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"There is a wealth of video content available online that can help the teaching and learning process, but some of the main issues of using online content within the classroom include inappropriate advertising, inappropriate recommendations, and the dreaded school firewall or slow internet connection. Yet, gaining access to such video content can really help to explain certain concepts, with opportunities to include footage, clips or teaching points in the lesson."

Science Leadership academy is moving to Dell Chromebooks and cloud tools and is trading in their Macs in a move that surprised many.

This very cool Mac app, Popclip, lets you highlight and send text on a page just about anywhere (including evernote.) I wish I had this for sending quotes to buffer, etc.

""A tribute Steve Jobs' thinking." RSS Curated by JackieGerstein Ed.D. "

NeoOffice Mobile allows you access and share your NeoOffice documents from anywhere.

Use Norrkross MorphX for calculating images or movies where one image transforms into another. Simply drag 2 images to the document window, drag a few lines to indicate similar areas and Norrkross MorphX calculates images so that it looks like the first image magically is transformed into the other. You can save the morph as as still image snapshot or as a full animated QuickTime movie

Seashore free, basic photo editor for Mac

Tutorial of how to screencast with Quicktime X. Been hearing a lot of people on twitter going crazy over Quicktime X.

This allows Firefox for the Mac to view PDF files in a browser window. PDF Browser Plugin 2 is free for not-for-profit activities if used at home or at educational institutions.

Excellent whiteboard software - not free but pretty amazing

Tom Daccord recomments using this screencapture program for the mac, it is free. He says by far it is the best for Mac.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

A list of articles that explain how to turn an inexpensive laptop into a Mac - a Hackintosh

I'm seeing more and more of these at conferences. This is a list of sites that explain how to do it. How to turn a cheap netbook into a Mac.

KeyCastr is a Mac OS X application that displays your keystrokes in a small floating window. It is intended to be used for screencasts or overhead projection, to emphasize what keystrokes need to be pressed when performing an action within an application.