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Learn What's Out There and Where to Find them!
Foreword
We all know the Net's rich with absolutely free information technology resources that can assist, supplement, or even be fully integrated educationally. There is a slight problem, though: If you don't know it exists, or you don't know where to find it, it's useless to you.

Well, let's try to fix that, shall we?

In each weekly issue, the SimpleTechIntegration newsletter will feature and share at least two of these "resources" with you — from downloads (software, templates, ebooks, etc.) to online services and websites. They'll all have at least one very important thing in common: They'll be free for you to use and/or access and will cost you absolutely nothing out-of-pocket!

And just as important: We'll give you the links to go get (or access) them!

Simple enough, right? Then let's get going...
 

Bibomatic
http://www.bibomatic.com
Who the heck really remembers all those little rules and nuances for properly formatting a bibliography entry? Well, OK, even if you do know all the specifics, let's face it, doing them right can be quite a hassle. Now, thanks to Bibomatic, this is one less chore to worry about!

An "online bibliography generator," Bibomatic lets you enter 10-digit ISBNs, which it then uses to automatically gather data about the book and then pump out a properly formatted bibliography entry (MLA, APA or Chicago format... your choice!).

Here, quick examples. After entering the ISBN 0395906253, this is what it quickly produced (in MLA, APA and Chicago styles respectively):

• Levinson, Jay Conrad. Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets For Making Big Profits From Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing). City: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

• Levinson, Jay Conrad. (1997). Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets For Making Big Profits From Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing). City: Houghton Mifflin.

• Levinson, Jay Conrad. 1997. Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets For Making Big Profits From Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing). City: Houghton Mifflin.

Cool, huh? A must-bookmark resource!

Go to Biblomatic
 

EconEdLink
http://www.econedlink.org
An online "database" of hundreds of free Internet-based lesson plans and materials on Economics for K-12 teachers, and classroom-tested to boot, EconEdLink isn't just a wonderful no-brainer resource for Economics teachers — with the amount of information and links to additional resources usually provided with each "lesson" (such as current events news items), just a dab of imagination and creativity can tailor many of its lessons to fit a wide range of educational purposes, even seemingly unrelated ones.

And there's no shortage of additional resources on the site to make your job easier. Like a regularly updated page of U.S. economic "data" — facts, figures, rates, jargon, etc. — and a large number of links to other related external Web resources. It'll even help you create your own lesson plans with its CyberTeach ""comprehensive guide to teaching economics using the Internet, including model lessons and templates..."

And it's totally free. A very impressive resource.

Go to EconEdLink