Office 2.0 Database

Having trouble keeping track of all the companies that are building the current crop of web-based office apps? The Office 2.0 Database is a handy directory of all of 'em, broken down into categories. Need a web-based word processor? You've got eight to choose from. PowerPoint replacement? Five of 'em, and so on.
Office 2.0 Database: "Development Tool"

ThinkFree

Web 2.0 has some great new things. Think Free is an online office, complete with 1 GB space and collaboration available. Check out the way applications will be in the future.

sabifoo

sabifoo
Sabifoo is a service that lets you create and add items to an RSS feed simply by sending IMs. It's a delightfully minimal service. There's no registration or sign-on, and in fact you can get started without even visiting the Sabifoo web site. Just send a message to sabifoo on your IM service of choice (or sabifoo@sabifoo.com for MSN or Jabber) and it'll be added to your RSS feed. You can type !help to get a link to the help page as well as your RSS feed. One thing that's missing (at least when using AIM) is text formatting, but hopefully they'll get around to that. I can think of a number of uses for this, in particular linkblogs and sending yourself notes from your mobile phone.

Waste of Bandwidth

The Word that Will Get Your Blog Censored by Texas Schools Districts

Odeo: Record and Share Audio

Odeo: Record and Share Audio

Odeo is a creative way to record and share audio—and it’s free. You can record audio and then share it with your Odeo contacts, by email, or by placing it in a Channel for all the world to hear. Audio from Odeo can be downloaded to desktops, iPods, and mp3 players.

Mayang's Free Texture Library

Mayang's Free Texture Library

Over 3000 free to download but there is a limit of 20 per day.

Accessible Web Development Resources

Accessible Web Development Resources
Lots of links here to various resource for web accessibility, making text legible, scripting accessibility, accessibile multimedia, etc. Definitely a resource you should check out.

WebsiteTips.com

WebsiteTips.com : "WebsiteTips.com is an educational Web site design and development resource especially for Web site owners, Web designers, Web professionals, webmasters, teachers and educators, and students."

This site is jam packed with articles, tutorials, tips, links, book recommendations, and more. I found it from a link to a link to a link...

Podcasting!

How to use podcasts at your school from Will Richardson.

Read about my next project! From what I have been reading, all that you need is your computer, a microphone, and some free software. I hear it is quite addicting and people wind up buying better equipment and software. I have lots of ideas for podcasts for our site. Now, to enlist the folks to make them...

The cost of spam

Did you know that spam’s going to cost us $198 billion next year?

* That’s a laptop computer, xBox 360, the yet to be released PlayStation 3, a PSP, broadband Internet for a year, and cell phone and PDA — for every public school child in the United States. (Video Game Consoles Reviews)
* It’s almost four million more teachers. (Digest of Education Statistics)
* Six Category five withstanding levees and floodgates around New Orleans. (All Things Considered)
* That’s four times would it would cost to end chronic hunger in the world (Allen).

We need to make clear to children that spam, virus, and hacking are not a game, that they cost us all a lot.
From: davidwarlick.com/2cents

Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site

Excellent, easy-to-read articles from the W3C on The Web Accesibility Initiative. This is the WAI home site.

iPod in the Classroom - Lesson Plans

Apple - Education - iPod in the Classroom - Lesson Plans: Some great FREE lesson plans for using an iPod in your classroom