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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.

This is simply a quick and easy way to share the email addresses and Twitter usernames of educators using Google Wave. Please add to it!" Estimate turn around for invites is 7-14 days. If you get an invite make sure you change yourself from the waiting for invite list.

Speak Up is an annual national research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow. Schools in the NCES database. Quantitative survey results are available to participating schools and districts, online, free-of-charge, so that they can use the data for planning and community discussion.  

a very easy and rapid translator ... in ajax too. just take time to copy the adress of the site, then use the lingro by clicking on every words you want to know ! with an history too.

a rapid translator

"Q: What are Diigo Educator Accounts? These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators. Once your Diigo Educator application is approved, your account will be upgraded to have these additional features: * You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation) * Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums * Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them. * Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors "

A teacher's approach to integrating The Student Blogging Challenge to an existing writing workshop

Free games, resources, and printables using an Easter themed word list

The Kerpoof Studio website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company and true to form is super fun. According to this cool, free teacher resource, educators and students can discover things while being creative in the following ways: Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug Tell a story Make a drawing Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

An online suite of creative tools, including mind-mapping, cartooning, movie editing, audio editing. Requires an account; free version offers limited features of each tool.

Reader Delerium explains how to keep an eye on your house while you're away, using just a webcam and the Hangouts feature of Google+.

"Every year Jane Hart (can't wait to meet her LIVE at the schoolnetsa11 conference) asks us to create our list of top 10 tools and every year it is the most difficult task that I have to do. As an educational technologist I use many tools on a daily basis as well as try out new tools to see how we can use it for teaching and learning. So choosing just 10 tools remains a challenge for me!"

Socrative is for interaction. You ask the questions. Your student responds with any laptop/handheld device. Try it for yourself by playing teacher on this device, and Student on a second computer/smartphone. Instructions: - Student: Open a second computer/smartphone and go to m.socrative.com - Student: Join the Room ###. - Teacher: ask a question out loud and press "Yes / No" button - Student: Respond Yes or No - Teacher: See the results on your screen You can run the Teacher Clicker from an Android phone, or any computer / smartphone by going to l.socrative.com.

"When you signup for an account with Summify, you have the option of adding your Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader accounts to receive a e-mail digest of the top five stories that have been shared in your social network. The e-mail also gives you information on network sharing, comments and engagement."

tools ? or may be replacement of humans .. ? for boring questions .. also in all domains including teaching .. here this site has many  (850 ?° agents known on sites to write about .. an extensive way to find the good conversationnal or chatbot ... ;)

"As a hardworking student, you've got a lot to organize, including essays, exams, deadlines, and class schedules, not to mention your social and personal life-plus any part-time jobs you may have taken on. In an effort to keep you more organized, we've generated this list of 50 useful mind-mapping tools that are designed to help you see your ideas more clearly, analyze and outline research papers, become more efficient when you study, and get inspired to be more creative in your work."

We built Noteflight because we looked at where software is today, and saw that applications for writing music were stuck in the past. We wanted to accomplish a few important goals: Make it easy to create and share written music online. People who make music -- amateurs and professionals, students and teachers -- want to share that music with others, sooner or later. But most software for working with notated music treats the Internet as an afterthought: it's geared to saving your music on your own computer's hard disk, not to sharing your music with other people. It's painful to share musical scores online today, and as software inventors, we knew how much better it could be. People expect to be able to do their creative work wherever they go, and a crop of new browser-based applications make it incredibly easy to create and publish word-processing documents or spreadsheets online. We feel musical documents should be just as accessible. Empower developers to build a new world of musical and educational applications. Applications today should be not only powerful tools, but building blocks that can be combined in ways that their creators have never foreseen. A truly powerful musical application should be extensible without having to open it up and change the code. Adding new instruments and symbols, or embedding in a page and building new kinds of connections with other content -- all of these things should be possible. A great tool lets creative people not only use its built-in capabilities, but extend them and freely reorganize them in new ways. As Bertrand Meyer, a pioneer of software thinking, once put it: "Real systems have no top". Encourage a vibrant community of users by keeping the basics free. Music notation software vendors continue to charge high prices for boxed software, CD and DVD distribution media, and printed manuals. Then once you buy something, you're basically stuck with it until the next major upgrade cycle comes around, at which point you pa

"As a mobile learning device, the iPod Touch encourages learning anytime, anywhere! These mobile devices do not tie students to their desks or the classroom; they bring the world into the classroom through the lens of personalized learning. The value of an iPod Touch as a mobile learning device is its ability to transform student learning behavior. According to research by K-Nect Project (2009), students using this digital device achieved higher test scores. This was attributed to more interactivity between students, teachers, and content."

Image Quiz - so many ways you could you this!  Very cool!

"Next to an in-person meeting, there is no better way to communicate a sales demo or business presentation than with video. From marketing or sales presentations to training videos for software applications, Webinaria can help bring your content to life. Businesses that are able to capture and record live interactions with web-based content are able to more effectively train and educate employees and customers. Webinaria aims to provide a more animated and theatrical presentation of business communications."