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Designed for med students, gives a detailed description of the sounds of the heart & lungs, including disorders, while playing audio of those sounds with each description. Suitable for upper level HS.

Nice description of the new features in Diigo v4. Nice videos, too

Nice description of the features in the new Diigo v4. Nice videos, too. I like the snapshot feature, and the Collect Flash seems to work better for me, as well. Try it, you'll like it.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

This site allows you to make a "box" of a person, event, historical period, etc. by uploading documents and building the space.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

Single great demonstration of descriptive writing.

cool. one-time-use

"The Karpeles Libraryis the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents.The archives include Literature, Science, Religion,History and Art. Among the treasures are .... "The original draft of the Bill of Rights of the United States", The original manuscript of " The Wedding March", Einstein's description of his " Theory of Relativity", The " Thanksgiving Proclamation" signed by George Washington, Roget's " Thesaurus", Webster's " Dictionary" and over one million more."

Curriculum documents, cost estimates, etc. for using MIT's Scratch programming software in the classroom. Great background resource.

App Friday is a weekly feature on a family-friendly developer from Moms With Apps (i.e., someone in our Google Group, which are the folks listed on our sidebar). We highlight one of the developer's apps with a review and description, along with a FREE download or special promotion.

The latest in the discussion over the benfits and concerns over cloud computing. This is one to watch!

Dated 3-20-09 - Description of Google's report/advice on benefits of "cloud computing" for FCC

Step by Step description of how the Common Craft guys make those cool videos

Find a local school project (using written descriptions), pledge some money, hear how it's going. Great!

What a great idea to get seed money!

Art, architecture and humanities teachers can take their classes on a virtual tour of the Vatican and its collections of art. Includes interactive virtual views of rooms, zoomable artworks, photographs, and descriptions.

LabWrite provides full support for descriptive labs and labs that students design for themselves. And it includes an extensive set of resources, such as an Excel tutorial and guides for creating tables and graphs, which students can use on their own or teachers can use for in-class instruction.

Details about 32 different medieval and renaissance instruments, including descriptions, photos, and sound clips.

This site walks you step-by-step through simplifying an expression under a square root sign. Type your problem into the "math solver," and your answer, complete with a full description, is provided.

A description of the characteristics of fiction writings.

Photos, audio, and information about wild monkeys and apes -- Mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, red colobus monkeys,and more. With links to full description of habitat.

Students at SLA are assessed through a variety of means with a focus on project-based learning and our five core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. Our students do not take the School District of Philadelphia benchmark exams; rather, they complete projects in every subject that are assessed based on the SLA rubric (see below). The descriptions in the empty boxes are filled in according to the subject and project nature. We are working with the School District of Philadelphia to ensure that grades from the SLA Benchmark projects will be entered into SchoolNet at the end of every marking period.

"This Online Program will help you create an acrostic poem for your name. The program will help you decide on descriptive words for your acrostic poem. It will then turn your acrostic poem into a beautiful looking poem."

Very interesting description of Google Founder Sergey Brin's thoughts on his education

We should somehow be able to leverage this quote, don't you think?