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50 from a favorites list. Lifehacker asked readers to indicate which free apps they were most thankful for. There were hundreds of suggestions both classic and new. They took the votes (and added a few of there own) and ranked our 50 apps using those votes as a guide. 

"Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs."

Free online tool for team collaboration. Target to students and mentors. Templates for project plans. Help videos available. Complicated.

ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow. This looks great images can be annotated and embedded into a wiki or blog etc. 

"The death of a nurse in the 2DayFM prank call to Kate Middleton's hospital is a tragic outcome for what should have been harmless fun…if the rules had been followed."

This is a Pinterest list of more than 60 infograohics I have reviewed during this year. I have embedded them on my Pinterest Page particularly in the  Infographic Board I have created .

Great example of Google Apps being used in Primary Class (along with BYOD)

Nice interactive for teaching Earth science.

"Google is working on an online course solution. Same story with Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, and … you? If you run a website that uses WordPress, you can now easily (relatively) build your very own online school. The new WordPress plugin from WooThemes (a popular WordPress premium theme provider) lets you start up your own online school with ease. It's as simple as installing a WordPress plugin. The actual content and other school-y stuff is, of course, up to you. But the technical stuff is taken care of by this new plugin."

This project seeks to empower the worldwide population of self-motivated learners who use digital media to connect with each other, to co-construct knowledge, to co-learn. Co-learning is ancient; the capacity for learning by imitation and more, to teach others what we know, is the essence of human culture. We are human because we learn together. Today, however, the advent of digital production media and distribution/communication networks has raised the power and potential of co-learning to a new level.

A simple programming language to start kids on the concepts

A post that details some favorite digital tools to use with classes.