AKA Riptide Furse

iGoogle has new themes featuring artwork from a wide array of artists. If you use iGoogle as your homepage like I do then you may want make new choice for a change or have a different theme for each tab. iGoogle Artist Themes

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These are my links for April 29th:

• BBC Me and My Movie -
• Forms and Letters -
• Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen -
• Technology -
• General Links -
• Social Studies Links -
• Science links -
• Math Links -
• Communications Arts links - Reading and Writing -
• This is Daniel Cook. -
• Top 5 Essential Video Converters You Shouldn?t Miss - Video conversion websites are dime a dozen these days, but here are 5 picks which stand out from the crowd.
• The Gong Project - The Web Voice Communication Tool - Gong is a free system for voice communication on the Web. It allows groups of people such as students and teachers to participate in discussion groups using their computers, using both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous chat. It is commonly used by
• Techlearning > > Getting the Picture in Word > April 29, 2008 - Getting the Picture in Word Listen to the podcast Question: When I put pictures or clip art into my Word document, I can?t easily drag them to where I want them to go. Can I change this?
• twistori -

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These are my links for April 28th:

• Cool Science for Curious Kids - The goal of this project is simple: to help your child appreciate science.
• Quakertown » SMART Technology - SMART Board Resources and Lessons
• Animation for kids - Create animation online with FluxTime Studio - FluxTime Studio is free - you can create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards to friends and family. If you like the free service you can get an account and enjoy the following advanced features:
• Dipity - Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.
• WebTools4u2use » home -
• Shedd Aquarium - Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at S
• Generation YES Blog » Blog Archive » 6 degrees of professional development -
• Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television - Thank you for exploring Villainy Inc, an innovative site for middle grade mathematics students. Carefully coordinated with national and state content standards, this site contains activities that explore statistics and probability, algebra, geometry, dec
• IMAGINATION — image-based authentication: Step 1 -
• Twitter Twerp Scan - a little thingiemajigger here. It’ll check the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those. If the person is following more than 1000 people (can be customised), and has a Foll
• Reedy Technologies “Helping Teachers Integrate Technology” -
• Audio Resources -
• Add to Any - Subscribe, Bookmark, Share Buttons and Widgets -

#119 04-28-08.mp3

These are my links for April 27th:

• Fix your jerky, dark, low-res videos from your mobile phone or digital camera for free with FixMyMovie.com -
• Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008 - These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners:
• Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page - It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
• BeeJive :: JiveTalk mobile messenger - instant messaging to go - JiveTalk mobile messenger allows you to stay connected to all of your instant messaging buddies anytime, anywhere in the world! Simultaneously log in to all of your IM accounts, all on your phone, all in one place!
• On Our Minds @ Scholastic: Some thoughts on using Twitter in the classroom -
• Presdo | Make Time To… -
• Let’s Talk About Insects -

#118 04-27-08.mp3

This one came out rather nicely if I do say so myself.

It is 1 minute long. #117 04-26-08.mp3

These are my links for April 25th:

• SymbolWorld - SymbolWorld is a website created by Widgit Software, dedicated to people who use symbols. It has material for all ages and includes personal contributions, stories and learning materials. eLive is an on-line magazine within SymbolWorld especially for old
• Create Adobe Flash games online. Publish games to Facebook, Myspace and to your webpages. - Welcome to the neighborhood. We are a group of like minded individuals working towards creating games, sharing with our friends, and supporting each other within the geography of creative gamers.
• Kickplay ? Play | Personalize | Share - Free Personalized Games - As fun to make as they are to play - Free Games - Kickplay.com is a revolutionary game site, dedicated to providing first-rate game-play that can be personalized by any user.
• Games at Sploder - Flash Game Creator, Games for MySpace, Blogger, Xanga, and Everywhere! -
• TypeRacer -
• How to Monitor Websites that don?t have RSS Feeds | MakeUseOf.com - If you?re Firefox user then you can try Update Scanner. It?s an extension that lets you monitor webpages for changes. You have an option to choose how often the website should be checked for changes, and whether it should ignore the minor ones, such a
• 10 Tips for Would-Be Podcasters - Lifehack.org - I started podcasting four months ago when I launched the first episode of Lifehack Live as part of Lifehack.org?s podcast series. Although I?d been listening to podcasts for a couple of years already, and had some experience behind the deck in a recor
• Boolify Project: A Educational Boolean Search Tool - Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to
• Langwitches » Digital Storytelling- Part II - Digital Storytelling Part I dealt with storytelling as being an ancient art form of teaching and why adapt and integrate this technique to support 21st century learning skills.
• Diigo - Powerful Online Research Tool -
• BookPALS Storyline Online -
• CSDsmarties: Where did you get that Flash File? - Ever since I downloaded Smart’s Essentials for Educator’s Gallery and got a few good flash files for the smartboard I have been on the look out for more.
• Fuzzmail - WHAT IS FUZZMAIL? Fuzzmail records the act of writing and lets you send it as an email. Dynamic changes, typoes, pauses and writeovers are captured and communicated. We created fuzzmail because we wanted a more emotionally expressive alternative to email,

#116 is 1 minute long.

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These are my links for April 24th:

• Generation YES Blog » Blog Archive » What is professional development? -
• Minyanland.com: like Webkinz, but without the plush toys, and focused on education! | Welcome to NCS-Tech! -
• Voicethread 4 Education » home - The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.
• web20ols » VoiceThreads - A VoiceThread is an interactive, collaborative album that can share images, documents and videos. When a voicethread project is shared, people can add comments using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio files, or video (with a webcam). You
• VoiceThreads - TLC Online Home -
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools -
• Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab -

Illusions is having a Spring Cleaning Sale April 9th - May 3rd. Things to buy are the pirate accessories. Remember that International Talk Like a Pirate Day is in September. Why not look the part? As always the masks are awesome!
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I’m here at the WingFling after hearing about on the Second Style StyleCast with Daphne and Tamara. If wings are your thing you have to come down and take a look. There are some freebies and some pretty good deals too. Some of the wings will stretch your imagination and your idea of what actually can be considered wings.
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I present today’s song for you to name. Leave a suggested name title in the comments. This song is 1 minute long.

#115 04-24-08.mp3