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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.

Thought provoking article from eSchool News about "Teaching innovation in our schools".

"Evernote is a cloud-based service that allows you to save anything you want and then easily find it. But there are a lot of cloud services that allow you to save stuff, so what sets Evernote apart from the rest? Well, there really isn't one clear-cut answer to that, but there is one clear-cut article."

Nice explanation of the various approaches to portfolios and why students should be creating one. Resources created by Lisa Johnson (@techchef4u)

"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."

The Best Free Portable Apps for Your Flash Drive Toolkit Large capacity, small-sized, affordable USB flash drives provide us with the ability to easily carry around gigs of data in our pockets. Why not take our favorite programs with us as well so we can work on any computer?

iPads Vs Textbooks  Why textbooks are less expensive to maintain than iPad initiatives for schools. 

Social collaboration for teens and their education counterparts. Free resource for education to share, create, and connect projects by teens with teens.

Tutorial to sync ical and Google Calendar.

This blog post does provide some good points in opposition to IWBs. Good conversation piece.