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These are my links for January 13th:

• Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers?with proprietary software, the computer does what the software owner wants it to do, not what the software user wa
• ALA | Intellectual Freedom -
• Internet Filtering: Beware the Cyber Censors - Vol 12 no 4 - Rethinking Schools Online - Imagine if an unknown person came into your school library every month and removed books from the shelves. You would never be told which books were being taken or why, other than that someone, somewhere, deemed them “inappropriate,” “indecent,” “radical,”
• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - Welcome to a website devoted to the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. Above are links to various sections of the site.
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• Langwitches » VoiceThread School-Wide Project - It can be used for collaborative digital storytelling at ALL grade levels. Please sign-up for a free Pro- account (for educators) with your school’s e-mail by going to the main site. As alway, please don’t hesitate to let me know if you need any help in t
• Welcome ! - Ulteo - My digital life made simple - Run OpenOffice.org 2.3 within your web browser with the Ulteo Online Desktop, manage your office document online, share your OpenOffice.org session in realtime, share your prints and get PDFs…
• Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - his site is geared for people of all ages who like to play and explore. This includes, for example, all people wanting a few minutes of fun, youngsters and their parents, students and teachers, business executives trying to unwind from the stress of work,
• Infinite Thinking Machine - social networking in education.
• Meet Me At the Corner - The Empire State Building - MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is a dynamic, interactive site, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide, featuring their special corner of the world. Through these vi
• » Kids Offer Virtual Tour Teaching Sagittarian -
• Second Life in Education » home - Welcome to the Second Life in Education Wiki. This space is designed to provide an overview of the educational possibilities of virtual worlds, in particular Second Life.
• R2D2 Translator -
• Mermaid Diaries: Natalia Zelmanov’s Second Life Adventures: Day 475: Creating Clothes with Photoshop (with new PNG file) - So this is a similar step-by-step tutorial, written for creating PNG files in Photoshop. The screenshots were taking using Photoshop CS2. Since I only use basic Photoshop features, they should be similar to most versions of Photoshop.
• UsingMac.com - Photoshop Trick - Tiny Background Images - If you’ve ever noticed, you would find out that some of the Desktop Pictures provided inside your Mac have relatively small size and dimension that can fill the whole of your widescreen. This is because those background images can be tiled when it’s being
• Hyplet - Your Online Signature - From Laelia Create Hyplets using the online Hyplet Editor # Set Hyplet as your email signature # Post Hyplets on the Web # Promote your content with Hyplet Flyers # Save your friends’ IDs and Flyers # Add avatars, icons and emoticons
• True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows - X11 is better for fingers. Copy with mouse. Paste with mouse. Focus without clicks. Raise and lower windows. So called X-Mouse. One and only… True X-Mouse Gizmo.
• Creating a Podcast - How can Podcasts enhance classroom communication?
• Podcasts and Wikis: - These resources will promote the development of reading, writing, and cognitive skills while cultivating learning and the sharing of concepts and ideas among students. This session explores examples of successful classroom podcasts and wikis and also demo
• Introducing Integers - Media -
• PaperMaker - Wallpapers Built By Yourself - Create nice looking wallpaper or desktop backgrounds.
• Tristan O?Tierney » FlickrBooth - FlickrBooth is a simple little plugin for Apple?s Photo Booth. Just install, follow the setup instructions, and snap away!
• photophlow: preview - Photophlow is a fun way to share flickr photos in real time. invite your friends, search together, chat and comment all at once.
• Mac360 - The Best List Of The Best New Mac Software. - Productivity, efficiency, ease of use, and security will combine with graphics and database capability built in to Mac OS X. Here?s my best list of the best new Mac software. Obviously, no list of good Mac applications and utilities is complete without
• Feature: Get Things Done Over the Phone with Jott - At its most basic level, webapp Jott is a voice to text transcription service: you call Jott, leave a message, and Jott transcribes it and emails you or your contacts the text. That alone can capture the big idea that pops into your head on the drive to t
• Watch Funny Cartoons and Animations online and Use Free Animation Software on Aniboom. We have 3D animation, flash, cartoon animation and more. - aniBoom is a cross-media, cross-platform animation content project which addresses wide audiences through a range of genres, techniques and means. In order to get things started we chose the most democratic medium, the Internet. In our next phase we inten
• How to Get Things Done with Jott - Lifehack.org - In the last few months, though, Jott?s introduced their Jott Links service, which allows you to use Jott to add items to your todo list, send messages to other people, even blog using their service. And it works ? so well, in fact, that connection wit
• 9 Cool Instant Messaging Tools - Instant Messaging (IM) is perhaps the fastest way to communicate with your friends, family, and business associates online. For those whose online nerve system starts with IM applications, here are 9 cool tools that you can use to manage it a bit better o
• UsingMac.com - Mac Special Characters - There are bunch of symbols that can be created using keyboard shortcuts as I mentioned on my previous article : 100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating Symbols. Unfortunately, not all of available symbols on your Mac can be called out with keystrokes. Tha
• UsingMac.com - Killer Leopard Trick - Finder Screen Sharing - Killer Leopard Trick - Finder Screen Sharing January 3rd, 2008 digg delicious su Talking about Screen Sharing, the reflection of iChat shouldn’t be far away from your mind. Actually, the Screen Sharing itself is provided in your Finder. Screen Sharing Whe
• UsingMac.com - Some Nice Leopard Wallpapers - Some Nice Leopard Wallpapers
• Creating Community-Oriented Learning Spaces: Using Second Life in the Classroom -