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ZapGrab is simple and functional screenshot program able to copy everything that appears in your monitor. It is as easy as taking a photo [know more] ZapGrab allows you to capture your screen in two different ways: the whole screen or only a section with a quadrangular form selected by you with the mouse.

The content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.

Students share what makes the ideal school

Companion website with video tutorials

Check this out ... cleaning up YouTube clips - here's a sample.

Free blogs for each student in a class.

Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. Set up your class with no student email addresses.

Tom Barrett explains how he set up Google Docs in his classroom. It includes a checklist as well as an embed of 21 interesting ways to use Google Docs

Moodle training is coming to an Australian city near you - check the dates

Brilliant examples of ICT in a junior classroom.

Clear and easy to follow instructions on how to draw a variety of cartoon characters.

Slatebox is a slick, new tool for collaboratively creating mind maps and organizational charts. Slatebox offers a variety of good-looking templates and intuitive tools for designing and editing mind maps and charts. Creating a mind map is a simple matter of selecting a template and using the visual editor to place text and images in boxes. Those boxes can be resized and rearranged using the drag and drop editor. If you need more text boxes, simply add more.

An overview of ImmersED estate - a Open SImulator sim for educators to learn about the use of virtual worlds in education by actively engaging in learning exercises there. open and available for testing - please come by and kick the tyres! Built in OpenSim, hosted on ReacitonGrid.