Educational Origami

http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/ 
This is an article from Mashable on 12 screencasting tools. They have divide the article into free and commercial products – this is very useful. But its fair to say they have missed probably the best tool I have found which is Techsmiths Camtasia, which was a little suprising.
This is however a good article and [...]

http://poptech.com 
They are popping up (please excuse the pun) all over the place. First there was TED and now there is POP!Tech. This is what they say about themselves….
“Pop!Tech is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas.”
Like TED – they cast video clips [...]

http://www.breathingearth.net/
I spotted this on one of Larry posts (nice work) and its well worth sharing.
This site is a interactive map, which as you hover over a country reports on the Birth and death rate, population and level of CO2 emissions. It is a simualtion and is based on current data. Its a powerful and [...]

Learning@school08
Well L@S is over for another year and I have been flat out with presentations, networking, breakouts and mountain biking. The conference was a good one, I applied my 50% rule – if 1/2 the sessions are of benefit then the conference is a success – and this applied here. There were of course [...]

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/e-learning-reloaded:-top-50-web-2.0-tools-for-info-junkies,-researchers-&-students 
This is an article looking at the top 50 tools for researchers and students. They have arranged the list into:

organisation
communication
bookmarks and citations
Money and numbers
Search tools
Learning

This is quite useful.
The OEDb also has a couple of other interesting articles…

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http://www.vicman.net/download.php?Title=Cartoonist
This is a fun tool that allows you to morph and transform images. Its a freebie, download it and install.
Then the fun begins, stretch and drag the peoples faces, add horns, reshape eye and the save your product. Great fun, simple and easy to use. Great for use with comic development or generator tools.

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Here are a selection of sites and resources from various sources that may be of interest
English

Website http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/
This is a site for students on how to write and structure a story – a good resource for English. Its flash based with Audio content.
It wanders through the writing process with interactives using the Cinderella story as the [...]

Much of the video posted on the web is trivial, its trite, meaningless but to be fair often humorous and entertaining, and in this it has its worth.
However, every now and then we get material that for one reason or another shapes how we think, how we act or changes our opinions. The work of [...]

Download
This is a very very cool -  go to the site register and then you can download the moviestorm software. What movie storm is .. is MAchinema in a can. Its a cool application taht lets you develop virtual charactors in virtual rooms and make MOVIES! its really neat, a must try.
have a good internet [...]

Cellphones are becoming ubiquitous. Many of my students have two one on each of the two providers to capture the different offers that each company has. Their friends know which to use which day of the week to keep in touch at low or no cost.
I know of schools that ban cellphones, which is in [...]