Interactive WhiteBoards: I’ve posted briefly before about interactive whiteboards and if you’ve ever attended one of my workshops, you’ve likely heard me rave about the Smartboard I used to teach with in my classroom. It’s the one tool I would honestly have a very difficult time teaching in a classroom without! Anyway, I came across this techlearning posting about interactive whiteboards and thought it was a very concise description of why they have recently become so popular in the education world. It’s a quick read and worth your time if you’re curious about these boards! http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196605172
Seussville Book Creator: Another GREAT find by the NW Coordinator, Jim; this is a Dr. Seuss website where you/your students can create an animated book with Horton characters by choosing your scenes, your characters and then typing in your script! Very fun and likely to motivate a few of your reluctant writers to express themselves a little! Check it out:
http://www.seussville.com/games/storymaker/story_maker.html
DropIO: A free and easy way to exchange files, large or small, via the internet with other people you are collaborating with. This would be a good way to share/exchange podcast files you’re class with working on with someone in another class who is maybe editing them and then posting the episodes, etc! 
Check this out. There is no need to use your email address, no account to set up, it is private and any sort of media can be “dropped.” http://drop.io/
PATINS State Conference: Don’t forget to submit a call for papers for the 2008 PATINS State Conference General Sessions! Click Here: http://www.patinsproject.com/htm/trainop.html
~EduChallenge #6~
So, last time you were to make sure you had Firefox installed and then to get the Hyperwords Add-on installed into Firefox. (See last weeks post if you’re behind 
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This week, take that Hyperwords application and come up with just one single use for it for one specific student in your classroom. Remember all the cool things that Hyperwords can do: translate, link to references, searching, speech to text, highlighting, etc.
THEN, come back here and post comments on your ideas. Don’t post any student names of course, but post a quick comment on your idea and the student’s barrier to learning you think it might help with. This could be a great resource/idea/networking tool IF you all come back here and post comments! …OK, Go!
..and submit a Call For Papers!
http://www.patinsproject.com/htm/trainop.html
