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I've written previously on how your resume is meaningless, on building career security, not job security and on the rise of personal branding.  To summarize the overarching themes of those three posts quickly: Your work should be working for you, building your reputation, not locked away in a resume. A resume proves nothing, a living case study proves everything. Creating a name for yourself in your industry provides you the ultimate freedom:  career security. The tools exist for you to influence your industry in deep ways to make positive change and carve out a name for yourself. Building your personal network enables incredible connections with the world around you not previously possible. A blog is the ideal avenue to accomplish all of this and so much more.

Private, secure online learning environment.

Glogster.com/edu has tools, services and security to make Glogster even more useful to classroom teachers.

"My Fellow Americans" Voicethread challenge for President Obama.

Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world. Group conversations around images, documents, and videos Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload) Can be used to put "instruction" online.

After reading the cnet.com and other independent reviews, I have decided that this software is the best for me. I had Norton and MacAffee over the years, but they became so bloated that it would take days to complet a virus scan on a hard drive with 18G of memory. This has some privacy functions, include a true erase that would be helpful.

Save your family budget and ditch your old Antivirus software for high performance protection that IS NOT a resource hog!

Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines.

Free posters about online safety, safe computer usage, etc.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills.