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Star Wars Angry Birds – Let the Fun Begin

Star Wars Angry Birds – Let the Fun Begin

OK, there's much excitement in our house about Star Wars Angry Birds in our house.  It's a mashup of two of our favorite things. After playing it for a few days, we are still just as excited. Who doesn't like an Angry Bird with a light sabre slaying though evil storm...

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Friday Fun: Improv Everywhere invades TED

Friday Fun: Improv Everywhere invades TED

Everyone hates the spinning beach ball of death.  Imagine if it took over your presentation while speaking to a group of people.  Watch as Improv Everywhere brings this to life.  Have you ever thought about doing something unexpected like this during a talk?  Could be...

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Announcements are Boring

Everyone knows it. Announcements are boring. So a few years back we decided to spice things up. We had just held a huge student conference and had brought in the improv comedy group CPR. The students went nuts over the improv. So why not combine the most boring part...

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Set World Records at Your Next Event

I was watching some podcast Brian Brushwood was on when I first discovered RecordSetter.com  This is a online, user-generated world record site.  (I almost feel foolish writing anything else because I know your brains are already spinning on this one.)  It's easy....

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Geek Is… [VIDEO]

I loved watching this video.  It brought back a lot of great childhood memories.  I guess I'm really a geek. Blizzard's senior vice president of creative development, Chris Metzen, delivers a rousing dissertation to a packed audience at BlizzCon about what it means to...

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Friday Fun: Twitter Tracker

I don't know about you, but I'm very excited that Conan has taken over the Tonight Show.  And one of his bits is my pick for Friday Fun.  He has started a Twitter Tracker to track all those fascinating celebrity tweets.   Check Out the video: And if you want more...

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Update Twitter, Facebook and Myspace with one click!

Update Twitter, Facebook and Myspace with one click!

I have to say that of all the tools I have found, Ping.fm dulls the pain of updating mutiple social networking sites better than anything else.  If you have friends and students split between twitter, myspace and facebook, the chore of updating statuses and tweets...

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Bill Gates at TED

I think the stuff that comes out of the TED conference is some of the best on the net.  If you're not familiar with TED it's a conference and the name stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.  The talks are diverse and I almost always find them fascinating.  One...

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