Livescribe Releases Sound Stickers App

While I was at ISTE 2011 I had a chance to visit with Livescribe and find out all of the latest developments that are happening with the Livescribe technology. For the past couple of years many of us who have been using the Livescribe pens have come with some interesting ways to adapt the technology so that text can be read on ordinary paper. I have highlighted that in some of my older blog posts- but today using the Livescribe Sound Sticker app and the supplied Sound Stickers you can quickly place a sticker on any paper and tap the sticker to record whatever you like. Once you download the latest version of the Livescribe Desktop software and...

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Visit With Me ISTE 2011

It is hard to believe that ISTE 2011 is around the corner! I will be heading out tomorrow to ISTE 2011 for three days of nothing but educational technology. What a joy! ISTE 2011 is one of my favorite educational technology conferences and gives me a chance to spot trends and connect with other educators. I have set up a number of meetings with both educational publishers and hardware developers and hope to get some new information to you via tweets and the blog. If you will be attending ISTE 2011, stop by the Canson PaperShow Booth # 128 and take a test drive of PaperShow for Teachers ($249). Later stop by at the HoverCam Booth #3119 and see...

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PAPERSHOW Teacher’s Edition™ Ideal Tool for Special Education Co-Teaching Classrooms

        CONTACT:                                                                Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.                                (908) 852-3460                                brian (@) assistivetek.com                    ...

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Using WikiSummarizer with PersonalBrain

When I think about the PersonalBrain I always think of it as an ideal tool for helping me to see relationships among the data points that I have added to the brain. The PersonalBrain is an ideal tool for storing all kinds of related information that you want to have at your fingertips. In this respect I decided to see what would happen if I imported the contents of WikiSummerizer, a new web based contextual summarization engine from Context Discovery, Inc.If you have never tried out WikiSummarizer, it is a great tool to help you build background knowledge quickly on just about any topic that can be found in Wikipedia. Once...

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Using the HoverCam T3 with my iPad

Over the last couple of weeks I have been exploring different ways I can use the HoverCam T3 in the work that I do. Just this past week, I had the opportunity to teach my graduate students all about the iPad and the various apps that are out there to support students learning and communication. What a great chance for me to try my HoverCam T3 with my iPad as I walked through step by step demonstrating to my students how to navigate on the iPad. For one thing the HoverCam T3 is very easy to set up and the HoverCam Flex software makes it a dream to capture your documents and images under the camera. Since I have a first generation iPad video out...

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PaperShow for Teachers - Interesting Classroom Use

Today I had the opportunity to work with a teacher and show her how she could use PaperShow for Teachers in the classroom. As luck would have it, all of her students were going to be taking the NJ Drivers Written Exam and she needed to review the material with them. Rather than do a traditional question and answer session the teacher began to draw different scenarios on the PaperShow for Teachers notebook that the students could visualize and then annotate on the paper. The session was extremely engaging and interactive but more importantly the students really enjoyed writing on the PaperShow for Teachers notebook and reviewing the material....

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Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child [Kindle Edition]

It was really exciting to learn today that my book that I coauthored several years ago-Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child [Kindle Edition], Elias, Tobias & Friedlander  is available in a Kindle Edition and is ready to be downloaded. You will find the book easy to read with lots of timely advice, humor, and stories. If you have a Kindle you can click in the link below to download the book. Let me know how you like ...

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SmartDraw VP Upgrade -Adds New Mind Mapping Features

If you follow the mind mapping arena you will probably have noticed the blogs and videos that SmartDraw has created about the benefits of visual communication. The videos are done very well and really speak to the heart of the issue- with the right visuals we can all be more efficient and productive at what we do.SmartDraw VP has a good balance of tools for many of the tasks that you may need to accomplish throughout the day. While the mind mapping features that are found in SmartDraw VP are not as extensive as a stand alone application there is a synergy among the tools that might make it an ideal tool for the work you do. The mind mapping tool...

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newspaper map | 10000+ online newspapers in the world, translate with one click tags: newspapers map world onlinenewspapers newspaper worldlanguage JotForm · Easiest Form Builder Create forms easily and quickly. Many options tags: forms Record & Share your PowerPoint presentations | Present.me "With Present.Me you just upload your slides, click record, present into your webcam and then publish...

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Google Chrome 12 stable version released

Updated version of Google Chrome has quickly come to 12, this time Google has brought the security upgrade, and now Chrome will automatically checks for you to download the file is not malicious software, you can also adjust the site in Chrome is stored in your computer information, including Flash Cookies, As for the graphics processing, Chrome 12 also supports hardware acceleration and 3D CSS, you can go to Chrome Experiment try to zoom and rotate video features. Other small updates such as searching directly in the Chrome URL bar applications, and home improvement, and so set the interface, Chrome users should have updated to the latest...

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Twitter + Blog + Internet Forum = Tribalfish

Popular topics discussed on the Internet have multiple choices. You can track the topic or celebrities on Twitter, you can also share experiences on the blog, but also the Internet forum you come to me. However, Twitter is not enough in-depth discussion on, blogs and forums enough depth, and not immediate.Tribalfish is Great tool set discussed above.Up logging in, you will see the interface like Internet forums. But, the interface is different from online forums, you must look for a different topic before, open the pages and pages of pages, Tribalfish so you can stay in the original page, click directly interested in the content, and in the right...

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Html5/css3 Wordpress 3.1+ theme : Yoko

I am pleased to review another wordpress theme, called Yoko. I am really Appreciate yoko designers they are very talented peoples. Those names are Ellen and Manuel from elmastudio and they are released for the web design community. This theme is absolutely free to use in commercial projects and private also.Yoko is a stylish and flexible wordpress theme with approachable layout, based on css3 media queries, this theme is auto adjusts to different screen resolution. Download theme: The design is optimized for large desktop screens, tablets and mini smart phones. Make your blog more creatures that will be able you to use your own logo, header,...

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Free wordpress theme 3.1: splendio (psd)

I am happy to inform you; I got one wordpress theme, that's very beautiful, this theme made by vlad and elena. The theme is free to use in both private and commercial projects. About this template:Upper part: News slider for the special articles and main area can contain the content of your latest articles.Right side: You'll find overview of latest Articles and latest tweets and something of your website promotion related.Upper right side part:This features shown your latest comments of your website and you can also put any promotional widget.Gallery: In case you wish to showcase your latest photos have an option above the footer. You can place...

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How twitter users are getting their questions answered

The purpose of people use twitter vary, some to get the latest news, some friends and colleagues to keep in touch with some of their fans would like to ask some questions, the following chart this information in Sina microblogging uploaded a few days, and I see them Some details worth noting, translated into Chinese and share with you.twitter all types of users every day to ask the question, April daily average of 102,322 issues, which is about the largest type of product recommendation and advice of the ( products recommendations and Advice 13% ), which means that More and more people will use before shopping some social networks, needs friends...

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Try out the best utility – Digsby!

Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. It can additionally provide feeds from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, as well as your webmail accounts, providing a full social experience in a single client.In the new versions of Digsby, the Facebook Chat has also come up as an interesting service. This way, you can manage all your chats, emails and feeds in single software. The most appealing aspect of Digsby is that it is light, user-friendly and efficient and can be trusted. Digsby has built in additional features such...

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Personal Touch High Tech- The Livescribe Pen in Action

If you are in business you know just how important written communication is in helping you to stay connected to your clients. While a lot has been written about business people writing personal notes, I know that it is time consuming and can add some costs to the bottom line. But what would happen if you could write that personal note in your handwriting and send it off as an email? Now you get the best of both world- the ability to write a personal note in your handwriting and send it off as an email. Using the Livescribe Echo Pen and the new Livescribe Connect services I was able to write my personal note on the Flip Notepad paper and then...

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BBC News - Endeavour space shuttle set for final touchdown The children out there ought to be inspired that when they get to go to space they'll probably get to go beyond low-Earth orbit, maybe to the Moon, maybe to Mars or beyond." Intel® The Museum of Me a MUST SEE! tags: facebook museum Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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HP-UX: What now? / E agora?

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:You know I usually stick to Informix related topics, but a few weeks ago something was announced that has to make us think... As we all know by now, Oracle announced that future versions of their software products will not support HP-UX running on Intel Itanium chips.Why do we have to think about it? Well, from my personal perspective because it raises a lot of serious doubts/questions. Let's see:First you read in the announcement that Intel is not truly committed to Itanium. The exact words are "Intel management made it clear that their strategic focus is on their x86 microprocessor and that Itanium was nearing the end of its life". Intel denied this in the following days. Who...

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48 basic knowledge of the SEO master - must

1. If you must use Java script drop-down menus, image maps, or image link, then you have to place their text link somewhere on the page so the search engine spiders crawl; 2. Content is king, so be sure to be good, better and unique content focused on the first line of your keyword or keywords above; 3. If the content is king, and that link is the queen. Use your keywords as links, the establishment of a network of high quality backlinks. Remember, if there is no logical reason, the bad, your website link, the links and do not want to; 4. To ensure that your site's title tags for each page, there is a unique keyword. Also, if you have to put...

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WordPress blog site SEO Optimization Tips

It has been observed, using WordPress to build the site for search engine optimization, it was quite an edge, feeling the search engine program will focus on some of the establishment of the station, such as WordPress. So last A5 Organization Search Engine Optimization contest, most owners are using WordPress to build competition website.Although the program conducive to search engine optimization, but users also have some understanding of search engine optimization in order to better enhance keyword ranking. Pursuing a dream home administrator is using WordPress to build from, from last August on the line is still more than six months, and for...

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Do SEO who we can not ignore : the power of the three competitors

I have basically talked about how to get more from competitors who force. Individuals in the time to write this series of articles written from as much as possible out of the idea of ​​starting something new, though probably not that much, but still very satisfied with their own, and I did not like before there was general talk about how analysis competitors, some of the specific data, but also to do some new ideas.We only know the specific data will be analyzed and more people, but for some in-depth analysis of very few people specialized to do, where I made a brief introduction, may have enough in-depth analysis, of course, because of their...

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How to increase website traffic keyword mining

Friends just learning to do the site, it is easy to make such a mistake. A site to get to skip all the relevant research, there is no good keywords to start planning website. This situation will lead to two results. One is his view that a good keyword ranking is very good, but traffic is very low; there is a situation how are key words to flow did not break up. So we are doing website, you must be on the keyword research.First, determine whether the promotion of the target keyword searchSite core keywords, have to go through research and analysis, these keywords are not targeted keywords your site is not a lot of people in the search. If search...

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