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These are my links for January 31st:

• RockYou.com - photo sharing, MySpace slideshows, MySpace codes, MySpace music -
• myIcourse - Our mission is to provide software that helps users create and post their own educational materials, at no cost. We do not believe all of life?s necessary learning is contained within the walls of universities or between the binders of books. We want to
• Mrs. Venosdale’s Smartboard Resources -
• Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Key Stages 1, 2 and Foundation Stage - Here are some suggestions for sites which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Select a subject and age group.
• Amphitheater SMART Board Teacher Rubric - Amphitheater School District SMART Board Teacher Rubric
• Stranded at the airport? Don?t forget Rule 240 - TODAY: Travel - MSNBC.com - Stranded at the airport? Don?t forget Rule 240 Flight delayed or canceled? Peter Greenberg on how to get what you want
• Mathwire.com | Resources for Math Teachers - Mathwire.com is designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards.
• Mathwire.com | 100th Day of School - 100th Day of School Activities
• English as a Second Language Podcast - What is a podcast? A podcast is an audio file that you download from the Internet. After you download it, you can listen to it on your computer or on an MP3/portable music player (for example, an iPod or iRiver). You can subscribe to a podcast so that i
• Sun Presentation Minimizer | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions - The Sun Presentation Minimizer is used to reduce the file size of the current presentation. Images will be compressed, and data that is no longer needed will be removed. The Sun Presentation Minimizer can optimize the image quality size. Presentations des

WOW! I made it through 1 month with only 11 to go. I feel great today having reached this milestone. I hope it comes across in this song post. It’s 30 seconds long and loopable. While I retain full distribution rights to the songs I do want to give all of you a chance to participate so if you want to name this song, leave me a suggestion in the comments. I will give you full credit for the title and a link back to your blog.

#31 First Milestone.mp3 (Thanks to Tracy Standhart for naming this sogn by leaving me a comment)

As I promised yesterday I want to share how I get that little blue play button next to the file so you don’t have to launch a player to actually sample the song before downloading. It’s called Play Tagger and it by those wonderful folks at del.icio.us. Play Tagger is a single line of javascript that looks at a web page for any links to mp3 files. When Play Tagger find an mp3 file link on a page it overlays that little player and also allows you to bookmark it using del.icio.us. SWEET! I have placed the javascript code in my widgetize any html widget that appears on every page of my blog. Hint it is the same one that holds my blog roll from Google Reader.

And it gets better. If you go to the Play Tagger page http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger there is a bookmarklet that you can drag to your quick links bar. Then whenever you are on a page with mp3s you can just click that bookmarklet and you have instant play buttons. It even works with DE streaming songs. Go get the Play Tagger bookmarklet and then go to this Valentine Day song to try it out (DE streaming account required).

These are my links for January 30th:

• Darkoogle - Darkoogle is to remind us all to save energy in our daily life.
• TV Theme Music and Songs - TelevisionTunes.com - Here you will find tonnes of TV theme music and songs from yesterday and today.
• Blank Canvas - Gmail HTML Signatures - Automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which address you are sending from. Works for Compose Message and Reply/Forward.
• [Spotlight] Links to Great SL Tutorials » Second Life and Education - spotlight.jpgIf you?re new to the Second Life world you, no doubt, have tons of questions about how to do things: getting dressed, building, find great spots to visit, making friends?tons of skills you?ll need to know all about before you can begin
• [Feedback] So You Want to Teach in Second Life: Five Tips to Get Started » Second Life and Education - Educators in Second Life are one of the fastest growing communities on the grid. With over four thousand people on the SLED mailing list alone, Educators (especially in higher ed) are getting excited over the possibilities for learning innovation that wor
• WeGame.com - Show Your Game - Download the WeGame client Download Client The WeGame client lets you record your own gaming videos from your favorite games! Record Your Favorite Games WeGame can record your gameplay from some of your favorite games. Just start up the client,

How to Tell Which Direction the Paper Goes into the Printer

I was inspired by the post above to go through my building and create a little guide to the different paper feed icons for my staff.

This is a back to basics post.

Most printers, copiers and fax machines have icons to show which way the paper should go. This is helpful especially if you are using letterhead or envelopes when you need to put the paper in with a particular side to be printed on or have the print facing a certain direction.

For the most part remember:

• Lines on the icon show where the printing will happen. Make sure if using letterhead, form, or preprinted stationery that you face the paper the correct way.
• The fold on the paper icon indicates the top of the page. Again this may be important with letterhead, forms or preprinted stationery.
• Envelope symbols indicate printing side or closure flap up side. This is important not only for printing but may prevent jams. Best bet if the printer doesn’t have envelope icons to check the manual.
• Envelopes may also be preprinted to pay attention the stamp on the icon or the side of the closure flap.
• These rules also apply for when you are doing double-sided printing manually.

The numbers on the pictures don’t mean anything. It’s just the way Flickr uploaded them.

Paper Direction Icons-1

Envelopes allowed face up with stamp area away from you. Paper face up with top of the page away from you.

Paper Direction Icons-2

Envelopes allowed face up with stamp area away from you. Paper face up with top of page away from you.

Paper Direction Icons

Face down - the top of the page is toward you

Paper Direction Icons-4

Envelopes allowed face up with the stamp area away from you. Use the paper guides to ensure proper feeding. Paper face up with the top of the page away from you.

Paper Direction Icons-6

This one is a little different. 1st icon = adjust paper guides for proper feeding of the paper. 2nd icon shows the paper should be face down and the top of the page should be toward you. Don’t use envelopes in this tray.

Paper Direction Icons-3

Paper face down with the top of the page toward you.

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Envelope icon showing envelopes are allowed face up with the stamp area away from you.

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Envelopes should go face down. The envelope flap suggest the the stamp area be toward you. Paper goes face down with the top of the page toward you.

Paper Direction Icons-8

Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you.

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This shows loading the paper and adjusting the guides. The final picture indicates the paper should be below those holders. Don’t over stuff the printer. The paper direction is face down with the top of the page toward you.

Paper Direction Icons-9

Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you. Steps 1 and 2 show that you should adjust the guides for size of the paper and to ensure proper feeding. Step 3 shows that the paper should sit down in the tray suggesting that you shouldn’t over stuff the paper tray.

Paper Direction Icons-14

Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you.

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Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you.

Paper Direction Icons-12

Uhhh??! Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you.

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Paper goes face up with the top of the page away from you.

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Paper goes face down with the top of the page toward you.

a quickr pickr post

Almost to the end of the first month of this and I can’t believe I made it this far. There were some hiccups where I was just too busy to post. Also it would be nice if people gave the songs some decent names other than the date as it helps classes know what kind of song it is without having to listen to each one. Just leave your suggestion in the comments.
Stay tuned tomorrow as I plan on sharing with you how I get that little blue player next to each song so you can listen to it without downloading or opening a player.

Song #30 01-30-08.mp3

These are my links for January 29th:

• Freshi Film Worx - Through digital filmmaking and the internet (www.freshiflix.com), Freshi Filmworx empowers youth with the tools to collaborate, create and share their stories with the world, thus serving as agents of change for human understanding and world peace. Freshi
• Widgetbox ? World’s largest widget directory and gallery - web widgets for Facebook apps, Blogger, TypePad, MySpace, Wordpress and more - Widgetbox is on a mission. We want to give everyone the power to assemble, share and integrate everything that?s good on the web.
• Welcome to Schoolr. The only resource you’ll need. - Schoolr would like to thank the Reference.com family, Google, Wikipedia, Acrnonym Finder, Urban Dictionary, Altavista Babel Fish, SparkNotes, NCSU, and unitconversion for their great resources.
• pairs for iPhone by tgxmedia.com -
• SIOX: Simple Interactive Object Extraction - SIOX stands for Simple Interactive Object Extraction and is a solution for extracting foreground from still images with little user interaction. The underlying method is fast, noise robust, and can also be used for segmentation of videos. SIOX is free (Ap
• twitter100 - See your followers tweets in a glance.
• Blackle - Energy Saving Search -
• The Newspaper Clipping Generator - Create your own fun newspaper. - There are other generators on this site. They add a little motion to your blog posting.
• The Internet Picture Dictionary - from techieteacher
• PhotoSoup - Yahoo! - PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator that allows users to create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr. The tag is hidden in the puzzle, and only the associated photo is shown as a clue. The objective is to find all hidden tags
• Morning Coffee :: Firefox Add-ons - Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs… Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs.
• 10 Free Image Editing Programs for your PC | MakeUseOf.com - This is a great list of image editing tools. They run the gamut of things you can do with your graphics.

Want to get some inside info on easy ways for students to add special effects to your movies? Come to the Discovery Educator Network HQ in Second Life. We’re located on Eduilsand II. Here is the workshop info from the DEN in SL blog.

DATE: January 30, 2008

WORKSHOP: Makin’ Movies: Simple F/X

PRESENTER: Joe Brennan

DESCRIPTION: See how you and your students can employ some easy tricks to get a few of the special effects we’ve come to take for granted on TV and in movies.

5 PM SLT ( 7 PM CST, 8 PM EST)

Looking forward to seeing all of you there!

#29 is 30 seconds long and loopable. #29 01-29-08.mp3

These are my links for January 27th through January 28th:

• GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow - GreenPrint software eliminates unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees
• Historic Tale Construction Kit -
• 3D-box maker » 3d-box & package on-line - 3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free! Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). Post them in your blog or anywh
• How To: Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required - Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac?no command line hacking required. In addition, the resulting installation is?theoretically, at least
• Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker - Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. In the very near future, you’ll be about to post it t
• FixMyMovie -
• How to Chroma Key in Windows Movie Maker - Chroma Keying or bluescreening is very easy to do and is very common. Every time you watch the weather, a bluescreen is used. This tutorial will go over how to chroma key using a very common, but useful program called “Windows Movie Maker”, but we’ll call
• RSS Mixer Prototype : Custom Feeds for iPhone and Widgets - Combine all your favorite feeds into one Your feed will be available as: RSS, HTML, iPhone page, Web and Apple Widget
• Defraggler - Defragment your files! - It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows
• ContentGenerator.net - create your own Educational Flash games - This site allows anyone to generate their own e-Learning quizzes, games and applications through our unique software. Please explore this site to find out details of these award-winning Flash-based learning tools.
• Super Screenshot! - Enter a URL, and we’ll give you a screenshot.
• Larry Ferlazzo?s Websites of the Day? » The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers - This time I?ll be listing what I think are The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers.
• Literactive - Teaching Children to Read - Welcome to Literactive Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth
• LoudLit.org - LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragra
• Cycling ‘74 || Download soundflower - Soundflower and Soundflowerbed Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X
• Innovative Teachers - Your connection to innovative educators and resources from across the United States and beyond.
• Using Soundflower with GarageBand - Using Soundflower with GarageBand This page describes how to use the free Soundflower “virtual audio device” with GarageBand. The reason I’m writing this is to inform others of this excellent utility and to be a guide to setting it up.
• DEN Blog Network » Google Earth and Discovery Education streaming - Google Earth Flash embed Directions
• googleearthgoods wiki - password is the presenter’s name
• Yacapaca! - Home - Yacapaca for Students Learn faster Enjoy it more Yacapaca for Teachers Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more Discover modify and share assessments Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically Analyse with tools th
• CookieSwap :: Firefox Add-ons - CookieSwap 0.5.0 Homepage by Steve Tine CookieSwap enables you to easily swap all your cookies so that you can be logged in to multiple web e-mail accounts (like Gmail and Yahoo! mail) at the same time and quickly switch between them.
• Earth & Sky | kids - from Techicebreaker The Earth & Sky radio series is a product of EarthSky Communications, a media company whose mission is advocating science as a vital tool for the 21st century. Earth & Sky consists of daily radio shows in both English and Spanish

GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow

Besides saving money by printing to services outside of the school, try GreenPrint software. It looks at every print job and looks for elements that you can remove from the print job such as advertising and more.

Also keep an eye our for Discovery’s new GREEN channel.

GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow via kwout

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - NPM Poster Request Form via kwout

Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - NPM Poster Request Form

Get your free copy of this year’s National Poetry Month Poster.

Digital photo printing prices and reviews

Printing at school is really a budget buster. It is almost always cheaper to print photos in color at a service outside of the school. Laser printers that may be in the school are almost always more costly than the photo printing services available to the public. When you have the time to choose where to print, head over to Printrates.com. They monitor the prices being charged for picture printing of all different amounts and sizes.

Here is another site that allows you to make a screenshot of a website that you may want to include in your blog. Super Screenshot is easy to use. Just put in the url of the site you want to take a screen shot of. Blog entries without pictures are really boring so when I can, I try to include an image. Give this a try for your next share of a great web site.

Here is song #28. It is again 30 seconds long and loopable. Please let me know if you have a name for this song by leaving me a comment.

#28 Virtual Anticipation.mp3

This was named by Tracy Standhart. Check out her great blog at I Learn, You Learn, We Learn. You can name any of these songs by leaving a message in the comments.

#27 is 30 seconds long and loopable!

#27  01-27-08.mp3