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Students from the Digiteen Project review social sites for kids.

Turns IPAD into an IPHONE.

Teachers singing at ISTE Session.

How to use Google Wave.

Learn about edchat, a vibrant conversation among tech-savvy educators on the pressing issues of the day.

Chat archive from the session.

Tammy Worcestor's list of favorite free web tools.

Teacher appreciation song.

Free web application that enables everyone to easily create cool animations.

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. They offer free image, vector, audio and music editing tools. Sign up to be a beta tester to get free student accounts that are walled off from public viewing. You can also learn more about them through their blog at http://aviary.com/blog.

Scholastic Administrator magazine named Verizon Thinkfinity a "Best in Tech" website for professional development. Thinkfinity was one of eight websites to receive the award at the ISTE 2010 conference. Thinkfinity Professional Development is aligned to ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.

At ISTE, Mimio introduced a rechargeable interactive polling system, a document camera with two adjustable light sources, and a new portable device for writing on projected images. You can watch videos of the products in action here.

"In the same way that a garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce, today's emerging information landscape is an info-system, where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, re-mixed and re-published. To be a "master learner" -- to be a teacher -- today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate new knowledge and skills from a continual flow of information. This book is a guide for teachers who seek to model for their students the practices of lifelong learning. "

All of these apps are available from ITunes and are free.