PNN: A great place for teachers and students to connect!

PNN, or Personal News Network, is a great place where teachers can blog and collect content to share with their students. You can collect all your favorite widgets and news feeds in one place where students can see them.
Check it out!

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NeoOffice: A Free, Open Source Office Suite for Mac which rivals M$ Office

NeoOffice Home
www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

NeoOffice NeoOffice® is an open source software development project created by Patrick Luby and Edward Peterlin

Have you ever had a kid come to school with their homework saved
on a WEEIRD file format that the school computers can't read?
NeoOffice, the Mac version of OpenOffice, has the ability to read and
save as various different file types.
It's very handy, as a
teacher, to be able to look the kid in the eye and say "I can convert
that...". Better yet, encourage the kids to download it (it's
free) and do their homework in it instead of MS Works or WordPerfect or
whatever.

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Connect your students with real experts on your subject matter!

AllExperts.com

AllExperts Questions & Answers
www.allexperts.com/

This is an amazing site where you can get in touch with real experts on any number of topics. It's a great research tool which capitalizes on the power of the internet to bring different people together. It can also provide meaningful adult relationships for students so they can get socialized into interfacing in a professional manner.

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Google Notebook: Quickly Clip interesting Passages to Save and Share

Google Notebook: Clip and collect the web with Google Notebook - Lifehacker

Clip and collect the web with Google Notebook

I really like GNotebook. I'm a high school teacher and I use it to
document the research I do when I'm preparing for a lesson. I'll
usually surf around, filling in my understanding of the topic to be
covered. I can't present it all, but I CAN direct my students to look
at my clips. In a sense, it's like simplified blogging.

I think I'm going to have students document research they do in my
class by maintaining a GNotebook, collecting exemplars of art genres
and commenting. The beauty of it is that it's all automatically
formatted into a blog format and RSS enabled. That's so handy!

I also have GNotebooks for each of the classes I'm taking in my
Master's program so I can keep all my sources in the same place.

You'll be surprised at how easy it is to save bits of websites you'll want to hang onto or share with others!

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