Stephen's Untold Stories

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• 70+ Adobe Fireworks Resources – Is there a future for Fireworks? : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  (tags: webdesign graphics tutorial tutorials fireworks adobe)
• Windows: Everything You Need to Know How to Do in Windows
  (tags: tutorial tutorials utility utilities windows xp vista)
• Manhattan in Pictures | Demonicious.com
  (tags: photography photos new-york)

I would encourage all of your tech superstars out there to apply!

The Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program is a relationship program focused on educational excellence and leadership. ADEs are members of a select group of K-12 and Higher Education professionals possessing an identified expertise in educational technology leadership. This group of over 1200 educators spans the globe with membership in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Latin America, and Asia.

Apple Distinguished Educators fulfill 4 primary roles:

Advocate: ADEs are passionate advocates for the potential of Apple technologies and they provide expert assistance and best practices to peers and policy-makers. ADEs are frequent presenters at local, state and national educational conferences.

Advisor: ADEs provide valuable input to Apple on the realities of integrating instructional technology into learning environments.

Author: ADEs publish authentic work on the Apple Learning Interchange (ALI), such as teaching and leadership best practices, exemplary lesson ideas, and a range of content items that showcase Apple solutions and technologies for the advancement of education.

Ambassadors: ADEs are innovators in building community and capacity for teaching and learning in a global context. Through online projects and collaboration tools, they empower each other to expand the walls of the classroom and bring global experiences to classrooms everywhere.

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• 21 Excellent Web Apps For College Students | Dumb Little Man
  (tags: web2.0 resources students webapps school student)

• Why an iPod Touch in education?
  (tags: education ipod itouch ipodtouch apple)
• How To: How To Use Your New Digital Camera
  (tags: tutorial photography photos cameras photo camera pictures digitalphotography)
• Basics – There’s Lots of Tech Help, Yes, on the Internet – NYTimes.com
  (tags: tech tips troubleshooting)

• My CSS Menu – Menu Generator – horizontal menu, vertical menu
  (tags: webdesign css menu)
• APOD: 2008 December 24 – Earthrise
  (tags: earth nasa moon)
• PDF Database – pdf and doc search engine
  (tags: pdf research doc word)
• Holidays: Help Your Relatives with Their Computer Problems
  (tags: tips utilities technology troubleshooting)

• Speak and Spell
  Flash version of the classic game.
  (tags: games speech vintage toys spelling simulator nostalgia)

Looks like he’s flying over the Pyramids as of the time of this post.

Track him for yourself here!

• 95 Old School Games You Can Play Online | AMOG – Alpha Males of the Group
  (tags: video games vintage nintendo videogames retro)
• Clark Howard: Work At Home Help on clarkhoward.com
  (tags: employment job jobs finance work money workathome business)

• Idea : Docs for Teachers – Google Docs Help Center
  (tags: education collaboration google googledocs teachers)

Yes, the Atlanta Falcons are headed to the playoffs. I can’t even tell you how improbable this was considering how things played out last season. They could still wind up winning the division, but I’m just going to savor this for now.

Even though Matt “Ice” Ryan fumbled on this play, the Falcons still recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. Yes, it was lucky, but this franchise has endured plenty of bad luck in its history.

• Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed – The Good Kind of Threesome at CameraPorn
  (tags: tutorial photography photos photo tips iso speed shutter)
• lately – Interactive DHTML art-demos
  Amazing demo of a skeleton done completely in DHTML and javascript.
  (tags: html javascript dhtml)
• Faux Fire
  Virtual Christmas Fire and Music
  (tags: christmas holidays fireplace holiday music fire)

Who knew it would pan out?

Larger Version Here

• How to Rebuild your Computer and Reinstall Windows Without Headache
  (tags: reinstall installation rebuild tech install drivers sysadmin)
• 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers – Six Revisions
  (tags: webdesign graphics photoshop graphicdesign tutorial tutorials psd)
• ManyBooks.net – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader
  Lots of good ones here!
  (tags: education ipod e-books ebooks literature ebook pdf books book)
• Modules – Clif's Wiki
  Some very nice modules created by students.
  (tags: web2.0 wiki)
• Free Assessment | SimpleAssessment
  (tags: assessment)

• 60 Photography Links You Can’t Live Without
  Referred to me by Thomas Hawk
  (tags: photography photos blogs resources lists cameras)
• Monitor your hard drive usage with DriveSpacio – Download Squad
  Very nice hard drive monitor.
  (tags: harddrive disk utility space)
• Ten One Design Pogo Stylus
  Stylus for the iPod touch
  (tags: ipod stylus iphone)
• Photosharing – comparing Flickr, Photobucket and Zooomr – Download Squad
  Very nice comparison of 3 great services.
  (tags: photobucket zooomr flickr comparison photosharing photography photos)

• Photosharing – comparing Flickr, Photobucket and Zooomr – Download Squad
  Very nice comparison of 3 great services.
  (tags: photobucket zooomr flickr comparison photosharing photography photos)
• Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action : May 2008 : THE Journal
  (tags: education socialnetworking learning_theory learningtheory social_networking e-learning collaboration instructional_design socialnetwork)
• Presentation Zen: Brain rules for PowerPoint & Keynote presenters
  (tags: presentations presentation powerpoint psychology education)
• How to convert PowerPoint to DVD for free – review & download link | freewaregenius.com
  (tags: converter powerpoint convert dvd)
• Intro to Drupal: Build a Simple CMS – NETTUTS
  (tags: drupal webdesign cms)
• 50 websites you'll wonder how you lived without | Curious? Read
  Some pretty good ones here…I knew about most of them.
  (tags: websites lists website list resources)
• CAREER TOOLBOX: 100+ Places to Find Jobs
  I hope I won't be needing this…but it never hurts to have it handy!
  (tags: employment jobsearch career job jobs)
• Photoshop’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide – PSDTUTS
  This tool always perplexed me…this looks like it will really help!
  (tags: photoshop tutorial tutorials graphics pen tool pen-tool pentool)

I haven’t felt the need to post much about WiFi lately, mostly because it’s becoming so commonplace. Here is a good update on that.

Fancy UK sandwich shop Pret A Manger announced that it will offer free Wi-Fi at about 170 of its stores across the UK starting today.

And while municipal Wi-Fi is dying an ugly, premature death in the United States, China is working on making the entire city of Beijing a giant free-Wi-Fi hotspot by 2011.

The airlines lately have been rolling out Wi-Fi that is the opposite of free: They charge way too much for it (there are few monopolies as perfect as the provision of wireless networking at 35,000 feet). However, Delta plans to start offering Wi-Fi on its puddle-jumper shuttle flights tomorrow. To promote the new service, they’ll offer the Wi-Fi free for the next two weeks.

Free Wi-Fi is breaking out at gas stations, on buses and even on French “bullet” trains.

Meanwhile, an open source Wi-Fi service called WeFi now claims 10 million hotspots worldwide.

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