Digital Filing Cabinet/Tools
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[edit] Introduction
The overall DFC project is creating filing cabinets for a number of different disciplines and specific audiences. Thus, for example, a a third grade teacher can benefit from a Math DFC but may have little interest in a Secondary School History filing cabinet.
However, there are a number of discipline-independent components of a filing cabinet that are of potential use to a broad range of educators. Two major examples are:
- Tools (application software) that many different educators and students will find useful.
- General education articles that help to build foundational knowledge in education. For example, pages about the overall goals of education and pages about the overall field of Information and Communications Technology fit into this category.
[edit] Some Broadly Applicable Tools
Tools listed in this section often come in both commercial versions and free versions. For the most part, we focus on free tools. Note, however, often a school of school district will provide a tool to its teachers. Thus, the tool is free from the point of view of the teachers.
[edit] Your Personal Web History
Quoting from Web History, with this free software you'll be able to:
- View and manage your web activity.
- You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.
- Get the search results most relevant to you.
- Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.
- Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
- Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.
