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Read books at work by making them look like powepoint presentations. High marks for interesting interface. Not too many books to read yet.

Attention all web developers, instructional designers, content developers, graphics developers, technical writers, editors, programmers, managers, and others interested in this subject: if you create or use web-based training or similar courseware, and want to discuss its development, this is your blog!

interesting approach towards e-portfolios. directives and criteria.

Just Leap In is your virtual, 3D home on the Web. It's a place to share your stuff - photos, videos, news, and music - while meeting others who share your interests. via Tim Childers in Diigo

Of interest may be a look at the following site. EQ has done a range of research around the area of 1:1. It has recently released a 1:1 Smart Classrooms Byte on the topic which may help in some ways answer some of the issues on 1:1. The website is: http://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/strategy/dp/one-2-one.html The downloadable PDF titled "Smart Classrooms Byte: 21 Steps to 21st Century 1-to-1 Success" is listed in the first line. On the page is also some base information on the trials currently underway using some of the Ultra mobiles mentioned in this thread (i.e. eeePC, etc)

This website is a virtual convener. It facilitates a 'handshake' between teachers interested in cross collaboration project. The comforts in connectivity, constructivism, and collaboration make this 'handshake' more intelligent. This virtual convener is based on connecting teachers using more than simply the grade level or location of classrooms.

Attempts to quantify the association between words and colors. Users click on the color that matches a word. You can view results for 200+ words. Might make an interesting discussion in psychology class or definitely a good tool for yearbook or web design classes.

Share with yearbook advisers or pysch teachers

Scrnshots.com is a community for designers to share screenshots of interesting and beautiful design.

This might be an interesting way to facilitate conversation in classes and professional development.

I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't actively teaching in a classroom, that's a hard question to answer.\n\nI don't think it's very hard for teachers to answer the question, though, especially at the secondary level. For most people entering the business world, there is no question that they will have a computer on their desk when they are hired. It might be a laptop, a desktop, a shared desktop facilitated with some sort of flextime arrangement, or even a computer allowance so that the new hire can buy a machine that makes them the most productive. However, it's not terribly likely that they'll just be handed a dry erase marker and a whiteboard, pointed towards a copy machine, and told to go for it.

free IT Conversations from an enormous amount of topics. You can choose the topics to be included in your feedreader, make a reading list. Great resource, lots of interesting domains to follow.

Online, collaborative application you might be interested in - the flowchart equivalent of bubbl.us!

napolib: FREE do-it-yourself quiz templates Fresh content to reinvigorate your site Content tailored to visitor's interests Quick and fun to create

Upload your own portrait photo, then transform it into the style of a variety of artists - really interesting!

Interesting search engine currently for wikipedia articles. It tries to organize the contents by using semantic links.

A web application that organizes information chronologically. Google News Timeline allows users to view news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and more on a zoomable, graphical timeline.

A project from Google labs that looks pretty interesting.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive, in an interview with financial analyst on Tuesday disclosed interest to chat up with new Yahoo chief C. Bartz about a partnership Deal that will enable the two Search giants tackle Googles Advances.

Identify is a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i.

According to the Educause report 7 Things You should Know About Facebook, "Facebook's structure encour­ages users to view relationships in a broad context of learning, even as affiliations change-from high school to college to gradu­ate school to the workplace. By opening itself to virtually anyone, Facebook has become a model for how communities-of learn­ers, of workers, of any group with a common interest-can come together, define standards for interaction, and collaboratively cre­ate an environment that suits the needs of the members." Indeed, there are countless other articles touting the benefits of Facebook and detailing why we should be using it in our various learning solutions. However, concrete advice on how to use Facebook has proven difficult to find. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer online learning.