============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #57** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 5713 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= Technical Difficulties...Please Accept Our Deepest Apologies!!! Most recently, we experienced some technical difficulty that was beyond our control. As a result, teach-nology.com was not available to its users for a period of four days. The staff at TeAch-nology.com expresses its sincerest regrets if we caused any problems for users during this time. We are committed to preventing such problems in the future. Thank you for your patience and understanding! We are once again fully operational! One Year Anniversary on the World Wide Wide! 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