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Fred Delventhal

Web Browser for Kids - KidRocket™ - PC Desktop Protection - 0 views

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    # New Email for Kids with Art/eCard attachments # New Time Lock for limiting a childs time on the computer. # New updated browser navigation (thumbnail GUI) and graphics. # New Kidrocket.org websites. (Public & KidSafe) # New online games and puzzles. # Now Vista compatible. (Windows 98, 2000, XP, MCE, Vista) # Updated kidsafe website list. view approved websites # Now provides vocal prompts and confirmations, for alerts and various security related operations. - It Talks!
Heather Hurley

Google News Archive Search - 3 views

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    "News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods."
Fred Delventhal

Juxio -- Create New Meaning - 5 views

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    Juxio [juhk-see-oh]: From juxtaposition, the placement of two or more elements together to create new meaning. Juxio is a new visual way to communicate. Individuals and businesses use Juxio to combine images, text and more into mashable, visual streams called Juxes to share across social media and in print. Juxes are created on both our Web and iPhone apps. In the future we will support additional mobile devices. By making Juxio available anywhere at any time, we hope you find more ways to create new meaning.
Fred Delventhal

Challenge Based Learning - About - 0 views

  • Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.
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    Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.
Fred Delventhal

VDOE :: Standards of Learning Information Center :: Practice Items - 1 views

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    These practice items provide examples of the new content and increased rigor represented by the revised Standards of Learning (SOL) and illustrate the new Technology-Enhanced Item types for the mathematics, reading, science, and writing SOL tests.  Technology-Enhanced Items (TEI) require students to indicate their responses in ways other than a multiple-choice format.
Fred Delventhal

GoClass - Redefining classroom learning. Empowering instructors. - 0 views

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    A powerful new tool for innovative teaching and inspired learning. GoClass is a teaching application for tablet devices that redefines the boundaries of computing in the classroom. Connect with your students like never before, customize and fine-tune your lesson plans on the fly, engage students in new ways and continuously evaluate their understanding while you are in class.
Fred Delventhal

XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping - 0 views

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    Now open source!
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    Using XMind/XMind Pro with XMind.net's sharing service is a revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With this major upgrade, we bring Web 2.0 concepts on community sharing into a popular desktop application. Our new Gantt chart view is a must for both junior and senior project managers. You'll find many more pleasant surprises with the new XMind product family.
Fred Delventhal

Microsoft confirms the 'F1' key as potentially deadly - 4 views

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    The good news is, it only affects you if you're using Internet Explorer -- the bad news is, it probably won't be patched for some time...
Fred Delventhal

OpenOffice.org Ninja - 0 views

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    OpenOffice.org Ninja brings you news, previews, reviews, tutorials, tips, and howtos.
Fred Delventhal

Quick Start Tips For New Skype Users | The Edublogger - 0 views

  • If you are already using Skype for your personal learning or with your students please share your advice for new Skype users by leaving a comment.
Fred Delventhal

Special Offers | C-SPAN Classroom - 1 views

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    "C-SPAN's New American Presidents Timeline Poster"
Fred Delventhal

0-day exploits for IE flaw another reason to switch to IE8 - 0 views

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    "Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday a new flaw affecting version 6 and 7 of its Internet Explorer web browser that could allow remote code execution."
Fred Delventhal

There's an App for That! PBS KIDS® Study Finds Mobile Apps are New... -- ARLI... - 1 views

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    via Lucy Gray
Fred Delventhal

Top News - School of the Future: Lessons in failure - 0 views

  • "We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change. They didn't,"
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    "We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change. They didn't,"
Fred Delventhal

Report: kids' use of tech growing exponentially - Ars Technica - 0 views

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    Kids these days have it all-their own laptops, cell phones, music players, and even digital cameras. A new report from the NPD Group says that use of these devices has grown by an "impressive" rate among 4 to 14 year olds, and that their usage is even changing over time as technology matures.
Fred Delventhal

Proloquo2Go: Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for iPhone and iPod touch - 0 views

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    Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.
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    Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.
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