News from Industry: Adobe unveils free online photo editing software.

Adobe unveils free online photo editing software. Adobe Photoshop Express US public beta launches. Pocket-lint. Online March 2008 …taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. … The beta testing will start in the US today but will be rolled out in other countries and in other languages aside from English in the coming months. … Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2GB of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook. …

Non-ICT Resources: ASCD Opens Middle East Offices.

ASCD Opens Middle East Offices. ASCD. Online March 2008. ASCD Middle East is first organization of its kind to provide educators in the region with tailored professional development and capacity building. … "Educators in the Middle East are hungry for sound professional development programs that address their unique local needs," said (Joseph) Ghaly (ASCD Middle East executive director). "ASCD Middle East will respond by offering resources and tailored training programs for educators in their native languages." … (Note from Ginny: Although listed as non-ICT, ASCD includes technology in their overview of education practices and resources. It is good to have some of their valuable resources translated into Arabic and Turkish.)

ICT Support for Learning: 25 Tools: Professional Development Programme.

25 Tools: Professional Development Programme. Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Online March 2008. Tools, Community and Help. ... These are the 25 current must-have free tools. Each Tool activity comprises a number of tasks to help you find out more about the technology behind each tool, the tool itself and why it is so popular, how to try out the tool and reflect on its use for your own teaching and learning and for productivity and performance support. Many of the tool activities are inter-related, so you will also be using other tools for different tasks. (Registration required.)...

Update from Low-Cost Laptop Project Intel's Trickle-Up Laptops

Intel's Trickle-Up Laptops. Brian Caulfield. Forbes. Online March 2008. … Intel confirmed Thursday that it plans to bring to the U.S. a second generation of the cheap laptop computers it originally designed for kids in poor countries. … Intel said laptops based on the updated Classmate design will cost between $250 and $350 to build, giving PC makers the ability to slot in a new class of laptops below their cheapest offerings, which typically start at $499. …

Update from Intel:Cheap laptops to be powered by Intel’s Atom chips.

Cheap laptops to be powered by Intel’s Atom chips. Christopher Dawson. ZDNet. Online March 2008. …tiny, low-powered chips that should find their way into educational sectors soon. … target will be consumer and business small machines for WiFi and cellular-based Internet access (called MIDs or Mobile Internet Devices), another target will be machines like Intel’s own Classmate PC. …