Cool Tools & Ed Tech

# Amberjack enables webmasters to create cool site tours, without the need to take screenshots or record screencasts. # Amberjack improves the usability of your website through easy, great looking and helpful tours. # Amberjack installs with no hassle. The comfortable Tour Wizard gives you HTML code to paste in your site. # Amberjack is a lightweight (~4K), stable, LGPLed & browser compatible JavaScript library.

pixer.us lets you manipulate, edit, enhance and apply filters to your digital pictures using only your web browser.

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Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.

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Free online education and teaching tools from Intel Education support 21st century learning. Discover a variety of online resources for teachers including teaching ideas, curricula and more.

Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.

Get your students blogging. Create a virtual classroom and BlogPortal. Instant use, hosted, free.

Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers by the same name. Ian Jukes talks about Digital Children. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact people fit into both camps. We know that experience, like using a computer, will change the structure of our brain, This is a concept called Neuroplasticity. We also know that, the more intense the experience, the more profound the change. Our students, who often have a greater exposure to technology, are likely to be more neurologically adapted, but adults can as easily be "Digital Natives".

An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.

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