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	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Bloomin’ Peacock with Web 2.0 goodness http://bit.ly/9EehJC [dgoshorn] — 5:31am via Twitter
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August 20th
	EP Board approves mediator proposal 9-0 [dgoshorn] — 5:44am via Twitter
August 17th
	I just ousted Debra F. as the mayor of East Pennsboro School District on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/by5m9R [dgoshorn] — 6:16am via Twitter
August 13th
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FROM:  Dr. Edward Vollbrecht [via PennLINK]
SUBJECT:  CFF Coach Funding
DATE:  October 21, 2009

The Pennsylvania Department of Education is pleased to announce that the 2009-10 Education budget includes funding for Cohorts two and three 21^st Century Teaching and Learning technology integration coaches (previously the Classrooms for the Future program.)  These coaches may support teachers utilizing technology for teaching and learning in grades 5-12 in any subject area.

We expect that the funding will be available for the second semester and encourage you to plan to release your coach or hire a coach to support your teachers at that time.  If you expect to have a new coaches, please have them send a resume and cover letter to Kara Thomas at c-kthomas@state.pa.us.  There will be a coaching meeting planned for the second semester for new coaches.

Whether you have a theme already selected or not, check out Cymbolism. According to the site, it tries to “quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.” Whenever you first load the site, you are given word, and asked to choose the color that you associate with the word. Imagine thousands of folks doing this a day, and you’ve got a powerful tool. Click the Words button at the top to check out the results for all of the words on the site, organized alphabetically. You can even compare results over time.

If you like daily inspiration with color schemes, browse on over to COLOURlovers, and check out their blog. Sometimes they find videos or photos and build color schemes based on them, and other posts include unique patterns. In fact, their Palette library contains over 900,000 different user-generated combinations. Regardless, the color combinations are always thought-provoking. This site provides a nice resource for keeping current with current trends in colorful design. Also check out their COPASCO tool to work with custom combinations.

ColoRotate allows you to drag-and-drop colors using a unique 3D tool.

There are many sites out there that allow you to create, mix, match, save, and export color schemes. One of the newest and, in my opinion, coolest, is ColoRotate. ColoRotate is similar to lots of other color scheme generators, with one big exception: you can design schemes in 3D using their unique tool that allows for dragging and dropping of colors. Back in the 2D world, there is a large selection of color combination sites, including:

• Adobe’s Kuler (which you can directly plugin to CS4) - my personal fav
• Color Scheme Designer
• Color Jack (check out the Sphere and Galaxy tools)
• Color Combos
• Kolur - If you’re having trouble visualizing your palettes applied to your actual designs, check out this site where palettes are applied to graphic samples, making it easier to visualize the final product.

In addition to the sites above, there also sites that are specifically built to extract/built color palettes based on images that you upload. Each of them has its own little bells and whistles. Here’s a short list:

• Pictaculous (my personal fav)
• Color Hunter
• Colr
• Color Palette Generator

For even more color palette tools, check out Web Design Booth’s The Ultimate List of Online Color Tools for Web Developers (41 and counting).

• Create Maps with Google Earth & Google Maps Tutorials
  http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html
• Working With KMZ files in Google Earth
  http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_kmz.html

Examples of Lessons Using Google Earth

• Juicy Geography
  http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm
  This UK site has lesson plans suitable for grades 3, 4 & 12 that have been classroom-tested.
• Google Lit Trips
  http://www.googlelittrips.com
  Students use Google Earth to explore some of the great literary works studied in class.
• Google Earth Lessons
  http://www.gelessons.com
  A website featuring news about Google Earth, in addition to some spectacularly planned lessons that include printables, KMZ files and more!
• Classroom Google Earth Wiki
  http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com
  A teacher-created repository of ideas, links and downloads
• Asia: Continent of Contrasts (National Geographic)
  http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/continents/asia/
  Downloadable tours (and accompany teacher resources) of the Asian continent.
• Real World Math
  http://www.realworldmath.org
  Using Google Earth so that students can investigate real world applications for math
• 8 High School Ideas
  http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_69chpv96f8
• The Official Google Geo Education site
  http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html
• Got Google? - Google Earth
  http://sites.google.com/site/edinagg/google-earth
  A Google Certified Teacher’s collection of lots of resources for teachers.
• Map Mashups - Classroom Applications
  http://mapmashing.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Applications
  Project ideas for students using Google Earth/Maps

Other Neat Stuff Regarding Google Earth

• Instructions for adding your voice to Google Earth placemarks
  http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/11/24/google-earth-is-our-paper-part-2-add-your-voice/
  Create multimedia maps featuring you/r students’ voices. Think about the project ideas!
• Geo Apps - Maps, Earth & SketchUp
  http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/2008-11-18/geo
  Interesting combinations of 3 Google applications, with some videos.

• uStream.tv
  (live webcasting)
• Mogulus.com
  (even better live webcasting)
• Qik.com
  (phone-cast!)
• CuePrompter.com
  (teleprompter)
• TheWeekInRap.com
  (good idea!)

Stuff for Print:

• Joomla
  (DIY publishing platform)
• WordPress
  (DIY publishing platform)
• my.hsj
  (managed publishing platform)
• Issuu.com
  (make your documents look good online)
• Shape Collage
  (free, advanced photo collage maker)
• Kuler.adobe.com
  (color scheme creator)
• Cymbolism.com
  (matching colors with language)
• BookletCreator.com
  (create foldable booklets from PDFs)
• Colorhunter.com
  (create color pallettes from images)

Story Fodder:

• Gomoxie.org
  (get free, legal music to review)
• Ripoffreport.com
  (get rip off ideas)

Other Stuff:

• bgjournalismg.blogspot.com
  Journalism blog for advisers with lots of resources
• bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php
  Press badge generator
• deep.co.uk/games/font_game
  Need proof that you’re a font geek?
• splc.org/falawtest
  First Amendment Test
• screentoaster.com
  Record & share screencasts without software!