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Google Schedules Road Trip To Show Off Google Apps Education Edition Tour

The company said it will be embarking on a tour in September in a renovated school bus running bio-diesel to show off its technology on campuses across the United States. Read article.

Microsoft releases new tools for academics

Microsoft’s research group has announced a set of free software tools designed to improve the interoperability of programs that scholars and academics currently use and better meet their research needs. Read article.

Adobe Proposes Flash for Learning

Adobe emphasized a view of learning around Flash for video and an animated Web. Read article.

Endo

What is endo? Endo is an aggregator that you can use to stay up to date on your favorite news sites and weblogs. Subscribe to your favorite news sites, blogs, and any other website that offers syndication. endo polls them periodically and optionally notifies you of new articles. Check it out here.

Are you ready for 2007?

Office 2007, that is.

Microsoft offers online tests of Office 2007

-IDG News Service
In an unprecedented move, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday will allow users to test the next version of Office online without having to download software. Read full article.

Exploring the World of Wikis

-Author: Brian Satterfield, Tech Soup
Part of the next generation of interactive Web applications, wikis are collaborative Web sites that allow authorized users — or in some cases, anyone with an Internet connection — to rapidly and easily change the content of pages, as well as view a history of changes that others have made. Read full article.

Review: 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2 Is Up And Runnin

- Barbara Krasnoff, TechWeb.com
It's been a while since Microsoft's Office suite, the collection of software applications that a large percentage of today's workers use on a daily basis, has had a major overhaul.  The new version (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office, with the year before the name) has added several features to the previous iteration and has firmed up many of the features that didn't work properly in Beta 1. In addition, Microsoft has put together the various packages that will make up its Office suite collection -- seven in all. Read full article.

Clicking early with PowerPoint

-By Peter Schworm, Boston Globe Staff
Duarte wasn’t polishing his PowerPoint presentation for a boardroom sales pitch; it was for his fourth-grade class in Brockton.

‘‘Because they are so technologically literate, they produce better work,’’ said Lawrence Gray, administrator of educational technology for the Stoughton schools. Read full article.

Fifty ways to take notes

Do you take notes? You know, the kind you usually write down on a piece of paper and then promptly misplace? Solution Watch has compiled a fabulous list of note taking software and much, much more. Check it out.