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Follow the steps deatiled in the presentation to create your WordPress.com blog. It’s free. It’s easy. It will make you look cool! Welcome to the blogosphere.
MindMaps with FreeMind
FreeMind is a wonderful concept or mind mapping Open Source program. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you haven’t used it, you should try it. It’s free and helps one work with information in both a right and left brain friendly means. I think of FreeMind as the brainstorming ‘little engine that could.’ It has less feature than Inspiration, but is very useful for free.
Exporting FreeMind to HTML
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Exporting from FreeMind is very easy. The files are written in XML, making them highly flexible for exporting especially to HTML.
Web Sites For Education
We visited many sites today that are interesting and helpful. Take a look at some.
- http://www.brainpop.com
- http://kidshealth.org
- http://www.polleverywhere.com
- http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com
- http://fantasticcontraption.com
- http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10
- http://freeology.com
- http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html
- http://www.nettrekker.com
- http://voicethread.com
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view
- http://www.edutopia.org/scratching-surface-creativity
- http://www.usbourne-quicklinks.com
- http://speakingofhistory.blogspot.com
- http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/dictionary/intro.html
- http://www.webquest.org
- http://www.csta.acm.org/Resources/sub/DownloadableResources.html
- Toward the bottom of the page, PBL resources
- http://www.theapple.com
- http://pocketmod.com
Job Market Snapshot for the rest of 2008
A recent report on the US job market done by CareerBuilder expects a status quo but more competitive landscape for job hunters and employees. However the good news, is the IT industry is the healthiest job market of all. A quote from the report says:
Comparing industries, Information Technology continues to boast the greatest demand with 37 percent of IT employers planning to add full-time, permanent employees in the third quarter.
Scott Le Duc 