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.

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