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5-Star and "100 Clean" rating, April 2007 More reviews & awards... Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

A commercial screen recording program. There is a free trial but it starts at 299

Animation and story building online software. Great for getting kids to think about a story and how to develop it.

Add Bubbles to any video,  Post it anywhere you wish!

Screencast is a place to upload content that can be linked to any website. It is great for creating immediate RSS feeds to attach to iTunes or RSS readers like Safari

This is the 3 minute video that we submitted to the MacArthur judges.  It is available for public consumption on You Tube .  Connecting SciLife and Glogster to create an example of the life of a cell

For media folks like me, the cool, interactive graphical program that is Google Earth has always had a Holy Grail-inserting moving media so it plays right over the terrain, as still images will do. We've gotten a lot closer with two new features, one with mixed blessings. First, Google Earth now has a YouTube layer.

Perhaps you have wondered how predictable machines like computers can generate randomness. In reality, most random numbers used in computer programs are pseudo-random, which means they are a generated in a predictable fashion using a mathematical formula. This is fine for many purposes, but it may not be random in the way you expect if you're used to dice rolls and lottery drawings.

"MYLO is a free KS3 and KS4 language learning resource from the Department for Education. It offers a new way to learn French, German, Spanish and Chinese."

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Hi Randy, Great to have a chance to talk to you earlier this month.  As promised here is the Wave information: - A paper written by Educause Learning Initiative about Wave and its potential for Education to help get you started: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7055.pdf - I've enabled your Google Apps domain (ocde.us ) to use Wave, so now anyone who has an account can access Wave at http://wave.google.com/a/ocde.us/ - CCed are a few additional folks from the Google Education team who can answer additional questions you might have about the OCDE using Google Apps and Wave. I hope that's a good start.  After you've had a chance to get started with Wave, let me know and we can set up additional time to talk if that would be useful. Thanks! Greg

a different way to look up words and common connections with images. It is all web based. Good for building vocabulary from a work of writing.

Unlimited Videos For You and Your Students It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.

Rubric Maker - All of these tools will make it easy for you to them.

" Create apps for iPhone & Android . Try it free for 30-days. Create your app in as little as 15 minutes - No coding required."

The California Open Source Textbook Project (COSTP) began in 2001 as a collaborative - a public/private undertaking; it was the first organization created to address the high cost, content range, and consistent shortages of K-12 textbooks in California."

"MindTap™ is the first in a new category-the Personal Learning Experience (PLE). MindTap is well beyond an eBook, a homework solution or digital supplement, a resource center website, a course delivery platform or a Learning Management System. More than 70% of students surveyed said it was unlike anything they have seen before."

"Our nation suffers from 19th century thinking when it comes to preparing educators for the increasingly collaborative work of teaching and learning. Many outstanding programs have been established to push education forward, but short of a few largely for-profit corporate efforts to recognize educators using digital tools effectively; there remains no consistently recognized way for these leading educators to certify themselves as 21st Century professionals. Leading Edge Certification is that certification. Created through an alliance of nonprofits, universities and educational agencies, the certification will provide five different roles over the course of five years."

"When your kids want to play online, put Firefox into Kid Mode! Protect your computer and delight your kid with a safe environment that's filled with fun and learning. Zoodles Kid Mode makes it easy for kids 8 and under to independently play online."

"The California Teachers Association wants to make it much more difficult to launch new public charter schools."