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"a comprehensive CPD toolkit for the new national computing curriculum" Aimed at Primary teachers in the UK.

"One teacher describes the big impact robotics, coding, and STEM has had on her students"

"Create pretty buttons online, quickly! "

This article offers a list of questions that were developed to help teachers clarify the unique added value of a digital learning environment, and whether their assignments were making the best use of this environment. "The six questions should be used when evaluating the design of assignments and student work and if the answer is "no" to them, then the chances are that technology is not really being applied in the most innovative ways. The questions we ask to evaluate implementation and define innovation are critical."

"The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: planning of education projects linked with the development of free content development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs networking on funding proposals developed as free content "

"September 27, 2014 Projecting your iPad on a large screen is great for demonstrations, simulations, explanations, and showing examples. There are several ways this can be done in the classroom.  VGA or HDMI Adapter Connect directly from your device to a projector's video cable. Click to find out which of the four possible adapters is the one you need. Document Camera Put your device under a camera connected to a projector. Glare may be a problem. Your audience can see your fingers.. Search Amazon for document cameras. Apple TV Connect an Apple TV to your projector and use your device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Apple TV is available from Amazon.com. AirServer Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get AirServer at airserver.com. Annotate.net Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Download the Annotate Mirror Client.  Mirroring360 Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Download Mirroring360. Reflector Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get Reflector at reflectorapp.com. X-Mirage Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get X-Mirage. iTools Install software on your projector-connected computer and attach device using its USB cable and choose Live Desktop. Macs can wirelessly mirror to iTools. It's beta software with no documentation and can be buggy. English version currently not available. OS X 10.10 Yosemite Update to OS X Yosemite on your projector-connected Mac and attach device using its Lightning cable. Open QuckTime & choose iPad as the camera source.  If you don't mind keeping your iPad in one spot, then a VGA adapter (for 30-pin Dock connector or for the new Lightning

"In one second on the Internet there are..."

Interactive animated infographic showing the data which is posted to the Web every second.

"The Conversation Prism is a visual map of the social media landscape. It's an ongoing study in digital ethnography that tracks dominant and promising social networks and organizes them by how they're used in everyday life."

"Quantum Diaries is a Web site that follows physicists from around the world as they experience life at the energy, intensity and cosmic frontiers of particle physics. Through their bios, videos, photos and blogs, the diarists offer a personal look at the daily lives of particle physicists."

An annotated list of six resources that could be used for coding with primary school students (5-11). They are all free and provide students with opportunities to be exposed to programming.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openlyavailable to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Clipart by the people, for the people.

Summary:From productivity to email to operating systems to mobile to hardware, David Gewirtz is no longer actively using Microsoft products. He's not a Microsoft hater. The transition just happened organically as he adopted products that better served his needs.

"Present on desktop, mobile and projector screens at the same time. "

"This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future."

"Cryptoy is a fun, free, educational app about cryptography, designed by GCHQ for use by secondary school students and their teachers. The app enables users to understand basic encryption techniques, learn about their history and then have a go at creating their own encoded messages. These can then be shared with friends via social media or more traditional means and the recipients can use the app to try to decipher the messages."

Web page whose colour changes as a result of the hex colour corresponding to the time on a digital clock readout

"Here are ideas of apps and websites that teachers in my PLN used successfully in the past during Hour of Code:"