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ScreenToaster (Everyone and FREE!)

Jing (Mac and PC) (FREE)

Screencast-O-Matic (PC AN MAC) (FREE)

Screen Capture

Mac have had Command-Shift 3 and Command-Shift 4 for as long as I can remember. Command-Shift 3 gives you a screen shot of the entire screen saved to your desktop as Picture # and Command-Shift 4 bring up a cross hair that allows you to draw a box around what you want to capture and saves that file on your desktop as Picture #.

PCs must have some love too….Vista has a great too built in called Snipping Tool but XP well, it doesn’t have much so there is … PrtScr (FREE) this works for Vista too but adds some features to just your normal Print Screen command

Great day.  First off here is a great link a Movie Maker manual, read and enjoy!

For Day Two we are going to take some time to look at online resources here are some to start the day, we will discuss later.

PhET
PhET Interactive Simulations is an ongoing effort to provide an extensive suite of simulations to improve the way that physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math are taught and learned.

Examples of some resources…more to come…

“Chalrkbored”

Skydrive for the Group

Dropbox FOR YOU

Drop Box for 6th Grade Teachers
Drop Box for 8th Grade Teachers

Open Office

Gimp

6th Grade Group – Google Groups

8th Grade Group – Google Groups

Drop Box Link

Here is the presentation from todays class!

Learn to Fly (Mr. Wilcox)

Ships….

You need Firefox

Then you need the Google Earth Plugin

Then you need to load the web site for ships!!!

Binary Converter

Visual Network Trace

Google Earth Flight Simulator

Google Maps

Mathematics Web Pages Google Docs

Here are the podcasts and blogs I find both useful and interesting. All of these can be found on iTunes, you can also download episodes off their web sites. I listen to these every week when there are posts, and I have put in my descriptions ones that have had some inappropriate language, but this is only occasionally and not frequent in any. One word of caution, I do tend toward the geeky side!

Buzz Out Loud Daily podcast hosted by Tom Merritt and crew cover the daily tech news. This podcast is posted very regularly and is normally posted in the afternoon. I generally listen the next day, but you could listen to it in the evenings too!

TWiT This Week in Tech

This is hosted by Leo Laporte of the old TechTv. Leo brings in many other hosts to talk about the tech news of the week. Generally lasts about one hour and is safe for high school listeners. They can get a bit campy sometimes. This podcast spawned several other podcasts and is now more of a network. There are several other podcasts at www.twit.tv.

Windows Weekly

Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte host this somewhat weekly podcast about MS Windows issues, new and upcoming projects.

DIGG

Social news networking site…

Download Squad

New site, software and other resources…

TechCruch

News and information

Engadget

Recent news, resources, websites

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