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Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just using it to serve me more … Continue reading →

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Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Ted Curran

When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused, remixed, redistributed, and revised for free– … Continue reading →

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Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger's guide

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you … Continue reading →

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Searchable Etexts Help Kids Search and Attribute Quotes

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Ted Curran

Image via Wikipedia In my literature classes, I found that one of the biggest challenges for students when they sit down to write a paper is finding good quotes from the text. A great solution is to put the full … Continue reading →

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