Educational Origami

If like me you thought the RSVP meant “are you coming to the party” you are only 50% correct.
RSVP also stands for Rapid Sequential Visual Presentation.  This is a technique for increasing speed of reading, and some producer claim up to an 8 times increase in reading speed. The technique in a nutshell is this: [...]

Some interesting articles from Pew Internet and American Life Project

http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=223
http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=144
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Stranger_Contact_Data_Memo.pdf

These two look at online stranger contact And the PDF is the report itself
Here is a short synopsis

32% of online teens have been contacted by someone with no connection to them or any of their friends
7% of online teens say they have felt scared or uncomfortable [...]

The Beta testing has finished….. The product is release and the pricing is fair!
Comic Life, that standard of the Mac, is now available for Windows. http://plasq.com/comiclife-win
What does it cost? Pricing
Worth a note - buy over 250 licenses and home use by teachers is thrown into the package.
Specifications and requirements:
Comic Life - Win

Windows XP SP1 [...]

New Zealand has a “deal” with Microsoft for the distribution of certain software elements to schools. The products are productivity tools, client liciences etc. Here are some thoughts and comments.
On the face of it, Microsoft office is an excellent suite of productivity tools, they are widely regarded as the industry standard and have a wide [...]

http://jotform.com
Jotform is a web 2.0 Tool for Surveys, polls, forms etc
Watch the video and start making forms.

Jotform (right click and save as to download swf File)

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/photogalleries/seven-wonders/
This is in the National Geographics Photo Gallery. It looks at the 7 wonders of the modernworld and compares these to the 7 of the ancient world.
Modern

Ancient

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Here are some science resources that have popped up recently
New Lightbulbs in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/cfl
This is another excellent little video from the Team at commoncraft. Watch this clip.

Becoming Human
http://www.becominghuman.org/
Another interesting resource from techlearning. Human Evolution, a nicely laid out and structured website.
Even better is the download that allows you to run a flashbased program [...]

http://mashmaker.intel.com/ 
A Mashup is where you bring together information from various sources in a single page. It might be demographic information and maps or Flickr pictures and maps. There are lots of opportunities that are possible. But… its hard work
Well Intel has given us an option - Mashmaker.
There are a variety of resources to help you [...]

http://www.pewinternet.org/
This is a very interesting and detailed site. The Project looks at the impact of the internet on US life in all its aspects. The topics they have current reports on are:

cyberbullying
internet use (see below)
internet at school
e-government
online activities

Here are two interesting tables from the site
Internet Activity - http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_8.28.07.htm

Internet Activities

According [...]

Altered Oceans
This is a seriously cool site. Its a flash based site looking at the impact that we are having on oceans. The layout is clean and user friendly, it contains videos, images and good well layout and clear graphics explaining the issues.
The site is posted by the LA times.

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