TWIRP: The week in review post
July 19, 2008Teaching English abroad: What to know
“When I was not sure which path my career would go, I very seriously considered teaching English in Japan…I scoured the Web and found plenty of resources available to answer my questions about where to begin planning my travels abroad to share my English skills.”
Special ed [heart] Jott
“I wanted to highlight a couple of uses that are especially suited for Special Education. When you see them, you may get some other ideas about how to use this tool.”
Keep your synonyms simple with Thsrs
“…the brains behind the Ironic Sans blog (creators of the addictive 50 States in 10 Minutes game) have come up with Thsrs, an online thesaurus that only suggests synonyms which are shorter than the word you look up. Enter ‘flabbergasted’ and it suggests ’surprised,’ look up ‘inconsequential’ and you get ‘unimportant.’”
Get 1GB of storage for free with OpenDrive
“OpenDrive is like an online hard disk for backing up data or sharing files with others. Collaborate in real time using OpenDrive’s Collaboration Pro feature. You can also sync with uploaded files, so if you update your novel-in-progress, OpenDrive will save your changes both on your computer and in the copy you’ve squirreled away online.”

