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anyone can use this simple platform to pair any video on YouTube--not just TED Talks--with custom content.

"Neither Mathew Ho nor Asad Muhammad can vote, or buy beer. They haven't been accepted to college yet, though that might change after this story. The 17-year-olds have already sent a (Lego) man into space. Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Lego passenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft."

twitter for Administrators, Teachers and Students

The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.

PowerPoint provides visuals for math class An award-winning Texas math teacher rarely stands in front of his class writing on a whiteboard. Instead, Lance Belin uses PowerPoint presentations for his lessons, which he said typically relate math to a real-life situation. For example, he uses the image of a kicked football's arc to explain a quadratic curve. The Dallas Morning News

""They reinforce the dominance of the front of the room and teacher supremacy. At a time of enormous educational upheaval, technological change, and an increasing gulf between adults and children, it is a bad idea to purchase technology that facilitates the delivery of information and increases the physical distance between teacher and learner.""

Nice collection of resources for each of the 5 C's for developing your PLN/PLC.

Nice collection of currently used and successful assistive technologies.