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Maker Space - It offers so much opportunity for schools to improve the education of students. This post throws up ideas, suggests things that we should be aware of, safety points, and plenty of links. It challenges the reader to think seriously about maker spaces.

An interesting reflection on some of the benefits of maker spaces and what the maker movement brings to education.

Create a map of places you've visited (or want to visit or dream about or know people from) and get HTML code that you can embed in your profile on Flickr, Facebook, My Space, your blog or any other web page. Just click your countries and the map will update itself automagically. Then paste the HTML code anywhere you'd like.

Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker is inspired by Scratch from MIT. It is a completely browser-based implementation written using Open Web standards such as Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and does not use Flash.

Animate drawings,create music, build ages, craft ebooks. Browser-based programming designed to teach computational thinking.  Use for science, maths etc.  Lesson plans available.