The UCET Newsletter Archive

Welcome to the UCET Newsletter Archive. Each month, UCET publishes a newsletter filled with educational technology treasures, grant opportunities, tips and tutorials, and more. The newsletters are provided as a public service to educators. All newsletters are published in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format. If you are unable to view the newsletters, you can get the free Acrobat Reader. This page links to each newsletter UCET has published for its members, as well as displaying the table of contents for each. This will help you search for past articles - you can use the find command in your browser. The UCET newsletter welcomes submissions from its members and sponsors. Please email newsletter@ucet.org with your submissions, questions, etc.

August 2010	Newsletter highlights: Exploring Free Reading Resources on the Internet Get to Know Your UCET Board! This month: Bonnie Muir - UCET President Short Bio - Bonnie Muir eBook Readers by Sarah Zabriskie eBook Readers by Kimberly Iverson The Free Library The Internet Archive The World Public Library International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Portal Wattpad Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg Free OZ Books Edit Videos With Youtube Turn the Web into Your Personal Music Library With Extension.fm Schedule Automatic PC Shutdown Take a Hubble Tour with Google Earth Helpful Tips for Teachers and Computer Users: Multiple Computer Bookmark Syncing with Delicious.com MindMeister-Online Collaborative Mind Maps Explore Learning Gizmos Wikispaces.com Johnlocker.com Prezentit.com Apps for music teachers Want Your Students to Study More? There’s an App for That! 7 Videos Every Teacher Should Watch UEN Social Studies Workshop Bartleby.com - Great Books Online - Free! The StoryPlace Preschool Library tinySpell for Windows Some Quick Links to Children’s Books at Archive.org VirtualBox: Free Virtual Multi Operating Systems Machine
July 2010	Newsletter highlights: Summer Explorations! Climate Kids from NASA - Get Your Students Involved in Earth Environmental Issues! SciJinks from NASA & NOAA - Weather for Middle School Students Games for Change - Real World Games - Real World Impacts Cube Your Imagination Remember the Milk: the best way to manage your tasks Kitzu: digital kits for education Kubbu Interactive Whiteboard Links Find Out How iPad for Educators Create a Graph Learning Games Magic Pen Questionaut Fantastic Contraption Invention at Play Jitterbug - Music for Hip Kids Google Scholar Art Tutorial Wiki - Catering to everything an artist needs to know!
June 2010	Newsletter highlights: President Obama’s Educate to Innovate Plan Join the Educate To Innovate Campaign With NASA’s Summer Of Innovation droplr for Macintosh - Make Sharing on Twitter Easier NoSquint - Firefox Addon Let’s You See Revised Virtual Skies Now Available iCivics - Games That Teach Students Civics Skills Games for Change - Real World Games - Real World Impact NASA Enables Students to Launch Virtual Space Shuttle 11 Online Resources Devoted to Dynamic Web Development and Design W3 Schools A List Apart Webmonkey Dev Shed Smashing Magazine Developer Tutorials Ajaxian DZone IBM developerWorks Sitepoint O’Reilly Gimpshop - Free Gimp Graphics Editor Reprogrammed to Look More Like Photoshop OnGuard Online - Your Safety Net Rock Your Firefox with Add-ons! Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers CyberSurgeons Bento 3 Student Survival Kit 1.0 SoundSoap 2.4 for Macintosh Interactive, Educational Websites Suggested by UCET Members! Try Google Docs Without a GMail Account YouTube Internet Safety Center for Children AddictingGames 22 Frames Micro Mobs - Realtime Group Messaging Guide to Online Schools Free Google Guides for Teachers Fuel the Brain
May 2010	Newsletter highlights: ISTE Regional Reception - June 29 UCET Grant Winners Announced! Google Books A Google Chrome Extension Allows You to Take Snapshots of Entire Webpages - Excellent! Grant: up to $15 million for the development of high-quality charter schools Nature By Numbers Free NASA CD-ROM: Adventures in Airspace Systems Education Free NASA CD-ROM: Exploring Aeronautics Free Imagine the Universe DVD - 13th Edition SciLab - MatLab-like Open Source Mathematics and Science Software New! Google Drawings Is Your Personal Data Really Deleted From Social Network Sites after You Delete It? Eleven Reasons Advanced Technology Classrooms Fail A New Life for SciJinks! A Deeper Look at Microsoft Office 2010 Create Collaborative Google Maps Google Virtual Keyboard for Search Microsoft Office 2007 Tutorials Free Microsoft Mouse Mischief Enables Classroom Response System Using Mice Foundations offer $506 Million for Education Innovation What if Lincoln Had Used PowerPoint for the Gettysberg Address? NASA Introduces 4 New Educational Games Geared Toward Students in Grades K-8 Free File Recovery 1.1 (Windows) Disk Space Fan 1.4.2.796 (Windows) FotoMorph 10.1.1 (Windows) FotoMix v.6.1.1 (Windows) Quix - Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids
April 2010	Newsletter highlights: Miniature Laser Projector Now Available to U.S. Customers Light Blue Optics Light Touch NASA Teams With USA TODAY to Create the No Boundaries Project and Student Contest NASA Gives Teens Their “Space” With New Web Site Young Scientist Challenge Plan Activities Now for Earth Science Week 2010 Study: Light Science Fire Before Middle School New Education Materials Available at NASA.gov Engineering Design Challenges Brochure -- Grades 5-12 Let’s Fly Away Airplane Dodecahedron -- Grades K-4 Navigating by Good Gyrations Activity -- Grades 7-12 NASA: Your Future and Ours Poster -- All Grades Our Solar System Lithograph Set -- All Grades Magnetic Math -- Grades 6-12 Create Your Own RSS Feeds: International Space Station EarthKAM 2010 Mission New Robotics Module in NASA’s Do-It-YourselfPodcast Transform your text into word clouds! WolframTones - Using A New Kind Of Science To Create A New Kind Of Music Take a Virtual Tour of Paris with a 26 GigaPixel Photo The WorldWide Telescope 4 Free Microsoft Programs Worth Checking Out! Paint.NET Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition XML Notepad 2007 Virtual PC 2007 Interactive, Educational Websites Suggested by UCET Members! The Learning Network: Teaching & Learning with the New York TImes NobelPrize.org Educational Games DimensionU Chalk House: Improving Literacy Through Virtual Worlds PowerPoint Games Math Playground An Idea From Lisa Pettegrew: Have the Students Create Their Own Games using PowerPoint Carl’s Corner Google Earth Flight Simulator Pete’s PowerPoint Station Gamequarium WatchKnow Preschool Pioneer Change Maker Fact Monster Storyline Online - Children’s Stories Read by Actors Spring Activities! The Life Cycle of Plants The USDA Plants Database PlantCare.com’s Plant EncyclopediaDatabase
March 2010	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2010 - A Great Conference! UCET 2010 - Award Winners Faster Windows Boot Time Ditto - Enhanced Clipboard 2010 UCET Grants for UCET Conference Participants! Travel with UCET to the ISTE Conference in Denver! K9 Web Protection - Free for Home Use Did You Know? EDREF.com Applications Available for 2010 NSTI Faculty Fellowship Program Become a MESSENGER Educator Fellow NASA Needs Your Ideas! Dr. Bill Vicars’ American Sign Language (ASL) FingerspellingPractice Site, Lifeprint, and more... Animoto Join NASA in celebrating Sun-Earth Day on March 20, 2010 Wimba Support Resources Interactive, Educational Websites Suggested by UCET Members! 6+1 Trait Writing Multiplication.com Traffic Jam ReadWriteThink Science Netlinks - Tool Index Test Your Reaction Time Explore the Solar System Calculation Nation Illuminations The Scientific Method Webpage Ricci Adams’ Music Theory.net SmartMusic.com Create & Share Timelines Make Your Case! Biology in Motion Learn Genetics - U of U site PBS - Evolution Home Sumanas’ Biology Animations BBC Human Body Interactive Blender 3D Application UEN Professional Development Courses ArtsEdge Utah’s Hogle Zoo - Meet the Animals! Animal Planet - Wild Animals A-Z!
February 2010	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2010 is here! February 26 & 27, 2010 We Can Change the World Challenge! Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs How Do I Upload Files to Google Docs? Win nearly $1.5 million for promoting financial literacy ISS EarthKAM Winter 2010 Mission High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying With NASA Your Attention, Please! Service Learning in Our Schools SparkleBox - Foundation and KS1 (UK) - 1000s of Products, All Free to Download Free NTFS-3G for Mac - Work with Windows Formatted Drives Books Without Barriers iMovie: Learning the Basics for Advanced yet Easy Video Editing Program Second Life - Education in a Virtual World Microsoft Photo Story 3 Astrobiology Summer Institute for High School Teachers 2010 Innovations in Reading Prize TwoUp - Free Mac OSX Screen Resize and Reposition New Website Encourages Girls to Look at STEM Careers Utah Mentor Lemonade Stand Cool Math Games TypeRacer UEN Resources for K-12 Education Animal Adventure PHET Interactive Simulations NLVM - Virtual Manipulatives Free Typing Game Kindergarten Site Seterra - Learn Geography Fur.ly CoolToolsForSchools KidsHealth Celestia and Stellarium Psychology Links from Dave... Adult Roles & Financial Literacy Timez Attack Tooele Co. School District TAH (also GeoSpy) Touch Typing Practice Sites Thinks.com & FunBrain Academic Skill Builders Voki Edheads February Resources... Thank You!
January 2010	Newsletter highlights: Nominations are now open...Technology Teacher of the Year; Technology Leader of the Year, Jack Erickson Excellence in Technology Service Awards Preregister for UCET 2010 Until February 5 to receive a discounted registration rate Portable Computing Goes a Step Further...New Slate tablets, eReaders. Send Your Name to Mars! Deadline Approaching this Month for NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project Internships Mobilizing UCET 2010! NASA Delivers Three New Lithographs for Teachers! PollEverywhere.com - Student Response System without the Clickers 2010 NASA Education Resource Showcase Series Avidemux Cinelerra 4.0 for Linux InfraRecorder for Windows TED - Ideas Worth Spreading NVU - Free Web Authoring System for Windows & Mac Wink - PC Tutorial and Presentation Creation Software Spelling City - Like having your own spelling teacher in class! NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships Program Accepting Proposals NASA History Division Summer 2010 Internships 2010 NASA Postdoctoral Program Accepting Applications New eMedia Interface! UEN Highlights for January 2010 Coolmath Algebra Launchball QuestGarden Scratch GapMinder Our Earth as Art USDA Aerial Photo Field Office Primary Krypto MightyAuthors.com - Helping Students Write & Publish
December 2009	Newsletter highlights: Register for UCET 2010! Welcome to the December UCET Newsletter Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! EnergyQuest Puzzled States Play Kids Games Funderstanding Roller Coaster Simulation Periodic Table, Cells Alive, and Biology-4-Kids Art from the Getty, Read-Write-Think, and Kerpoof! Walter’s Favorite Math Sites Add Like Mad and Bloxorz Interactive Fiction Tutorial: Mail Merge for Microsoft Office 2007 Lure of the Labyrinth Connect With the Ares Projects Office Through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TeacherTube “Kids in Micro-g!” Challenges Students to Design an Experiment for the Space Station National Geographic Games Physics Games Mysteries of the Ancient World 2010 Census For Kids MathFrog Games Mr. Nussbaum - 1000 Sites in 1 UEN Student Interactives for Grades K-2 UEN Student Interactives for Grades 3-6 UEN Student Interactives for Grades 7-12 Learning Clips Giggle Poetry & Yahoo Kids Jokes Math Magician & Create Your Own Games Cosmeo’s Virtual Volcano Explorer Starfall - Phonics and Reading The Spy’s Dilemma & Tenement Free Rice IXL Primary Games Free Application Quick Reference Cards Parting Thoughts... UEN Highlights for December 2009 A Merry Christmas Desktop Wallpaper - (click on it to get to the actual wallpaper file)
November 2009	Newsletter highlights: Presenters Needed! Life and Work on the Moon - NASA 2009-2010 Art & Design Student Contest Soil Science for the Classroom The Earth Science Literacy Initiative Free PDF Download - Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Free PDF Download - Understanding & Responding to Climate Change The Consortium for Ocean Leadership Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences NASA Education Opportunities NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project Spring and Summer 2010 Sessions 2009 NASA Postdoctoral Program Accepting Applications 2010 RASC-AL Competition for College Students National Space Biomedical Research Institute Announces Opportunities for College Students National Space Biomedical Research Institute Summer Internship Program Moon Work College Student Challenge Calling All Space Enthusiasts: Applications Available for NASA Solar System Ambassadors Program Contest: High School Division - 2009-2010 Challenge - Amphibious Tiltrotor for Rescue Operations A Handful of Helpful Sites for Education or Personal Use! ShopLocal Mommysavers Bargainlist Freecycle Paperbackswap.com USA.gov Findhow.com Starfall.com FixItClub.com BudgetSimple.com BigHugeLabs.com Dinkytown.net Discover America Students can win a video or digital camera - Pitsco Education Project ISTE 2010 Conference Keynote Project We Need Your Input! HyperStudio 5 Released...
October 2009	Newsletter highlights: Zilladog.com- A Safe, Interactive Website for Children Dropbox: Sync Your Files Across Computers Digital Pens - From Paper to Your Computer Turn Your Mac into an eBook Reader with Read Right OpenEducationDisc - Free Software Package for Educators and Students! They Can Run But They Cannot Hide! (Prey - Theft Protection) NASA Education Launches New Careers Web Page 2009-2010 NASA Education Resource Showcase Series 2010 Team America Rocketry Challenge Accepting Applications Engineer Girl Online Training for Teaching Hands-On Engineering Activities with NASA & DESIGN SQUAD National Engineers Week Future City Competition for 7th & 8th Grades Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools Malware affiliate bounty: Infect a Mac, earn 43 cents - They’re Out to Get You! Google Wonder Wheel New Tab Tricks in Mozilla FireFox 3.5 PageZipper- Life’s too short to Spend Clicking “Next” Print What You Like CitySounds.fm Halloween Resources 2009 UEA Convention & Education Exposition
September 2009	Newsletter highlights: Debate Over Brick & Mortar Schools The 2009 UCET Grant winners are... RightThumb - Make Image Thumbnails Earth Album - Google Maps + Flickr ISTE Vision - ISTE/NECC Videos Online Spotify - a new internet radio... Spezify challenges traditional web search Push Learning Up the Taxonomy Pyramid with Technology! Jolicloud - An Internet OS AbiWord - A Free Word Processor State Farm Youth Advisory Board Service-Learning Grants - Up to $100,000 New Education Materials Available at NASA Registration Open for NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition KidZui - The Internet For Kids - Over a Million Websites, Games, & Videos Reviewed By Parents Celebrate World Space Week -- Oct. 4-10, 2009 DimDim: Online Conferencing for Free - A New Way to Parent-Teacher Conference??? September 2009 UEN Content Highlights Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows Driving two computers withone keyboard and mouse! Mac OSX-like Window Switcher for Windows Utah Education Network - Professional Development Opportunities for Fall 2009! Grant Opportunity for Middle & High Schools: $1200 - $15000 for Encouraging Kindness and Civility NASA’s INSPIRE Program for Students System Recovery Tools for Macintosh System Recovery Tools for Windows Snow Leopard for Macintosh Released! UCET 2010 Announcements! Keynote Speaker and Call for Presenters for UCET 2010!
August 2009	Newsletter highlights: Hubble Space Telescope’s New Wide Field Camera Captures Jupiter Collision Create Your Own Comix Strip Easily Rename MP3 Files Based On iTunes Tag Data Need to Edit a PDF file in Word? Here’s a free PDF converter tool... Google Has a New Competitor - BING Compare BING Results with Google Results Side-By-Side An Interactive Exploration of the Relationship Between Music and Math Formulas How Can I Find Out What My TCP/IP Address is in Windows? Customize Your Macintosh OS X Spotlight Searches UEN Tutorials On YouTube! UEN Goes Green-IVC On-Demand Meeting Network UEN is now on Twitter! Teachers Domain American Rhetoric Video at PBS.org! Free Readability Assessment Tool Free, Open-Source Readability Software Edit Central’s Readability Calculator Parting Shot...
July 2009	Newsletter highlights: NASA’s Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology Workshop on July 30-31, 2009 Hands-on Astronomy and Earth-science Education Workshops for Grade 4-12 Teachers on Sept. 12-13, 2009 Win a mobile lab for teachers - Digital Wish Change Your Mac Startup Screen? MPEG Streamclip - Freeware for Mac and Windows Photoshop Elements Express Keep that Screensaver From Kicking In During the Show... Locate that Mouse! Camcorders with Almost No Moving Parts TightVNC: Remote Control for Your Personal Computer Study Tips Online Looking for an Older Version of Software? Check OldVersion.com... Zotero - Collect, Manage, and Cite Your Resources and Bibliographic Information Ten Free Security Tools that Actually Work Instructional Architect (Utah State University) This PDF file has an embedded Flash Video that will require Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro or Reader to view. If you have an earlier version of Reader or Acrobat Pro, all the rest of the newsletter works, just not the embedded video.
June 2009	Newsletter highlights: Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket! The Secret Macintosh Screen Capture Commands Capturing Your Windows Screens to Images Macintosh - Really Empty That Trash NASA - Seeds in Space Kits Still Available to Teachers Teacher Workshop: Teaching STEM Through Aerospace VirtualBox - Open Source Virtualization Tool Print-Bingo.com - A free bingo card generator by Perceptus Tutorial - Fixing Printing Problems with Photoshop CS3 and Macintosh OSX Leopard Make Your Macintosh Read Aloud to You ScreenSteps - Tutorial Creation Software Tutorials: Connecting Your Windows PC to another PC Through Remote Desktop iTunes OpenOffice Writer Photoshop CS3 PowerPoint 2007 Audacity
May 2009	Newsletter highlights: Finding Software Resources to Teach School Children During a Stressed Economy Video Monkey For Macintosh: Free Video Conversion Software Energy Conservation The Jason Project Art Education Resources: Art Institute of Chicago's Art Explorer Color In Motion Google Adds a Color Filter to its Image Search Engine! Entomology for Kids and Teachers Insect Identification at www.insectidentification.org/ Exploring Street Views in Google Earth Google Summer of Code Program Read, Write, and Think Lesson Plans PortaPortal.com - a Web-based Bookmarking Site Selene: A Lunar Science Game Self Train and Certify as a Web Developer Educational Software Avogadro for Macintosh, Linux, and Windows (Molecule Visualizer) Oscillating Rhythms 1.05 for Macintosh Switch Audio Converter 1.52 for Macintosh Picassa 3.0 for Macintosh - Beta Calibre 0.5.2 for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux - Freeware Dicom 4.0 Freeware Programmable Unit Conversion Calculator Butterscotch.com - an online source for video tutorials I Was Wondering - A Book and Web Site Combo from the National Academy of Sciences See What's New in Windows 7! Macintosh Basics - Mac 101 Internet Users - Protect Yourselves! New Newsletter Design How Can You Become Involved?
April 2009	Newsletter highlights: To all UCET 2009 attendees, presenters, vendors, volunteers and board members...a huge THANK YOU! Congratulations to the UCET 2009 Award Winners! Technology Educator of the Year-Brad Butcher-Granite School District Technology Leader of the Year- Preston Checketts- Box Elder School District Jack Erickson Excellence in Technology Service Award- Don Remy-NUES International Year of Astronomy 2009 Explore the Geology of the West’s National Parks in 3D The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow Network Why Earth Science? K-5 Geosource from AGI, The American Geological Institute Earth Science World Image Bank Exploring Wildlife Through Multimedia Study the Clouds with NASA and NOAA - Free Poster The 2009 BudBurst Field Campaign Looking for K-12 Earth Science Classroom Activities? Top Stars: Educators Invited to Submit Examples of Inspiring Uses of Hubble in Education 2009 NASA eEducation Electronic Professional Development Network Series NASA Education Unveils Do-It-Yourself Podcast Activity TapNTune 1.2, a combination Tuner and Metronome for Macintosh - Freeware The BBC’s KS2 BiteSize - English, Math, and Science Net Frog - the Frog Dissection Site M.I.T. Joins Other Noted Universities’ Decision to Make Research Freely Available On the Internet YouTube Creates a Section on Higher Ed
March 2009	Newsletter highlights: Welcome to the March 2009 UCET Newsletter! Tutorial - Collecting Data using Google Docs Forms Tutorial - Collaborating with Others Using Google Docs Tutorial - Jing Free: Screencasts and Screen Captures Other Free/Paid Applications that Capture Screens Doodle - Free Group Scheduling, Polling, and More... Tutorial - Adding Video and Audio into PDF Files Using Acrobat 9 Tutorial - How to Create a PDF File With Embedded Audio and Video Continued... From the April 2007 Newsletter
February 2009	Newsletter highlights: It’s Conference Time! Advanced SystemCare Free (for Windows) BookPedia - What’s On Your Shelves? (Macintosh) PocketPedia (Free for iPhone or iPod Touch) Delicious Library for Macintosh Use Your Digital Camera or Cell Phone Camera to take Pictures of Pages and Convert To Editable Text! (Windows) 2009 Intel Schools of Distinction Awards JOIN THE UCET COMMUNITY ON FACEBOOK! $2.2 million for safe school initiatives - Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program $4,400 awards for summer seminars and institutes - Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers CDWG Win a Wireless Lab Sweepstakes Win up to $15,000 for innovative STEM programs - Innovation Generation $5,000 for teachers to help improve academic achievement in students - Student Achievement Grants Free access to SAS online curriculum resources - SAS Curriculum Pathways UnderTheMicroscope - a New Website to Inspire and Help Young Women Scientists Virtual Math Manipulative - Calculator for Grades 1 & 2 Hand-Made Math Manipulatives Site A Variety of Virtual Math Manipulatives ArithmAttack - Free Drill Game MathCar Racing from FunBrain FunBrain.com - Educational Games for Kids Test Your Internet Connection at SpeakEasy NASA Educational Opportunities and Resources Join NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in celebrating Black History Month 2008 NASA Education Highlights New Rockets Educators Guide -- Grades K-12 Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge Unit -- Grades 6-12 Meteorology: An Educator’s Resource for Inquiry-Based Learning -- Grades 5-9 Ceres and Pluto: Dwarf Planets as a New Way of Thinking about an Old Solar System Teacher Guide -- Grades 5-8 Diverse Galaxies - NASA Lithograph In Search of … Galaxy Types-Lesson Plan Supernova Remnant SN 1006-NASA Lithograph Wordle - A Word Cloud Generator Some Final Thoughts for February...
January 2009	Newsletter highlights: Welcome - New Year's Resolutions KiddieRecords Is Extending into 2009! Over 300 Records! CareerForward LifeWorks - Online Exploration of Careers in Health & Medicine Student & Teacher Opportunities From NASA! Registration Open: 16th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race 2009 RASC-AL Competition for CollegeStudents ACCESS: NASA Internships for Students with Disabilities Graduate Student Researchers Project MUST Scholarships Applications Available for 2009 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship 15th Annual Space Exploration Educators Conference, Feb. 5-7, 2009 Lunar Nautics Instructional Video Available Online The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Lithograph -- Grades 10-12 Using Scrapbooks in Science Educator Guide-Grades 3-12 Seven Skills Students Desperately Need Copyright Guidelines for Educators: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education 21st Century Skills Map for English Released National Teacher Associations for Core Subjects Some Great Things You Can Do in FireFox 3 Building Houses - A 3D Math Challenge Puzzle Macintosh OSX 10.5 Users! Print Non-Contiguous Pages, Contact Sheets, and more in Preview App Search Flickr Images By Color Scheme Some iPhone/iPod Touch Tricks You May Not Know... Air Sharing - an Inexpensive iPhone/iPod Touch Application that Lets You Connect To Any System Uncharted - a local geography startup Pre-Register Now and Save!
December 2008	Newsletter highlights: It’s Time to Join the UCET Team! Protect Your Computer From Internet Threats edutopia.org Using a Blog for Team Communications Inspired Visual Learning Awards - For innovative use of visual learning in the classroom AASL National School Library Media Program of the Year Award ING Unsung Heroes Award Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams - Inspiring a New Generation of Inventors 2009 UCET TECHNOLOGY GRANT PROPOSAL USB 3.0 Coming Soon Mind Maps and Free Mind Mapping Software PC Magazine’s Top 10 Deal-Tracking Sites The Council for Exceptional Children The Center for Education Reform (CER) PBS Lists Their Resources for Teachers P.E. Central Our best wishes to you, dear UCET friends.
November 2008	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2009 - Call for Presenters! Macintosh - Creating An AudioBook Compilation from Your Audio CDs SchoolTipLine: Prevent Violence, Bullying, and Drug Abuse at the Earliest Stages Inexpensive Tech Tricks that Pay Big In the Classroom A Special Web Browser for Autistic Children Paint.Net - Free Photo/Paint Program for Windows FormatFactory - Convert Media to Other Formats (Windows) OLED Manufacturing Process Continues to Improve 2008-2009 Qwest Teachers and Technology Mini-Grant Competition for Utah Teachers NASA/NSTA Symposium: Discover the Universe -- From Galileo to Today NASA/NSTA Web Seminar: Discover the Universe -- From Galileo to Today Twitter. Tweet. Are Those Birds Singing? What’s that Cloud Over There? Grant: The Big Read - Grants Up to $20,000 for Literature-Minded Projects NASA and the Challenger Center Announce Habitat Naming Contest Life and Work on the Moon Art and Design Contest MEAF Inclusion Champion Award “Music Matters” Grant Program Being an American Essay Contest Pathfinder Applications - Teachers in Space - Become an Astronaut Teacher
October 2008	Newsletter highlights: Welcome to October’s UCET Newsletter! Free - Post-it Notes for PCs Enhance Your Teaching Practice with HotChalk Stellarium - Free, open-source planetarium software Free Graph Paper Creation Site from Incompetech Music Notation Papers - Free as High Quality PDF Files Music Notation Fonts Toyota Tapestry Grants will make $550,000 available for Science Teachers October Professional Development from UEN The Gale/Library Media ConneCtion TEAMS Award NASA Launches New Hubble Web Site for Educators Hubble L-1 Webcast Announcing the 13th Annual IGES Art Contest for Grades 2-4 Technology in Motion 2: Community of the Future College.gov - Why, How, and Where Should I Go to College? The Jing Project - Capture Screenshots, Screen Video Using PDF as a PowerPoint-Like Presentation Tool Earth Science Week - Oct. 12-18
September 2008	Newsletter highlights: Gearing Up for the UCET 2009 Conference! Free Electronic Portfolio Generator for Teachers Educational Uses of Cellphones Stanza - Free (Beta) - Read e-Texts in Many Formats Stanza - Free - Read eTexts on Your iPod Touch or iPhone Announcing a new free resource site for teachers, Annie’s Resource Attic! What2Learn SeisMac 2.0 dotSUB - Video Subtitling in Multiple Languages Create Your Own Forms and Surveys Free with GoogleDocs Managing All Your Usernames & Passwords on a Mac Students lured to cash in through summer program ISTE Hosts Education Track of Second Life Conference Introduction to Geocaching Hurricane Season - Resources UEN Professional Development More than 12,000 multimedia items now in eMedia National Student/Parent Mock Election to Give Students a Voice in 2008 Election
August 2008	Newsletter highlights: SHARK Evolves into SHAPEWRITER Desktop Virtualization - A Solution for School Districts? First-Ever 21st Century Skills Map Released Increase Your Green: 2008 School Competition A Quick Tip: Text Selection Tricks for the Macintosh Name Mangler for Macintosh NASA Announces Competitive Grant Programs Sony Technology In Motion 2 Contest iTunes U Now Offering K-12 Content OpenOffice Woes on Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4? 2008-2009 Seimens Competition RGK Foundation Education Grants 2008 Kids In Need Teacher Grants Reader’s Digest Foundation “Make it matter” Two Teacher Resources Suggested by Tom Siebold 3-12 MATH GIZMOS - Approved by the USOE! ISTE Revises NETS Standards for Education PureText - Paste Text Without Formatting PhraseExpress - No more typing common phrases again! BullZip - Create PDF Files from Any Program Gadwin PrintScreen Gadwin Web Snapshot CCleaner - Free Up Hard Drive Space in Windows TinkerTool for Macintosh NASA Images Recently Made Available by the Internet Archive Site A Parting Shot: The Beauty of Summer in Utah
July 2008	Newsletter highlights: HP Labs Proves Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits: Memristors Web Attacks on the Increase! Beware! Hard Drives Getting Smaller and Faster Welcome to Puzzlemaker! - Discovery Education’s Free Puzzle Creation Tool for Teachers and Parents Astronomy Picture of the Day Two NASA Sites for Learning About the Solar System and Our Universe: Xobni - a Popular Utility Plug-in for Outlook Blender - a Powerful, Free 3D Creation & Rendering Tool Windows Product Key Viewer/Changer (exe) SyncBack Ad-Aware 2008 Free IM-Translate - Instant Message Translation in Real Time Pidgin - Combine All Your IM Clients into One! Apple’s Business Quick Tips Site National History Education Clearinghouse NASA’s Solar System Lithograph Set Verizon Foundation Education Grants Database helps educators compare assistive software and technologies Good deal: Web site ties math concepts to real-world phenomena SmartSleep.prefPane for Macintosh Quick 15 Minute Lesson On Astronomy Free Applications for Macintosh from Plyxim Create iCal Events from Anywhere
June 2008	Newsletter highlights: Welcome to Summer! 2008 Technology Grants for Rural Schools Program PHUN - a Free 2D Physics Sandbox! Space.com Videos 2008 Math Hero Awards Honoring Educators - More than $160,000 for math education Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers Exploring Utah’s National Parks and Monuments Explore Ancient Cultures Exploring National Geographic’s Sea Monsters Time Line Smithsonian National Museum of American History Is Your Internet Browser Running Sluggishly? DimDim.com - Free web meetings Exploring the Universe: HubbleSite Childrens Books Read By Actors and Storytellers PicLens - a 3D Virtual Wall for Viewing Videos and Photos Searches on Your Browser Story Place - The Children’s Digital Library Need to Email a Large File?
May 2008	Newsletter highlights: Welcome to the UCET Newsletter for May! Online Videos at UCET.org! Getting Started with InDesign Preliminary Preparations Before Beginning an InDesign Project. Create a New File in InDesign Moving from page to page in InDesign Working with Text in InDesign Adding Graphics into Your InDesign Document Using InDesign Master Pages Creating a Table in InDesign A Typical Workflow for an InDesign Document... Publishing Your InDesign Document Conclusion HP Develops New Type of Memory Circuit Celebrate NASA's 50th Anniversary With the Digital Learning Network Live Green Teacher Grants Macintosh Tip: Silence the Volume-Changing Beep Blogging helps encourage teen writing 2008 Youth Prizes for Excellence in International Education Classroom-Based Research Grants for Grades K–12 Teachers Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program American Legacy Foundation Small Innovative Grants Program Challenge 20/20 Grant Toshiba Grants Program for 7-12 Science and Math Education
April 2008	Newsletter highlights: Kindle - Amazon’s e-Reader with Wireless Delivery Floods & Flows: Exploring Mars Geology on Earth - A Field-Based Workshop for Science Teachers IBM’s New Online Multiplayer Game Teaches Students About Energy, Global Warming, and Engineering MyAwardMaker - A Free Site for CreatingThat Special Recognition Certificate The Body Explained - Videos On Interesting Questions About the Human Body Explore Earth’s History with the National GeographicInteractive Prehistoric Timeline! Plasq.com’s Comic Life - A Creative Writing Tool Free Spelling Lists fromAll About Spelling The Public Education Job Enhancement Program Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Penn State Science Workshops for Educators Educator Conference: Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 Satellite Launch Educational Video Clips Online from NASA Rich Franzen’s Interactive Color Wheel (JAVA) Adobe School Innovation Awards 21st Century Musical Instrument - The Tenori-On
March 2008	Newsletter highlights: Message from the President UCET 2008 Awards Presented Web 2.0 - Educational Smorgasboard - Part 2 MyStickies Neptune NinjaWords Pipes PocketMod Postgenomic Qunu schoolr Schoopy Snipshot Spellify Spreeder Squidoo Team Cowboy Thumbstacks Tutorialicious Whonu Wikipedia Wikispaces 4Shared Zoho Screeniac ScreenCasts Bad Web 2,0! Did you Know? School Leadership Grant Program Pinnacle Offers Free Video Editing Tool - VideoSpin Upload Many Photos at Once to Flickr GimpShop - GIMP in Photoshop's Clothing Jarte - A Free, Portable Word Processor
February 2008	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2.0 - This Month! Register Now! This Issue of the UCET Newsletter - Web 2.0 Back-Up Your Macintosh! Another Great Mac Cloner... Free-Reading.net - an Open Resource and Community Bring Civics Back to the Classroom Web 2.0 - Educational Smorgasboard! An Educator's directory of useful web 2.0 websites. 30 Boxes Backpack BlinkBits Bloglines Box BrainReactions Calcoolate Campfire Chalksite CollegeRuled Cope_It del.icio.us Digg Diigo Google Docs eTutor Empressr Engrade Facebook Flickr Gliffy GradeFix GroupVine Guruza Haiku GE Imagination Cubed NCES Kids’ Zone Linked In NoteMesh Meebo MindMeister Mindomo MyNoteIt
January 2008	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2008 Almost Here! Register Now! Tutorial: View File Name Extensions in Windows/Mac Have Your Students Grow Seeds Exposed to a Microgravity Environment! Teacher-tested Travel Grants Panasonic & Google Collaborate to Launch Internet TVs Intel Schools of Distinction Award Tutorial: Digital Photography and Digital Photos Tutorial: Finding that Hidden Best Image - Using Photoshop’s Crop Tool Mac Users - Transfer Music or Video Files from Your iPod to Your Hard Drive with Free Senuti Software! Important Message from Ross Rogers, UCET President
December 2007	Newsletter highlights: Holiday Wishes from UCET! Registeration Reminder for UCET 2008 Looking Ahead to 2008 Adobe CS3 Suite Video Tutorials Mac OS X “Leopard” Gives You New Ways to Declutter Your Desktop and Your Dock! YouTube-Like Educational Science Spinoffs Web-based Translation Tools Free Online Gradebooks Schoopy - School Social Networking Taking Lots of Pictures? Use Photoshop’s LevelsDialog to Make Corrections to Exposure. Just for the fun of it...
November 2007	Newsletter highlights: Pico Projector Displays! Coming Soon... Anti-Phishing Phil Teaches How to Avoid Phishing Scams in a Fun, Interactive Way Music - Folk Tunes From Around the World! Smithsonian Jazz Class The American Folk Song Collection Grants and Funding Opportunities... Presidential Award for Reading and Technology2008 AMD Corporate Contributions Breaking Down Barriers to Assistive Technology Coca-Cola Foundation Grants Digital Wish Audio Recorder 3.1 for Mac A Proclamation Character Education Resources at USOE Character Education Resources at UEN Web 2.1: From Text to Art in Everyday Communication Quick Tip: Acrobat Printing Problems ePALS to Offer Schools Free Access to its Premiere Online Education Tools and Literacy Curricula Thanksgiving Holiday Resources!
October 2007	Newsletter highlights: David Pogue - UCET 2008 Keynote Speaker Office 2007 Compatibility Pack Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for Macintosh Users Another Free Solution for Opening Office 2007 Documents in OpenOffice 2.1 Free - Teaching The Levees - A Curriculum for Democratic Dialogue & Civic Engagement OpenOffice - a Free, Yet Powerful Office Suite OpenOffice tutorials Engaging Digital Learners $2 million for emerging-technology innovators Up to $21,000 for innovative science teachers Three classroom makeovers for creative video submissions $50,000 to purchase books for disadvantaged schools $100,000 for college tuition $120,000 in reading software programs and training October News from UEN Kids Safe Online Hershey’s Trick or Treats Site Record Analog Video or Cable TV on Your PC EYETV - 2 in 1 TV for Your Macintosh
August/September 2007	Newsletter highlights: UCET 2008 - CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Become a NASA Explorer School! Fly-A-Kite-OSX Free Elementary Worksheets - Pre-K - 5th Space Shuttle 118 - Educational Opportunities iLife ‘08 Training from Apple Computer Learner.Org - In Search of the Novel Trying to Learn Office 2007? Grants to purchase books for disadvantaged schools $120,000 in reading software programs and training NSTA Associate Fellowships for new science teachers Google Earth Just Added the Universe! Microsoft Word 2007 Quick Reference Microsoft Excel 2007 Quick Reference Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Quick Reference KUED and UEN Teachers Preview Night Courseware Showcase - You’re Invited! Weekly Professional Development Training at the UEN Faculty Lounge Autumn - Beautiful Autumn! (Activities and sites for September)
July 2007	Newsletter highlights: Using Flash Videos in the Classroom Experience NASA As An Education Associate DVD - A Tour of the Cryosphere FlyBy Math: Distance-Rate-Time Problems in Air Traffic Control After FlyBy Math - Are You Ready to Be an Air Traffic Controller? Try LineUp With Math! Remember the Milk! Free Online Task Manager with a Mobile Version 5-Terabyte Hard Drives? Find and Recover Deleted Files of Any Type NASA EarthKAM Summer Mission Invites Students to Participate Ubuntu 7.04 Makes Linux Easy Poetry for your iPod Final Note from the Editor
June 2007	Newsletter highlights: June 2007 Newsletter Focuses on Government Resources for Teachers! World Wind 1.4 Released NASA Educational Publications Available Online- Printing Available Through OfficeMax The Classroom of the Future - Bridging the Gap Between NASA and the Classroom. NASA Quest The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Educational Resources Library Of Congress Country Studies
May 2007	Newsletter highlights: Technology’s Expanding Capacity MyPyramid.Gov Provides Educational Tools and Activities Based on the New Food Pyramid Road Scholar Educator of the Year Awards Multi-screen Remote Desktop (2_Setup) $13,000 in cash and prizes. Apply for Parent Group of the Year 2007 Have a True But Crazy Story? Color Coded Keyboard for Keyboarding Skills Online Star Charts from the Weather Underground! Avoid bloated PowerPoint Presentation Files Spreadsheet Basics: Creating Your Own Gradebook
April 2007	Newsletter highlights: Note: This pdf file is larger than earlier newsletters - 10 MB. It contains David Warlick's 2007 UCET Keynote Address as an embedded 1 hour audio file which you can play within Acrobat or Acrobat Reader version 6 or later. If you'd prefer the newsletter without the embedded audio file (2.6 MB), please click here. Win a Wireless Lab for Your School! Translation Tool Tackles Language Barrier David Warlick’s UCET Keynote Address Those Hidden iPod Commands Pandora - Helping You Find New Music That You’ll Enjoy. The United States Air Force Band Site The Internet Archive Welcome to Utah History to Go! The Utah History Encyclopedia Utah History for Kids MapOfUtah.Net The Utah Digital Map Library The Counties of Utah (featured at UEN) Time to AVOID Phishing!!! Up to $7,500 for outstanding arts-oriented educators Verizon Foundation Launches Thinkfinity How to Create a PDF File With Embedded Audio and Video April Resources for Educators! Where Did the UCET Conference Materials Go?
March 2007	Newsletter highlights: Message from the President Three Men Honored at UCET 2007 2007 Technology Educator of the Year 2007 Technology Leader of the Year 2007 Technology Advocate of the Year Grants and Opportunities... Up to $5,000 per award for high schooland college aeronautics project $10,000 to exemplary young educators $75,000 for excellent cable TV use in the classroom $20,000 to help students learn about theozone $5,000 to increase awareness of materials science $150,000 to help fund arts programs More than $1M for outstanding science and math teachers Adobe Software Donation Bank of America Local Grants Tips and Tutorials... Zoom In on Your Macintosh Presentations! Software and Hardware... Reasons to Run to—and from—Vista Free Word Plug-in Allows Reading/Writing of OpenOffice Documents Better Manage Windows Startup Google Docs and Spreadsheets Websites and Online Resources... JCU Study Skills Online - Essay Writing 2007 Sun-Earth Day Materials Now Available to Educators Open Educational Resources (OER) Text Content Analysis Tool News and Alerts... Bill Gates Asks Senate For Ed-Data Center; Overhaul of Education Pedagogy GMail is now available to all...
February 2007	Newsletter highlights: Your Nominations Please... Autostitch: Amazing Free Photostitching Application WinMerge - Free Open Source File Comparison Tool PC Inspector - Powerful File Recovery Tool for Windows UltraVNC - Need to Work on a Remote PC? Foxit Reader - Free PDF Reader Will Work From Your Flash Drive DiscLib - Catalog all Those CDs and DVDs! Restoration - Free File Recovery Tool Requires No Installation, Will Work From Flash Drive February Resources CNN Interactive - Black History Month The Black Inventor Kulture Kids Website Patchwork of African-American Life The Official Groundhog Day Website Project Groundhog The Stormfax Weather Site Pennsylvania Game Commission Public Photo Site The History of the Valentine Holiday Crafts 4 Kids! Lots of Valentine’s Fonts - Free POTUS - Presidents of the United States American Experience - The Presidents HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative Announcement Up to $5,000 per award for high school and college aeronautics project American Stars of Teaching Free Directory of Educator Templates FastWEB Report: Media Multitasking Among American Youth: Prevalence, Predictors and Pairings The Foundation Center GrantsAlert.com Grants.gov SchoolGrants A Great Big Wreck Utah’s NASA Educator Resource Center Free Movies - Entertainment Magazine A quick P.S. to our readership...
January 2007	Newsletter highlights: Register Now for UCET 2007! Save the Day with Free Windows Tools! (This article focuses on tools for network and computer lab administrators) UBCD4Win Recovery CD BartPE - Bart’s Preinstalled Environment Angry IP Scanner WWW.DNSREPORT.COM - DNS and Mail Server Testing SolarWinds Advanced Subnet Calculator SolarWinds TFTP Server SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN GNU Emacs Text Editor Notepad+ SourceEdit NoteTab PDFCreator IE Privacy Keeper LanSweeper GenControl CCleaner ClilpName Password Control SysInternals “Helping You Differentiate Instruction” - Review of Teaching Made Easier by Ross Rogers BlueTie - A Free and Powerful Internet-Based Collaboration Tool Sniffing Problems A Mile Away (Wireshark) LibraryThing - Social Network Site for Cataloging Book Collections Riya - A Truly Visual Search Engine Photoshop CS3 Beta Available Now! National Geographic Podcasts National Geographic News National Geographic World Talk Wild Chronicles (Video) National Geographic Video Shorts (Video) Protect Your PC with New Security Featuresin Windows Vista Grant: Smarter Kids Foundation’s Connectionsprogram More than $20K for science-oriented essays Travel and $1,000 for energy-related projects Google for Educators
December 2006	Newsletter highlights: Full Speed Ahead to UCET 2007 Conference! UCET CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Grant Opportunity: Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Utah Educators Resource Guide for2006-2007 Distributed! Free Video Conversion Programs for PC (Windows) Some Great Christmas Stories... Other Holiday Resources for you... $30,000 for outstanding librarymedia programs Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community Ook? Video Ook! 2007 Honeywell Educators at Space Academy Grant Free-Belarc Advisor-Windows Utility Getting Rid of a Computer? Destroydata on your hard drive, excluding any possibility of future recovery. Apple Computer Releases Boot Camp 1.12 Beta TIP: Short a Microphone??? Use Headphones Instead... Donateware for Macintosh - AlphaBaby 1.51 Computer History Museum Holiday Wishes from the UCET Board
November 2006	Newsletter highlights: The UCET November Newsletter! Mac OS X Mail & Safari Tip: Super - a Free Video Conversion Program for Windows Networking/Ethernet Basics (Simplified and Demystified!) Other Network Basics Tutorials on the Internet... MacArthur Foundation Investing $50 Million in Digital Learning Scientists, Developers Tout Video Games in Education ProTeacher Community Federal Teacher Incentive Fund How Stuff Works... ScienceDaily - Your Source for the Latest Research News Thanksgiving Resources...
October 2006	Newsletter highlights: Welcome to the October Newsletter! Register for UCET 2007 Conference Free Halloween Fonts Make Your Own Halloween Craft Projects Learn the History of Halloween from the History Channel! Hackers Target Vulnerable Software PC World Tests Popular AntiSpyware Applications Annoyed by e-mail attachment file size limitations? Free: Pando may solve your problem. Social Atlas Sites - a new way to share information about places MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling NASA Releases New Classroom Materials $100K for service-oriented students $6,000 for citizenship and history education The Polar Science Station EduHound - Indexed Links of Online Teacher Resources The Scout Project - Another Resource for Educators and Librarians eduTopia Goes Digital Teach - a free video documentary from Teachnow.org Architect Studio 3D with Frank Lloyd Wright Invitation to submit articles for the UCET Newsletters
September 2006	Newsletter highlights: This Month’s Topic: Presenting in the Classroom! What Kinds of Multimedia Files Can PowerPoint Handle? You Need to Know!!! - Are Multimedia Files You’ve Inserted Into PowerPoint Embedded in the .PPT file or are They Just Links? Working with Sound in PowerPoint 2003 iSquint - A Free iPod Video Converter for the Mac Working with Video Files inPowerPoint 2003 What Do I Do When a Movie Won’t Play in PowerPoint, but Will Play In QuickTime or Windows Media Player? I Need to Present Elsewhere and Send My Presentation on CD. How Can I Make Sure My PowerPoint Presentation Will Work? Burn - Burning Application for Mac OS X - Free Download $10,000 for strong school district programs $3,000 for outstanding science education LearnStar Announces Fall Grant Initiative Shell Science Teaching Award Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing... UCET 2007 Conference - Call for Presenters, Sponsors, Vendors
August 2006	Newsletter highlights: Partnership to Promote National Internet Safety Campaign Kids In Need Teacher Grants Help Teachers Realize Their Dreams Teacher Inspiration Award: Recognizing a journalism teacher who through excellent instruction inspired others to pursue scholastic journalism teaching and/or advising... Google SketchUp Free 5.0.297 for Windows and Macintosh XML Nanny 2.0 - Free Software SmartBoard Lessons Podcasts ReelBean for Macintosh OSX - Powerful, free movie export software Ohloh - Open Source Projects Indexed and Evaluated Basic Training on How to Secure Your Windows PC Awards up to $65,000 to expand family literacy $7,000 for professional development and other studies Learning History Through Podcasts Grant Title: Adobe Software Donation Grant Title: Allstate Foundation Grants eSchool News List of over 100 Ongoing Grant Opportunities for Education August Topic - Bugs
July 2006	Newsletter Highlights: Free Classroom Video - NASA Destination Tomorrow - Program 23 Just Released for Teachers - NASA Connect: Team Extreme: The Statistics of Success & NASA Connect: The Path of Totality: Angular Distance Free Font Utility from LinoType for Macintosh OS X Google Earth is Now Available for Macintosh! UEN Professional Development Courses for July 2006 NECC 2006 - July 5-7 -San Diego, California Microsoft is Offering a New Way to Test Drive Office 2007 Grant: $3,000 to connect math to other subjects Contest: $11,500 to boost reading instruction and comprehension National Weather Association (NWA) SOL HIRSCH EDUCATION FUND GRANTS Shell Science Teaching Award July Topic: Amelia Earhart Convert analog video sources directly to digital with hardware encoding... NetStumbler v0.4 GEM - Gateway to 21st Century Skills StraightForward Media’s Teacher Scholarships. An open invitation to share with other UCET members...
June 2006	Newsletter highlights: Back to School Grants ASCAP Music Education Support Phishing for Funding Update: KiddieRecords.com Photoshop Tutorial - Creating a Sketch Out of a Photograph - Part 1 Instant Handbrake - DVD conversion to iPod H264 video or PSP MP4 video Google to Challenge Excel Photoshop Tutorial - Creating a Sketch Out of a Photograph - Part 2 Gallery of Photos Manipulated Into Sketches in Photoshop Photoshop Tutorial: Salvaging a Photo With a Color Cast Problem $100,000 in college scholarships for math and science projects Flag Day is June 14! Explore the History of the American Flag!
May 2006	Newsletter highlights: When is Technology Worth the Price? Answering Common Sense Questions About Purchasing Technology Solutions MyClassInfo - a Free Teacher Calendaring, Message, and Sign-Up Sheet Tool Free Professional Development Modules Available from the George Lucas Educational Foundation EmTech - Emerging Technologies Educational Resources Looking at Fossils in 3D! Learn Photoshop Tips and Tricks Through Free Video Podcasts! Another Great Photoshop Tips and Tricks Video Podcast! And one more! Radiant Vista - The Photoshop Workbench Video Podcast. Commercial Educational Offerings Propagate on the Web... Homework Helper Site from Discovery Channel The Student Nest - Live One-on-One Tutoring RedZee Search - Filtered Search Results for Kids BrainPOP in Spanish SearchEdu.com RGK Foundation Grants Interactive Tools for Teaching Grant ALA Great Web Site for Kids FirstGov for Kids Presidential Freedom Scholarship
April 2006	Newsletter highlights: UCET Board Preparing for the UCET 2007 Conference... Blue Frog 1.8 - Freeware Spam Protection and Do Not Intrude Registry A Project to Revive Children’s Stories Recorded in the 40’s and 50’s StoryNory - iPod Ready Stories for Kids Radio WillowWeb - Podcast Radio for Kids - by Kids 300 free educational licenses for assessment and polling software $50,000 for student newspaper partnerships Caedes, the Desktop Wallpaper and Artist Community Anyday - Today In History History Channel - This Day In History $50 million in software to help U.S. global competitiveness Grant: Califone Audio-Enhanced Classroom Kit Grants Macintosh Tutorial: Using Audacity to Record Any Audio Your Computer Is Playing... Windows Tutorial: Using Audacity to Record Any Audio Your Computer Is Playing... The BellSouth Education Gateway Google Mars Other Mars Resources The EPA Environmental Kids Club Deaf Education Website Whats going on in April??? Free Basic Math Practice Worksheets
March 2006	Newsletter highlights: The 2006 UCET Conference is set to go! Publishing Documents as PDF Files - Free PrimoPDF Driver for Windows Apple Learning Interchange (ALI): Igniting conversation, imagination, and improvement in education KnowItAll.org - SC's ETV Web Portal Take a Virtual Tour of the Louvre Museum $100 Laptop Project for Bridging the Knowledge Divide in Education NationalAtlas.gov - Make your own maps online Free USA Geography Games and Facts from Sheppard Software The Geography Site Making Schools Work from PBS $50,000 and Newspaper Recognition for Outstanding K-12 Educators $20,000 for Spreading Music Knowledge and Appreciation March Holidays and Celebrations Economic Education Web Dave's ESL Cafe Lindbergh Grant ASM International Foundation Teacher Grants Healthy Sprouts Awards Parting Tips - Keyboard shortcuts for Windows - Mac Basics 101
February 2006	Newsletter Highlights UCET Conference is just five weeks away! Here's the checklist of things you should do... Amazing Space! An Open Invitation to Share with UCET Membership Ben Franklin Web Portal CDW-G, Discovery Education Announce Annual‘Win a Wireless Lab’ Drawing: Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives Dictionary of Measurement Units Education Technology Plans and Disability Access Utah Educational Conferences in March Educational Video Content from eMedia Available on Pioneer for Utah Educators! Explore Africa with PBS February Theme - Presidents, the Presidency, and President’s Day $50,000 for Abraham Lincoln fellowships Getting an Education Really Does Pay Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program Make scientific concepts come alive with free 3D images MathWorld Miscellaneous Notes: IE7 Beta and WinAmp Fix MIT’s OpenCourseWare - Free College Instruction from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pioneer Online Library Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Statewide Contest Princeton to Offer Free “Vodcasts” of Lectures on Web School Librarian’s Workshop Scholarship Sight Word Exercises from Quiz-Tree 2006 Adobe Design AchievementAwards for Higher Education Students 2006 Zaner-Bloser Contest for Handwriting UEN: Spring Training Courses Offered US Bank Internet Scholarship Program Utah Agriculture in the Classroom Watch Video of Stardust Reentry! Windward - Outsmart the Weather in a Race Around the World XX Olympic WinterGames: 10-26 February 2006
January 2006	Newsletter Highlights UCET Call for Presenters If You’re Interested in Technology and Education - This is the Conference for You! Register Today and Save! InfoSource Awards Technology Grants to School Districts Across the U.S. Earth Calendar - Celebrate Every Day! Digital History - Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research U.S. Bank Internet Scholarship Program Space Day 2006 Design Challenges Reading Lists from Questia Professor in Your Pocket The Veterans History Project Hurricane ERIC Database - The Education ResourcesInformation Center Announcing the UELMA Conference Book Review: The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, by Thomas L. Friedman Library of Congress Bookfest - See Webcasts of Top Authors Reviewing their Work Free Classroom Video and Teacher’s Guide - The Case of the Physical Fitness Challenge. (For Grades 3-6) A&E Biographies for the Classroom
December 2005 Special Edition	Newsletter Highlights A Special Edition Newsletter... Toshiba and the NSTA join to offer theExploraVision Competition Intel Teach to the Future: Workshop on Teaching Thinking With Technology Technology Grant News ING Unsung Heroes Award Toyota Tapestry Grant Outdoor Classroom Grant Program Advancing Student AchievementGrant The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation SparkTop.org Teacher ResourceCenter EarthWatch Educator Fellowships Announcing 2006 Inspired Teacher Scholarships! Just for Teachers Video On Demand at www.learner.org Curriculum Associates Offers FreeOnline Course for Motivating Students What’s Your Story? Read, Write, andShare with Weekly Reader Free English Lessons Free classroom kit from Teaching Tolerance site HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative: 2006 Grant Opportunities NowAvailable Science Explorations Website
December 2005	Newsletter Highlights UCET Christmas Issue! Basic Facts Worksheet Factory VLC - the Cross-platform Media Player and Streaming Server World Wind -World Visualization Software from NASA Celestia - Solar System Simulation Finale NotePad 2005 - Music Notation Software National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics Virtual Lab: A Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope Ricci Adams’ Online Music Theory Site Arkive: Creating a Lasting Audio-Visual Record of Life on Earth NASA CONNECT for Grades 6-8 The NASA SCIence Files for Grades 3-5 Project Gutenberg - 17,000+ Free Books as e-Text The National Geographic Society - Education Website CamStudio - Screen Recording Software For Art Teachers - An Interactive Tutorial on Color Advanced PowerPoint Users Group - Announcement Training Opportunities from the Utah Education Network OpenOffice - Free Office Suite Picasa - Free Picture Organizer and Editor Feedback Please!
November 2005	Newsletter Highlights UCET 2006 is Looking for Innovative Presentations Podcasting in Education What is a podcast? Where Can I Find the Podcasts? Apple iTunes (Free-Mac & PC) iPodder (Free-Mac, PC, or Linux) @Podder (Free-Windows) Want even more information on Podcasting??? How Do I Create My Own Podcast? Teacher Treasure! Audacity - Free Sound Editing and Recording Program... Ideas for Classroom Use Feedback Please...
October 2005	Newsletter Highlights Mark your calendars! Marc Prensky - Keynote Speaker at UCET 2006 Pioneer Library’s 10th Anniversary Website: http://pioneer.uen.org BLOGGING FUN Blogging Tips from EarthLink Free DVD to Science Educators: “A Private Universe / Minds of Our Own” UCET Newsletter delivered monthly during 2005-2006 Teacher Treasure: Tools to Determine Readability