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In this article we'll take a look at a combination of tutorials, plugins and themes that can help you to use WordPress in non-traditional ways. Hopefully you'll find something that you can use, or at least something that will be a valuable learning resource for extending your knowledge and skills of working with WordPress.

We looked at ways to allow teachers to buy their own laptop at a greatly reduced rate (something like 1/3 or 1/4 of retail), thinking that would give them sufficient ownership and encourage them to take responsibility. However, there were too many benefits that we'd have to give up... like educational pricing on hardware and software licensing. So the school needs to be the clear owner of laptops.

Google just released a major new update to Google Earth that now includes the rumored maps of the ocean floor. Google unveiled this update at an event at the California Academy of Sciences. After installing the latest version of Google Earth, you will be able to explore the ocean floor in the same way you browse the Earth's surface. Besides mapping the oceans, however, Google has also added three more interesting new features to Google Earth: easier access to historical imagery, the ability to record and narrate fly-through tours with the new 'touring' feature, and a 3D map of Mars.

"The YouTube video below won't be viewable at school, but is worth watching at home." How wrong is it that an educational video won't make it through the filter... is Youtube 'bad' or value free?

Project Spectrum was developed by the SketchUp Team at Google to help people with autism take advantage of their visual and spatial gifts. The idea for Project Spectrum originated when we began getting phone calls and emails from users telling us about how much kids on the autism spectrum were enjoying SketchUp. As the calls kept coming in, we learned that people with autism tend to be visually and spatially gifted-that, in fact, they think in pictures. When people with these gifts get their hands on powerful, easy-to-use 3D design software like SketchUp, sparks tend to fly. Inspired by what we've learned, we've partnered with the Boulder, Colorado chapter of the Autism Society of America, the Boulder Valley School District, and the Life Long Learning Lab at University of Colorado to provide children with software and guidance that may help them to express an idea or even develop a life skill.

"Career Day" \nby Roadside Productions \n\nScreened at AFI Silver Spring\non May 9, 2006 at 7pm. \n\n

This would be great for some motivating ways to learn lots. As blogged by David Warlick "They are all serious games aimed at exposing students to some of the critical problems that face people around the world, including malaria, famine, nuclear proliferation, and congress (not a joke). One game, World Without Oil is about the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis. It launches with the fictitious announcement that gas, at the pumps, now costs $4.00 a gallon."

Jessica Hagy uses graphs to make sense of our world. She is deft at finding hidden truths in places we all look at, but are blind to.

We designed ZoeyBot for use in homes and school classrooms. Consider the following benefits: Access to content equivalent to a 15 volume encyclopedia featuring over 4000 kid-friendly articles. Built-in search engine, 180+ word dictionary and 200+ word spell checker. Instant access to a growing library of images, videos and interactive tutorials. Safe environment, free of advertising and links to other sites! Easy enough for children to use without adult assistance. While at ZoeyBot kids can work on classroom projects without ending up on inappropriate or questionable websites while at school.

A live blog similar to a one person chat with comments. It offers the possibilty to record it and replay it. Could be used at conferences live blogging a presentation and allowing comments at the same time.

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What are your predictions? Let us know in the comments, so we can check who has gloating rights at the end of 2009!

Helpful post on developing a Powerpoint template to support rapid elearning development using Articulate. Also helpful tips from Tom in the comments re screen resolution when recording a screencast.

"Looking Back at 2010: Teaching Ideas"

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Professional Development plan Follow this 5 step guide to plan and develop a training strategy for users at your school Top 10 ways to start using Google Apps Customize and distribute this handout to give to teachers/students/faculty/staff Google Apps Education Certified Trainers Consider working with one of the Google Apps Education Certified Trainers to lead professional development at your school.

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"Let's Stop Making Students Power Down at School"

"Show Document is a Net Meeting platform for instantaneous and spontaneous online meetings where people can work together on the same document at the same time. All the Net Meeting collaborative services can be used to work together at the same time. The web meeting platform offers the following interactive services: * Share Documents *Shared Editor *Share Google Maps *File Sharing *Share Viewing a Web Page *Share to Mobile *Interactive Whiteboard *Share YouTube

How to Shutdown and Restart in dos command If you use too much internet and transfer huge data from one hard disk to another through your computer within two or three days your computer may start miss behave like slow loading menu, slow loading my computer, Start menu, peripheral devices etc. Because of it Sometimes computer's Shutdown or Restart menu does not work, and computer gets hang and we fail to shutdown or restart our computer. This problem is a common problem and we suffer a lot. If you are in hurry and at that time your computer is not shutting down, now you may become very angry like me. At this time if you use this DOS command, I am sure it will work 100% because I do so. So, I am going to show you how to do this with DOS command...