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Have you ever wanted to create a bundle of links to share? Bundlenut makes this possible with just a few easy steps. Visitors can use the site to create a bundle of links and give the bundle a title. There's a "bundle browser" as well, and it's easy to share them. Some of the sample bundles on the site include "Mrs. Comstock's 11th Grade Reading List."

"Empower your students to collaborate and learn from each other within MixedInk's fun, social, environment. Write, edit & remix: Assign students a text to write together. Then they'll create their own versions,edit their peers' work, and weave different versions together into new ones. Comment & evaluate: Students comment on their classmates' submissions and rate different versions to identify the best written, most popular language and ideas. Discuss the top version as a class: Explore the strengths and weaknesses of the class's favorite texts together."

Some GigaPan images are posted on Google Earth, a Google application that allows for close zooming on any area of the earth. Places where GigaPan images are placed allow for clearer, more detailed images than Google Earth itself would display. The images posted on the GigaPan website and Google Earth of places all around the world have made it easier for geology students to experience a variety of fieldwork

The GigaPan process allows users to upload, share, and explore brilliant gigapixel+ panoramas from around the globe. Users can zoom in to explore and collect observational data from these images.

"Pundits may be asking if the Internet is bad for our children's mental development, but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future." "Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers."

Discussing ways to learn and teach biosciences with technology. The blog of www.actionbioscience.org.

tool to map administrative region data stored in Excel spreadsheets without the need for GIS

Crossing Boundaries is a year-long professional development experience that entails access to the Crossing Boundaries curriculum, sustained teacher professional development, and a variety of opportunities for students to see scientific and environmental careers in action. Secondary teachers and students will analyze biodiversity conservation issues in their local or regional environment as well as in the Brazilian Amazon and Chiapas, Mexico.

conference on emerging technology applications for online learning

Eagle Cam

satellite tracking of migratory birds

With an old computer and 30 dollars worth of off-the-shelf components, you can gear up with cutting edge avian monitoring technology and help save the birds. For years, birdwatchers counted by sight during the daytime. The night - when most migratory birds travel - was literally hidden to them. But that's changing. Anyone can attach a microphone to a computer running birdcall-identifying software and track birds passing overhead in the darkness.

migration maps

BioKIDS: Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species addresses both inquiry and life science content standards through exploration of local biodiversity, collection of animal species, and the investigation of individual animals and how animals interact with one another. Through these activities students will gain a clearer understanding of how organisms meet their basic needs and the role the environment plays in supporting a variety of organisms. In this curriculum, students use CyberTracker, an animal-tracking program that runs on hand-held computers (PDAs), to log animal sightings in their schoolyard. Students then analyze the data for class and team experiments. Another salient feature of the curriculum is the Critter Catalog, an on-line animal species database developed by the BioKIDS team. Students use this as the main resource when they write species accounts (conduct research on individual animals).

A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, have an advantage in college science classes over their peers who study more topics and spend less time on each. The study relates the amount of content covered on a particular topic in high school classes with students' performance in college-level science classes.

CO2 map

Welcome to the Urban Bird Sounds Project! This project will teach you to recognize bird sounds in the city. You can see all these birds in the city of Boston --and maybe in your city also.

GIS and Science News, resources, commentary, and interviews on the use of GIS for science.