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If you want to be in with a chance to win a free copy of this mind-bending concentration game, all you need to do is leave a comment below telling me how, or why, you use puzzle apps in the classroom.

What's Tildee ? Tildee is a free tool to help you create and share instantly and easily tutorials on any subject

"thinkery helps you focus on the important things and lets you access tons of information in an instant. it is your extended brain on steroids."

"WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. "

This is the destination for digital literacy resources and collaboration. Use it to share and enhance the tools necessary to learn computer and Internet skills needed in today's global work environment.

"Map and share your views of contents on the Web. See example on the right of a map of the debate "Which answer to the oil supply crisis?". Glinkr® is free, simple to use and aims a broad variety of usage. Glinkr lets you create or edit your maps through the web using a simple browser. When they are made public, maps can be embedded in Web pages. "

The popularity of social media sites among today's youth means that they have become the default communication tools for a new generation of children looking to communicate with the world around them. But is it appropriate for teachers to friend their students? Of course it isn't.

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.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to add favicons to Google Sites websites.

"The Archivist is a Windows application that helps you archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis. Start a search with The Archivist and get as many results as it can. The, leave The Archivist running and it will poll Twitter for that search. "

With VoiceThread Mobile, all of your content is also available on the iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®. Whether you're working from the Mobile App or from your web browser, experience the simplicity and flexibility you expect from VoiceThread.

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.  

"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 "

Visualize Your Taxes: The Finalists TaxMapper-Hermann Zschiegner, John HalloranWhere Do My Tax Dollars Go? Anil KandangathVisualize Your Taxes Mark Won, Salil Jain, Carl NgBudget Climb Zach Schwartz, Fred Truman, Frankie CheungEvery Day is Tax Day Fred ChasenWhat Do You Work For? Jeffrey Baumes

Understand how and where your tax dollars are spent, Calculate your receipt and see Behind the numbers how the tax receipt is calculated

To celebrate Autism Awareness Month, Kindergarten.com is making all its Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) flashcard apps free to download for the month of April.

Not sure if this site does anything to keep photos 100% kid-friendly. But the concept as a story prompt is very cool.

If you want a google plus invitation just leave a comment with your email and I will invite you to try this new semantic web tool and also I will invite you to join #edtech20 teachers circle to collaborate  with 150 teachers worldwide

In celebration of the first wave of Chromebooks being released today, now is a great time to start looking for replacements for the tools you can't live without on a day to day basis. Code editors, image editors, games? All of these can be replaced! I'll show you the best choices today.