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This week is the education issue. There are some very well written articles and online the photo essay of classroom technology through time is turned into an interactive timeline.

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Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature and history). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

Is 89% higher or lower than you were thinking?

An overwhelming majority (89%) of all kids age 6-11 in the US spend at least some time doing online activities and - though many of their basic social activities haven't changed much over the years - they have vastly different communication styles and preferences than older age groups, according to a study from Experian Consumer Research.

I'd say that's a little high - you have to consider that the people/parents who return surveys about technology are probably the people who use technology! Here's a link to the methodology Experion uses... http://tinyurl.com/5cru7q

Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video

They just did a big update on this so sorry if you already had it bookmarked.

Collaborate & Publish Everyone works on a document at the same time. Collaborators get your changes immediately, or only when you save-your choice! Share your flow charts as a web page, PDF, or image. Publish an always-updated image of your work.

FYI this is the one that covers our schools.

Movie Licensing USA provides one-time and annual Public Performance Site Licenses so that K-12 schools can show movies legally for non-teaching activities such as Family Movie Nights, Before- After-School programs, Student Rewards, Holiday Events and more.

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...

Lots of resources to use on an interactive whiteboard. Topics include, angles, length, money, perimeter-area, temperature, time, volume and weight.

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Dragon Dictation, powered by Nuance's world-renowned Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, allows you to stay connected all the time, even when your hands are busy.

"The program produces professional sounding, individualized report cards in the shortest possible time. It uses a set of statements written by the teacher or downloaded from the net which can then be tailored to suit individual students needs. "

via Dean Mantz Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary). Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story!

FillAnyPDF.com is a website where you upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online. No software is needed. Any PDF form can be used, even if it's not "interactive", so you can get started right away. You can even invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. Anyone that collects signatures or filled out forms will find FillAnyPDF.com to be a valuable time-saving resource.

When using the Diigo toolbar you can see highlights on this page

Now if we could just start using Moodle...

Keep in mind the ideas and prototypes provided on this site are incubation projects and aren't actual products or features from the Microsoft Education Products Group. They may not work perfectly under all conditions. However, they are steps toward the future of education and we'd like you to be part of the innovation. Let's collaborate and see which ideas flourish. New ideas can pop up any time, so we hope you'll check back often and join us in the exploration.