Great Website

Posted by Michael Arsenault on January 29th 2008 to Cool tools

I really like David Warlick’s Landmark Project Site. He has tons of great tools for educators as well as some great links.

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Easily Create Tags for Blog Posts

Posted by Michael Arsenault on October 12th 2007 to Cool tools

I just sat in a great session with Vicki Davis about blogging. Along with her great tips she pointed me to a great Firefox extension, Tag Editor. Once you’ve installed it…

  1. Right click on your blog post
  2. Select Tag Editor from the menu
  3. Enter your tags. Multiple tags can be separated by a comma.
  4. Click on Build
  5. Copy the text that appears in the lower window
  6. Paste that text at the bottom of your post
  7. Publish your post

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Fantastic New Bibliography Maker

Posted by Michael Arsenault on May 17th 2007 to Cool tools


Bibme is a new free online bibliography maker. It has some nice features I haven’t seen in any other free citation services. The nicest feature it has is the ability to search for your resource. Just type in the author, title, or ISBN number of a book and it will pull up most of the information for you. At this point MLA, APA, or Chicago formats are supported. Register for an account to save information.

When you’re done with your resources just click on the link to Download your bibliography. It downloads in Rich Text Format (RTF) so it may be opened in any word processor with all the indents, etc. still in tact.

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Andy Carvin: Tag You’re Delicious!

Posted by Michael Arsenault on May 19th 2006 to Cool tools

Andy Carvin wrote a great introduction to Delicious on the learning.now blog at PBS TeacherSource. It is a great place to start with delicious. If you’ve been having a hard time figuring out why using delicious would be a good thing, this will help!

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Cooliris

Posted by Michael Arsenault on May 18th 2006 to Cool tools

If you are using FireFox as your web browser and Google, you want to get Cooliris!

How to use Cooliris

  • Mouse-over any link on Google search results and see the underlying content! Search within your search results without ever leaving the page or opening new windows or tabs!
  • Mouse-over any thumbnail on Google image search result and see a zoomed version of the image and a full size version of it without having to leave the page!
  • Highlight any word or phrase and right-click the selection. Choose your option from the drop-down menu and the results show up right there! You don’t have to leave the context of your work or open new windows/tabs! You can see results from Freedictionary, Wikipedia, Google Search and Google Images as of now.

Enjoy! :)

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