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This site is designed especially with the young learner in mind with its age-appropriate content and emphasis on visual and auditory learning. Glossopedia is the kind of site that you can leave open for students to explore and find a fast fact of the day, find their favorite image, or video Glossopedia Categories Geography and Places Nature and the Environment Technology Animals Earth and Space People and Cultures Human Body Chemistry Natural Forces This site is simple and visually pleasing. The font size is great for young learners. Words are hyperlinked to an audio pronunciation that is a real person, speaking really slowly at first then more quickly, and finally the written meaning of the word. Images and photos have a print button prominently displayed.

I will analyze three common strands of current thought about education and the Internet. First is the idea that the instant availability of information online makes the memorization of facts unnecessary or less necessary. Second is the celebration of the virtues of collaborative learning as superior to outmoded individual learning. And third is the insistence that lengthy, complex books, which constitute a single, static, one-way conversation with an individual, are inferior to knowledge co-constructed by members of a group

I recently came across the incredible Guitar Improvisation video below. It's an amazing piece of music that was completely created using GarageBand on the iPad. In fact, there have been quite a few popular music videos recently that feature artists creating music using iOS apps. In a second video below, the band Atomic Tom use their iPhones to perform on a New York City subway. A third video features a teenage girl creating music using GarageBand on the iPad.

There is no arguing the fact that educators are the unsung heroes of modern civilization. Without these people, there would be no one to pass on the knowledge gained in the past to the scientists, lawmakers, and leaders of tomorrow.

iOS 4 was an incredibly popular mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. In fact is was so popular that it had a big impact on the design for Apple's latest OS X 10.7. So, can iOS 5 have the same impact? Let's find out.

A site that provides ready-made printable bingo cards and a whiteboard resource that generates random number facts questions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A beautifully made science site with pages of colourful facts and activities on topics across the science curriculum. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

SsangYong has launched the very first picture of the brand new XIV-1, the idea vehicle is going to be revealed in the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011, scheduled for September 15 to 25. The Korean carmaker has lately been acquired through the Indian group Mahindra with this vehicle really wants to provide a preview from the evolution of his style, that will become a lot more personal and original than before, despite the fact that the cars for marketing is going to be less elaborate than this really is still a prototype.

This Math Resource Directory will link you to resources on the web for Math Directories, Math Tutorials, Calculators and Converters, Money and Financial Literacy, Formulas and Symbols, Data, Facts and Figures, History of Math and Math Tools

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A class resource/poster with a collection of facts about Solar eclipses and how to stay safe when observing one.

"An Apple/Android app which aims to make you worldly by teaching you facts and figures about countries around the world. Play a quiz with your new world knowledge."

Many business owners are aware of the fact that customers today are going online for the purchase of goods and services. It is why the importance of responsive web design (RWD) is much more for the online businesses.

Web applications are becoming ever more widely seen in the market, as the rapid growth of the Software as a Service approach. The fact that such applications are available to the entire world 24x7 means that the demands on support can become onerous soon after the launch of a service. Providing round-the-clock support in the Western world is often difficult and expensive to achieve. The cost associated with that can mean that companies simply do not provide it condemning many if their customers ...

"This is an interesting history site about explorers… except it isn't. If you look at the information it is wildly wrong and the site is designed to teach about fact checking and to show children that not all information on the Internet is trustworthy."

GK Fact: The average iceberg weighs around 20,000,000 tonnes.

Learning is more than Absorbing facts, It is Acquiring Understanding.