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Have a locked pdf that you want to use in word? voila! it is opened, the interweb is equally scary and wonderful.

Welcome to The Mahara Demo site. Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, Resumé builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Mahara provides you with the tools to set up a personal learning and development environment.

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Welcome to Wikijunior The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Around the World with 80 Schools started in January 2009 and is an ongoing project. The challenge is to connect your students with 80 schools from around the world via Skype (a free video conferencing tool). Once completed, you will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of "Skyping Certified Educator" :)

K-12 Open curricula Community resources

Our "30 days to get your Students Blogging" Challenge is all about guiding you through the process of blogging with your students. This challenge is open to anyone and everyone - and you don't need to be a user of Edublogs at all or have participated in the first challenge. Wherever you're at - we'll step you through the weekly tasks to increase your skills while providing mentors who'll support your learning. Could be something here for every teacher either Blogging or thinking about Blogging.

The top site to use if you need to open a pdf into Word.

eek! So many sites so little time, live binders are like opening an xmas present only to realize that inside is a million more presents all vying for your attention!

Apps that fit into this "understanding" stage provide opportunities for students to explain ideas or concepts. Verbs commonly used to describe this phase include interpreting; restating, retelling, summarizing, inferring, generalizing, comparing, rephrasing, translating, reporting, clarifying, and paraphrasing. Understanding apps step away from the selection of a "right" answer and introduce a more open-ended format for students to summarize content and translate meaning. SWEET

Google Forms is a great tool and I hope to use it more throughout this year. Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google Form - this was written prior to Google bringing forms into the NEW menu. I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. With help from a Googler I have included a link so that you can get your own copy of the form - click on the appropriate link and it should open in your docs home.

nOW THIS IS WHAT WE NEED FOR THOSE PESKY NETBOOKS! damn sticky keys