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p/Review /via Stephen Downes.. the future holds eBooks, netbooks, interactive whiteboards and more.. interesting article. What does your future hold?

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the Utah site.. learn about genetics through a series of animations.. 

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from the utah genetic centre.. terrific animation showing relative sizes from a coffee bean, down to a carbon atom.. not so much animation, as interactive illustration.

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Rapid overview of the history of the major religions.. well presented. 5000 years in 90 seconds. Go. 

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Now here's an encouraging article.. South Australian school attempts to cater for the teenage brain, by paying attention to the way people learn. Nice one. Fingers crossed that someone with influence is reading this. Sounds like what they're doing at Coburg High School. 

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interesting idea for spelling game.. but this would get annoying fast. Great visuals.. but no real reason to be spinning the wheel here. And no keyboard input. And only one feedback "great".

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The full collection of Tom Barrett's "interesting ways" series.. tips for using XYZ in the classroom (eg audio, google earth, search engines etc).. all crowdsourced from readers and presented using google docs, and licensed under creative commons.

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Tom Barrett has built up "20 interesting ways" to use audio in the classroom.. apparently he's used his "crowdsourcing charm" to engage the readers on his blog to contribute all 20 ideas. Nice one Tom. (nice to see googledocs being used for presentation )

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a writer goes to town to attack "deplorable PPT habits", not necessarily the software itself. Worth skimming.. i'm looking forward to the sequel, if not powerpoint, then what? (NAU e-Learning Center)

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Good piece about how teachers are often misunderstood.. especially note the line: every hour in class demands at least one more hour outside of class. Note also nasty argument in comment section. Don't read that. (UK) (School Gate - Times Online - WBLG)

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Good collection from the Times UK.. standard big sites, but valuable nevertheless.. eg pbs.org, national geographic etc

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interesting article on libraries in schools.. in the face of changing cultural expectations (ie da internet).. thought-provoking.

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Terrific news for the ACE sector around Australia.. thanks Julia. But since when have we become the CTE sector? "Community training and education"? 

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Fantastic collection of portable applications.. with a "wizard" for selecting which tools you want to download.. brilliant work from JISC in Scotland. They have multiple pre-packaged versions too, and bundles of accessibility tools..

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Dean Groom of Macquarie Uni starts a campaign with this rant against #blockedlearning .. too many web2 tools are blocked in K12 education he claims. (Ah the joy and flexibility of working in ACE! We may have the lowest wages but noone blocks our internet!

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Community of people involved in building software for people with disabilities.. from their blurb: "Project:Possibility is a nonprofit, community service project committed to creating groundbreaking open source software for persons with disabilities."

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Big collection of video sites that could be useful for education.. including examples like Ted talks, Fora.tv, hulu, howstuffworks, teachertube etc.. small description of each one. Good resource. (from Free Technology for Teachers:)

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a collection of free and open source software (foss) for education: would be good to see the portable versions on here as well. You download the iso and burn to CD i think.

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this has been linked from a recent discussion about TMI - too much information!! The idea is that most people would be overwhelmed by the huge array of options on offer. But it's actually a small selection of what's really out there. And like all link dir

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big collection of images from California State Uni.. opened up with creative commons licenses..

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