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Last year, my AP Chemistry class wrote and edited a lab manual using only GoogleDocs.

National Lab Day is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators.

We extracted the colors from 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr. Search this collection by color. Addictive and very likely the best color search engine in the world*!

5 Alternatives to Aviary for Creating Audio Online: Soundation, UJAM, Incredibox, Beat Lab, Soundcloud.

Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features - color search, instant scrolling, hover preview - are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites.

Wiki: Participatory media lesson plans These are a series of small lesson plans (I call them "labs") I've used as assignments for my students. These pages serve as more permanent reminders of what I show them during the face to face class meeting, as assignments, and as resource pages for further learning. Please feel free to add your own.

reformats web pages removing distractions and enlarging text.

WHAT'S NEW???- New Look for Sites, Docs & Calendar-color coding Calendar-appointment slots in Calendar-Sites have page level permissions-share Google Search stuff-labs going away :(-YouTube-Google+

"Scientifically Accurate: Designed by experts for biological and scientific accuracy, the app provides a realistic, virtual simulation of a frog dissection. The app also provides additional content in the form of labels, information on frog classification, frog lifecycle, and organ functions."

Designed ForTeachers of K-1 to grad school of intro to photo/video skills.Individuals who want to take better photos and videos.You Will Need30 minutes or less.Any point and shoot digital camera from the last 3-5 years.Speakers/headphones.

Executive Command, Supreme Decision and Branches of power online games

Social gaming to learn about issues. Many are based on phone apps and traveling around NYC to find things. One is a basketball game that teaches about the deficit. recommended at edcamp

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Just a lighthearted reminder that, even if the lure of the connected digital world gets people to skimp on the Gilligan's Island reruns, that doesn't necessarily mean their replacement behaviors will be any more productive. They could instead bring an ever greater capacity for distraction and disengagement and slingshot precision.

ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. It is implemented as a macro which works with the open source image processing program ImageJ. ImagePlot was developed by the Software Studies Initiative with support from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA).