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VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

This toolkit provides you with a step-by-step guide for teachers and parents to bring self-organized learning environments for your children at home, school or at after school programs.

Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com

Science Friday program in which Ira Flatow discusses privacy issues relating in particular to Facebook and Twitter with Rich Mogull and Michael Zimmer

The first meeting of a series of on line meetings for a professional development course for EFL teachers in the 21st Century. The program for this session: * Participants will introduce themselves to the group and interact among each other. * Presenters will be discussing the following topics: 1. Learning in the 21s century 2. Multiliteracies in the EFL class 3. What is Web 2.0? Friday March, 13th. Time in Venezuela and around the world: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=13&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=559

Easy and simple way to share your screen with others.

Great way to help instruct students or fellow teachers on how to use a program or just to quickly and easily share information with others.

"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.