Stephen E. Arnold: YouTube (7:54) Search History — Snakes, Snake Oil, and Occasional Lasting Pimples (Tools) of Excellence
With a special focus on Fulcrum, TerraText, and Verity.
Worth a Look: Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools — Open Source and Cross-Platform
Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools (GAT) is an open-source and cross-platform Geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing software package that is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It has been developed by the members of the University of Guelph Centre for Hydrogeomatics and is intended for advanced geospatial analysis and data visualization in research …
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Berto Jongman: 10 Image Editing Tools
10 image editing tools to make photos fit for social sharing LIST ONLY: 1. Social Media Image Maker 2. Statigram 3. Flickr 4. Camera+ 5. Befunky 6. Pixlr Editor 7. VSCOcam 8. Afterlight 9. Infogr.am 10. PicStitch See screen shot and read pros and cons of each plus links.
Robin Good: Future Content Filters (Tools) Shall Be User-Driven and Interchangeable
Future Content Filters Shall Be User-Driven and Interchangeable JP Rangaswami highlights and defines seven key principles for effective filtering in this age of excessive information. Two of them are of particular important to the future of information access as they may have a very deep impact on society and on our ability to be in control …
Mary Ellen Bates: Super Searcher Tips & Tools
Mary Ellen Bates, perhaps American’s #1 Super-Searcher still active, provides an up to the minute 27 slide briefing packs with tips and tools offering new approaches and new resources for any web researcher. Super Searcher Tips – Computers in Libraries from Mary Ellen Bates
Review: Cool Tools – A Catalog of Possibilities
5.0 out of 5 stars An Education, Bank, and Theater All In One — This is NOT a “Coffee Table” Book, March 14, 2014 I received this book as a gift from the author — we go back many years, and I was glad to review one of his earlier books,Out of Control: The New …
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Robin Good: Tools for Kids to Curate Content on New Topics
Content Curation: How To Help Students Learn, Discover and Make Sense of New Topics All By Themselves Here’s a short first-hand report highlighting how an 8th grade social studies class teacher (Terri Inloes) has fully leveraged the content curation potential to let her students dive, discover and make sense of topics (in this case social …
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