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"A community of scientists, engineers, and children, creating together.' The site offers videos in a number of STEMS areas, and shows children how to build, e.g., a honeycomb structure, a wind-powered pump, a waterwheel, etc. This is an interesting way to get students interested in invention and engineering.

"The Works Museum offers teachers three lesson plans and two Powerpoint presentations that can be used before and after a class visit to the museum, each focusing on the engineering design process." Nice lessons for ESP teachers.

"Revolver Maps are interactive visitor globes rendered by the Revolver Engine. 'The Revolver Graphics Engine is a strongly specialized 3D renderer. It's available as a Java version as well as a Flash version. The RevolverMaps Service bases on both implementations. '....Every visitor leaves an eternal dot on the globe, recent visitors are tagged by the labels showing flag, city and state. 'You're invited to set up a globe and add it to your site in just a few steps: "

A search engine for apps, organized first by the type of interface you are using: mobile, desktop, browser, or web (or all). May create some good short-cuts in the elusive quest for the perfect app.

"What if classroom learning was a little more active? Would university instruction be more effective if students spent some of their class time on active forms of learning like activities, discussions, or group work, instead of spending all of their class time listening? "A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences addressed this question by conducting the largest and most comprehensive review of the effect of active learning on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. Their answer is a resounding yes. According to Scott Freeman, one of the authors of the new study, "The impact of these data should be like the Surgeon General's report on "Smoking and Health" in 1964-they should put to rest any debate about whether active learning is more effective than lecturing."" This is great news for teachers of EFL/ESL also.

The blog article combines a great many areas: hands-on learning, analyzing poetry using robotics, and sTEM/STEAM, the creative element in the sciences. Great cross-over ideas to think about.

"Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch from MIT. It is a completely browser-based implementation written using Open Web standards such as Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and does not use Flash. "Tynker's language extensions, built-in physics engine, character editors and other tools make it fun and easy for kids to unleash their creativity. Schools love Tynker because it offers them an easy to use cloud-hosted system for delivering a customized Computer Science course across multiple grades with a ready to use curriculum, classroom management and more. Tynker is the platform of choice at many leading schools - see what educators are saying." This looks like an interesting, creative way to unleash students' curiosity. I'm assuming it's for younger kids, but older students may enjoy it too.

Not only excellent video lectures, but extraordinary support, with transcripts, subtitles, quizzes with answer keys,lecture notes, labs, downloadable materials, and the opportunity to join a study group, etc., depending on the course. Over 2700 courses in science, humanities, engineering, architecture, etc. Also good for teachers preparing to teach ESP.

This is a good article because it gives you the details of each engine and the good and the bad in a systematic way. Be sure to ignore the ads at the top and go to the content. Mind-mapping is a great way to visually brainstorm and encourage connections, whether for a written project, a presentation, or a video storyboard.

An excellent site with mock-up sites to help students explore search engines, evaluate what they read on the Internet, plagarism, etc.

A Pinterest-type site with short reviews of lesson plans for teaching with film, and descriptions of films that might be used for education, especially those with cross-cultural interest. Will take some willingness to hunt, though there is a search engine.

"The online royalty free public domain clip art" The search engine works pretty well. A good place for adding illustrations to student projects.

Called "A collaborative rubric toolkit," the search engine will help you find a pre-created rubric, and has K-6 rubric sam[les for assessing student writing as well.

"Online degrees and video courses from leading universities" - many of them free. There is a modest serach engine, but video is great way to learn more about a subject or for a teacher to train herelf for an ESP class.

"740+ Online Courses, 18000+ Videos from Top 20+ Universities on 35+ Categories - Download in MP4, FLV, 3GP, MP3 and Torrents" - a very extensive list indeed, and a search engine. Subjects and universities listed.

This is a video tour of Google TV, which offers TV channels on the Web with an excellent search engine. Also has apps, e.g., connections to NetFlix, Twitter, Amazon, et al. You can use your mobile phone as a remote control and use voice search. You can watch TV and a website at the same time, e.g., for a sports event. More developments to come.

Another way to use tagging. if it can be found in a search engine, you will see it displayed on a visual wall, as in this example from the Webheads in Action: http://spezify.com/#/webheads Makes using tags of all kinds even more important. Be sure your students select really unique tags. (In this example, there is a YouTube video and other materials related to Spider-Man, whose fans are also called "Webheads.")

"Explore the YUDU library to read online magazines, free eBooks and other digital content. Browse thousands of free digital magazines or buy your favourite titles in the YUDU Store. Self publish your own digital magazines, eBooks, digital brochures and more with our free publisher software. Simply upload your PDFs and other documents to create search engine friendly page-turning publications that can be added to your website or sent out on email. Create your own personalised library to store and share your digital magazines and other content. " Looks like a good way to "publish" things for your students to read, or for them to publish their own projects as a class magazine.

"All pictures on Ookaboo are available free under public domain or Creative Commons and can be used on web sites and for classwork and other creative projects." The site begins at a map with pegs for locations, or you can use a modet search engine. It willtake a little time to find something you want. Commons licensing for most pictures.

"OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Our mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background. "OpenStudy uses AI recommendation engines to match students, and really real-time technologies to facilitate online interaction"