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Remobo creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users. It's like a computer network for your social network... Just login, add users to your buddy list, and Remobo will create a secure network for you to: Remote control your home computer and access files while at work or traveling. Privately share large files like photos & docs between computers or with friends & family. Replace your existing, costly and difficult to use VPN software. Run games, video conferencing, streaming media, secure instant messaging & more!

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.

"Computational search engine." Performs a variety of functions. For instance, enter a date, and a variety of data, such as historical events, moon phases, birthdays, etc. appear.

Helpful beginners' guide to using the Raspberry Pi.

Create photo mosaics using images on computer or in Facebook

"MathBits.com is devoted to offering fun, yet challenging, lessons and activities in secondary (and college level) mathematics and computer programming for students and teachers. Created by two mathematics teachers."

Virtual, online desktop. Access your desktop from any computer.

Really handy and simple photo editor. Edit photos in the browser, save to the computer. Includes lots of cool effects.

"Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear music notation with professional quality, right in your web browser. Work on a score from any computer on the Internet, share it with other users, and embed it in your own pages. Noteflight is free for individual use. "

Fun site adds video clips of movie or television characters saying the words that users enter, using a computer generated voice for any words it doesn't know. Fun way for kids to tell a short story!

Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here.

Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.

The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms Book by Margaret A. Boden; 2003. Read The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms at Questia library.

Wiimote connection info and other goodies