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"Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences."

This new discovery of an open source, cross platform video editor looks promosing.  There is a learning curve with it but a possible option for projects that need time at school and home.

Very interesting and resource rich visual search engine. It will even filter searches. 

Take any video, trim and highlight the moments that matter and share it with others.

New "SItes" has some major feature updating if they want it to truly replace and exceed the original "Sites".

Watchkin will search YouTube and display just the video without any of the extras. Use this bookmarklet to instantly be taken to watchkin to watch your youtube video. Drag and drop the button onto your bookmarks bar at the top of your browser, and then click it whenever you're on a youtube video page and want a cleaned up viewing.

Possible options for Google Sketchup since it has been sold.

Apple made mention of a standalone podcast app earlier this month, but most figured it would arrive with iOS 6 this fall. Not so. Earlier this week, Apple released Podcasts. It's free and universal, designed for both the iPhone and iPad.

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

iPad is a cool versatile tool that has a huge potential in education. It is widely  believed that iPad has started tranforming the face of education and revolutionizng modes of learning. Results coming out of pilot studies on the integration of iPads in the classroom seem to be promising.

time sheet calculator allows for input of up to 14 time periods (in hours and minutes), and totals them. It also calculates hours worked by inputing start time and end time.

Create & Share Panoramas for Free in 3 Easy Steps. Shoot your photos using a normal camera with no need for professional equipment. Create your panorama and preview it within seconds using our fast online tool. Share your panorama with everybody or with your friends only.

Make called Bill a "brilliant science-and-technology documentarian", whose "videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually" Wired called them "dazzling." Scientific American's blog called him a "smart, easygoing everyman with a firm understanding of the science." You can see 10 of his best videos below. He takes apart an LCD monitor, demonstrates how fiber optic cables work, rips up a hard drive, explains the wonder of a quartz wrist watch, solves the mystery of black boxes, blows up a light bulb filament, reveals how amazing a pop can tab truely is, shows why a cell phone looks like it does, and explains why you always seem to be in the slowest line.

The purpose of this wiki is to provide planning space for edcamps as well as a place for interested educators to connect and pull together ideas. Please refrain from using it for advertising in any way.

This new web2.0 web based presentation creation site takes advantage of cloud storage.  It reminds me of Prezi and the iPad app Haiku Deck.

Check if your website is down or up? Great tool for checking to see if that website is really down or if it has something to do with your network.

"Create videos for home or business Welcome to the easiest way to make beautiful videos online. Try it for free!"

"This process uses Near Field Communication (NFC), a feature we've talked about once before. You've probably even seen it in commercials, where people share playlists and perform other actions just by touching their phones together. Those uses haven't really caught on, but NFC tags will work anywhere-they're basically tiny stickers, keychains, and other trinkets that perform tasks when you tap them with your phone."

" Today we're making it a little easier for users to quickly type equations using LaTeX equation shortcuts. For anyone who heard of LaTeX before, it's a document markup language that's often used by academics to quickly type out complex formulas. In Google Docs, when you're inside an equation you can type '\sqrt' followed by a space or a parenthesis to automatically convert the text into a square root sign √. Other examples of useful shortcuts are '\frac' for a fraction and shorthands like '\epsilon' for Greek symbols."

"With Google Docs, we're always trying to make you more productive-and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime. That's why we're excited that the new documents editor now supports editing on your mobile browser. We're rolling this out over the next few days."