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We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster.

In this second post of The Edublogger 'podcasting series' learn how to host podcasts on blogs so readers who know how to create video/audio can set up their podcast feed.

A series of posts here on The Edublogger on podcasting "how to's".

Summarizing info for postreading & prewriting activity helps students synthesize what they have learned. This tool allows students to develop an outline of a person for biographical use.

The site explains what scientific notation is, how to convert numbers into scientific and decimal notation, and gives some example problems that are worked through step by step.

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Join educator Bill Farren as he travels through four South American countries-three of them chosen by students. Class members will get to vote on what countries their teacher/guide visits and decide on the types of activities the class embarks on. Through their guide, students will interact with local people, ask them questions, request various media, and help solve real problems-all in an engaging format: participatory learning. Who is it for? Learners from all over the world: HS students, college students, homeschoolers, unschoolers, adult learners and classroom teachers: (HS or Univ) who'd like to enrich and connect their own class to this one.

The kids born after 1980 are often thought of as Digital Natives but age doesn't always matter as the generation is defined on: access to digital technologies, age, and have the skills to use the skills ~Key Characteristics of Digital Natives~

It happened again. You took a test and bombed it. You remembered how to do the math, but some of the words looked like they were writen in another language! How did that happen?! You forgot a lot of stuff from last year and now it is causing major problems for you. You have decided that you are going to learn the vocabulary no matter what it takes. Surely that will help your grade!!

this site will show you what auroras look like from space and on Earth, explain how they are created, and show you where they can be found. Includes a self-guided tour, additional links, and Teacher's Guide.

Technologies to Watch section.

Technologies to Watch section.

only get what you need from youtube

Although you're not likely to see schools issuing an iPhone to every faculty and staff member, the fact is that the iPhone is a great tool for education. Whether you're a teacher, librarian, or other educator, there are a number of apps that can help you do your job better. Here, we'll take a look at 50 of these apps and what they can do for you.

What are Siftables? Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

The site covers the basics of what scientific notation is and how it is used. Rules for use in computations is also given.

The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.

Key Trends - 30 identified and ranked by the group by likely impact on K12 education in 5 years. Top 5 listed.

Key Trends - 30 identified and ranked by the group by likely impact on K12 education in 5 years. Top 5 listed.

A comparison table of blogs, wikis, and Google Docs.

This is a chart that helps a user decide what type of tool would be best for them to use.

We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk - organize them into nice containers - like 3-ring binders on your shelf.

Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.

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What struck me immediately was the kind of work that the kids were doing. Again, I was caught in the thought, "Boy, do we ever underestimate what kids can do." Of course, this is not a school with NCLB requirements hanging over it, and that sure helps.

Watch videos of children talking about their projects.