The future of print magazines by example

This is a must see!!! http://mag1.olivesoftware.com/ActiveMagazine/welcome/BLG/Bloggers-04-2007.asp

Click on the magazine cover. Now you can flip through the pages. The advertisements are pretty cool too.

Raising Small Souls

Here is a great clip. http://itls.saisd.net/mg/video/animalschool.swf
Source Raising Small Souls

Enjoy

Why Just Filters Will Never Be Enough

I am encouraging all staff to take a look at www.schoolboredom.com. One of many, many, many sites your kids know about that you don't.


Why Internet filters alone just can't do the job of ensuring safe and appropriate use of the Internet in schools.

But then you knew that already.

Trusting Wikipedia - new research

So here is a research study about Wikipedia that comes to the conclusion that the more edits there are to a particular article the more accurate it is.

WOW!!!

Working with FLV
from Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net by mguhlin@yahoo.com (Miguel Guhlin - www.mguhlin.net)

Just a quick post to share a neat online video conversion tool I came across today. vixy.net allows you to enter the URL of an online FLV video (think YouTube) and it will automatically download and convert it to one of five file types (MOV, AVI, MP4, 3GP, or MP3) which can then be saved to your computer. The tool is fast, works great, and succeeded in getting around the filters the school district has in place.

HeyWatch.com. He shares the following:
HeyWatch allowed me to upload my files, convert them into WMV and download them.
It appears to have other neat features as well. You can grab videos from
Grab videos from the usual online video services and encode them for a variety of formats, including WII, etc. Worth checking out!

Free is good

Doug says educational software can be free and has a nice article and links.
It is really worth your time.

Sense of Urgency

In education today there is a great sense of urgency. Watch this video and reflect on how it relates to education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvXhj0WFloM