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Treasure kids’ artwork with Artkive and Art My Kid Made
For our last bit of visual fun online, let’s look at two apps that take real-world visual art and turn it into a digital treasure. What Is It? Art My Kid Made and Artkive are apps for iPhone or iPad … Continue reading
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tools
Tagged apps, art my kid made, artkive, artwork, kids, sharing, social networks
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A Rocket in Your Pocket – Apps for Students
One of the ways to make any student’s life easier is to give her the tools she needs. With smartphone and tablet use rising, apps for students can be those tools. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the better … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, britannica, calculator apps, cliffs notes, dictionary.com, evernote, fash card apps, gflash, iprocrastinate, outliner, quizlet, sparknotes, studydroid, webelements.com
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Where’s My Bus? How’s the Traffic? – Transit Information Apps & Websites
As the weather gets warmer and we spend more time outside, more people are out on the roads and on public transit. There are many tools to help keep tabs on when the next bus or train is due, and … Continue reading
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Tagged about.com, apps, bing, boston bus map, boston.com, catch the bus, finding stuff online, google maps, mbta, nextbus, pocket mbta, primospot, sigalert, surprisingly useful tools, tleave, traffic boston, traffic.com, where is the t?
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Food…Glorious Food!
Last week’s post on copyright & Creative Commons was a little heavy, so let’s lighten it up this week on Learning for Life Online! It’s fall in New England, the time of year when the scent of wood smoke, crisp … Continue reading
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Tagged allrecipes.com, america's test kitchen, apps, blogs, cook's illustrated, cookstr, epicurious, everyday things, food network, fun, how to cook everything, joy of cooking, mobile devices, online resources, recipe source, recipes, rodale, simply recipes, surprisingly useful tools, whole foods app
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eBooks – Where to find them
In our last ebook post, let’s look at the many places to find ebooks online. Across the web, you can find ebooks for free and for pay, major bestsellers and independent works. Some authors give away ebooks and entice you … Continue reading
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Tagged aldiko, apps, archive.org, baen books, boston public library, copyright, creative commons, ebooks, ebooks.com, ereader, ereaders, google books, ibooks, kindle, kobo, lulu, mit press, nook, open library, overdrive, powells books, project gutenberg, public domain, scribd, smashwords, stanza, wikibooks
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Apps – The Basics
“Is there an app for that?” What Is It? Apps is short for applications, a fancier name for software programs. On your computer, applications include things like your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome), your office programs (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), … Continue reading