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"Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plugin system to a graphical user interface, with familiar timeline controls. Completely free and open source, popcorn maker offers a collection of useful templates, but since it's built from standard HTML, you can customize it to your heart's content."

This tool is still in Alpha stage. Still, it's great fun to play with. Read more about it here: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/11/create-virtual-tours-with-street-view.html

Gooru is a free search tool for teachers and students to find learning playlists. We've harnessed the power of technology to make it easy for you to bring the best teaching resources straight into your classroom. Learn more about Gooru at http://www.goorulearning.org

Just got an invite, looks promising.

"90-day FREE Trial Welcome Socrative users! We have pre-made Shared Quizzes on all of our public radio stories, making it easy for you to bring the power of public radio into the classroom anbd assess students' listening comprehension!"

Mission: iNACOL strives to ensure all students have access to world-class education and quality online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime for success. Vision: Online learning is a powerful innovation that expands education opportunities. iNACOL supports access to high-quality online learning for all students.

Powerful video about the importance of Education. "In the US, a student drops out of school every 26 seconds!

The proposed constitution would give parliament more power and set the stage for general elections in September. Several hundred people died in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the south, earlier in June. The Provisional Government called a referendum Sunday, after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was overthrown in April. Polls opened at 0800 (0200 GMT) and close at 2000 (1400G GMT), with results expected Monday.

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"Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site."

"SpaceTime is the most powerful cross-platform mathematics software ever developed for computers and mobile devices. With real-time graphing and MobileCAS® for computer algebra and calculus, SpaceTime is a revolution in scientific computing. "

Designed by educators, for educators. The people building Sakai work at campuses just like yours. We believe they know best what features academic users value. Flexible, Free and Open. Sakai is a powerful yet flexible solution that supports not only teaching and learning but also research and administrative collaboration. The Sakai CLE is distributed free of charge and our license is designed to encourage innovation and customization in order to meet local campus needs. Our Community. Sakai is an active community of educational institutions working together to solve common problems and share best practices. The professional development and cross-institutional knowledge sharing are benefits hard to find elsewhere.

Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS. And it's totally free.

Wisdomap is a clean and simple approach to mind mapping Wisdomap helps you to organise your thoughts in a powerful mind map format, and allows you to attach notes, videos, pictures, links and files to your map.

SpeedCrunch is a fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator. Available for LinuxLinux, WindowsMicrosoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS XApple Mac OS X.

FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. Note to parents: audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. To learn how to search the Web using FindSounds.com, visit the Help page.

By making it easier to visualize ideas, we help unlock the mind's true potential. And by harnessing the power of the Internet, we enable the fusion of ideas from any number of people.

With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.

The Teacher Book Wizard is the FREE ultimate children's book search engine. Drop the widget on your site to give it the power of Teacher Book Wizard search.

Make the site you've always wanted now - Instantly build, publish & share Create interactive, stylish & ad-free pages -With Webon's powerful site creation platform

Student Response Network (SRN) is a powerful "virtual Clicker" student response system designed for use in school computer labs or with wireless laptop groups. It does away with the need for personal handheld "clicker" devices by providing a software-only solution for use with networked Windows desktops or laptops.