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Wow, cool, You can now edit Word docs in Pages on the ipad.

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This is a great page to put into your rss feed!

Good internet safety example page from Camille

how would you like to know whether your students read the book, every page? And highlighted? Crazy analytic software for e-readers!

Great idea for communicating with parents about your students' blogs.

I think this is really neat and I agree with it. My Creative Writing/IB English 11-12 teacher from high school has a facebook page, a personal one, and she is friends with alot of her teacher friends, current students and student alumni. Not only do we get to keep in touch with her, but she also asks our opinion on how to run the class, how to make it better, becuase we have been there before. She has also issued a challenge to all her alumni and teacher friends to keep track of how many books we have read this year, and I am now in my mid-twenties. Thanks to her, I've kept on reading and writing, all because we are friends on facebook.

Wiki pages are always a work in progress. The wiki is like a dynamic online science classroom which continually grows and changes. Applications for the use of Wikis in science classrooms is only limited by the creativeness of the teacher in support science teaching and student earning.

free OER textbooks and mobile devices in utah.

a good place to get up to date statistics on education and educational technologies

This site lists numerous handy technologies and their descriptions in an easy to view table format.

This blogger lists the 15 Internet tools he thinks all students should use. I think this is mostly for college students, but might have some application to high school. I like that he cites some of the technologies we'll learn about this semester, like Diigo. In fact, notice the highlighting and sticky notes on the page--that's from using Diigo.

tips for improving powerpoint presentations

Tutorials from Charles Graham on Google Earth

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If you need to embed an audio player into your Google website, or other website, this website gives some great and simple methods. This could be useful for posting a podcast on your site.

As many of you may have discovered, I also found that many of my previous colleagues have little use for technology for teaching. They are mired in excuses such as using technology is cheating, students learn best through lecture, the stresses of NCLB makes it too difficult to do anything but have students memorize facts to pass the tests, etc.

This is a federal web page that lists some habits in their children parents (and teachers!) need to watch out for that could signal harmful Internet usage.

Information from the FBI on internet safety, written to parents

interesting article about what might be safe passwords, and what might not be.

A great history website