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New World Wide Telescope from Microsoft. Another alternative to Google Sky - it looks pretty cool.

An alternative to google sky, this is a world wide telescope from Microsoft.

World Wide Telescope allows your computer to function as a virtual telescope. Includes guided tours of the stars.

Incredible pictures from the Hubble telescope

Microsoft's free worldwide telescope. The coolest thing about this is the planetariums that people build with it.

"August 1, 2011, 5:51 pm By Rachel Wiseman College students with very poor vision have had to struggle to see a blackboard and take notes-basic tasks that can hold some back. Now a team of four students from Arizona State University has designed a system, called Note-Taker, that couples a tablet PC and a video camera, and could be a major advance over the small eyeglass-mounted telescopes that many students have had to rely on. It recently won second place in Microsoft's Imagine Cup technology competition. (...) The result was Note-Taker, which connects a tablet PC (a laptop with a screen you can write on) to a high-resolution video camera. Screen commands get the camera to pan and zoom. The video footage, along with audio, can be played in real time on the tablet and are also saved for later reference. Alongside the video is a space for typed or handwritten notes, which students can jot down using a stylus. That should be helpful in math and science courses, says Mr. Hayden, where students need to copy down graphs, charts, and symbols not readily available on a keyboard. (...) But no tool can replace institutional support, says Chris S. Danielsen, director of public relations for the [NFB]. "The university is always going to have to make sure that whatever technology it uses is accessible to blind and low-vision students," he says. (Arizona State U. has gotten in hot water in the past in just this area.) (...) This entry was posted in Gadgets."

Create education game widgets free of charge for embedding

Create free educational games and tools in flash

Love this website - one of my favorits for use with wikis. There is a new telescopic topic generator that is very cool. Everything is embeddable.

Online space camera and observatory