links for 2008-04-09

• Google Earth Lessons
  a free public resource created by teachers, for teachers, to give educators tools and ideas for using the free Google Earth software in their classrooms
  (tags: e-learning geo googlearth googleearth googlemaps lessonplans maps)
• Twubble
  Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow
  (tags: foaf recommendation socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworking twitter twubble)
• Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video & Archives)
  an interesting looking online file conversion service
  (tags: conversion convert documents document converter tools files online)
• English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions – UsingEnglish.com
  awesome collection of idioms – many just begging to be made into visual puns in the GIMP
  (tags: art ***** dictionary encyclopedia idioms english inspiration language gimp todo)
• Creating a Collaborative Syllabus Using Moodle : March 2008 : THE Journal
  The logic behind this tool is that by actively participating in the creation of the syllabus, students are able to signal what they want to learn and how they want to learn it and then (potentially) set the standard by which they will be accountable.
  (tags: collaboration moodle syllabus)
• Call Graph: The free Skype call recorder
  a Skype plugin for recording calls – handy for creating podcasts, as it directly stores the audio in 128 Kbps Bit rate in MP3. will record skype to skype, skypein and skypeout calls. Unfortunately only available for windows
  (tags: audio plugin podcasting skype voip recording)
• 4172.0 – Arts and Culture in Australia: A Statistical Overview, 2007
  a statistical overview of culture in Australia. Contains information on a range of topics including employment in culture, time spent on cultural activities, attendances at cultural venues and events, expenditure on culture, and imports and exports of cu
  (tags: arts statistics census australia culture bait tafe)
• Building Creative Economies (March ‘03).pdf (application/pdf Object)
  an overview of how the arts affect the economy of Appalachia
  (tags: arts economy bait tafe appalacia)
• NAEA | Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
  some of the non-economic benefits of an education in the arts
  (tags: arts education bait tafe)
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
  8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog. But wait, there’s more – browse now and you get the 100 themes *and* links to more exciting collections
  (tags: art code design gallery inspiration themes wordpress wp)
• The Market Theme : Powering Storefronts on Wordpress
  put paypal on a Wordpress powered site. Features custom fields forsetting a price, the name of the product, and other info and sending it all to Paypal for you. The theme can also be used as a way to showcase a portfolio
  (tags: wordpress marketplace paypal theme market store ecommerce wp)
• bbPress
  forum software (open source) by the wordpress folks – easily integrated with a wordpress blog
  (tags: forum wordpress wp bbpress)