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Hawaii Retreat Center – Kalani Oceanside Retreat – Big Island, Hawaii

RadioShack.com – Phones & Radio Communications: Accessories: Corded & cordless phone accessories: Recorders & ringers: Recorder Control

RadioShack.com – Phones & Radio Communications: Accessories: Corded & cordless phone accessories: Recorders & ringers: Mini Recorder Control

Desk Organizers, cable caddy, wiremate, cable manager from CableOrganizer.com

The Great Courses – The Teaching Company : Educational Courses on DVD, Audio CD, Tape, and Cassette – Lecture Series by College/University Professors

Annenberg Media, resources. VoD of the Fred Friendly Ethics in America series, plus others.

Fred Friendly said that is purpose in creating the series was “to make the agony of decision making so hard that you can escape only by thinking.”

Sadly, the Gyration Presentation Remote with all the functions and options, including the presentation edition of GyroTools, is now a discontinued product . This is a growing list of possible replacements.

Gyration GYROTRANSPORT Air Mouse Presenter – Not nearly as powerful as the Presentation Remote but very small and compact, and includes the GyroTools software … Caution: includes a flash drive (with the GyroTools software loaded) which is not allowed in certain classified facilities!

Another possibility from Gyration is the GO PRO 2.4GHz Optical Air Mouse. Also includes the Gyrotools software.

Note that Gyration is “sold out” of the GyroTools software. I’m not sure that I’d make a commitment to the Gyration products at this time; things have been changing there and it’s not clear what will be offered in the future. I heard that the GyroTools software is an OEM version of ClickTricks from Southpac Software. I installed the trial version and it looks just like GyroTools. In a brief tryout, it looks as if you can assign tools to mouse clicks and other events, so a wireless mouse tool should work with ClickTricks. May just be a workable alternative to GyroTools.

Interlink has a number of tools including the RemotePoint RF – Clearly not as powerful as the Gyration Remote, but does have 4 “programmable” additional buttons and the ‘Presenteation Effects Toolkit,’ so maybe … there are a countdown timer and screen marker tools in the toolkit. The RemotePoint Jade may also be a powerful tool.

The RemotePoint RF is discounted to $147 (list is $199) here on Amazon.com! This will probably be my next remote.

3M Meeting Network – 11 Tips for Using Flip Charts More Effectively

• Carnegie Perspectives
• American School Board Journal

The Chicago Manual of Style – Members – Full text searchable for section numbers, more electronic goodies “coming soon,” registeration is free.