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UOregon has a Qualtrics account for use in distributing and analyzing surveys

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

MacArthur is creating 30 new learning labs in libraries and museums across the country

raise state test scores with hip-hop in the classroom

celebrates the beauty and applications of math

learning platform "like Facebook" for students

another "facebook-like" LMS

teaching numbers to children - used in Second Life in 3D visualization

possible Metric collaboration opportunity

A GREAT poem with visuals on writing

a great, customizable content dictionary - very worth checking out

social and educational networking in teaching - academic networking

How a Cow Turns Grass to Food

Animation for cell biology

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

a web application with an available bookmarklet that will automatically take text, either pasted in or from the referring webpage, and summarize it in as few lines as possible. There is a great article over at their blog about how great summaries disambiguate topics. That means that when a word is mentioned it uses context to determine what the actual sentence is about.

Snip.ly is a URL-shortening service that also allows you to include snippets, or summaries, of the article you are linking too.

Geneio is a service that installs on your computer and analyzes your current web history to determine content that interests you. A few minutes after installing, it determines your preferences and generates a homepage which is tailored to your interests. The thing I like about Geneio is that you do not need to spend any time 'training' it. Once you install it, it uses your past web history to determine the types of articles and topics that you are already interested in, and I've found it to be fairly accurate.

TechMeme or "Tech Memorandum" is a website which uses both algorithmic and human based content filtering to give you the top stories. Its blended approach gives readers a great overview of the goings on at any time in the tech world

only works on the iPhone and Android platform, but once you start using it you will understand why it is such a great product. Once you import your RSS feeds from Google Reader, and your Twitter and Facebook accounts, My6Sense begins analyzing how your read items and will start to give you personalized relevant results. Rather than go based on what you think you are interested in, My6Sense actually looks at what you click on - they have found that sometimes the two don't exactly match up. In this way they can determine what you are really interested in rather than what you think you are interested in.

International Society for Design and Development in Education Journal for Design and Development in Education