Resources May 21, 2010

Let’s face it: Social networking is here to stay. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, or the next application to come along, social networking is a part of students' lives. So, how can we use this trend to further learning?

These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose. We will also try to keep the list updated, so if your favorite download site is not here, let us know about it with a comment. Audio Books Librivox: One of the most popular audio libraries on the web. The LibriVox volunteers record books that are in the public domain and release them for free.

What it is: Captain Coordinate is a fun, fully narrated, interactive game that teaches students about geography and scale. The game is one of the “Freebes” from Sherston.

The Internet is overloaded with content the problem is not finding information it is about finding the right information Search and different methods

Bring new life to your old videos with services from Pixorial. We convert video, then help you to organize, label, edit, and then share your favorite video moments with family and friends.

Each week, Simon Collier and I collaborate on a weekly email newsletter called Tech Tools for Teachers to inform teachers of useful online tools. Find out more

Because of the popularity of my previous article on Help Desk Geek entitled 99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast, I’ve decided to write another list post with 99 items, but this time on Windows freeware programs that you may have not heard of.

Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
So maybe you used a public PC to log into your Facebook account and you hit a button that saved your login credentials. Or maybe you received an email from what you thought was Facebook and you plugged in your username and password and got phished. Now someone other than you has your account information and they are logging in to torture you or steak from your friends.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a degree of control over that?
Facebook just introduced a security setting that sends you an email telling you someone has just logged into your account.
The feature doesn’t protect you from being stupid and giving your credentials away, but it does give you an opportunity to log into your account and change the password and thereby block the bad guy from getting back in. But the bad guy can change your log in information too. All they have to do is change your email address. Once they do they receive an email at the new address and hit a confirm link.

TV meets web. Web meets TV. Learn more at www.google.com/tv.

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Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek

Meet the Youngest Ever Microsoft System Engineer : This is Marco Calasan. He's nine years old, and with his four Microsoft certificates he is the youngest Microsoft systems engineer in the world.

Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to ...

Screen captures are one of the most widely used features from a computer user’s point of view. In some capacity, they are used by almost everyone. We have

I have several websites that I maintain for clients. I need to have up to date live copies of their data in case something goes wrong with their webhosts. I

Poll on things that deter educators from using tech when teachiing kids

Google has finally announced their newest product out the doors, Google TV. But with the release today people have many questions still on what it is and where

MyKidsTurn is about our kids -- yours and ours -- and how we're going to make sure that they have the best opportunity we can give them to succeed at school.

Facebook, MySpace and other big social sites have been found to have been giving your information away freely to large advertising companies without permission.

A newspaper built from all the articles, blog posts, videos and photos shared on Twitter.

50,000 Views On A YouTube Video And All I Got Was This Lousy Blog Post

Great resource page of Smartboard Lessons

Vocaroo is a shiny new service for sending voice messages across the interwebs.