- 12 Google Shortcuts Every Traveler Should Know These are good for teachers too. :) tags: google
- IPhone: AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi to iPhone Owners (For Real This Time) Great News for iPhone Users: “This past summer AT T announced free Wi-Fi access for iPhone users then pulled it mdash but now it’s back.” This post includes instructions for accessing the free wifi. tags: iphone, wifi
- Launched! Limit Start Page Gadgets for Education Edition. – EDU Administrator’s Circle- For Education Edition | Google Groups Via the Google Certified Teachers… you can now limit what gadgets appear in the start page in Google Apps Education Edition! tags: googleapps, educationedition, edu
- Be a Better Blogger in just 30 Days – Teach42 Steve Dembo is going to offer us 30 specific blogging tips in 30 days. I’ll follow along… and see how much I can improve this blog. tags: blogging
- 2008 Presidential Election Policy Debates – a knol by Knol Debates Google’s Knol now has a debates feature, which begins with these debates related to the presidential election: “Leading think tanks debate key policy topics of this years election. They want to hear from you so please voice your opinion…” tags: knol, election
- Tech Talk: iPhone Apps for Educators Google Certified Teacher Bill Butler shares a few iPhone applications for educators. Check out YouNote. tags: iphone
- PR 2.0: Where the Streets Have Names: Learning from Bono’s Facebook Dilemma Now I can use Bono as an example in my Internet Awareness and Safety workshops. ;) tags: bono, interenetsafety
- Better Place This is the coolest (and most important) thing I’ve read about in a long time: “Better Place is a venture-backed company that aims to reduce global dependency on oil through the creation of a market-based transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles, providing consumers with a cleaner, sustainable, personal transportation alternative.” In short, its treating cars… like cell phones. tags: green
- Brightstorm Launches Online Learning Network for Teens; Announces $6M in Series A Financing – MarketWatch One more “late to announce” link for me. My friend and colleague Chris Walsh is Chief Learning Officer at the startup “Brightstorm” which offers online video courses for high school students using a straight e-commerce model… $49 a course. The videos (and teachers) are hip – what teen wouldn’t want to learn Geometery from math goddess Melissa Kramer or her pizza eating counterpart, Brian McCall? They’re giving away free courses right now, so head over to check it out… and pass it on to the high school students in your life. tags: brightstorm, videos
- K12 Online Conference 2008 – Annotated I’m also late to post this – but the K12 Online Conference is in full swing! This is one of the best free online professional development experiences available and there is great work being shared. Check it out! tags: k12online, professionaldevelopment
- http://mywebspiration.com/ I’m late to post this – but here’s the web version of the popular mind mapping software, Inspiration. I can’t wait to share this with more teachers. tags: mindmapping
- Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Canned Responses The coolest email feature ever. Call up a canned response anytime… or set up a rule to auto-send a canned response based on text in an incoming message! tags: gmail
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