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The following was originally published February 11, 2010 at http://bhstechtip.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-2-tcea.html

To say the least, I'm on information overload. Boy, new Web 2.0 tools are being developed every day. I can't wait to show you some of these tools when I return.

I just sat through my first presentation at TCEA where I needed a box of kleenex. It was a session presented by an English III AP teacher from Austin, Westlake High School. As a companion research project to the book __The Things They Carried__ by Tim O'Brien, students in her English III AP classes each research a person whose name appears on the Vietnam wall. Students then create a presentation honoring the individual's life and the time in which they lived. Many of the students correspond with the soldier's family to find out information to use in their presentation.

You can visit the website for this project by going to http://whs.eanes.k12.tx.us/virtualvietnam/. Every presentation created by students in year's past are available to watch. We saw several examples, and I cried! ! I could see this being done in a US History classroom too.

(For those of you interested, I have all the information that the teacher gives to the students explaining the project and providing all the resources they can use.)

Short Tip for the Day: goog411 I have been using this now for two years on my cell phone. I am sitting in a session where the presenter asked how many people used it and not many hands went up. So, I would guess that there are a lot of you that don't know about this. It can save you some money.

Here's how it works: put 1-800-GOOG-411 in your contact list on your cell phone. When you need a phone number for a business in any place in the US call this number. Provide the city, state and place of business and it will find the phone number, provide the address and connect you, all for FREE.

More to come. ..