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Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

Use zinepal.com to create your own magazines and eBooks. You can select content from blogs, Atom/RSS feeds and other websites. zinepal.com reformats the content into a printable PDF and an eBook for use with the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. Now you can take your content wherever you go. Read your zine during your commute, in the park or your favorite coffee shop. You can also e-mail it to your friends or just let them subscribe to your zine feed on zinepal.com.

Some of the best clip art I've seen and it is all free.

"Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away."

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page

"This exhibit is a collection of stories by some educators who have joined together to share in this vision. Using the techniques here, they have aimed to model these techniques to show what is possible. Please enjoy the exhibit and put it to good use. Together we can make mobile learning come to life and change the world of education one pocket and set of earbuds at a time!"

This next-generation digital media service empowers PreK-16 educators to re-imagine classroom learning, transform teaching, and creatively engage students. It brings together the best of public media, produced specifically for educators, from PBS, WGBH, and 55+ public media partners. This flexible service includes high-quality content tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards. The service is freely available to educators as a basic service that can be enhanced with premium solutions for schools and districts-designed for seamless media integration and customization. The basic service offers: Unique access to best-in-class resources from PBS producers and partners and technology resources tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards A robust content library of thousands of digital core curriculum resources, designed with today's student in mind Carefully created, purpose-built media: videos, interactives, audios, lesson plans, multimedia, professional development, and more Ability for educators to search, save, share, and review content Cross-platform flexibility to display on classroom presentation tools to mobile devices

"Finally: a scientific graphing tool for students and teachers. Import data from experiments or enter it manually into an online spreadsheet. Make scatter plots, bar charts, lines-of-best fit and much more."

Schools struggle to balance student educational needs with privacy and freedom of speech rights in the digital age This puts an interesting 'spin' on acceptable use and it made me wonder is Arlington wasn't already thinking about this when they bought all these iPads!

Related to the new deployment in iOS 9.3

via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/sketchlot-collaborative-whiteboard-for.html

It's one of the inevitabilities of modern corporate life: being stuck on a team that keeps discussing things you already know, unable to come to an agreement on how to measure progress, much less on how to make any

If you have a URL that you would like to syndicate, FeedBeater will beat the RSS out of it.

turn any URL into an RSS feed

Really awesome way to keep track of stuff. I use this to record serial numbers of software and even machines when having to put in a trouble ticket. I heart the iphone app not to mention it is multiplatform.