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You are visiting National Geographic Education’s completely redesigned beta website. Welcome! We hope you like what you see. The site is still under development, so you are seeing only some of the planned features and content. New things will continue to roll out—and your opinion matters!  Since its founding in 1888 "for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the National Geographic Society has worked to educate audiences about our planet. National Geographic Education develops programs for educational settings—in and out of school. We do this by targeting two goals:  Geo-Literacy  and  Educational Outreach .  Our redesigned beta website, NatGeoEd.org, offers an expanded and updated library of National Geographic’s popular education content, highlighting our iconic media and expert resources aligned with education standards. This beta site is just the first phase of a next-generation website with a wide range of free educational resources that...

Apple Special Event January 2012 Apple is said to be announcing something on January 19th in New York City. They’ve already invited select media to cover the event, and the only official word is that it’s related to education. Other than that, it’s all rumors and speculation. There’s not much information out there, but there are leaks and little tidbits of information that come out here and there. Let’s take a look at what we do know about the special event, which happens Thursday at the Guggenheim museum. 1) It’s not for a new physical product Something to keep in mind about the upcoming announcement is that it’s not for a physical product. This means no iPad 3 and no Apple HDTV. Sorry, hopeful people. It’s not going to happen soon, and even if it did, it’s probably not set to happen in New York. That would likely be at Apple’s usual venue at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. That said, count out any sort of major announcement or even teases at future announcements. It’s ...

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When ever giving gifts to someone for any occasion, follow these 3-senseable tips.  Tip No.1 Your gift doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Actually the best gifts in general are the inexpensive ones.  Tip No.2 Think about the color green when you are trying to choose the right gift for someone. Think of the environment, nature and health.  Tip No.3 Ever since I was a little boy (that was a long long time ago) I grew up thinking and believing, that if you bought a gift that was some how connected to education, then it just had to be useful. Not like all those nutty fruitcakes you see donated at a near by shelter every year.  Well, I must say I do have the perfect answer. It's called ClickN Kids which is the name of the No.1 company in the world, producing the ClickN Read Phonics Program and the ClickN Spell programs.  Both Programs are web based, so this means you can use the programs 24-hours a day/7-days a week when ever you want and you can use these pr...