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• Installed Google desktop on our MDG flip to provide a more powerful computer file search tool; sidebar gadgets might distract students. #
• WordPress allows you to compare revisions (like Google Docs or WikiSpaces), but you can only compare the HTML code, not the WYSIWYG text. #
• Is there a way to hide certain WordPress posts from getting published in the RSS feed? #
• Assign a drive letter to a folder in Windows
  http://bit.ly/MvSDf #
• Is there a screen protector for a 9″ touch screen netbook (MDG flip tablet)? Something similar to the screen protectors for PDAs, Palms, etc #
• What do you really want out of life? #
• Reasons come first; answers come second. What do you want out of life? How are you going to make that happen? #
• Twenty percent of our actions will lead to eighty percent of our results. Where are you spending your time? #
• Installed Windows Search on our MDG flip http://bit.ly/geV58 #
• 2gopc offers the MDG flip branded under a different name. What’s the difference? http://www.2gopc.com/ #
• The upgrade for MS Office costs $150 less than the full version. It’s cheaper to buy MS Works ($40) and upgrade than buy the full version. #
• Thinking about buying a camera phone and taking images of real-world literacy and numeracy to use in the classroom. #
• Use twitter to let parents know of homework / school / class events. (Our Google docs blog doesn’t have a RSS feed) http://bit.ly/vPB1V #
• You can’t create hyperlinks in a Google Docs spreadsheet. (You can in MS excel) #
• MS Outlook plugin to sync with your Google Calendar http://bit.ly/aktYy #
• If you use Twitter as a homework calendar for parents/students, you can’t edit any tweets if you make a mistake. #
• We’re still looking at using the RSS feed from our WordPress homework blog to allow parents/students to receive email updates for homework. #
• Manage music files and sync with ipods without using itunes (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) #
• Both itunes and mediamonkey will let you sync music with your ipod but mediamonkey takes less space (iTunes: 111 mb; MediaMonkey: 32.1 mb) #
• http://twitpic.com/a6km8 – Use twitpic to post pics to your twitter account. Emails or web access, no SMS http://twitpic.com #
• Evernote: You can change the colour / ink width when handwriting notes but when you type, you can’t change the font / colour / bold, etc. #
• WordPress plugins to make your classroom wordpress blog mobile browser (WAP) accessible http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/wap #
• Update your social networks using ping.fm (http://ping.fm) through a WordPress plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/pingfm #
• Global phone to phone via calling a local number. How good is jajah? (http://www.jajah.com/) #
• Critical thinking in the classroom: Who can you trust for unbiased product reviews? Consumer Reports, How Stuff Works, Wikipedia, News #
• Can we trust Consumer Reports because they don’t accept ads and are non-profit? (http://bit.ly/XHoKp #
• How Stuff works is owned by Discovery (Channel) – can we trust them for unbiased reviews? http://bit.ly/MSY25 #
• Wikipedia has collaborative editing; well-intentioned editors try to keep it reliable http://bit.ly/mKlJV #
• The Pearson Gr 8 “Cyber Sense” text discusses astroturfing: corporate marketing people leaving positive reviews of their products on blogs. #
• Did our review of the MDG flip get astroturfed? http://bit.ly/aS4VT #

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