XPlana Becoming a Must Read
The ieSpell tool highlighted on XPlana by Laura Gibbs is a little plug-in utility for Internet Explorer that allows you to spellcheck any text that you type into a web form.
Here’s the blurb at the ieSpell website:
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.
Laura has also written an article about IRFANView which is free image editing software from IRFANView.
Laura writes the following:
Anyway, this piece of software is definitely worth your consideration - if you want your students to learn something about image manipulation, this is the best free tool that I can think of. Here are just some of its many features:
- All standard image file types supported
- Cropping and resizing
- Image rotation
- Sharpen, blur, and other filter effects
One other article focused on Composer. We use that here at Georgia State for outgoing teachers to publish their ePortfolios. It is a great FREE tool.
XPlana is not losing sight of this need yet still provides a great cross section of resources for all of us in education. They are becoming a daily must-read for me. Thank-you XPlana!
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