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Category Archives: Resources
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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Classrooms Without Walls
As folks head back to school, let’s spend the rest of August finding ways to study and learn from wherever you are: still on vacation, away in a dorm room, or hanging out at recess. Watching TED talks is fun, … Continue reading
TED Talks – Inspiring, Educational, Wonderful
Since the first week of August is apparently one of the busiest travel weeks of the year in the United States, let’s take a look at a perfect travel companion: TED Talks What Is It? Straight from the About page: … Continue reading
Posted in Big Ideas, Resources, This Week on LLO
Tagged inspiring, online videos, TED, ted talks, TEDx
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Try One New Thing – Our 1st Anniversary Post
As we finish out June, we are also finishing up the first year of Learning for Life Online. For anyone who’s been reading along since the beginning: thank you. I’m going to work hard to make the second year of … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, blogging, blogs, craigslist, downloading, ebooks, email, facebook, flickr, google, google art project, google calendar, google docs, google documents, google maps, google street view, internet radio, job resources, listgeeks, maps, mbta, mbta apps, online accounts, online buying, online library catalog, online videos, photos, pinterest, podcasts, search engines, searching, social games, social networks, social news, spotify, stop & shop scanit!, streaming, tumblr, twitter, video, yahoo, youtube
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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
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
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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Finding Jobs & Careers Online
While we’re on the topic of finding things online, let’s look at some of the better job and career resources out there. From mechanic to teacher to nurse’s aid to architect, there are employment resources and job finding sites for … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged about.com, career transitions, careerbuilder, coolworks.com, craigslist, employers, finding stuff online, fraud protection, hcareers.com, indeed.com, job resources, job seekers, library databases, library resources, linkedin, LISjobs, monster.com, newspapers, online library catalog, searching, simplyhired, us.jobs, usajobs.gov
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Finding and Sharing…and Being Social
Last week, we took a look at using more traditional sources of news online to find neat stuff to share. Now, let’s look at the social news sites that make finding and sharing news a much more interactive experience. What … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tools
Tagged digg, fark, finding stuff online, mobile devices, newsvine, now public, pulse (news app), reddit, sharing, slashdot, social networks, social news, stumbleupon
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Finding Neat Stuff Online
Last week, we described many of the ways you can share the interesting links, images and videos you find online. Before we look at some places to find that neat stuff, let’s answer a reader question first: Why Share? What’s … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, boing boing, buzzfeed, cake wrecks, cnet, daily beast, finding stuff online, five thirty-eight, gadgetwise, google news, huffington post, i can has cheezburger, mobile devices, neat stuff, neatorama, new york times, sharing, this is colossal, wired
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Tips for Safe Online Shopping
Whether you’re supporting small businesses, creating custom gifts or buying ebooks, music or anything else, it’s important to keep yourself and your personal information safe. Fortunately, it’s not all that hard to do. Easy Steps Almost all online purchases require … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged amazon, audible, big ideas, captcha, cnet, credit card safety, everyday things, lands end, life online, online buying, online citizenship, online purchasing, paypal, read the screen, safeshopping.org, security, third-party payment service, viruses, zappos
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Make it Personal – Creating Custom Gifts Online
Last week, we took a side trip into supporting small, independent artisans and business folk online. This week, we’ll continue to gift-giving theme and look at ways to create personalized objects of all sorts. What Is It? It used to … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged blurb, buylocal, cafepress, crafts, creating content, downloading, everyday things, fun stuff, gifts, life online, lulu, makestickers.com, moocards, nextdayflyers, online buying, online purchasing, online resources, smugmug, uploading, vistaprint, zazzle
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