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Lovely color search tool that taps into Flickr Creative Commons images

online science labs

Created by an elementary technology lab teacher to share ideas and projects used in the lab. Includes interactive activities for learning to count money which is hard to find.

We believe that innovations in biology should beaccessible,affordable,and open to everyone. We're building a community biology lab foramateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs,and anyone who wants toexperiment with friends.   Welcome to BioCurious

Mirroring iOS display on a Mac. Potential use of an iPad in a Mac lab.

A good, simple browser translation tool from Microsoft. The bookmarklet sits in your bookmark toolbar and translates foreign pages into your language with one click. Choose a language from the drop down menu to translate into other languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

Who Knew!

"How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask. Daphne Bavelier studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature or by training."

Inspired by reading the Horizon Report I did a little web surfing!

A website which focuses on listenings. It has pre-listening, listening and post-listening activities

Easily create 3D games. Free tool.

The web is a space whose very abundance of information - and whose very informational infrastructure - trains our attention to follow our interests. And vice versa. In that, it's empowering information as a function of interest. It's telling Vishal that it's better to spend time with video than with Vonnegut - simply because he's more interested in editing than in reading. Vishal needs needs no other justification for his choice; interest itself is its own acquittal. And we're seeing the same thing in news. While formal learning has been, in the pre-digital world, a matter of rote obligation in the service of intellectual catholicism - and news consumption has been a matter of the bundle rather than the atom - the web-powered world is creating a knowledge economy that spins on the axis of interest. Individual interest. The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps, slowly, into the broader realm of information; under its influence, our notion of knowledge is slowly shedding its normative layers.