Outlook Tutorial Series - Creating and Using Distribution Lists

Here is a quick 3 min tutorial on how to create and use distribution lists in outlook. This will save most of us a ton of time with our email contacts. enjoy!

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Outlook Tutorial Series - Importing Contacts

Here is a quick 3 min tutorial on how to import contacts from excel into outlook. This will save most of us a ton of time with not having to retype all of our contacts into outlook.

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School Funding

In one fell swoop, the federal government may have turned the dreary school funding situation in Florida from disastrous to merely terrible.

Read More at...
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/prek/article976855.ece

Google Earth Upgrade

Google Earth allows exploration of oceans- Newest upgrades to program include 3D images of oceans and Mars

A new version of Google Earth allows users to explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch regions of the Earth change over time.

Google Earth 5.0 was unveiled at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where former Vice President Al Gore, singer Jimmy Buffet, and others spoke about its capacity to educate the public about global warming, ocean acidification, and other threats to the planet.

.........the idea of adding oceans came three years ago when a scientist pointed out that the software was missing the water that covers almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface.

Google Earth users can now plunge beneath the ocean's surface, explore three-dimensional images of the underwater terrain, and..........


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With Google Mars 3D, users can view three-dimensional, satellite imagery of the Red Planet taken during NASA space expeditions.

The new version also lets users create narrated tours of places using the software's content and images.

Read more @
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=57093

Link:
http://earth.google.com/

Academic Earth

Check out Academic Earth -

Academic Earth brings video lectures from leading universities into a centralized user-friendly site.

http://academicearth.org/

Smartphones Belong in the Classroom

Technology
Industry Makes Pitch That Smartphones Belong in Classroom
By MATT RICHTEL and BRAD STONE
Published: February 16, 2009
Proponents of the sale of cellphones to schools say they are making the same kind of pitch the computer industry has been profitably making since the 1980s.

read more at.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/technology/16phone.html

Here is a very cool video showing "Siftables." This is from TedTalks. Enjoy!