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Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators

Musicovery asks you for the mood you’re in, then picks out a playlist you might like.  You can set the genre and time period of music you want to hear, but it’s all about discovering new stuff! 

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ChunkIt is a crazy Firefox plug‐in that “chunks” your web search results– basically, it follows all the links in your Google search results for you and gives you previews of what each page says. 

The experience of using it is overwhelming– it makes it much faster to find the information you’r...

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This site lets you add the content from your favorite web feed to your website, myspace, facebook, or blog. Free your content! Put it where you want to see it! Be like the cool kids and put my homework feed on your MySpace! http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/cat-digital-design-blog

StumbleUpon is a toolbar that allows you to rate websites and save them for later. You can also easily send them to friends. But what makes StumbleUpon stand out from other competitors is the Stumble button. When you press it, you are magically whisked away to a random website that someone else out...

Zotero [zoh‐TAIR‐oh] is a free, easy‐to‐use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. 

Students are always blown away when they learn that it will do your bibliography for you. It’s also...

Google Toolbar for Firefox: “Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web 

The Google toolbar is a great tool for quickly and easily adding content to your Blogger blog. 

It’s free and installs in seconds 

System requirements:
• Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Linux
• Fire...

I cannot stress enough how important a good set of fonts is to a designer. We collect them and then spend half of the time deciding which font can carry the meaning of our work the best. The right font can make or break your images– just think of how often a movie font or band logo becomes an iconic...