality therapy to Enhance Student Achievement and Responsibility.” I am also former president of the Virginia School Counselor Association and currently ASCA's Southern Regional Vice President.
It would be my privilege to lead this association to ensure that we equip school counselors with the resources needed to overcome the challenges ahead of us. We must partner together to do what is best for our profession, for school counselors, and for our students. It is my goal that all students throughout our country participate in a comprehensive data driven school counseling program. And, I endeavor to help counselors build programs that ensure equity and access for all students.
To cast your vote, please go to https://eballot.votenet.com/asca/login.cfm. You will need your ASCA username and password. If the above link does not work, than go to the ASCA home page http://www.schoolcounselor.org and look under ASCA Happening to cast your vote. Elections will be open until November 12, 2010.
Please forward this email to your colleagues and encourage them to cast their vote in the ASCA elections.
Thank you for your participation and support.
Thank you for your participation and support.
Sincerely,
Sylinda Gilchrist Banks
Friday, November 5, 2010
YouTube - cyberprof's Channel
YouTube - cyberprof's Channel: "Using PowerPoint and PhotoStory3 to create a Narrated Presentation"
IBM Lotus Symphony
IBM Lotus Symphony: "Working Smarter just got easier with Lotus Symphony. Award-winning office productivity software from IBM that is easy to use and provided at no charge."
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Things You Would Have Said
The Things You Would Have Said: "Whether the person has passed away, contact was lost, or the strength needed at the time was lacking, this is a chance to say what you have always wanted them to know."
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Official Google Blog: Handy tools to help Americans vote
Official Google Blog: Handy tools to help Americans vote
The U.S. midterm elections are on November 2, and we’re providing a few tools that make it easier to gather voting information. If you search on Google for [polling place] or [where to vote], you’ll see a search box to help you find your polling place, candidates and local election office. Just type in the home address where you’re registered to vote. We’ve also introduced a mobile version of this same information and special elections sections in Google News.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/handy-tools-to-help-americans-vote.html
Saturday, October 30, 2010
YouTube - Leanback
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
YouTube Leanback (Free) - Searching for videos on YouTube can get tedious. You don't always know what to search for. Even when you do, you might not find anything worthwhile. After all, there is plenty of inane content on the site.
Do you wish you could channel surf through YouTube like a TV? Then Leanback is the answer. It automatically finds videos it thinks will interest you. You can go back and forth between videos or choose new categories. Just use the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Note: YouTube screens the videos that appear in Leanback for offensive content. However, you may encounter colorful language from time to time.
Source: Komando.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wizzard Software I Speech Technology Services I AT&T Natural Voices
AT&T Natural Voices Wizzard Software is pleased to offer Version 4.2 of AT&T Natural Voices Text to Speech (TTS) for Windows and Linux, an award winning text to speech technology developed by AT&T Laboratories. Natural Voices is believed by many to be the most natural sounding TTS available, the "highly scalable" multi-threaded technology can automate and add tremendous interactive and humanistic value to a wide variety of applications and projects.
http://wizzardsoftware.com/att_nv_landing.php
Also see http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Convert PDF to Word, Excel, Text, Image with PDF Tiger
Convert PDF to Word, Excel, Text, Image with PDF Tiger: "Although there are many free tools to convert Word Document to PDF, the reverse process does not have too many free tools and most of the free tools for PDF to Word conversion are not able to retain the formatting. PDFTiger can convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files. Although PDFTiger is not a freeware tool, they are giving away free copies of this tool till October 21st."
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Dating Matters
Dating Matters:
Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention is a 60-minute, web-based
training designed to help educators, youth-serving organizations, and others
working with teens understand the risk factors and warning signs associated
with teen dating violence. It is developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in
partnership with Liz Claiborne Inc.
Masters In Counseling > Earn Your Master Degree in Counseling O50 Best Blogs for Practicing Positive Psychology
0 Best Blogs for Practicing Positive Psychology: "Positive thinking has taken the world by storm. While it’s an age old practice that has been preached for decades in mainstream psychology, it was put on the map for the public by the best-selling book, The Secret. Since then, the public has been a buzz about positive thinking. Watch Oprah and you’ll see people who claim that positive thinking has brought them a huge house and a swank car, but ultimately the practice is for those who hope to put them best selves into the world."
Friday, October 1, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #121
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #121
September 27, 2010
Welcome to SchoolCounselor.com, an electronic newsletter designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella atnewsletter@schoolcounselor.com.
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Highlights from SchoolCounselor.com
Top 5 Training Topics for School Counselors
Must See Videos
Visit http://counselingvideos.blogspot.com/ to view lots of new videos selected especially for you.
Postings from Russ Sabella ... - Keeping Kids Out of High Tech Trouble. This blog supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on educating children, parents, educators and other stake holders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more. Russ's most recent book and workshops are primary resources for meeting this mission. http://guardingkids.blogspot.com/ - SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter. The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic publication designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. http://counselingtechnology.blogspot.com/ - Must See Videos. When I see a video that would be useful, inspiring, enlightening among counselors, I post it here. http://counselingvideos.blogspot.com/ - Twitter. Postings about all thinks counseling, life, humor, and more. http://twitter.com/rsabella |
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TIPS AND TRICKS
Debunking Internet Scams, Hoaxes, and Urban Legends
This site has a list of outstanding sites to check out things that seem a little iffy, too good to be true, or say "send this to everyone you know!
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The Livescribe 4 GB Pulse Smartpen makes it easy to take notes without lugging your laptop around. With the ability to record everything you hear, say, and write, this handy tool links your audio recordings to your notes to help you retain and organize important information. And it's easy to use--to replay the recorded audio, simply tap directly on your notes.
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RoundMyPic is a free service that lets you add rounded corners to your pictures with bevel effect!
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Google Alerts
Here are tutorials for educators, students and the general public. I love Google Alerts. As described on this web page, Creating a Google Alert allows you to stay informed on a region, country, political situation, or subject in real time. Google does this by sending relevant links to you by email at your preferred frequency. The links will include articles, news stories, videos, features, blogs, and other current search results on the topics you choose.
Animated GIF
Create an animated slide show of photos that you upload in the form of a GIF file.
Also see http://www.imagetovideo.com/
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Convert PDF Document To Word
There are many of these online services available. I like this one because it seems to be faster, more accurate, and allows you do download the converted file as soon as it's finished (as opposed to waiting for an email minutes later. This one also has several output format options (e.g., RTF, JPG, HTML, PDF,
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Ebook on Making Better Charts (Free)
Creating charts in excel is a skill but presenting it is also a skill. A lot of hard work that goes into making a chart will get wasted if your chart looks bad or confuses others. I have written a small e-book which can help a lot of people make the most of charts they have prepared. It contains 14 tips explained in simple language.
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How To Enable the Built-in PDF Viewer in Google Chrome
The recent releases of Google Chrome (6 and up) have PDF support built-in, but it's not enabled by default. Here's how to enable the PDF viewer in Chrome.
Click here.
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How to Create a Photo Album in PowerPoint
If you are going to make a presentation with only images this trick is going to save a lot of your time. In PowerPoint 2007 you can easily make a photo album out of your images. If you have 20 images, all these 20 will get pasted automatically on 20 separate slides at the click of a button. This shows you how it's done.
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Choosing a Good Chart
Here's something to help you consider which chart to use.
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SimplyNoise is a free color noise generator on the Internet. This sound can help you concentrate, relax, fall asleep, or clear your head.
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My recommendations for Solution Focused Brief Counseling and Consultation Resources http://amzn.to/abrXe7
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New Design for Google Translate
Google Translate has a fresh look that makes it easier than ever to translate text, web pages and documents. The new design also highlights many of Google Translate's coolest features, including the ability to search across languages, translate incoming email in Gmail or take Google Translate with you on your phone.
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WORTHY WEBSITES AND SOFTWARE
Education Widgets from Wolfram Alpha
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Free Microsoft Training Manuals
Source: Gizmo's Freeware
With the release of Office 2010 this commercial training company has released its manuals for Office 2003 and 2007 to the public for free. These are superbly-written tutorials, produced by professional trainers so go grab them while you can.
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Luxand Blink!: Login to Your PC by Simply Looking!
Logging into Windows has never been easier! Just look into a webcam for a moment, and you'll be logged into your account before you notice. Blink! employs advanced face recognition technologies to provide automatic, quick and reliable login to one or many computer users.
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SunlitGreen Photo Editor is a free, lightweight yet powerful photo enhancer and editor. It lets you view, resize, rotate, apply color corrections and effects to your photos in an easy and professional way.
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Get Parental Controls provides parents with the tools they need for selecting parental control technology by providing accurate, comprehensive, and unbiased information about parental control technology. Get Parental Controls is not affiliated with any company or organization, is run entirely by volunteer effort, and accepts no outside funding and no advertising.
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100 Ways Google Can Make You a Better Educator
We all know that Google offers a great search program, and you might even use other apps like Gmail or Google Calendar, but have you realized what Google has to offer for educators and students? Using Sites, Google Earth, Wave, and more, you can turn your classroom into a place where you can share, collaborate, and publish on the world wide web. Read on to find out how you can put Google to work for your class.
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Some Questions Can't Be Answered by Google
Want to know the current time in London, or how much is 10 pounds in grams? Google can directly answer some of these common questions without requiring you to sift through pages and pages of links. However, it is not the only tool that offers instant answers. Wolfram Alpha, a search engine developed by Stephen Wolfram, can solve a much wider array of problems and unlike Google, it doesn't require to type queries in any particular syntax.
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Negotiating Technology with your Child
Advice for parents about negotiating technology with their children.
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MoodTurn offers an excellent collection of calm and soothing nature sounds that can help you both relax as well as concentrate at work. At Mood Turn, you can listen to highly-realistic recordings of birds chirping, falling rain drops, ocean waves hitting the beach and quite a few other extremely relaxing natural sounds. Just open this site in a background browser tab and run your favorite sound theme in a loop for as long as you like.
Source: Digital Inspiration
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VoiceThread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
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JUST FOR FUN
Montage-a-google is a fun tool that lets you create large, colorful montages using Google's image search. Not only is it an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters.
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Free Printable Paper
More than 740 papers you can download and print for free. We've got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more.
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BeFunky
BeFunky simplifies photo editing and effects for everyday people.
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Free Nature Sounds
Use this free tool to play nature sounds on headphones while reading or meditating or just for fun.
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Youtube: Watch as a hardworking young man's webcam call from the office to his girlfriend takes an embarrassing turn for the worse in just 23 seconds.
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Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Film Noir, Documentaries & More
Where to watch free movies online? Let's get you started. First, we have listed dozens of free, high quality films that you can watch online. Then, below, you can find movie sites that feature free movie collections. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies -- they're all here, waiting to be watched.
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This video contains no special effects, and no fancy stunts. But it will scare the crap out of you. That's because you're watching from a head-mounted camera as an engineer scales an antenna tower over 1,700 feet high.
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