Blogger Play

Blogger Play - View the most recently uploaded photos to blogger.com as a slide show movie.

77 Resources

77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer

Some great stuff here and well worth looking at!

Sagan

Evolution from Past to Future at Bionic Teaching

View a clip of the late Carl Sagan narrating an animation of evolution. Pretty interesting stuff!

Dressing Teachers

Dressing Teachers

Nashville’s 75,000 public school students must now adhere to a strict dress code. Collared shirts are mandatory; hoodies and jeans are no longer acceptable. But what about teachers? Nashville parent Rebecca Willocks thinks there’s a double standard. "I saw a teacher’s navel piercing last year and was surprised," she says. "Students can’t get away with that." Nashville’s school board doesn’t think teachers should either.

Tech Ed Left Behind

Tech Ed Left Behind

Vocation programs in New York public high schools have sharply decreased over the past decade due to a lack of funding and an NCLB-driven curriculum. In 1992, 41 percent of the state’s public high school students completed at least one vocational course, compared with 25 percent last year. “We started raising standards and adding more requirements, and something had to fall off the plate,” Buffalo Schools Superintendent James A. Williams told the Buffalo News.

Acer gobbles up Gateway | Crave : The gadget blog

Acer gobbles up Gateway

"...hinting at yesterday's announcement that Taiwanese computer maker Acer has agreed to acquire Gateway, currently the No. 4-ranked PC vendor in the world."

ButtonBuilder - Web Button creation for Mac OS X

ButtonBuilder - Web Button creation for Mac OS X: " Button Builder It's free and easy. Enjoy. Come in, We're open!

This is a pretty cool application that allows you easily create attractive buttons for your website, has gone the way of open-source and is now free.

Sorry, PC folks!

40+ Free Blog Hosts

40+ Free Blog Hosts

Looking for a place for your blog? Here's a whole list

Photojojo » Upload your Photo and Try a New Hairstyle or Grow a Mustache, Virtually

Photojojo » Upload your Photo and Try a New Hairstyle or Grow a Mustache, Virtually: "Whether you prefer the presidential $400 cut, the corner barber shop, or something in between, chances are you’ve spent too many braincycles on those tendrils of dead skin cells emerging from your body."

ViaTalk Free Connect

ViaTalk Free Connect: "Need to make a quick call? Try viatalkfree.com and don’t pay a penny. Enter your area code and phone number in addition to the digits you’d like to dial. Get talking and enjoy up to 10 minutes of talk time. It’s on us!"

I haven't tried it...yet. I assume it's only for US calls.

A quest for good image sites

A quest for good image sites

Great blog article on finding free graphics and Creative Commons License information. Read the comments too as there is more information in that area.

Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity

Developer’s Alarm: 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity:

Lots of shortcut keys here for lots of programs...

ViaTalk Free Connect

ViaTalk Free Connect

It says you can make phone calls up to 10 minutes for free. No registration required. I'll probably try it later today and see what happens. I am assuming it is for the US only.

Stickam

Stickam: Would You Let Your Children Use A Service Owned By Pornographers?

Just came across this article and then checked out the site. Most of the chatrooms there are open to all. Just another site you might want to be aware of...

Save your blog

Save your blog with BlogBackupOnline
If you have a blog (or blogs), this site offers free daily backups. Great for restoring, just in case...

Chalk The Movie

Chalk
Two former teachers from Austin, Texas, have taken the concept of a fictional documentary, recently used to depict the idiosyncrasies of white-collar work in “The Office,” and adapted it for the classroom. “Chalk,” a mockumentary about discouraged educators, follows new teachers as they deal with classroom etiquette, cultural issues, and stereotypes, and delves into the reason why 50 percent of new teachers reportedly quit within their first few years.

It has gotten a lot of mixed reviews from funny and empathetic to demeaning to teachers.

You decide.

VoiceThread

VoiceThread

Create narrations to go along with your photos.

Phoney

Marketcircle: iPhoney

See what your web site will look like on an iPhone. Free download.

PassPack - Online Privacy Manager

PassPack - Online Privacy Manager

It's free and all recommendations I have read are positive.

7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle | Smashing Magazine

7 Brilliant Free Fonts:
Some very nice fonts (and free!) for you..