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"If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the internet may have partially rewired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking."

One such example is the posting on Slideshare the presentation about ed tech leaders made by Lisa Thumann and Liz Davis. If you're looking for some new people to follow on Twitter or in your RSS reader, I highly recommend viewing this presentation. You can view the presentation below. If you're viewing this in RSS you may need to click through to view the presentation.

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.

A Radically Different World If you think our future will require better schools, you're wrong. The future of education calls for entirely new kinds of learning environments. If you think we will need better teachers, you're wrong. Tomorrow's learners will need guides who take on fundamentally different roles. As every dimension of our world evolves so rapidly, the education challenges of tomorrow will require solutions that go far beyond today's answers.

We're very happy to announce that over 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery are now freely and instantly available whenever you're creating a VoiceThread.

Timelines.tv is a free-to-use, video-rich history resource. Scroll the timeline below to find a story that interests you, and let your journey begin. When you're done watching a module, you can move automatically to the next module on the timeline, or move between timelines to explore parallel events. All the videos are viewable full screen, and you'll find loads of other helpful secondary resources along the way. It's a history resource like no other on the web. So go on, enjoy!

Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education developed some interactive media that are very engaging and promote critical thinking. You really need to check out this site and find resources that you can use in your classroom. Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians. I worked on some of the puzzles, and I'm sure this would extend to high school age students as well! Also, students don't have to play the full game. You can choose a puzzle that correlates to what you're teaching and just do that puzzle. Math by Design (MbD) gives students a highly creative experience in seeing geometry and measurement come alive. Under Educator Resources, check out some of the Math In Action videos! I loved the one on cake decorating. Bayville was developed for middle school students studying life sciences, ecology, and the environment. Under school or district, just choose Other States.

Vodburner is a free service for recording and editing Skype calls. To use Vodburner you need to download and install the free Vodburner software. Vodburner allows you to record any Skype call regardless of duration. When you're finished recording you can edit the call by removing segments and adding transitions. Vodburner recordings can be directly uploaded to YouTube. (Vodburner is a Windows application).

Wanna be able to zoom your screen just like the mac folks do? This Open Source app is just what you're looking for.

Windows folks - download this and give it a try.

"Through Dan Meyer's blog I just learned that Google has recently released dozens of lessons for exploring computational thinking through the use of Python programming. Now if you're wondering, "what the heck does that mean?" don't worry, I wondered the same. But since Dan Meyer is one of the people in the edu-blog-o-sphere that I have great respect for, and since he wrote one of the lessons, I had to investigate exploring computational thinking through Python. Python is a programming language. Exploring computational thinking through Python is a series of lessons in which middle school and high school students use Python to try to put mathematics and science concepts to use."

Worth Monkey works by searching data all over internet regarding the current asking price and selling price of the used goods you're looking for. It then brings back all of that data and performs calculations on each piece and on the data as a whole, giving you the average low, middle, and high price of the product. As an added treat, it also shows you where you can purchase that product for the highest average price or lower, leveraging your purchasing options and saving you time and money.

"You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!"

"ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing - ipadio is integrated with Social Media & Blogging platforms." possible replacement for Gabcast

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Digication is the leading e-Portfolio provider for K-12 and Higher Education schools across the U.S. Our e-Portfolio Editions are tailored to meet the needs of individual teachers and students, classrooms, departments, and campuses. Whether you're looking to get started with your own e-Portfolio or evaluating a solution for your school, you've come to the right place.

Strip Generator allows anyone, even people who claim they can't draw, to create a good-looking black and white comic strip. To create a comic strip all you need to do is select the number of frames you want then drag characters and objects into those frames. The menus for characters and objects are fairly extensive. Once you've selected a character or object you can adjust the size to fit your scene. Adding text is a simple matter of selecting a speech bubble and typing text. When you're happy with your comic strip you can save it online, print it, or embed it into your blog.

Join this ning if you're a videoconference site coordinator. This ning has been created by CILC so there will be great collaborations occurring in this ning.

Make sure you're sharing the facts with students. Wording advice for internet safey as well as internet tips for teens.

Offering free services including hosting, playlist mixing, recording by phone, podsafe music, embedding and e-mail alerts.

Whether you're podcasting a 30-sec phone message or a 30-min radio show, you can publish it with Gcast for FREE. They'll store your media and automatically generate the "RSS feed" that enables listeners to "tune in" to your podcast channel.