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"The Educators' Guide to Electronic Tools and Resources for K-12"

We, like so many others, have joked about Twitter's non-existent business model and its frothy billion-dollar valuation.Apparently we might have to stop that - at least for now.The San Francisco-based micromessaging company is said to be profitable, according to a report in Bloomberg that quotes someone close to the company.

An episode in a series of Digital Youth portraits from edutopia. Very interesting.In this case a 7th grader guides us through a typical day in her life -some other people speak as well, for example her mother.

Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that brings science to life for people concerned about the Earth's future. Founded in 1971, Earthwatch supports scientific field research by offering volunteers the opportunity to join research teams around the world.

Management tool for randomly selecting students.

story of 100% data recovery, and suggestions for disk failure preparedness

"Here are few of the best screen recorders that will allow you to create videos and presentation from your activities and which are free to use" (¶1, 2010.04.13).

I'm not sure if all the items reviewed are as insensitive, but the CamStudio link merely takes the user to a PC download link without even asking concerning the system that the application will be running on. It is typical of Windows users to assume that the entire world (that they're interested in) uses PC computers. I have not tried it, but for Mac users, I have had IShowU (free program) recommended; Linux users probably also have some options that are available, and perhaps others can share what those not running PCs on Windows use for screen capture.

"Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes" (Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally, para. 1).