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Lesson ideas using Google
From search games to presentations on how to use Docs & Spreadsheets with your students, here you can find real-world examples of innovative ways that teachers and librarians are using Google tools to help students learn.
Measure Area of your Home or a Football Stadium with Google Maps
How do you calculate area of that garden in the backyard of your home ? Or how do you measure size of an outdoor swimming pool or a football stadium?
PC Hell - zomg there really is such a place
Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane with problems. Great site for pensioners with nothing better to do with their time. Fix a Ballmer's mistakes.
Real World Math
This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text. Google Earth is the dynamic tool that will be used to accomplish this.
Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials
Whether you want to put Windows on a diet in a virtual machine or you want to get Windows up and running all snappy-like on older hardware, you've got a handful of excellent and free options at your disposal.
Upgrade from Vista to Windows XP
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal.
The Boy With The Incredible Brain
This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few ... all » savants.
Vista disgust helping Mac 'Leopard' sign-ups News - PC Advisor
Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' is being pre-ordered at twice the rate Mac OS X 10.4 was in the week before its release, MacObserver reports, with the current anti-Vista movement among the factors encouraging people to sign up to the new Mac OS.
Windows shocker: 67% would buy XP over Vista
Is Windows Vista the biggest PR failure in Microsoft's history? I don't remember the criticism being this bad a year after XP was launched, nor any of its predecessors.
Opera Mini™ 4 beta
Point your phone browser to mini.opera.com/beta to get a decent browser on JasJam. Allows you to send Gmail from your JasJam.
Video on OER via Greasemonkey, Trailfire and others
The past 2 years have been marked by a strong increase in the Open Educational Resource (OER) movement and in Open Educational Licenses. This10 minute show displays some nice uses of client-side tools to find and share information with Google etc.
100 Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators
This guide provides K12 educators with a number of ways to use Web 2.0 in their classrooms.
See-Through Frog Bred in Japan
Masayuki Sumida, a professor at the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Japan's Hiroshima University, bred the frog to be a humane learning tool. "You can watch organs of the same frog over its entire life, as you don't have to dissect it,"
XP Codec Pack 2.2.0 - play all major audio and video formats.
Windows XP and Vista are still draconian operating systems with no full-screen DVD player out of the box. If you are not able to view DVD movies install a proper codec pack from the above website.
FuturePD Home
Tools for the digital age that will facilitate collaboration and communication. This is an exciting time to be an educator. Make sure you have the skills and the pedagogy to maximise the effectiveness of tools like these.
Teacher fights to take gun to class | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An Oregon high school teacher on Tuesday sued for her right to bring a gun into the classroom for personal protection, clashing with anti-gun advocates fighting for years to rid U.S. schools of weapons.
Cold War 2.0 - open source software on every computer in Russia by 2009
Sputnik's launch got everyone's attention, galvanized America and pushed us all forward. Will the installation of free, open source software on every computer in Russia catch the attention of American legislators?
Medallia Blog: dyeSight $2 Multi-Touch Pad
Long story short, I made a simple one from a plastic bag, some dye and a camera:
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