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2015
Word Cloud in Google Documents
How to Create a Word Cloud in Google Documents
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/10/how-to-create-word-cloud-in-google.html
Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/10/how-to-create-word-cloud-in-google.html
Use social media sites for audio with learning goals in mind? No problem, contribute to this blog entry…
http://forum.holyculture.net/showthread.php?63700-NOISETRADE-vs-BANDCAMP-vs-SOUNDCLOUD-vs-Whoever
http://doughnutmag.com/tutorials/music-promotion/bandcamp-vs-reverbnation-vs-soundcloud-part-three/
http://readwrite.com/2012/01/03/lessons-learned-from-noisetrad
When it comes to downloading digital music, there is free and then there is legal, but seldom can you have both from the same site, and make money too.
1. User and Data Access control security policies for the end user
2. Access Through Secured Connection ( TLS/SSL and HTTPS)
3. Network Security
4. Disaster Recovery, Environmental Safeguards and Physical Access Security Policies
5. Third-party Certificates
http://fcw.com/Articles/2014/08/26/Acquisition-Matters-Cloud.aspx
Homeowners and building managers buy water service rather than the water itself, eliminating the need to purify, regulate and distribute the water on their own. Agencies buy cloud computing on the same “as-a-service” model to reduce their need to own and maintain IT equipment and applications.
Jessica C., One of my favourite things about Portable Apps is that I don’t have to pester the IT folk at work, get approvals, and wait to use the program I want to at work. It’s the best.”
While FSW (http://fcw.com/home.aspx) looks beyond BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and coins a new abbreviation BYOA (Bring Your Own App) to acknowledge and deal with the mobility of apps as part of data (http://fcw.com/articles/2014/08/25/exec-tech-byoa.aspx), we also would like to join the trending effort to make apps portable:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-apps-can-make-life-easier-save-resources/
Resources:
PortableApps.com
portablefreeware.com
Liberkey.com
PenDriveApps.com
PortableFreeware.com
Please consider this IMS blog related entry on
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/07/multcloud-provides-single-dashboard-for.html
Still storing those pictures and documents on your hard drive? Being cramped in your Huskynet file space (1GB)? Using the 10GB space, which Dropbox gives you for free? Using Google Docs and storing them in your Google Drive account?
MultCloud offers you a single interface to navigate through all these and more cloud-based storage accounts.
The advent of the CLOUD and the industry and our personal orientation to save pictures, videos and other data “out” in the “cloud” makes us think less of hard drives and other storage devices. However…
Updated June 6, 2014 1:51 PM PDT
http://www.cnet.com/topics/storage/best-hard-drives-and-storage/
If you still think storage devices are passe and are looking firmly for “cloud” solution, here are the ten best, according to PC Magazine:
By Jill DuffyApril 2, 2014
With the announcement of the site license for the Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premier Pro, Fireworks, Flash, Lightroom, and more) InforMedia Services will be offering instruction, consulting, and support for faculty, staff, and students who want to learn and use these tools. We expect to schedule specific workshops in the next few weeks. Until those are publicized, please email informedia@stcloudstate.edu for assistance. We can work with individuals, groups of faculty, staff, or students, or present opportunities to classes.
Please let us know how we can help you— informedia@stcloudstate.edu.
Plamen Miltenoff and Tom Hergert
InforMedia Services
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SideVibe is a cloud-based tool similar to Evernote https://evernote.com and Diigo https://www.diigo.com, which successfully took over the bookmarking Delicious https://delicious.com/
Besides “anwhere/anytime” bookmarks, the new generation of Diigo, Evernote and SideVibe offer taking, of screen snapshot, notes, drawings etc., thus making them perfect for educational purposes
Here is a K12 teacher’s account on the use of SideVibe in class: http://datafiend.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/using-sidevibe-in-class/
http://mashable.com/2012/02/16/web-form-builders/
8 Web Form Builders for Your Site
2. Wufoo – only 3 msgs for free. Just lost one of the five possible stars