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Commoncraft Show – Podcasting in Plain English

http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting
Yeeha – another great resource from Lee and the crew at Commoncraft. This is a excellent resource and well worth using with students and staff alike.
Good effort.

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Update from Nepal – Volume 5

Well, we sare safely back from Pokara and tucked into the Mansulu Hotel for Tonight. We flight out to Bangkok Tommorow for one day. The trip was uneventful, if you ignore the driving, and the fact that the 190km journey to 6 hours – we averaged 30km/hr. Which was just as well as we weaved across [...]

Update from Nepal – Volume 4

Today is a comunity service day in Pokara, The whole group went to Shree Lila Lower Secondary School under Shanti Stopa.
We bused across the base of the hill, and then proceeded to walk up the hill. When our guuide and sherpa described the hill he said it was Nepali Up. We work on  a sliding [...]

Update from Nepal – Volume 3

Wow what an experience this has been. Its been 10 days of trekking and we have had a ball. I.
We have seen and learnt many things. The first lesson came very early.
The first hill from Pheni to Dhampus was (in my limited Annapurna experience. It was a big hill but nothing compared to later ones) [...]

Update from Nepal, volume 2

I am still in Kathmandu, we drive up to Pokara to start trekking tommorow the Annapurna Circuit.
The weather here is hot, but not as humid as Bangkok. We have had an interesting day today
We started of by going to the monkey temple on the top of a very tall hill in Kathmandu. Yes, we did [...]

update from adventure

Nameste
We had a 12 hour flight so we arrived in Bangkok at 9.30 local time but in New Zealand time it was 1.30 in the morning. We then drove to the hotel, which was in the middle of town, this took about an hour, so we stayed up till 3.30 in the morning. I was [...]

Learning@school 08

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 [...]

Evolution in 5 Minutes – video

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDDph8Oj2BU 
This is a good bit of CGI – as the name suggests it takes you through evolution in one vocal free music backed  five minute block. The start is  at the fish stage and it progresses through to roughly australopithocine in interesting jumps. The video is good, and does illustrate very nicely pockets of evolution [...]

Combat cyberbullying

 
http://mindoh.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/4-steps-to-combat-cyberbullying/ 
This is a good blog entry with good straight forward advice on 4 steps to combating cyberbullying.
The process they recommend is

stop communicating with bully
block the bully
print or save
tell

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HOWCAST

http://www.howcast.com/ 
Howcast is an online HOW TO website that hosts video HOWTO guides and wiki based guides. The range of topic they have is wide:

arts and media
business and finance
careers and education
first aid
environment
technology
and much much more

The videos are of various length and are not limited to 10 minutes.
A caution is the fact that they do have a [...]