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Yellow “Star Wars” Opening Text Crawl Tutorial!
Instructions and link to software that helps you create your own “opening crawl” from Star Wars
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Watchmen: An Oral History | Watchmen | Book News | News | Entertainment Weekly | 1
An interview with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons on the creation of the graphic novel “Watchmen.” If you haven’t read Watchmen, you should!
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‘Watchmen’: Exclusive first look! | Watchmen | Comic-Con ‘08 Preview: Cover Story | Movies [...]

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Embedding Jing Screencasts Into Blog Posts | The Edublogger
Here is a method for embedding Jing screencasts into your blog. Thanks to Michael Richards for the link.
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Revenge of the Smart Playlist: 5 tricks for packrats & power users | 43 Folders
Some great tips on some simple hacks to [...]

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Best Children’s Picture Books Online - BigUniverse.com
Offers tons of children’s books that can be read online for free. Also has a tool that lets kids write, illustrate, and publish their own books. Thanks to Wes Fryer for the link.
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Tech Without Support: IT Snags Hamper Schools’ Technology Use | Edutopia
This article discusses some alternate methods of tech support in schools, including using students.
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Welcome to Graceway Church - SE Charlotte, NC
The website for my brother’s new church that he is starting. The site uses Joomla.
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Joomla!
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. [...]

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Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student Writing- Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / blogging
A list of resources for classroom blogging.
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Applied Math 40S (Winter 2008)
This is a fantastic example of a classroom blog and it is from a math class!
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Miller’s English 10 [...]

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Since January, I have been hosting an almost weekly professional development group in my classroom. Our “Laptop Lunch” group is a time for interested teachers to get together and learn ways to use our MLTI laptops personally and in the classroom. I set up a wiki as a place to keep notes from [...]

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Chris Lehmann: The Pedagogical Visionary of School 2.0 » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
“School 2.0: Combining Progressive Pedagogy and 21st-Century Tools” from NECC2008. Description of the session was: In our hurry to learn “What’s new,” we can’t lose sight of “What’s best?” Examine using the new tools in school-wide, constru
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