Donating Projectors to Schools

Meeting Tomorrow are giving away a projector to 10 schools based on the results of a poll conducted over the Internet. The offer is open to any school located in the United States.

As Zachary Caudill, Community Outreach Manager, explains "Our company wants to give back to the nation’s education system, and hopefully set an example for other companies in our industry to follow suit".

Voting ends 31st March so vote now and vote often!!

Nice Idea......  Any Irish companies interested????? :-)

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Colour Me Beautiful!

ColorJack provides great tools for picking and coordinating colours. The tools include:

* Color Galaxy - online colour library visualizer
* Color Sphere - visualize colour theory. It also comes in widget form
* DHTML Color Picker - pick colours in fine detail
* Color Matrix Library -  colour functions - hue, saturation etc.
* Color Blindness Library -  color blind simulation
* Color Conversion Library -  convert to/from various colour formats



And as if that was not enough ColorJack have also created Sketchpad - a drawing application including the following tools: text, shape, spirograph, brush, calligraphy, pencil, paint-bucket and stamp.

Colors, gradients, and patterns as well as some generic drawing utilities (marquee, crop, eraser and a HSL/RGBA Color-Picker) are also included.

ColorJack could be useful for many different subject areas including web design, graphic design, art, mathematics, physics...... etc.

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Make Your PDFs Web Friendly

Make your PDFs web friendly in just three easy steps using Youblisher.

The 3 easy steps involve:
1. Uploading the PDF
2. Letting Youblisher work their magic
3. Adding the link to your website

The PDF document becomes flippable and quick loading. It feels just like working with a real document. As an improvement, I would like to see 'zoom in' retained when you flip from one page to another - rather than zooming out each time. Apart from that, you and your website visitors "will love it!"

Already have it in action on our College Website :-)

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50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders and More....

The Online Universities Blog provides great compilations of links for teachers and students. The latest list contains their recommendation for the 50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders.

The list is nicely broken down into the following areas:
* Education News
* Subject Specific
* Inspiration and Innovation
* Educational Policy
* Educational Technology

I was delighted and honored to find that my companion blog, Free Resources for Education, has been included in the Inspiration and Innovation section. Many thanks Carol :-)

You will find many more useful compilations on the Online Universities Blog. Just to give you an idea here are some of their recent posts:

• 100 Best Reference Sites for Science Students
• 100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online
• 75 Books Every Writer Should Read
• Intelligent Viewing: 100 Most Informative Video Collections on the Web
• 50 Best Blogs for Special Ed Teachers

Any time spent searching the site will, undoubtedly, unearth some very useful treasures. Well worth adding the Online Universities Blog to your RSS Reader now!

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Join in the 4C Initiative

The 4C Initiative is all about content, capability, connection and collaboration.

The four stated aims of the 4C Initiative are:
(i) develop a digital content supply network for education
(ii) connect education to a billion digital resources in the next ten years
(iii) help educators and educational institutions worldwide to collaborate
(iv) build local digital content publishing capacity worldwide.

The 4C Initiative will be "providing educators and learners with the skills to discover, use, create and share content with others in the learning community worldwide".

Free training and a resource repository, at The Global Grid for Learning, are being provided.

The free webinars will run from 4th February 2010 to 29th April 2010. Although the first session is already full you can still register for the rest of the series!! Also, don't worry if you can't make the live sessions as all the recordings will be provided.

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Designer Tag Clouds

Tagul lets you produce beautiful functional tag clouds for the web. These tag clouds may be embedded in any web page and serve as a functioning navigation unit as each tag is linked with a URL.

Tagul clouds can be created from a text file containing your list of words or from an existing website (using the URL). Each word weight is determined by how often it occurs in the source file.

There is lots of flexibility in choosing the font style, rotation of words, background colours and text colours. Tagul, also, lets you exclude words from your finalised cloud.

With minimum effort, you can produce very useful navigational tag clouds that are also visually appealing - although maximum number of tags in a cloud is limited to 300.

The example included here was created using the International Edubloggers Directory URL. Interestingly, the Wordle example, also shown below, created from the same URL produced quite a different tag result!




Image created with Wordle

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Enlightening Articles on Assessment

The second issue of the Tunisian English Language Teaching Forum (January 2010) provides some very interesting articles on the topic of 'Assessment'.

A subject, which by and large, affects all of us in education!

Tarak Brahmi has once again produced a highly professional layout, which enhances the reading experience. The Tunisian English Language Teaching Forum would be a great addition in any 'eLibrary'!

I, also, love the 'lighter side' puzzles page. The one below should get you thinking:

Problem
A little boy lives on the 15th floor. Every day, he tells his mom goodbye, takes the lift down, and goes to school. In the afternoon, he comes back home, takes the lift up, and stops at the 7th floor, then continues home on foot. Why?

The answer can be found in the magazine :-)

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