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Monday, January 30, 2012

http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/manage-data/takeout/ - allows migration of Google personal data to other products and vendors - also a check on what Google knows about you!

https://www.abettercalculator.com/c - very cool graphing app - as you type an equation, it renders on the graph

http://corp.eyejot.com/?page_id=15 - eyejot - online client free video messaging (like skype...) - runs on mobiles
http://www.techlearning.com/default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=597 - top ten sites for note taking
http://www.nancymusic.com/SOMArchive.htm - children's song site - lots of cultural background
http://www.perceivedusefulness.com/2012/01/prezi-zooming-presentations.html - blog showing how to zoom in Prezi

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http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation
mrhenryslz.blogspot.com

My Dr told be to not be so sedentary, so I broke down and bought a my first mobile device - a Kindle Fire ($199)! The audio isn't great, and it's just wireless, but overall I'm very impressed. For the $$ I think we could get several for the lab, to give kids the experience of mobile computing. It runs Android, supports Flash, and I have a couple of books on Android programming that I want to get into, to try making an app or two for it. If people weren't making so much noise about the iPad, I think it could make a big impact in education. We'll see... Now, how do you exercise with it...?

http://slatebox.com/HowItWorks - Slatebox - HTML5 whiteboard and tools

http://goo.gl/YC67W - video on the "computers-in-the-wall" experiment in India, which put computers in the walls of buildings for kids to run

http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm - periodic table of videos about the elements - some pretty heavy accents here...

http://www.youtube.com/numberphile - Numberphile video channel - interesting videos about numbers
http://indianajen.com/2012/01/26/15-opportunities-for-free-online-education/ - lots of open ed sites - Wikiversity... great name!
http://watchknowlearn.org/ - free educational videos - organized
http://sketchpad.cc/ - sketchpad is a code-add on to EtherPad, an online collaborative whiteboard.
http://www.weavinghistory.org/ - timeline plus map combo - offline (and asking for money) at the moment...
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/01/seven-tools-for-creating-data.html#.TyGWORstn4o.facebook - tools for data visualization - good to combine with PowerPoint lessons...
http://fraboom.com/ - fun online kids museum - noisy and frantic...
http://taggalaxy.com/ - cool! live solar system of tags - a bit tedious to drill down, but when you get to the end, look out...!

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Overheard: Feb 1 - FedEx will be selling 16Gb flash drives for $16.99...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-wLOfjVfVc - Kinect controls Win 7 - like Tom Cruise...
http://www.udacity.com/ - online classes from former Stanford profs - Build a search engine, or a robotic car
http://us.partnersinlearningnetwork.com/Pages/default.aspx - MS Partners in Learning website
http://edtechideas.com/2012/01/12/four-creative-commons-photo-sites-you-should-know-about/ - open source photo websites - use these instead...
http://www.stykz.net/index.php - free stick figure animation site - like Pivot but more
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geophysics/visualizations/PTMovements.html - plate tectonic visualizations - Carole King is a geologist: "I feel the earth move... under my feet..."
http://www.saylor.org/ - free college level classes online - do you get what you pay for...?
http://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/ - supercharged math site - ties math to video, fashion, games, etc
http://www.freepastpapers.co.uk/ - collection of KS1-3 English, Maths and Science past SATs papers
http://kidsruby.com/ - ruby programming for kids - includes support for the $25 Raspberrypi computer: http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://reminderguru.com/ - schedule reminders to any email, text, or phone
http://www.youareyourwords.com/ - most cool... make an ascii image of you using your own words!

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