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A video sharing how technology is changing the way people learn, and how it is changing the education space in general. Well worth a look. 

These links/ideas are most useful for use with IWB's - interactive graphics help students explore the impacts and implications of the crisis in Japan

Created by Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, the Succeeding with Science website contains many different interactive activities and downloadable resources. There are resources here for both primary and secondary (and post-16) teachers on a number of different topics such as electricity, states of matter, carbon footprints and radioactivity. 

This is a comprehensive glossary of different strategies to use and try in the classroom.

An interesting post on the effective use of SMART Boards that challenges the cynics

A cool idea for creating virtual flowers. The Black Eyed Peas have created/endorsed a site called Planting My Ideas. You can use music, images, and words to create your own flower, which is then be posted in the site's gallery. You can also post the link on a student or teacher's website/blog, and have students write about it as a language development activity.

new google app to make sense of data.

could be very useful ... there's a huge fear of data out there (unnecessarily so) but an app like this makes it very accessible/meaningful. Thanks for sharing ...

Management and pedagogy of iPads in schools

I love this analogy and the great animations on this site. Great for teaching junior and senior chemistry students