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"Okay, I may have done the math wrong. But whatever the number is, it's a bunch of very cool and useful Twitter feeds. Grab a couple or three of them and expand your Personal Learning Network."

Cool lesson idea for pythagorean theorum and ratios. Includes already-made geogebra apps for the lesson so that students can manipulate the size of the TV in order to respond to teacher questions.

"In order to help educators integrate technology effectively, we have compiled a list of technology tools focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD framework. Unlike other lists that promote "cool tools," yet leave teachers wondering about purposeful educational integration, our list is driven by specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and community-mindedness. " Great list of resources including sites for web based timelines, publishing writing online, guided research activities, etc.

"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab." Interesting video resources for each element on the periodic table. This type of thing might be cool for students to produce/create. They could design an experiment around an element, videotape it, and put up the videos as a class/school.

I don't know if aerodynamics is a field of study in high school, but this is pretty cool. You could take this video and do something interesting with it in Logger Pro to analyze wingspeed or do something else that I'm not thinking of currently...

"Press the play button below to watch the war unfold over time. Drag the scrubber or click on the months and years to change the date range. Roll over the circles for more information on each battle. Casualties are defined as killed, wounded, missing and captured." Cool visualization of all Civil War battles. A couple questions that couple be useful when students view this timeline: - Using the available data, explain the Union strategy during the war - Using the available data, explain the Confederate strategy during the war. - Using the available data, explain what event/series of events represents the turning point of the war.

This is a pretty cool app that my PE teachers want to buy. It allows the user to be John Madden and analyze their athletes improvements. It even allows editing and voice overs.

"ou can only speak and write English so how do you converse with a person in China who writes Mandarin but doesn't understand a word of English? Google Translate is no doubt a good option but it is going to be tedious for you (and your Chinese friend) to translate each and every sentence manually before sending them through any messenger." Seems cool for communication/collaboration possibilities in foreign language. Could be an interesting way to work with pen pals in another country.

Could be a cool way to motivate kids to start writing... I see an alternate assignment linking social media and their writing.