Synopsis:    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Vicki Davis, A.K.A. CoolCatTeacher to discuss a wide range of topics from Digital Citizenship, to Global Collaboration and more.Links:CoolCatTeacher.com - Vicki's main siteFlat Classroom - Vicki's global collaboration projectDigiteen Project - Global Digital Citizenship Collaboration and EducationTIPS:  Tech Tip of the Week: Tunnelier - GUI SSH client for Windows (courtesy of PKU in the chat room)  Teacher Tip of the Week: AdoptAClassroom.org - invites the community into the classroom  in support of teachers  and their students.Flash AnimationDownload

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Dr. Mike Ribble to discus the theory and practice of developing good digital citizens of the 21st Century. Links:Digital Citizenship in Schools - Mike's first book Raising a Digital Child - Mike's second bookDigitalCitizenship.net - Mike's Web site Digiteen Project - Global Digital Citizenship Collaboration and EducationCommon Sense Media - Digital Citizenship Recourses TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: Servers Alive- Simple server status monitor tool   Teacher Tip of the Week: CommonSenseMedia.org - Great source of information for parents and teachers

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby, two nationally-recognized educators, to discuss the concept of desktop distance learning. Links:Brian's Class WikiEd Tech Talk- Lisa's PodcastLisa's Blog TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: Revo Uninstaller- Removes files that the default uninstaller often misses   Teacher Tip of the Week: CIA's World Fact Book- Excellent site for information about countries around the world

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn give you a virtual tour of their "studio" and discuss some of the techniques and tools they use to produce the Tightwad Tech podcast, and its accompanying video feed. Links: Webcam Studio – Linux-based multi-camera broadcast software ManyCam – Windows-based tool for allowing two or more cameras to be used as a single webcam input WebcamMax – WIndows-based software for multiple camera input including thousands of digital effects Ustream Producer – a desktop application allowing broadcasters to stream in high quality TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: GiveAwayOfTheDay.com – A new software highlighted each day, free for 24 hours only   Teacher Tip of the Week: Screencast-O-Matic.com – create screen capture video recordings with free hosting all from your browser with no install

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Chris (a.k.a. Slipp3D in the Tightwad Community) in our first ever Listener Spotlight show for a wide-ranging discussion of tech, podcasting, hacking and more! Links: Remmina - Remote desktop client (Linux only) Category 5 - Linux-oriented podcast 2600.com – Online hacker magazine (plus podcasts) UbuntuUK - UK-Based Ubuntu PodcasT This Week in Google – Weekly cloud-oriented podcast TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: WinSCP – Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows   Teacher Tip of the Week: Tux4Kids – Open source educational game suite

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn wrap up their four-part series on Google Apps with a look at the Google Apps Marketplace and some of their favorite addons. Links: Aviary.com SlideRocket.com SherpaTools.com Pixetell.com TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week: Display Changer -  changes the display resolution, runs a program, then restores the original settings.   Teacher Tip of the Week: GraphCalc – The Ultimate Windows Graphing Calculator

Synopsis:     For this episode Mark and Shawn discuss a few different items that are too big to be ignored, but too small to be an episode in themselves, such as- the state of The Tightwad Tech, Web site, the role of the Network Administrator in personnel management and the concept of 20% time. TIPS:   Tech Tip of the Week:  SafeMSI- Start the Windows Installer service in Safe Mode   Teacher Tip of the Week: Ipadio.com - (all in recording/podcasting or “phlogging”

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Derrick Waddell for part three of their series of shows related to Google Apps- focusing this time on classroom application Links:PogoplugGoogle Apps for EducationTIPS:Tech Tip of the Week: Actions- Clickable GUI-based automation tool for Windows and MacTeacher Tip of the Week: Molecular Workbench - a free, open-source tool that creates and delivers visual, interactive simulations for teaching and learning science and engineering

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Amanda Wilson to discuss her use of Facebook and other online tools in the college classroom. Links:ipadio.com - broadcast from any phone to the Internet livetappedin.org - The online workplace of an international community of education professionals.ateacherlearningaboutlearning.blogspot.com - Amanda's personal blogTIPS:Tech Tip of the Week: NTFSFix - a handy too to set the permissions on user work areas Teacher Tip of the Week:  TeacherTube - an online community for sharing instructional videos, docs, audio, and photos.

Synopsis:     This week Mark and Shawn have an informal discussion about a couple of interesting things that happened in their school recently, and what it may mean to others in similar environments. Links:   Sample AutoIt Source Code- This is the tool Mark quickly wrote to keep students from disabling iTALC.TIPS:Tech Tip of the Week: AutoIt - A free Windows automation tool Teacher Tip of the Week: Pencil - an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics