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What is it for? WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate. What can it do? WinSplit is especially useful for high-end LCD screens with high resolutions because it helps you to efficiently manage many active windows. For example WinSplit is useful for owners of the Dell 2407FPW monitor. As you can see in the screenshots below, the advantages of using WinSplit is that it saves you from having to drag and drop windows by allowing you to snap windows into specific tiled configurations using simple keyboard hotkeys.

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We "mash up" top-notch researchers with experienced educators to generate new insights and uncommon sense about education. By taking rigorous research and blending it together with professional wisdom from experts, we create something more meaningful and reliable than either would be alone.

Site has links to resources every subject area in schools today, and many of the links have lesson plans, digital content, and other lesson adders.

The website allows web visitors to race other people "live" on the site or set up individualized races with friends with an invitation code. Depending on how many people are online when you choose to start a new race, a number of different people will appear in your browser race window with unique car colors.

Teachers TV is operated by an independent media consortium, Education Digital, which was selected by the DfES (now the Department for Children, Schools and Families) in 2004 after an extensive tender process.

It combines an element of fantasy sports where you predict the future with great background information (maps, opinions of world leaders, and video clips) as well as the higher-order thinking required to say not just what you think WILL happen, but what SHOULD happen.

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Lively tries to make that conversation three-dimensional, more interactive and more fun. As if they were playing a game, users choose from a selection of unrealistically handsome or Disneyesque avatars. They can also create their own rooms, which can be posted to a blog or social network profile as easily as a YouTube video.

With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.

You already know that iPod extends access to learning beyond the classroom. Now with iQuiz, the new trivia game for iPod, your students can reinforce their learning on the go. From Math to Geography to Structural Biology, you can create your own trivia packs to share, or add trivia packs created by others. The possibilities are endless. Download our samples or add your own.

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Check out this game to help students become cyber safe.

November Learning Resources Here you will find links to a variety of valuable resources. * Archive of Articles ( 25 items ) A series of articles written by Alan November. Featured Articles: Teaching Zack to Think Designing Libraries: Learning for a Lifetime Banning Student Containers Students as Contributors: The Digital Learning Farm