Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results. Group Projects and Papers When working on group projects or research papers, these tools make collaboration a breeze. Nicenet. This tool is made just for education and includes document sharing, communication,... 

Now I love the Holidays as much as the next guy but can we all please agree that a serious overhaul is needed in the Christmas song industry.  I’m pushing fifty years old this yuletide season and I’ve heard most of these tunes enough to last me another fifty. My guess is I’m subjected to Walking in a Winter Wonderland twice daily between Thanksgiving and Christmas every year.  So if my collective memory began when I was about five, I’ve heard that song more than 2000 times.  I think that probably warrants a break for a few years.  And then there’s that Partridge in a Pear Tree that... 

CouchSurfing.org allows travelers to browse potential "hosts" from around the world where they can sleep for free. Every host has public reviews to make your choice easier and... safer. I learned about CouchSurfing through my friend Sara.  She was attempting a trip around Spain, using mostly their website to find people to stay with. I was skeptical. A site that lets people sleep on random couches while traveling. I’ve seen Hostel, I know how bad things can go. OK, that’s Hollywood fiction, but the idea still sounded scary. She tracked down people in a specific area, arranged to... 

Nathan Maxwell (left) and Matthew Hensley (right) of Celtic punk band Flogging Molly. Flogging Molly’s newest album ‘Float’ came out in March of last year. The album marks a significant milestone in the rowdy Irish band’s history through the several musical styles and genres it explores.  The band is widely known for breeding Celtic music with punk, the offspring of which has a strangely charming roughhouse kind of beauty to it. Taking an incredibly bold step away from its trademark fast and heavy lilting Celtic punk, ‘Float’ feels like more like Flogging Molly...