District 87

Scratch (MIT), Alice (Carnegie Mellon), PopFly (MSFT), Python (?)

Later this week, Scratch will have elements to link to the WeDo Legos

New Scratch sites just opened.http://scratched.media.mit.edu/

http://cs4hs.media.mit.edu/

Moveable Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington coming up July 6. Hope to share some great things learned at NECC

www.thefeast.org

Skype 4.1 for Windows is out of beta. It is now available for download.

according to MS, they've given up on Popfly Been playing with kodu in the meantime http://bit.ly/O8xvu

We signed up for dreamspark https://www.dreamspark.com/default.aspx .. first 200 accounts for students available in fall 2009

Tech Tuesdays with MSFT - http://www.microsoft.com/education/events/teachertech.aspx webcasts on variety of topics

http://www.microsoft.com/education/events/teachertech.aspx

Great classroom tools from Google http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

Posters - http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html send to Ken in BACC for nice color print

some interesting sites from Feast - Week 3 in Bloomington

http://www.wordle.net/

http://www.dumpr.net

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Using IlliniData for scaffolding of students based on income.

www.spellingcity.com

Finished grading the graduate credit presentations at the the Feast. Great presentations on variety of content areas