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\nWelcome to Chicago and the 84th AERA Convention.

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If you are a history buff or want to trace your family history, you now have access to the same resources used by the pros – The National Archives. This collection of at least 50 million digitized douments can now be searched online.

The National Archives offers a variety of suggestions for educators include how a school might develop its own archives.

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A recent New York Times article reports on the financial performance of Apple Computers. I pay attention because I happen to like the Apple operating system and feel the product is great in educational settings. It is hard to make sense of what the “analysts” say when evaluating company and stock performance. The revenues are down, but that is not too bad given the overall performance of the economy. There is some decline in what have been traditional markets for Apple (I assume education) and up in notebook sales. I am still waiting for the “pad computer” – don’t disappoint me Apple. Think different!’

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Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.” -Bill Belsey

Learn more about this topic at http://www.cyberbullying.ca/.

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I admit to being artistically challenged. This is an on-going disadvantage in the work I do because of the need to offer web resources. Sometimes I try to convince myself that the appearance of online material is less important than the information provided. Sometimes I just admit I am better with words than with images and design.

Anyway, here is a resource that may help. AdaptiveView offers a free resource called ColorWrite that allows the identification of color appealing combinations.

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The focus of the March Technology and Learning magazine was web literacy. This is a great magazine for locating resources – paper or online version.

From this issue try the:
list of online resources focused on literacy and critical thinking
Diane Barfield article on plagiarism

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One of the more immediately useful sessions I attended was provided by graduate student Pavlo Antonenko. His topic was building online community through the use of FREE opportunities for online interactivity. I must admit that he provided demonstrations of some online resources I had not seen before and that I found to be very impressive. He concentrated on several sites for conducting online polls and on AIMOO – a very flexible set of tools for various forms of discussion and interaction (message board, chat).

Pavlo has posted handouts from his presentation and welcomes you to download these PDFs.
Overview
AIMOO
MY3Q – online questionnaire generator.
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The National Education Association publication NEAToday feature story for April is on class use of technology – Are you ready?

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