Mind mapping in a nutshell

Interactive Math Activies – Java applets – works with IWB

Last week Facebook rolled out a new version of their privacy settings to all users. Privacy settings are something that many Facebook users are regularly confused about.

Educational consultant and former Edutopia.org blogger Chris O'Neal demonstrates educational uses for the video-sharing Web site

"Google has teamed up with iKeepSafe, a leading online safety organization, to develop an in-class curriculum that goes along with our animated video series to bring to local communities."

Children as young as five should be given lessons in how to deal with the onslaught of adverts hurled at them, a government inquiry has found.

This bulletin presents free information and teaching materials available on Statistics Canada's Learning resources website.

Different Ways to Use Blogs and Wikis with Students

This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries. The sizes of the explosions and labels are proportional to the number of casualties.

"I’ve entered the ITU data on broadband penetration for all countries from 1998-2008 into a Google Docs spreadsheet, and then added the Motion Chart visualiser."

"oogle.org uses Google's strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges."

"Explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and learn about solutions for adaptation and mitigation, in the context of the United Nation's Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen."

Online sketching tool

"Bulkr is a desktop application for downloading photos from Flickr in bulk. "

"The Complete History of Social Networking — CBBS to Twitter"

Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files.

Visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts.

One criteria that makes it easy to figure out if an app is good or not is the amount sold. The more it sells, the better it is, right?

I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories – network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract.

Visualization showing you the steps of success

Format your webpages with visual CSS sheets

The current time in any of the world's time zones. Daylight savings time is included in the conversion when appropriate, and the zones are kept abreast of political changes.

If you'd rather spend your hard earned money on actual projection and sound hardware rather than a screen, check out this tutorial for turning Tyvek into an on-the-cheap projection screen.

Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.

Pioneer presenters are using social media to engage their audience and extend the reach of their ideas. Twitter, Facebook, and numerous custom online tools allow presenters to create a backchannel for their audience’s ideas and feedback.

Ultimate List of Power Tweeting Tools yup! I usually get requests on twitter " can you tell me best way to find twitter ranks, best way to upload snaps, how to design twitter backgrounds and infinite questions

Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends

"This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios."

A Day in the Internet

"An accountant in New Zealand has been awarded NZD$17,000 (US$11,500) for unfair dismissal after her boss fired her without warning for using uppercase letters in an e-mail to co-workers."

All the latest news from around the world

Our mission is to be your tech-savvy friend, the one you can count on to help you make better informed buying decisions and to get more out of the products you already own—whether for work, family or fun.

simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following page.
you have sixty seconds to write about it.

as soon as you click 'go' the page will load with the cursor in place.

don't think. just write

The System Dynamics Society is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of system dynamics and systems thinking around the world.

Helping the world find the best input from an audience of any size.

Spam-O-Meter.com is your free source of Spam Statistics and Live Tools to measure the actual amount of spam in the internet. We find our data in various souces in the internet and project it with our spam algorithm to the whole internet.

Atomz Search is a hosted application and is delivered completely over the Internet.

How do we do it for free? By creating a professional site search solution delivered as a hosted service and supporting our costs through text-based advertisements.

Bookmark the pictures you like around the web.
Enjoy people's favorite images.

SoundCloud lets you move music fast

One stream for all your accounts

The simple and easy way to send big files to everyone.

NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities.

Visual launchpad to all kinds of resources. Ideal for a start page.

trends on twitter aggregator

TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.

Created rounded corners for your images or graphics

Online image editing website

MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 600 videos

The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.

Three discussion questions from the e-book creation video presentation: 1-How can pupils take charge of their own e-books? 2-Can e-books be integrated with assessment procedures? 3-Can e-books be used to help pupils build up portfolios of work/s in a variety of subjects?

The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars – with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like

Monopoly Card Generator 2009: Create your own custom Monopoly cards

List of iPhone applications that could be used in education.

find classroom activities, teaching tools, a K-16 conceptual framework, tips, and strategies for integrating the process of science into your teaching, and more.

So, I decided, after stewing over this for a few minutes, and realizing that Art Snacks by Kevin Honeycutt was left off AGAIN, that it was time to take on the Edublog Awards and have our own little awards.

We just launched new imagery and terrain for Mars in Google Earth! If you have the Google Earth plugin installed, you can view the updated areas highlighted in red (imagery) and white (terrain) below. Alternatively, you can download this KML, for viewing while using Mars in Google Earth.

Computer science classes will be accepted as meeting general science requirements in most state curricula.

We’ve enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. Any app that allows you to set a custom API URL will work. This project came out of our Quebec meetup and was developed by Team 55 (Andy, Terry, and Raphael).

Tracking your time—for your clients, for yourself—doesn't have to be a dreaded task. Dispense with the preparation, avoidance, and gnashing of teeth. Freckle eliminates all the nonsense between you and your work.

As with rock music, video games, and other awesome pursuits, great web applications often don't get enough credit for what they do well. We're revisiting and updating our favorite underhyped webapps to give a new crop of contenders their due

Facebook has begun rolling out its new privacy settings to all of its 350 million users. If you haven't seen it already, you will soon have to go through a wizard that will guide you through the process of confirming your privacy settings.

IT security firm Sophos has announced its latest probe into how easy it is to steal identities via Facebook and found that user negligence is worst in 2009.

You can use authorSTREAM to upload Powerpoint files and share, download, present, and create your own channel.

Create presentations and drawings using software on the web

Create cool slideshows from your own pictures. Fast, easy and free!

Create, share and show your
presentations online

Spresent is a free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog.

VCASMO is a multimedia presentation solution for personal photo-video slide show, business presentation, training, academic teaching, sales pitching, seminar, conference, press release meeting, live event.

Welcome to CAST Science Writer, the tool that supports students in writing lab and class reports. This tool is geared toward middle school and high school students. Check out the supports and help available in Science Writer described below

Manage your internet content

This is a resource to share K-12 projects that have integrated student cell phones

"In partnership with the MOG Music Network, Glorious Noise presents the semi-exclusive stream of Neil Young's new album"

"Do It Again is a free and simple program that allows you to make your computer automatically perform a task for you, whenever you want."

Developing, Embedding and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities: Investing in Invention

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"Examine the angles in a triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon or octagon. Can you find a relationship between the number of sides and the sum of the interior angles?"

Incredible imagery from the National Geographic

"Cartography 2.0 is a free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps"

"The iControlPad is in production and this gadget will enable you to play PSP games on your iPhone with real game controls in your hand. "

Flowchart of the Beatles' song

"iPhoto Library Manager

Discover a whole new level of photo organization"

"Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web's most popular media publishing formats. "

" LessonPlanZ.com – The Lesson Plans Search Engine :: a part of the A to Z Teacher Stuff Network"

"Want to Learn Trigonometry? Here are the basics!
Follow the links for more, or go to Trigonometry Index"

"Mozilla exec recommends you Bing it from now on"

"Buzz up!

From the iPhone to the Garmin, advancements and gadgets introduced this decade changed the whole world."

"Allows you to archive and organize your tweets based upon hash tags. Why would you do this?"

"A Collection of Technology Resources to help
create a new vision of Vocabulary Instruction! "

"Google Teacher Google Earth Academy Resources"

"Google Teacher Academy: Washington, DC"

"Free Sound Effects and Royalty Free Sound Effects"

"2,404 Venn diagram activities Lesson Plans

* 26 Worksheets"

"These sites show different patterns with numbers and objects. Learn how to decipher patterns, then try to determine what comes next in several online pattern games."

"For the first time in human history, more than half of the world's inhabitants live in cities, where they're surrounded by bright lights that obscure their view of the stars. "

"How the iPhone Could Reboot Education"

"28 Rich Data Visualization Tools"

"But at their core, the Facebook privacy settings have not been simplified. Beyond the set-up page, Facebook's privacy controls are now more complex and more powerful. The new set-up page seems more designed to pry this privacy from you than give you access to the new, and excellent, controls that Facebook has put in place. "

"Quickly put your iPhone® app designs on paper. Unlike stencils, time consuming wireframes, and PSD templates, the App Sketchbook allows you to go from idea to paper prototype in seconds."

"The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators

"Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise – like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. "

"Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the Creative Commons offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products."

"Canadian Centennial of Flight Virtual Time Capsule is on Facebook"

"Launching a new website can be an intense experience. Preparing yourself for the launch and making sure you’ve got all your ducks in a row will ensure that your launch is successful."

"Add features to Google Chrome by installing extensions."

Free, online tools for building, sharing and playing your own browser based games.

An online spreadsheet calculator

"Constructivism and the Five E's"

Human powered identification of anything or anyone

"2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning is now available!
Continue exploring the 2006 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education, or visit the 2020 Forecast to explore the latest thinking."

"Documents and Community Reveal a New Side of History"

"Google on Tuesday released beta versions of its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux. "

"Hey, you, your gadgets are disgusting. And wiping them with your greasy shirt sleeve isn't making things any better. Here's how to clean your gadgets, the right way."

"New research shows that almost 50 per cent of schoolchildren say writing is boring. The solution, discovers Hilary Wilce, is to let them loose with digital technology"

"Use pictures to search the web."

"We kicked off a series of discussions with the Internet community on ways to make the web faster: from Internet protocols and best practices in website development, to improvements in the browser itself."

"What is it? People who know my history won't be surprised: It's for taking notes by writing on the screen with your finger. An "ink" app. Here's a screen shot:"

"5 ways to save money on iPhone apps"

Tips for using Twitter

"Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free."

"iAlertU is the first of its kind alarm system for your Apple MacBook computer. Basically iAlertU is a car alarm for your Mac. "

Presentation on Second Life

Some rock art paintings appear to have been used many times as part of ritual, others, perhaps only once. I modern day people became fascinated with discoveries of paintings, architecture, and objects found where we once lived and in our ancient trash heaps. Come look at some of the work of our creative ancestor

"Welcome to the Physics Classroom!"

"Welcome to TeachFactory.com. Here you will find downloadable educational materials for your classroom! "

"Welcome to the Theme Machine! Here you will find FREE downloadable themes for your classroom. Each Theme Machine pack has the following items available: "

"A New Way to Enjoy Entertainment on your TV

She could work after classes in her Fairfax County school's computer lab, but it is open just two days a week. The library has free computers, but time online is limited if it's busy. Finding rides is tough.

"On Jamendo artists allow anyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited."

"Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day."

"Twitter clearly works in practice – and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies."

"The Sustainability of Climate Science "

"Developed for middle school and high school students, this online game gives your students the chance to learn important personal finance skills as they play and compete against fellow classmates."