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Phiip Zombardo on "The Secret Powers of Time" - great, GREAT video on time, culture, and learning

use this in your classes!

Animation for cell biology

possibly useful for National Center work (e.g. CES NCSeT or other projects)

Powerful Learning Practice: educators using the web to transform learning

Chart Wars: The political power of data visualization - a short talk by TargetPoint's VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry at DC Ignite.

Advanced Distributed Learning: The Power of Global Collaboration... funded by the Department of Defense to research and develop better ways for training and teaching armed forces all over the world at anytime. Developers of SCORM standards for learning objects (accessible, reusable, durable)

Math: SpeedCrunch is a fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator * history and results on a scrollable display * up to 50 decimal precisions * unlimited variable storage * intelligent automatic completion * fully usable from the keyboard * more than 50 built-in math functions * optional virtual keypad to be used with a mouse * on-the-fly and selection calculation * customizable appearance * syntax highlighting and parentheses matching

You have two version choices when use this free online picture editor: Flash & HTML. This is very easy-to-use tool, just select your photo then choose the modifications to apply; although it's still in Beta version you can still choose up to 5 imaging processing functions and 12 special image effects. Wondering what are the good points of this tool? It supports all popular picture file formats (JPG, TIFF, NPG, GIF, BMP, TGA, …) and camera RAW formats (CRW, NEF, RAF, CR2, DNG, …), more than 400 formats supported. That's so powerful imaging solution!

"Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas of eScience such as databases, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies. In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized."

"The Myth of the Machine is a two volume series of books taking an in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times. The first volume, Technics and Human Development was published in 1967, followed by the second volume, The Pentagon of Power in 1970. He shows the parallel developments between human tools and social organization mainly through language and rituals. [1] It is considered a synthesis of many theories Mumford developed throughout his prolific writing career."

the integration of this Google Research Sidebar could be useful as a Computer-based Study Strategy - perhaps a very powerful one!

As a research community agenda we might look to blend the conceptual power of organizational routines to shape group activities with the influence of a co-constructed and blended world around us. This is consistent with the blending, remixing, "Exceptionally designed to facilitate leading-edge research, the BRI draws businesses and researchers from around the world who leverage the facility for Qualitative Research: Focus Group and In-depth Interviews Experimental and Survey Research Consumer Behavior Studies Regional, National, and International Collaboration Videoconferences and Seminars Corporate Workshops

one of the coolest articles that I've read in awhile. William Gibson is great.

Make Use Of: index of websites important to geeks and tech aficiandos

shared with Project Direct

PicMagick is an online photo editor using Flash that helps you to edit/make picture look wonderful within a few clicks. This tool is designed with a simple layout to help you to edit/improve the quality of your photos by the common functions: resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, etc. and many special imaging tasks: red-eyes removal, grayscale, smooth skin, etc.