Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. It’s about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite

http://www.blender.org/

From another blog

http://www.teach2thefuture.net/home/2010/2/2/blender-3d-image-manipulation.html

Looks interesting however work firewall  has blocked it so will have to try later.

Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. Play games (aka “challenges”), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office.

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/ribbonhero/Pages/default.aspx

BTW.. use google to search for Office 2010 and you can get a copy of the beta (expires in October)

From one of my feeds…

“God Mode” folder for Windows 7 supplies a tidy place to find nearly everything you can do within the Windows Control Panel. To access the special capabilities of the God Mode folder, create a new folder anywhere on your Windows 7 computer and name it:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Once renamed, the icon will change to a control panel looking icon, and when opened you will be presented with a plethora of different tweaking options.

Having problems with Flickr finding my photos (not that there’s many!!). A solution (so far) http://rcasjwa.blogspot.com/2008/04/flickr-public-search-problems.html indicates that need to click on “Flag this photo” bottom right , and make sure “Hide this photo from public search was unchecked”. Search still not working, but sometimes engines take a while to catch up .. (here’s hoping). Any better solutions?

Anyway the solution to my problem is a little embarrassing :( – Flickr requires at least 5 photos to be added before they become searchable ….

13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom

http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2009/13-enlightening-case-studies-of-social-media-in-the-classroom/

From JS:

Lots of icons to give you ideas for your own ones.

http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/

For a peek into the latest electronic gizmos – Chinavision

http://www.chinavasion.com/index.php/cName/hot-products/

e.g.  Odyssey phone (like iPhone !)

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/odyssey-wifi-quadband-dualsim-cellphone-w-3-inch-touchscreen/

From JS.

A neat way to show some text as a newspaper clipping…

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Celtx is the world’s first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces ‘paper & binder’ pre-production with a digital approach that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

I think the basic part is free and there is a “studio” addin.

http://www.celtx.com/overview.html