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royalty free downloads for media files (eg. Audio and images) that students can use when creating digital content with limited license restrictions however some of these request attribution or have other requirements.

chat service that does not require chat participants to register or create their own user name or password. To use Stinto one person establishes the chat and then invites others to join the chat by sharing the unique url for the chat.

Upload any ordinary pic and we'll fix it for you! Choose from a large variety of airbrush effects, layouts, and color styles, and then let us apply them to your pics. Perfect for Facebook, Myspace, Blogger, Wordpress, Xanga, or even give them as gifts. It is 100% free and no registration is required.

Fumpr is a newly launched image hosting service that claims to be web's fastest image host. According to the site the images are served under .01 seconds on average. The site got a simple and visually appealing interface. No registration or email required. Simply choose the image you want to store with them and click the upload button. Once the image is uploaded you are given four different links to share it on the web. These include a separate link for sharing the image with friends, direct download, adding images to forum threads and embed code.

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VotApedia is an audience response system that doesn't require issuing clickers or need specialist infrastructure. Known users can create surveys and edit the pages on this site. See if your your account has this functionality by looking for the tag "knownuser" next to your account name. If it doesn't and you want it contact Ken.Taylor@csiro.au. You can also look at other people's survey in the recent surveys, or participate in an active survey below. You can read the presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. Audience response systems are widely used for education, but not commonly in Australia. It is hoped that removing the complication and expense of clickers will encourage the use of this teaching aid in Australian educational institutions. VotApedia is intended for co-located audiences but also works with remote audiences which has previously been a different class of application. Surveys are in a multiple choice question (MCQ) form. There is VotApedia Use and Development for more detail about this system.

What2Learn, the interactive learning solution providing effective educational resources and revision games. The fun way to revise and prepare for success in your GCSEs, SATs and KS3 subjects. NEW! Make your own games - no downloads required.

Create a game or other fun application in just a few clicks with Sharendipity's new free game creation tools! No programming required!

astebud enables round-trip copy and paste on your iPhone or iPod Touch, between the two applications that matter the most: Mail and Safari. And through a clever combination of web services and bookmarklets, it does it without requiring a jailbreak or App Store download. Watch the demo, or hover or tap on each screenshot in the following flow for details:

You will learn the basic skills required to produce exciting, interactive flipcharts. You will also gain the confidence to explore the software further. thx @beckcollect

"Building a web form used to require a bit of coding and "wiring" on the back end of your site. These days, there are some great free and low-cost resources on the web that make building and integrating forms into your business website a breeze."

Two worthwhile sites to followup for creating business web forms which can be used in education as well.

Formative Assessment, assessing student performance routinely as instruction unfolds can transform teaching and learning. Writer actively experimented with giving more feedback to my students, using rubrics, models of student work, and having students assess their own work as well as that of their peers. Problem is Baltimore County school administrators have ordered all teachers to begin using a grading system next month that will require them to judge whether each of their students has mastered more than 100 specific skills. Elementary school teachers have classes of 25 kids while highschool teachers can have more than 100 students. Over the course of a year, many teachers would have to make as many as 10,000 marks indicating whether a child had learned a task.

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The content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.

Share videos with link back to YouTube disabled and ability to crop video for lessons.

Another way to access and share YouTube videos without the ads and having cropped them also if required.

Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Center for American Progress, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute came together to grade the states on school performance. In that first Leaders and Laggards report, we found much to applaud but even more that requires urgent improvement. In this follow-up report, we turn our attention to the future, looking not at how states are performing today, but at what they are doing to prepare themselves for the challenges that lie ahead.

a wizard for creating and managing customized Google maps of address lists cool features include addresses come from your own Google spreadsheets modify your address list and maps are automatically updated; done so daily, or on demand privately be the only viewer of your maps, or publish them and show them on any website access the address lists and maps from anywhere it's easy, no code required it's free download KML of your maps / export them to Google earth

"There are lots of ways to record your Skype calls easily, allowing you to save them locally for posterity (ie. covering your back). But mostly you'll want to record a call and drop it into a podcast or make it publically available for all. I've collated the best apps for recording Skype in this list. While some of the applications are free, most of them require you to shell out a few bucks. The list is split into separate sections for Windows and Mac."

"A feature that has long been request by educators has finally arrived in iPad 2: video mirroring. Video mirroring shows exactly what's on your device's screen on a second display, like a projector, television, or monitor. We're used to video mirroring with laptops--many teachers do this everyday. iPad 2 requires either the Apple VGA Adapter or Apple Digital AV Adapter. The VGA adapter connects to most projectors while the digital adapter connects to HDMI, which is common on newer televisions. Apple Digital AV Adapter also outputs sound while the VGA adapter outputs only video to the display."