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"The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks."

"This week's Cool Tool, the new Pulse digital pen from LiveScribe, is still undergoing my evaluation since I've only had it about a month now, but it has already lived up to its predecessor, the now discontinued io2 digital pen from Logitech, which I nominated as a previous Cool Tool. I can see that this new Pulse pen has much more to offer, so I thought it worthy of bringing to your attention. "

The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.

Rexi Media is proud to introduce the first Presentation Skills mobile application, called Presenter Pro. You can download it from the iTunes store. Presenter Pro features: * Advanced presentation skills techniques with eye-catching supporting graphics, audio, and video clips. * A "tip shaker" for accessing hundreds of quick presentation tips. Shake the device while viewing any of the sections for a quick tip. * A checklist feature, which enables you to store and e-mail any topic paragraph(s) you want to refer to later. * A Notes feature for writing (and e-mailing) comments and notes. Exercises to practice your skills and knowledge check quizzes to help you remember the information.

Some great sites that may be useful for Math teachers in 2011.

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Not your mother's JavaScript

Here is a list of independent games that are created by basement programmers and independent groups.

Amazon has announced that Kindle books are outselling paperbacks for the first time. What implications does this have for education?

comprehensive list of great tools and resources

from educon 2.3

Very cool tool that one of my students used to help improve her writing assignments.