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Filed under: Utilities

Lightes - worst download ever?

stoplightAs a teacher, I know teachers are always looking for a good deal. But even as a free download, Lightes is not worth it.

Many classrooms have a red/yellow/green system for behavior monitoring. Kind of like a stop light, red means stop, green means go. Pretty basic. The folks over at frontbridge computers made it a little too basic though.

Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off. Press the button labeled red and the rectangle turns red. Press the yellow button and it turns yellow. Same with green. The off button clears the rectangle to gray. That's all it does. There is a timer button but no matter what number I enter, as soon as I press timer I get a window that pops up and says done.

Cnet TV ranked lightes as the number one worst downloads of the summer of 2008. On the frontbridge home page Lightes is called the "star program of all time." Yikes.

Filed under: Features

Five ways to improve technology in education

Monster teaching Monsters
I was fortunate enough to see David Pogue's keynote on the opening day of the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference this Monday in Hershey, PA. PETE&C is a state-wide conference aimed at bringing together school technology directors, teachers, principals, IT professionals, and vendors to advance the state of technology in education.

While listening to Pogue briefly touch on many emerging trends and technologies like VoIP, improved text-to-speech, "Web 2.0" sites, and ubiquitous wireless, it became clear from the audience gasps and collective jaw-dropping that educators are not keeping up with technology changes. Demonstrations of technologies that have been around for more than two years were causing the educators to feverishly put pen to paper so they can take things like Skype back to their schools to use in the curriculum.

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Filed under: Business, Fun, Internet, Kids, Text, Web services, Social Software

Teaching and learning online with edu 2.0

Teaching and learning online with edu 2.0In keeping the school theme we have been running with, a newer educational tool to enter the market is Edu 2.0. This web based education website that holds features for teachers, student and parents that aid in learning wherever the user is connected.

There are four main sections to the site. A teaching section where teachers can host a class using a specially designed learning management system. The learning section where students can participate in classes at their own pace. A resource section where contributed resources complete with quizzes, experiments, projects and self paced course can be followed and taken. Then there is the community section. This allows for collaboration between members, sharing and collaborating on educational interests.

Edu 2.0 is free to sign up to, and provides a wide range of topics including art, computers, english, foreign languages, health, math, science, and physical education.

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Filed under: Business, Fun, Kids, Productivity, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software

Yahoo! Teachers, a social network for teachers

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Teachers are getting their very own space in the social network scene, thanks to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Teachers is the latest entry into the social network space. This social network collaborative space is a peer network put together by teachers and for teachers with the help of Yahoo!. When launched, it will allow teachers to create, modify and share standards based curriculum.

Yahoo! Teachers is free for all teachers, administrators and education specialists. It is not out in the market yet, but there is a beta sign-up form on the website. Teachers do however have access to locate peers across the US by entering their zip code and locating school to register themselves.

Filed under: Fun, Kids, Blogging

Create Visual Stories with StoryTop

StoryTop lets you drag and drop to create storyboardsThere are few more entertaining ways to pass the time on a flight than to pull out your copy of Skymall and begin inscribing funny quotations and thought balloons above the heads of the models hawking their wears. StoryTop takes that concept and makes it web based.

StoryTop is a little JavaScript tool that lets you include elements from their library of people, animal, and background clipart and then assign text and comments to the action taking place. The site is very easy to use and very kid and teacher friendly. Drag elements onto the canvas to start manipulating them, drag them back into the library to delete them. You can even create stories that develop over multiple pages. Editing and changing the size of the elements is very easy and has virtually no learning curve.

The example of the left took just thirty seconds to build.

No signup is required but you can create an account to save your stories and share them with friends or groups.



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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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