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Install greasemonkey script to be able to preview blog posts right within Google Reader, as well as add comments without having to leave Google Reader to visit the actual blog. Saves a great deal of time.

Have you thought about your organisations learning footprint? By reducing or even eliminating the need to travel for staff training, you could see a dramatic reduction in your organisations carbon emissions. Learning Footprint is a website dedicated to helping organisations mimimise the environmental impact of their training and development programmes through the use of E-Learning. Use the free calculator to estimate your learning footprint and see how much carbon you could save by switching a percentage of your training to E-Learning. You can even download a PDF report of the calculation to include in your next business case.

In Windows 7 (currently in beta), Problem Steps Recorder is a new feature that will record each and every step a user takes and document the entire operation in both screen captures and step-by-step details. It will save the resulting capture in a ZIP file allowing the user to easily send it by e-mail or file share to a support professional. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri will walk you through using this cool tool.

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"The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales - from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background - rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy."

This series is scheduled to be run again during January 2010. Check your local PBS stations.

Who wants EVERY Friday off? I DO, I DO… or do I? Schools around the country are considering the four-day work week to deal with extreme budget cuts. With a shorter week, these schools can save thousands of dollars a year on busing costs and building utilities.

An easy way to save and send files online in real time. Upload, share the link, download. That's it. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

A really seek looking photo editing site. Upload or take a photo with your webcam. A large collection of effects that you can add with just one click and save to your computer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

A sleek looking online mindmapping tool. Save your mindmaps to your computer as tiny files. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

A simple, safe web browser for young children. They can save favourites, and have links to games and educational sites. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

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Zane Education provides what appears to be the first ondemand K12 educational video subscription website providing over 1,000 online videos to supplement and cater for the requirements of the K12 curriculum. A feature of this website is that all videos are subtitled to aid in the improvement of each students reading literacy level. Each video is accompanied by am interactive quiz to test the student on what they have learnt from the video they have watched. This website provides an excellent resource for teachers, parents, homeschooling and students and will certainly save money on the amount that those home educators often have to spend on textbooks. The K12 curriculum subjects subjects catered for include Art, Music, Literature, Maths, History, Geography, Science, Biology, Social Sciences, Library Skills, Health and Religious Studies. Zane is a name well established in the education market having previously published over 250 CD-ROM titles which are in use in schools and homeschools across the country. Their online service at www.zaneeducation.com now supercedes their PowerCD CD-ROM titles and offers great value for money.

Grooveshark is a superb music streaming resource with an insanely large library of songs from previous decades right up to the latest chart topper. You can listen to Internet radio as well. No sign in required to search and stream, but you can sign up for free to save your playlists. A must have resource for any teacher... even if it is just to unwind after a hard day. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts

A great animation site which makes cartoons from your virtual drawings. It has very few options and buttons which makes it easy to use by younger children. But don't think that it isn't sophisticated. It uses HTML5 and your cartoons will look great. sign up required to save your creations. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams

A great resource for PSHE. A child who has difficulty expressing their emotions in words may find these emotional faces easier to communicate. Use print screen or the link generated with the 'Twitter' option to save the face and message. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs

A text based, no frills notepad site. Works on every device I've I've tried it on (and I have many in various states of decay), so it makes an ideal site to work with text across platforms. Download text as a PDF or save it on the site and retrieve with a link and password. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

100 free activities that begin with the basics and progress in difficulty until you can touch type on your entire keyboard Create a profile to save your progress. Teacher features to set up classes.

professional development and student activities for a variety of science topics - if you need a refresher before teaching this is a good resource. Also lots of simulations are available. Requires sign in but does not require NSTA membership and many are free. Can save to My Library