As a person without any disabilities, I find the iPhone an invaluable tool in helping to keep me organized, happy and informed.  Recently, James Nuttall posted to his blog what his iPhone is worth to him and it was an amazing $8700!!! James, who has a vision impairment, shares all the equipment he has owned, or uses on a regular ...

Heard about a really interesting tool from @smeech on Twitter.  He posted a great screencast (from @kolsen4) about Omnidazzle.  Omnidazzle is a free plugin for Macs that allows you to highlight and change a screen temporarily on a smartboard or projector.  Check out the Screencast here. Some of cool tools in this product are: Sonar - ...

I just discovered Slide, a fabulously easy slide show creator, that is very student friendly via Barb Gilman’s fabulous classroom wiki. There are lots of ways to customize this FREE tool.  My students have been taking screenshots of eagles and owls from live webcams and we have tons of wonderful pics. They will love using Slide to show off ...

Top 10 Free Technology Tools for Young Learners

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Welcome to the third post in my  Googal In Google Series giving an in depth view of the Google Advanced Search Engine. In this third of a three part posting, I will cover some great techniques many people do not know or seldom use in the Google Advanced Search.  As always,  feel free to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email, follow me on ...

Welcome to the second post in my  Googal In Google Series giving an in depth view of the Google Advanced Search Engine. In this second of a three part posting, I will cover some great techniques many people do not know or seldom use in the Google Advanced Search.  As always,  feel free to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email, follow me on ...

Dear enterprising developers of the world, I have a request: I travel a lot. I prefer staying in apartments to staying in hotels. But I hate imposing on friends and, frankly, crashing on couches isn’t as fun as it used to be. When I’m lucky, I randomly learn that a friend is out of town and [...]

Welcome to the second in a series of articles based on Intel Thinking Tools, an amazing set of free tools from Intel. The tool I include today is called the Seeing Reason Tool  , one of Intel’s amazing Online Thinking Tools. The description is perfect for those educators wanting their students engaged in 21st Century learning  activities in the ...

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