Tech Talk

The KDE education project  is a collection of free educational software.

Students, parents, children and teachers, can freely use KDE software, copy it, modify it to their needs and enjoy learning!

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Tux Paint is  free, open source drawing program designed for primary students.

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Google added a feature that allows you to use google to find the meaning of any word.
Preface your search term with “define:” and google will display appropriate definitions from multiple different sources.

Below I show how to google define “blog.”Google  Search for the Following 

define: blog

Thomas Edison Quotations

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

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Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.

The advantages of using social bookmarking are:

All your bookmarks are in one place regardless of you loction or the computer you are using.

Share your bookmarks with a group of colleagues and see their bookmarks. Promote your websites and blogs.

Listed below are a few social bookmarking sites.  

 Furl

Stumbleupon

del.icio.us

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

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Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Native speakers and a friendly instructor guide you through a unique experience for refining the art of foreign conversation.

If you can’t be a good example . . . then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning

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I found a great application called shrinkpic that automatically shrink photos to attach to emails or upload to your blog. Once installed on your computer you never have to do anything! It works automatically and silently in the background.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 

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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

 Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organised for students (but available to anyone. The cd can be downloaded at http://softwarefor.org/

1. 7-Zip 
2. MP3Gain
3. Notepad++
4. OpenOffice.org
5. Paint.NET
6. Pidgin
7. POV-Ray
8. PuTTY
9. Scribus
10. Spybot S&D
11. Stellarium
12. SuperTux
13. Thunderbird
14. Tortoise SVN
15. Tux Typing 2
16. µTorrent
17. VLC Media Player 
18. WinDirStat
19. Wink
20. winLAME
21. XAMPP
22. Ant Renamer
23. Audacity
24. AutoGK
25. Blender
26. Celestia
27. ClamWin
28. Dia
29. Exact Audio Copy 
30. FileZilla
31. Firefox
32. Foobar2000
33. Freeciv
34. GeoGebra 
35. Icebreaker
36. InfraRecorder
37. Inkscape
38. jMemorize
39. Juice Receiver
40. KeePass
41. MozBackup

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I have added the following guides on the tutorial page: Setting up a Edublog (by Rachael Williams and Getting Started with Edublogs by John Pearce. I hope you find them useful.

In Montana a group of students let three goats loose in their high school as a prank. Before they let them go, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2, 4. Local school administrators spent most of the day looking for #3.

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