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!

I Need your Help... :-)

I have a tech question that i need help with. :-) I recently was on "Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy" Radio Show http://twit.tv/ttg529. I had a question that I needed help with from Leo. And now I am looking for help from you.

I did a little editing (down to about 5 mins) and have saved the mp3 file so you can take a listen at.....
ThumbDriveThursday

I am looking to hook up my old computer monitor to use as a television. Leo tells me (listen here) that I can hook it up to a cable box. Before I go and rent a cable box, does anyone have a cable box and possibly a HDMI to DVI converter that I could borrow to try it out?

Thanks so much.
See you next week.

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Printing to a .pdf Document

This week we take a look at printing to a .pdf document (using cutepdf) rather than printing to paper. Why would we want to do that?

Click here to find out!