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The author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation's pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED conference.

"Next to an in-person meeting, there is no better way to communicate a sales demo or business presentation than with video. From marketing or sales presentations to training videos for software applications, Webinaria can help bring your content to life. Businesses that are able to capture and record live interactions with web-based content are able to more effectively train and educate employees and customers. Webinaria aims to provide a more animated and theatrical presentation of business communications."

Online Resource Center - The Sketchpad Resource Center is an extensive website maintained by the Sketchpad development group, containing tools and resources to help you make the most of this versatile software. It's also home to information about the community of Sketchpad users. You can: - Download materials for classroom activities and projects - Find links to sample sketches, reports and presentations, bibliographic materials, and other resources - Download product updates - Browse Frequently Asked Questions  - Find out about professional development opportunities - Download The Geometer's Sketchpad Workshop Guide - Download sketches, custom tools, and visualizations from the advanced sketch gallery  - Learn more about JavaSketchpad

So what is Jing? Jing is free image and video capturing software that you can share instantly over the web, IM, email, or even just save to your desktop. You simply download Jing to your desktop and it will sit at the top of your desktop.

Fractal Design Software

Are you looking for weekly lesson planning software? For teachers, this is an important consideration, and one that you really want to get right. These four options are among the most popular and are packed full of features that are designed to make your planning easier and more efficient.

Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students.

In case you haven't heard of this new Tablet check it out!!! It looks like it will give the ipad a run for it's money. I wonder if it runs on flash though. Their target market is educators.

thanks to conversation between Derrall G and Kristin Hokanson; reminded me of easy to use, exceptional resources for teachers; most are free, one at very low cost

A gaggle of ALTEC/Star/4Teahcers educational online tools that can help you and your students with a variety of needs; from rubrics, to PBL resources, to Web presentations and so many more; puts other online quiz, study, assignment software to shame; IMHO;D

Like everything dealing with education technology in the classroom there are always tricks and tips to ensure success - this includes Podcasting!

Teachers Turn to Simulations, Other Software for Variety of Lessons

Twitter is a software tool that allows users to continually post (or "tweet") very short text messages to the Web from computers or mobile phones. These quick public messages simply describe what a user is currently doing. Twitter's appeal has mushroomed, making it a much-discussed new tec

Gigapan product to take megapixel pictures that can be explored and uploaded to gigapan.org or used with free software. Amazingly detailed pictures that can be "explored".

The product to produce images for the gigapan.org site. Works with any digital camera.