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Three Useful Research Tools for Students at A.C. Flora High School *1. Grammarly.com: This is a grammar and syntax writing tool Sign up with this link: Student Sign Up 2. www.scDISCUS.org: This is South Carolina's online, virtual library. Please check with your media specialist, Dr. Conrath, for the username and password 3. Easybib.com: This is a citation and research tool for students. Check with Dr. Conrath, your media specialist, for the coupon code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference List for Research and Tools Best Windows Freeware/Shareware Download Sites ZDNet and CNet Downloads These two sites are just different faces of the same site. SoftPedia A large commercial site with an excellent collection organized by platform. The real selling point for this site is its "100% clean" guarantee. For many that is a winning feature. SnapFiles / WebAttack Offers a huge collection, great organization and a refreshingly clean presentation. Products are briefly reviewed and carry site ratings, user rating and user comments. FileHippo A clean site with a wide product selection and fast download rates but offering almost no guidance in selection. A redeeming feature is they offer a full version history of most products. MajorGeeks This site carries only tech tools and utilities. Guidance is limited to brief reviews and user ratings. FileForum-Betanews Not the largest download collection, but if you're looking for the very latest products you'll find them here long before other download sites. Recommended Sites Tucows Huge collection with world-wide mirrors for fast downloading. The Classic "cow ratings" for products are not as realiable as they used to be. I can't help but feel that this once class-leading site has lost its way a little in recent times. ServerFiles.com This is the old 32bit.com site re-launched as a site specializing in server software for network administrators and IT professionals. Quite a few products have ratings, some with full reviews. It's a unique offering and well worth visting if you fit the target market. topshareware.com A good general interest download site that's competent. There are few rating or user reviews but it's nicely organized. Other Sites 5 Star Shareware This popular UK site claims to feature only the best products in each category. It cerainly started out that way but over time has drifted towards more of a general purpose download site. The strong commercial orientation does not give me a lot of confidence Shareware Junkies Every product here is independently reviewed, though many of the reviews are becoming dated. Can be helpful when you are trying to decide what you need. Allen's WinApps List A fast and well organized site with a huge selection of software, but the search engine is woeful and there is little in the way of guidance as well. Webopedia 30 Free web tools and open source software for students. Visual Blooms A visual represenation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century skills frame. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Kno, Inc. is an education software company on a mission to make learning more engaging, personal, and social for students. Find your books from our library of over 200,000 interactive titles for all grade levels from kindergarten through college. Kno is your entire backpack in one app. View the Common Core State Standards in one convenient FREE app! A great reference for students, parents, and teachers. Quickly find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12. Math standards include both traditional and integrated pathways (as outlined in Appendix A of the Common Core) and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR's). GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org) is free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Interactive learning, teaching and evaluation resources created with GeoGebra can be shared and used by everyone at www.geogebratube.org. Learn Spanish We know that the app doesn't always work perfectly for some users. We are currently working on a solution for this with Microsoft. Should you have any problems with the app, we would appreciate hearing from you. In this way, you can help us further improve the app. Our Windows 8 app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 4,400 videos on your Windows 8 device. We cover a massive number of topics, including K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even the humanities with tutorials on finance and history. Perfectly combine the windows 8 user experience with cutting-edge tools including Basic Editing Tools, Brilliant Visual Effects, Frames, 1-Tap Enhance, Collage, Text, Tilt Shift and Raw Converter, all bundled together in one powerful package! Mind Mapping is the simple process of putting your ideas in an attractive and interactive visual format. Whether you use it for to-do lists, planning, brainstorming, problem solving or any other type of thinking, Mind Mapping is a great way to see the big picture and drill down to all of the important details. Free Books. Browse our handpicked collections, download any one of our 23,469 classic books instantly, and read anywhere with our included readier. On the go? We save your place automatically. Autodesk® SketchBook®Express for Metro is a fun and intuitive drawing application. Record Voice &Pen is an app for creating video's for lessons, instructions, presentations or any type of screencasting. It records your voice and the drawing with your pen or finger at the same time. You can annotate pictures while explaining, and share it as videos (mp4 files) by mail, upload to YouTube or Facebook, or use it in presentations and classrooms. 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This ground-breaking 3Dinteractive educational app offers all the facts you are looking for - in a visually outstanding, easy-to-understand and fun package. myHomework is a planner app that helps students stay organized on Windows and their other devices. The freeDictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from top-ranked Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. AED is a Advanced English dictionary app that comes with more than 400,000 entries. Crafted with Windows 8 design language, it has a clean and modern user interface. We endeavor to make AED the most pleasant dictionary app to use in Windows 8. Elements: The Periodic Table lists the properties of all the chemical elements . Click on an element to display the properties, history, name origin, applications, hazards and electron shell diagram. AccuWeather has the Superior Accuracy™, custom views, and weather animations you love! It is fun-to-use, reliable, and will make all the difference in your day. PhotoShop Express. On-the-go photo editing was never so fun, fast, and cool. Touch your way to better-looking pictures with automatic fixes and filters. Get your pictures to pop! And after sharing, you’ll be the talk of your friends.Adobe® Reader® is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing and interacting with PDF documents across platforms and devices. Adobe Reader Touch has been specially designed for the new Windows 8 Touch user interface to give you a great experience working with PDF documents on your Windows 8 Tablet. Adobe Reader Touch works with a keyboard and mouse, but desktop users with keyboard and mouse may prefer to install and use Adobe Reader XI. Adobe® InspireMagazine is a free publication that contains original content geared toward informing, enlightening, and inspiring creative professionals and hobbyists. Documenting the best of web and interaction design practices for over 10 years, each monthly issue features articles, tutorials, and videos by experts about new and emerging technologies as well as best practices to help you excel at your job. Learn about Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services as well as web standards, design styles, and prominent artists who create compelling projects. CNN connects you to the world, wherever you are. Stay informed with the latest headlines and original stories from around the globe. Follow up-to-the-minute reporting with breaking news and video. Lead the conversation by sharing today’s news and dig deeper into the stories that matter most to you. Medical Dictionary. This App gives quick and thorough access to medical knowledge and terminology. It provides set of definitions for the searched term. Physamagig. Just sketch something out and it is translated into a realistic physics object. Add attributes such as bounciness, friction, and joints - then create your own games by adding Behaviors to the objects. Several sample games are included, and many more are available Online! Play basketball, land a ship on the moon, destroy critters with your cannon. Then go online and try creations made by other users. Mind8.
Wordament. Why play against one person in a turn when you can play against thousands at once? Wordament® is a real-time continuous word tournament. Players compete on the same board with everyone at once. Rounds offer challenges such as two- and three-letter tiles, themed words, speed rounds and more. You can be a champion in many ways: find the most words possible, earn the best score, find the longest words, best your Frenemies, or beat your top score. How you win is up to you. periodic table. this does exactly what it says in the name. SAS flash cards. SAS® Flash Cards gives you the ability to increase your knowledge by practicing with flash cards using Windows 8. With SAS® Flash Cards, you can download and play flash card decks in numerous subjects. Quickmath. QuickMath is a simple app for improving your calculation knowledge. It presents you with a calculation od two numbers from 0 to 99 which you have to multiply. After you submit the result the app shows if your answer was correct or wrong. Perfect care for your brain cells! NASA-be a martian. he Be A Martian app lets you experience Mars as if you were there! Take part in discovery as it happens and join a community of worldwide explorers! My study life. http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/my-study-life/3b763f6d-96dd-40a2-83e3-a3295b8e3697 career path. Connect to your future with PageUp People's critically acclaimed CareerPath! Explore real world career path's based on an aggregate dataset of over 30 million data points and find your dream career! book reader. Enjoy your eBooks with comfort of beautiful multi-column interface. DRM protected EPUBs (like iTunes or Kindle) are not supported, sorry. DePaul University-College of Computing and Digital Media. The DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media Windows Store App enables students to keep up to date with CDM news & events, courses, professors, and computer lab availability. Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship is recognised around the world as a leading academic facility in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. The school utilises the exciting and diverse academic environments of its member institutions (KI, KTH, SSE, Stockholm University and Konstfack), gathering their innovative and entrepreneurial competencies all under one roof in a joint education program. Stanford University. Tap into the world-class teaching and groundbreaking research of Stanford University faculty, instructors, and lecturers. With the Stanford University Windows8 App, you have cutting-edge webinars, seminars, and lectures at your fingertips. Browse videos in computer science and engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation, leadership and management, and more. Meet Stanford professors, including Donald Knuth, John Mitchell, Dan Boneh, Robert Sutton, and Tom Kosnik. Amity. Amity University is one of the most hi-tech Universities in the world. Now Amizone (Amity Intranet Zone), the Student Intranet Portal is at your fingertips on Windows 8. Amity is the first Indian University to have launched Windows 8 app for its students. Now as a student of Amity, you can get easy access to your daily class schedule, location of the class, see your course materials and session plans, Access your latest attendance status of all courses, get your exam results with Marks, Grades, SGPA and CGPA, Read the latest on Amity University and Find out what’s going on at Amity, Watch live videos of events and lectures and View recorded lectures at your convenience. |