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check out the list of news articles related to Open Education - the trend being pushed by a sinking economy and a Flat World. Tom Layton! YB Group! National Center!

check out the list of news articles related to Open Education - the trend being pushed by a sinking economy and a Flat World.

"People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It's actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend. They both have pros and cons but in general are great for any beginner or novice designer. If Photoshop is a 4-letter word to you, then these sites are your friend. If you're a tech-savvy designer and illustrator, it can't hurt to check out some of the work on these two sites for inspiration."

Tableau Public: visualize and share your geo-tagged data FOR FREE and easily - this is a fabulous educational product and must be checked out!

a great, customizable content dictionary - very worth checking out

February/March 2009 issue of Innovate has Marc Prensky recasting his "digital native/digital immigrant" notion as "digital wisdom" - check it out

book to check out

Paper Rater: grammar & spelling check, free online proofreading, no downloads

Hack in the Box: another hacking site worth checking out

Sleep is Death is a fabulous interactive storytelling (writing) and game development game for two players - teachers check THIS OUT!

check out these interesting teaching tools

Organizational dataflow management software - a bit like Endnote- archive email, digitize papers, & share our data. Research Specific (DEVONagent) - recommended that CATE check this out.