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"The best Professors from the world's leading Universities are coming together to teach online FOR FREE! What is it About? The Faculty Project brings academia's most outstanding professors to the computers, tablets and smartphones of people all over the world. All courses will be free with open enrollment for anyone with an Internet connection."

What an amazing opportunity! Check out some of the classes you can take for free!

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10 Tools for Getting the Most from Dropbox

10 Tools for Getting the Most from Dropbox

Weebly for Education is Perfect for You and Your Students Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Our drag & drop website editor is stunningly simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control.

PaperRater.com analyzes documents immediately, 24/7, in real-time. The site provides in-depth analysis to help the student improve grammar and writing. Some features include: Plagiarism Detection Auto Grader Spelling and Grammar Check Style and Word Choice Analysis Readability Statistics Title Validation Vocabulary Builder tool

"Apple's "trifold" announcement last week was exciting: textbooks coming to iBooks; iBooks Author software to create your own books; and a dedicated iTunes U app, which "bundles" courses in a manageable, multimedia package. If you haven't watched the Apple Keynote, I highly recommend it, but I want to guide you to my favorite part. It comes in around the 56:25 time on the video where Eddy Cue announces that K12 Institutions can now sign up to deliver content in iTunes U. This is phenomenal news, and I believe, will have the potential to transform education more than the textbook announcement."

An educator's guide to websites, organizations, articles, and other resources looking at the new system of standards and how they will be assessed.

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"Gooru makes it easy for students and teachers to find the best online education resources. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Multimedia resources available on Gooru dramatically increase student engagement and motivation to learn by connecting topics with 21st century resources and real life applications. Gooru also offers adaptive assessments that allow students to test their knowledge on topics with formative quizzes. "

Gooru makes it easy for students and teachers to find the best online education resources. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Multimedia resources available on Gooru dramatically increase student engagement and motivation to learn by connecting topics with 21st century resources and real life applications. Gooru also offers adaptive assessments that allow students to test their knowledge on topics with formative quizzes.

Twitter chats are such a great way to stay connected and informed in your professional circle, and education is no exception. Through education chats, you can find out about new methods for teaching, tech resources, even jobs for teachers. Most chats are held weekly, and offer an opportunity to have a regularly scheduled conversation with like-minded educators.

Sites supporting collaboration in the classroom

"The visualization offers a series of graphs and charts that represent the impact of economic activities in terms of global warming, ozone depletion, human toxicity, aquatic ecotoxicity, acidification, and other environmental impact measurements. Economy Map users can expand or contract the scope of the visualizations according to industry sectors and environmental impact indicators."

"With Moon in Google Earth, you can: Take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts View 3D models of landed spacecraft Zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts' footprints Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions In Google Earth 5, select Moon from the top toolbar to start exploring. "

"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."

Virtual teleportation and sharing using Google Earth images.