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My good friend @Luke1946 on Twitter (we've also met before - he is SOOOOO smart) pointed me to the resources that he uses to help speed up the boot of computers. WE're having sloowwww boot times in our computer lab and here is where I'm heading.

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Looks like the problems many of us have been having in Firefox (last week in particular) may actually be from Microsoft? Come on !! I love firefox and don't have my students use IE for this reason (slowness, lack of ad ons, viruses, malware.) The only time I'm using Chrome now is for special webapps (Toodledo) and also Google Wave (it seems to consume any other web browser.) This ZDNET article is a follow through from Stephen Downes' amazing resource sharing blog - if you haven't subscribed, you should.

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An article about a new Firefox plug in called Ubiquity that is supposed to be particularly useful for people who have to translate quite a bit, but also adds custom programmability to ubiquity and your firefox web browser that allow you to close individual URLs, generate tiny urls, and all sorts of other things. WE'll see if this is the firefox plug in to end them all but I'll let you know. Meanwhile, if any of you have tested it, I'd love to hear from you.

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Dr. Shephard from Walden University uses this for her phd class to record reflections -- she says it is easier than grading papers. Great for a field trip.

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OK, I've been toying around with Goodreads, a website that so many librarians have recommended to me. Thus far it looks a bit like blippr although perhaps easier to use. Enjoying it so far. This particular group seems to be for educators.

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Excellent reading for IT Directors and Technology Integrators - I particularly like the part about doing your homework and the thorough needs assessment - this fits with excellent books like the Influencer that have researched positive change.

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So is a new iphone going to be announced Monday? Stay tuned! They say that the software upgrade is going to be amazing and powerful! We'll see!

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Mike Ribble, author of Digital Citizenship in Schools, spent some time with Digiteen teachers and students. I was out of town but am listening to this today.

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Mail merge instruction video for sending personalized emails!

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Cool article that covers a lot of things that people should know - whether you mind being called a geek or not. Very interesting reading.

If you can stomach the fact that they said P2P was Person to Person instead of Peer to Peer in #1 and the fact that these link to other articles that you have to dig into, it is still worth reading.

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Yeah, I can now fix the ethernet in the office I tried to do from memory watching the guy who wired the school! Lots of summer projects coming here. Want to wire the xbox so we can watch netflix on it this summer.

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I plan to convert my cassette tapes from growing up this summer - we made tons of interviews each Christmas.

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This program lets you kick up your mp3 player a bit. Not sure that I will put it on my ipod but planning to install on an old iriver.

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Free middle school cyberbullying curriculum!

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From Alfred Thompson, my favorite Microsoft Computer Science blogger --

"I was asked to pass along the news that the submission deadline for the June 17th Alice Symposium call for papers has been extended to March 31st. You can of course go to that website to find out more about the symposium and register to attend.

There are also some other workshops going on at Duke in June. I understand that they are filling up quite quickly so if you’re interested you’ll want to sign up soon.

Duke in June 2009

* Two-day Alice 3.0 Workshop June 15-16, 2009
* Two-day CompMedia Workshop June 18-19, 2009

* One-week Alice Workshops

* June 22-26, 2009
* June 28-July 2, 2009"

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OK, This came from gregorielouie on Twitter -- and OH YEAH Gregory - YOU ROCK!

This helps your inbox become more powerful. Am testing now and if you follow getting things done, it is a great tool to try.

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Join in our virtual scavenger hunt - this is a quick simple way in 3 days that you can meet students from other cultures and "flatten" your classroom by participating in the flat classroom conference.

Start the conversations that need to happen. We're kicking this off now, although once it starts, it can really continue for some time. Maybe some of you will bring your students in to participate virtually. If you do this, please give a shout out by replying to the discussion.

Join in if you wish! Just another way to flatten your classroom and there are a growing many!

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Diigo is going to work out a way to pull in your notebook into Google Lists. Time and again, Maggie Tsai and this company work to bring really cool things for educators. They are a hard working crew and I LOVE their service. Something about working with people who listen to educators.

I look forward to this!!

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Mashing video and wikis into an educational mashup of sorts.

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Great feedback from Kim Cofino from the peer review of flat classroom from her fifth graders. Having students of younger ages review the work of older students (and vice versa) is a phenomenal way to have students do work for all audiences. Kim is one of the leaders and organizers of the sounding board program.

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