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New Brunswick is a sister city to Debrecen, Hungary.

Unlike many of the teachers coming to Rutgers University for the June 23-26 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad pre-orientation, I have no travel stories to tell. My flight from Memphis to Charlotte and then Charlotte to Newark was on time. I do have an idea for a new Mo Willems’ book – “Don’t Let the Pigeon Fly the Plane” after seeing pigeons in the baggage claim area of the Newark Airport.

The TennShare Ning group has an excellent opportunity to learn more about Web 2.0. Each week you complete assignments in Web 2.0. Round 2, which is going on now, has introduced Twitter, Social Networking, Google Labs and Searching Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). There are similarities to the  Teacher Tech Camp 2009.

Just discovered FotoFlexer! It really looks like a fun web program to edit pictures in. The program gives choices for effects, fonts, shapes, even doodling on uploaded pictures.

Cindy Putnam of the MCS Ed Technology Team mentioned Spelling City in her blog last week. Our second grade teachers  are excited about the prospect of helping their students improve spelling scores this year. I’ve created a wiki to provide detailed directions for them to use.

I know we’ve all seen Alec Baldwin’s Hulu commercials about watching TV on our computer. Checking out the list of available movies/shows/sports I discovered a category on Science and Technology. There is a great show on the sun called “3D Sun.”

There are great views of the sun that the two STEREO satellites are transmitting back to earth. The Science and Technology category also contains NOVA presentations, such as the one on “The Secrets of the Parthenon.” While the length of these shows might be longer that a single class period might allow, the movies appear to contain much information that our students can benefit from.