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udefn is a SMS service which lets you define keywords or shortcuts to your favorite bots. It turns your phone into a remote control. Just text your command. Customize your profile to read the latest news, see RSS updates, or even trigger your backup.

A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.

Get IN SHAPE for teaching and stay INSPIRED all the year through... Whether you're a newbie feeling IN OVER YOUR HEAD or a veteran teacher IN A RUT, you'll find ideas and plans to keep you energized. Even if you have everything completely IN CONTROL, be sure to check out the creative ideas and time-saving tips to help keep you on top of your game throughout the entire school year

So come explore the world of pests. Then use your new knowledge to outwit the pests in your world. Pest Control Information for School Kids and Teachers

A Short History of Progress is a book-length essay penned by Ronald Wright and published in 2004. Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization itself: a 10,000 year old experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. He examines the meaning of progress and its implications for civilizations - past and present - arguing that the twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology that has now placed an unsustainable burden on all natural systems.

From: The networked student model for construction of personal learning environments: Balancing teacher control and student autonomy by Wendy Drexler University of Florida http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/drexler.html

Want to enhance the viewer experiences and discussions around the YouTube videos you embed for free? With our first release*, you can now upgrade your embeds with real-time reactions, DVD-like controls, and more without having to alter original content.

"Imagine you have a presentation to show off but instead of using a projector and paper print outs, you're using iPads. Why? Because with Idea Flight for iPad, you can control what everyone gets to see on their iPad. "

"I liked News360 when a reviewed it last April. It uses several sources for stories, and it was interesting to see the different takes on any single event. Of course News360 was also an excellent news discovery tool, scanning thousands of news sources to keep me up to date. One of the issues with News360 is you had no control over the sources. The app was basically static, and you got what you got. That's all changed in version 2 of this free app, released today."

"Gone are the days of single-television households; in fact, who needs a big, fat, cumbersome television set when you've got an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch in the palm of your hand? How to Watch TV Shows on the iPhoneThanks to an innovative partnership between MobiTV and AT&T, we've got the AT&T U-verse Live TV iOS app to make sure that everyone wins control over their favorite television content at any time they like."

Orisinal.com game. Release the diver at just the right moment so that he can safely jump from rock to rock. Mouse control game.

Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection. The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs. Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject.

Control a robot by giving it commands. Use programmer-style logic for more complex levels that include functions to re-use. From AllMyFaves | Free Online Games |