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More and more internet users are getting familiar with the concept of RSS feeds and its uses. This has resulted in number of online and offline services to help in better RSS Management. Feedburner and Feeblitz lead the way in RSS Management services. Many a times you want to read content from different sources. While there are tools to filter RSS feed content, tools to mix, blend and Mash-up multiple RSS feeds are more important. They help you grab multiple RSS feeds and create a single customized RSS feed. Here are 10 tools worth checking out…

Use the wiimote to create an interactive whiteboard and much more! Very Cool!

Use the wiimote to do some amazing things!

Create MLA / APA citations that you can copy and paste into your documents. Very easy to use.

Create standard numeric or custom word list cards. Has great classroom implications.

create a poster and then embed your blog, images and sounds. Create a visually apealing frontage for your blogs and sites.

For the PC to create 2D animation in the cut-out style. Main features are: real-time editing previewing, automatic in-betweening, freedom of graphical style, combining bitmaps with vector graphics.

ABCya! is a leader in free & exciting computer activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All educational computer games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers! Activities are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way to learn. The activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade games are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. You can also find great elementary holiday activities here! Holiday activities available in grade level sections!

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.

MathType is a powerful interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.

Try drawing with SuperDoodle! Kerpoof is testing a new activity! You can be the artist in Super Doodle. Paint, choose and mix colors and more. Play in Super Doodle

Kerpoof is a site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation. Users can choose from a range of preset characters and environmental options, or they can create their own. The site offers drag-and-drop simplicity coupled with advanced animation and editing capabilities that, according to Lovely, open the platform up to a range of curricular applications.

"In our strange and potentially very dangerous world where science fiction and Charles Darwin often collide, a handful of scientists are racing to be the first to create life. According to a flood of recent reports, this artificial life could be as close as six months away. "

VideoSpin is free video editing software that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures.

"TokBox is the simplest way for you to video chat with your friends, family and colleagues. Here at TokBox we're all great believers in the power of face-to-face communication. That's why we created TokBox, the simplest way to video chat with one person or twenty. It's easy to get started. There's no download, so all you need to get started is an internet connection and a webcam. TokBox works with a Mac or a PC and in any browser. Simply go to www.tokbox.com, sign up in seconds and then get video chatting. Our demo will tell you more. Chat with up to 20 people at once. It's easy to invite people to video chat, whether it's one person or twenty. Every call has a unique URL which you can send out via email, Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. You can also invite your other friends who have signed up to TokBox, directly from your contact list."

PicoCrickets are tiny computers you can use to create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures, and other playful inventions.

Yacapaca for Teachers Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more Discover modify and share assessments Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically Analyse with tools that improve your teaching

This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios.\n\nThere is also a Google Group on developing electronic portfolios in K-12 using Google Apps:\n* Group name: Using Google Apps for ePortfolios in K-12 Education\n* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/k12eportfolios\n* Group email address k12eportfolios@googlegroups.com\nI am hoping that other K-12 educators can join the group, and share their experiences developing ePortfolios with these free online tools. I recommend that if schools decide to use GoogleApps, they establish their own Google Apps for Education site, with their own domain name, as a quasi "walled garden" where student work can only be viewed by someone with an account within that domain.

What is AniThings? Anithings is a brand new children's creativity tool. It enables animated stories to be created simply and quickly, allowing children's creativity to run wild.

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

One powerful use of computers is to sift through large amounts of data to find the patterns hidden within them. Take a list of countries, for example, and look for relationships between the dominant religion and birthrate; between GNP and literacy; between government type and continent. In this assignment, you'll identify a standard that could be met by such exploration, use an online database (or create your own), and describe how you would implement it with learners. This assignment can be done individually or by a pair.