Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Digital Wish - Putting Technology in the hands of teachers to prepare today's students for tomorrow

Excellent funding sources for educators.

CK12.org-Flexbooks

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Dipity

Fabulous timeline application that allows you to import from social networking sites as well as from other sources.

Tux4Kids - Projects

a collection of free software including drawing, math, and typing with simple interface.

Friday, August 20, 2010

New Copyright Ruling- eSchool news

New copyright ruling affects educators

Higher-ed students, faculty can legally ‘rip’ portions of DVDs for use in media studies

By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Communication and Collaboration, Higher Ed, Top News

"The Copyright Office deemed K-12 teachers and students ineligible for the exemption, and instead indicated that they should use only screen captures of a film, because K-12 education doesn’t need access to visually high-quality clips, officials ruled."