I just heard the sad news… Xmarks, my favorite bookmark synchronization service, will be discontinued in January of 2011. This has been one of my most important and reliable add-ons for several years, and am not looking forward to searching for a replacement. To learn more about this decision, please read the Xmarks Blog » End of the Road for Xmarks. If you find a replacement that you like, please share it here!

Most of my time is spent helping educators with instructional technology support, but there are times when I am asked to trouble shoot a hardware or software issue. A colleagues sent this to me recently, and this graph just validates what I believe to be true. Of course, it doesn’t work all the time but it is a very good first step…

A colleague passed this web site on to me today: DocsTeach This is a web site sponsored by the National Archives and features eady to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom. So if you are interested in bringing history to life for your students, then check out this site. In addition, there is a community to join, a way to bookmark documents and activities to build a portfolio, as well as a [...]

Dropbox is a free  online back up service. You can synchronize files, share files with others, and it works on Macs, PCs, and Linux. Listed below are some links to learn more about this service. Dropbox Sharing and Saving with Dropbox Top Tips for Using Dropbox at School

From the Library of Congress web site: “The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge [...]