public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tags images & esvt

September 2008

CanadaInfo: Images & Downloads: Fact Sheets to Download: Maps

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Everyone in Canada and around the world should have access to material to help learn more about the Dominion of Canada. Below you will find thumbnails of a series of different pictures, maps, and information sheets that are free to download to your computer and use for educational purposes. To download a .JPG file, click on the image you want so that it loads in a new page full size. Then, copy the image (click and hold for Macintosh, right click for Windows) and finally, paste the image into any word processing or drawing application. To download a .PDF file, click on the link below the title of the image you want You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this type of file. Click here to download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

June 2008

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

by 20 others
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

October 2007

ARKive - Creating a lasting audio-visual record of life on Earth.

by 7 others (via)
ARKive (www.arkive.org) is the world's centralised library of films and photographs of the world's endangered species - freely accessible to all online for private research and internal educational purposes. Hailed as the digital Noah's Ark, it has won numerous conservation, education and communication awards since its launch by Sir David Attenborough in 2003, and has now profiled over 2,500 of the world's endangered species, using over 3,000 movie clips and 18,000 photos as well as a full research page on each animal - all freely available for internal educational use at www.arkive.org. Register for free and create a scrapbook that can be shared with students

November 2006