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Christian Boer, a typographer at the firm Studiostudio, based in the Netherlands, has designed a special font for people with dyslexia. The font, called "Dyslexie," uses specially shaped letters to exaggerate some of the differences between letters that dyslexics find hard to see.

A quick way for us to keep track of who is stopping by during the open office hours. The form works well on an iPad, or on a laptop.

This rubric may be used for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions.

For students new to medical school, parsing out the most relevant and helpful information from a seemingly limitless supply of materials can be daunting. The University of Virginia's School of Medicine has created a set of relevant websites that can be useful for medical students and others with an interest in related fields such as anatomy, physiology, and neurology. The links are divided into two dozen topical areas, such as "Gross Anatomy", "Nephrology", and "Surgery". Each section contains links from reliable sources, including the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The "Gross Anatomy" area is very thorough, as it contains over twenty resources that provide an overview of anatomy, anatomical slide shows, and so on

Here are some ideas for using these extraordinary photos across the curriculum - and some suggestions for including other Times features in which the details of everyday life become an anthropological lens.

Dean Shareski talked about this in his article entitled, "How to Make Better Teachers", and the one word he used for his answer was "blogging". 

10 ways to use youtube in the classroom. YouTube channel for teachers.

Todd describes how he solved the problem of having to give a presentation in a room that doesn't have a projector. He uploaded his presentation to SlideShare, then created a QR code that points to the presentation. He then printed an image of the QR code and will make that available to the audience. Those attendees who have smartphones can point to the QR code and go right to the presentation on SlideShare. For step by step instructions, see Todd's article on Social Times.

Skype ideas for teachers and parents

Free children's books for smartboard, ppt, overheads. Non-commerical use only.

"My goal is to instill appropriate mobile-technology behaviors because they will be using these devices in their professional careers. As a teacher, should I be alarmed about their desire to stay connected? Quite the opposite, I believe." Issues: audio and video recording of lectures/classes

a new service that allows you to build layers on top of Google Maps.   Using Build A Map you can add information from data sets, add shapes, and add custom labels. The service is currently in a private beta so you do have to register your email address and wait for an invitation to try it

GE shows how their body imaging technology can take detailed pictures of insides without cutting, using fruit, a baseball, engine motor, and violin to demonstrate.

used to describe Concord rally

Augmented Reality is used to symbolize all that one can remember

use kinect to put your own video image inside your content (ppt and prezi?) beta Sneakpeak

SyncPad is the ultimate whiteboard for remote and local collaboration. Would you like to share your ideas with a coworker but you are out of town? Don't worry, just create a room with your SyncPad and share the name of the room with your co-worker, who can enter in his SyncPad or simply use any browser, visiting http://mysyncpad.com/roomname.

great advice for using social media to market, in this case, libraries, but other things as well.