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Website with typing games.

Website with over 50 typing games.

Need 2008 flat classroom judges.

We need judges for this year's project!!!! Please learn more and join in and help!! You'll learn how a project like this works and many judges go on to make their own project -- you'll have 4-5 videos to produce depending on the number of judges that sign up.

30,000 Wellness Activation Kits are available online for schools in the US. Check out htis program and look at it for your PE and health programs.

Student tech conferences are really gaining steam in many states.

Alice Barr's thoughts about the Maine Student tech conference. THESE ARE GREAT!!! We need one in every state!

New Diigo Pioneer badge

If you want more "bling" for your blog -- Diigo has a new program to recognize educational pioneers using Diigo. Since the beginning, Maggie Tsai has listened to educators (not just me) in amazing ways and this is great. If you have a classroom diigo group, then log into your teacher console and snag your "diigo educational pioneer" badge - I'm going to get mine!! We use diigo groups for all of my classes and we have tag dictionaries based upon the major topics we cover.

The Imagine Cup is a global student technology competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. It's the dawn of a new Imagine Cup. Are you ready to change the world?

New ability to re-rank, delete, add to Google search results.

Mashup your data into stories * Tell your stories in a new way Photo albums are old school! Pick your sources, start and end date and your story is good to go. If necessary you can tweak it for a better flow.

The plain fact is that, sooner or later, the kid (any kid) is going to drop the camera.

Sorting stick notes as affinity diagramming

Disk image download of thousands of open source SW titles

Checks through mulitple online references

Great resource wiki providing many examples on the uses of Flickr in education.

Applications for using Flickr in online and traditional classroom. Great list of ideas.

Fascinating way to create virtual servers.

This software lets you take one host PC server and this lets you virtualize servers. In Walton County - have 100 servers and 60 are virtual. All independent and have their own IP address and appear completely independent -- they have 6 blade servers. This does cost money. This would let me move the Accelerated Reader and Accounting system to separate "virtual servers" and if one needed to reboot, I could reboot a "virtual server" and not the physical server. This is from an expert IT - Jack Higgins, Network Analyst - Walton County schools in Atlanta, GA -- met by accident in the Atlanta airport. A lot of these bookmarks are from him!

Interesting map showing live piracy incidents in 2008.

Google map showing all live piracy incidents in the world - this would fascinating to discuss this in a current events class and correlate the incidents of piracy with political regimes and other correlated items. Present to the class- here is the map -- figure out why this may be happening in these places.