Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 08/30/2010
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Changing online education - Sneffel
New tools to facilitate elearning are cropping up including this site that gives elearning students online whiteboards to share. (I use elluminate for this purpose, but there are other options.)
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Rebecca Zook - Math Tutoring Online
Interesting tutoring website for help in math. This site was covered in mashable recently.
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Smilebox Teacher's Toolbox Frequently Asked Questions
INformation on the complimentary smilebox program.
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Welcome to Smilebox's Teacher's Toolbox
This organization is offering a free one year subscription to smilebox for teachers. Apply here. You can do your parent newsletters, certificates, scrapbooks, slideshows, and yearbooks.
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Teachbook - Online Community for Teachers
Here is teachbook - despite being in the news, I tried to join and couldn't!
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Facebook Trademark Lawsuit Aims to Limit Use of "Book" by Others - Annotated
"Facebook filed suit against teachbook.com, an online community for teachers. The lawsuit accuses Teachbook of "misappropriating the distinctive BOOK portion of Facebook's trademark." and says that it "diultes the facebook brandname."
Teachbook has filed for a trademark and makes a claim of being a "Facebook for teachers," and that is personally, where I think they may be in trouble. Read more... -
Teachers in Atlanta, Georgia area (or anywhere close enough to travel to vinings shopping area) can fill out this form to win a $100 gift card being given away to teachers only.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
