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Firefox plugin that copies both link and link text. Born Geek Copy Link Text (CoLT)

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an ambitious plan to reduce the cost of education in California. He intends for the state to develop digital open source textbooks for high school math and science classes. The books will be available for free and will b

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Really high quality moodle course exchange. Only a few courses are there, but they're good ones. MoodleCommons.org - Free Moodle Courses

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Kobus van Wyk, from Khanya, is collecting feedback on responses to the one laptop per teacher project in South Africa. Your input on the impact and logistics of laptops for teachers is needed d8620889ee8f024608c98ec6d6905b80

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Props to Sharon Peters for pointing this one out. Schedule meetings, make group decisions. Easy and free. Doodle: Easy Scheduling

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James P. Steyer, CEO and Founder of Common Sense Media, speaks about raising kids in today's 24/7 media world and the challenges and opportunities it presents. City Club of Cleveland Podcasts

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100 sources for free images. There are some old favorites here along with some new stuff. 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images | Virtual Hosting Blog

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"As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the live video webcast Around the World in 80 Telescopes took place April 3-5, 2009, with fascinating live linkups with the world's leading observatories. The schedule for the webcast is available as a

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Best education news I've seen in a good long while: Eating chocolate could improve the brain's ability to do maths, a new study suggests. How eating chocolate can help improve your maths - Telegraph

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The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to an

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.. .and quickly retracts, due to public reaction. The language added on March 30 to AT&T's wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience t

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the carrier updated its data plan terms of service last night to specifically single out and prohibit "downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology

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2007 catalog of free software for schools. Includes descriptions and screen shots of each program. Free Software for Schools by Open Source Victoria, The National Center for Open Source and Education (Book) in Computers & Internet

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Pick a key, give it chords, select instruments, styles, tempo. It creates music. Very cool for music theory and to create your own loops, etc. Down side: it's $5 a month. Up side: you can apply for free school account. Strange references to rights to your

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Negroponte indicating that OLPC may move to ARM processor from AMD Geode. But Windows doesn't run on it, and neither does Sugar. Whither Windows? OLPC 2 likely to use ARM, not x86 - Ars Technica

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Adding fuel to rumors of a so-called "netbook" under development inside Apple, Reuters is now citing its own sources in saying the touchscreens ordered by the company measure 10 inches diagonally. AppleInsider | Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens

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We are equipping teams of students from around the world with 100 XOs, hardware, training, and financial support to expand learning in Africa for children ages 6-12. We?re looking for agents of change capable of leading the first global grassroots movemen

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Students perform better on tests when they use podcasts to take notes—better, even, than simply going to class. Though a recent study stops short of saying podcasts can replace classes, it shows that they can be extremely useful in supplementing lectures.

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Convert PDF files to Word documents. This doesn't work with copier-created PDFs, though. Those show up as PDFs with images in them. It will work for PDFs generated from web sites or PDF Creator, though

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