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Scientists find 12,000-year-old fishing gear

Tune In Series is a great free professional development program for you. We have been talking a lot here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning about the potential of iPad in education and doing many iOS Apps Reviews but now you have the chance to  move to the practical part and be tutored by Apple experts on how to gear this technology to the advancement of your teaching and learning.

"A fine example of this emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard's Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously."

The Graphic Novel Creator: Comic Master is a portion of the Read Me program (learn about it here). This is a really cool online comic creator, the interface is fun to use and very intuitive. It is obviously geared toward students with a great look and even an embedded music player. I love the details on this site, including the headline "Reading isn't only in books, it's everywhere!". Using the Graphic Novel Creator, students can create their own multi-page graphic novels with interesting backgrounds, characters, props, and customized text. The graphic novels can be saved and printed out. You don't need an account to print, but you do need to sign up with an e-mail address if you wish to save your comics.

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Free open source CMS geared toward magazines, newspapers, etc. Might be good for school publications! Definitely the right price!

Very good for teachers who want a teachable method (acronym included!) for teaching themselves as well as students how to do better online searches. Very friendly layout and treatment. Examples geared more toward teachers.

A colorful, graphically-enhanced interactive tool to guide students through the research process. Although geared toward a younger student visually, the information is still very relevant.

cool interactive guide to careers and colleges. It's obviously geared towards students in Virginia, but their Interest Assessment is one of the most engaging ones I've seen and would be a useful tool for any students exploring potential careers. I like that particular tool so much that I'm adding it to this list.

Check out our 2 new style of which we collaborated with NYC based artist Gian Galang!