Merlin Mann presents a practical and down to earth presentation on maintaining an email In Box with zero messages. He speaks of how email can dominate one’s life and he presents a commonsense approach to managing your email. He has a web page dedicated to the issue as well with resources that may interest you if you are keen to eliminate, reduce or manage email more effectively.

You may like to investigate this web based tool…

“Trackstar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!”

I have used a nifty little free mind mapping tool called Freemind lately. The download link is further down the page. Mac and Windows.

Like many other cats Sootie loves the adventure and sheer excitement of a brown paper bag. He has been playing with such a bag during the last few days and I thought why not make a hole in the bottom of the bag and obtain a different perspective of Sootie as he plays with the bag. The first video is simply Sootie chewing the handles. The second and third video reveal a carnivore in full flight.