Currency Conversion with Google

Website: www.google.com
Just type in your Google query in simple English what you are wanting to convert and get a quick currency conversion. You can use the currencies full name or the three letter currency symbol.  For Example: 25 Euros to USD or 9000 Philippine Pesos to Euros

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School to Career

Website: http://www.powertolearn.com/school_to_career/

This website offers a window into the professional world for students. It highlights current careers and gives biographies on each person that is featured. The biographies often include advice on how to achieve the dream position the students are striving towards and the impact that education had on their career choice.

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Get A Graph Quickly With This App

App Name: Quick Graph

This free app can perform just like a high quality graphing calculator. The intuitive interface allows students to enter in the equations to create a visual representation. It is also capable of displaying 2D and 3D graphs.

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Toontasic Stories with Your Students

App Name: Toontasic

Creating a cartoon with this app is as easy as putting on a puppet show. It teaches students to create a story with a story arch. The story arch displays the setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution of the story. The app walks students through a step by step process that empowers the student to make their own choices.

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Best of: Talk to Email

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Re-posted from March 19, 2012

Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. With Dragon Dictation you can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself using your voice. So when you’re on-the-go, stop typing and start speaking from short text messages to longer email messages, and anything in between.

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