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Great summary chart

Last update April 2007. Much has changed in the last 6 years.

This website features a huge collection of over 100,000 old posters and advertisements from as far back as the 1700's.

"Create fantastic 3D characters like a pro with Autodesk 123D Creature. Design your creature, then sculpt detailed features and paint on skin, fur, feathers, or whatever you imagine. Export your finished creature as an image or 3D model, or have it 3D printed into a real sculpture!"

The Digital Comic Museum features comics from the 1930's to the 1950's. They can be used to show American culture from that period and many comics from that era are good examples of propaganda from WWII and the Cold War

"One of the new features of the iPad 2 is "mirroring". This provides the ability for the iPad to mirror (i.e duplicate) it's output to an external display device such as a monitor, a projector or TV. The image below shows my iPad 2 connected to a 23″ monitor. The iPad's Home Screen is displayed on the monitor as well as the iPad itself. "

I can always count on Richard to provide me with the latest tools and how to use them! Awesome features. Now, I hope Google will add the pointer tool to the mobile app.

Love it! Anyone know when it will be accessible for all?

Easy way to mute tabs you want to stay open but are playing sound. Nice step by step instructions with screenshots.

Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group has identified what he calls a "global achievement gap," which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have skills of the future: * Critical thinking and problem-solving * Collaboration across networks and leading by influence * Agility and adaptability * Initiative and entrepreneurialism * Effective oral and written communication * Accessing and analyzing information * Curiosity and imagination

Richard Byrne demos the updated version of Padlet. Some nice new features to an already great tool.

The overall theme of this teacher-tested unit is using maps to understand borders and their impacts in Europe. The materials will help your middle school students to use maps to think about how borders intersect physical and human geographical features, and how those intersections can lead to cooperation and/or conflict. The educator resources provided in the unit include maps, multimedia, and case studies that will enable students to develop skills in map analysis and apply that analysis to specific situations. Other parts of the unit will invite you and your students to explore similar cases in Europe and your own community.

Learn about the Projects feature introduced by Wikispaces.

This has probably been featured already, but I love this site. You can create any kind of assessment your heart desires. Truly worth checking out.

Here are five go-to Google tools for social studies classrooms. How to videos accompany each tool featured.

Education Week's new report "Blended Learning: Breaking Down the Barriers" features a story highlighting research on the effectiveness of such techniques.

Google Sites

"A talking mat to encourage reasoning in maths lessons through oracy. The mat features a range of sentence stems to guide children."

Subtraction game featuring ghosts. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths