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"Increasingly sophisticated technology could well consign forced days off to the history books. In fact, old models of education - students in seats in school - have been continually challenged in the rolling digital revolution. "

Interesting when we consider those schools forced closed by fires, floods and the lessons picked up by those closed by snow.

"High-resolution aerial photos taken over Brisbane last week have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The aerial photos of the Brisbane floods were taken in flyovers on January 13 and January 14. Hover over each photo to view the devastation caused by flooding."

Interactive visualisation of before and after images from the QLD floods.

Naming takes on new meanings in digital settings-as students build personas through e-mail addresses, screen names, and online profiles, they can be unaware of the ways that others may read the information they share.

Amazing - and great inspiration for student-made versions using Prezi!

Though centralized PC labs have been an important part of both campus space planning and IT infrastructure for the last two decades, this may be changing.

Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services - think apps - are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.

"The greatest invention yet. "

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content - it's all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.

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Free images available for commercial and non-commercial use.

"Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. This is a list of alternatives that might better suit teacher needs."

Nice list of alternatives to YouTube if it is blocked at your school.

Over 2000 free online Maths videos. Topics include: Algebra, geometry, Trigonometry, Precalculus and Calculus

"This budget production will hopefully help to explain the Ultranet to even the most technologically challeneged people (like my Mum)."

Here is a low budget production that does a better job of explaining the Victorian Ulranet than all the slideshows I have seen so far. It explains the different rooms of this intranet where parents, students and teachers will interact using the icons from the Ultranet website.

"The six levels of Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as found in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Music from Pirates I and III"

Nice metaphore for graduate teachers :-)

laptop makers should also look at the factors that are triggering the iPad's popularity and consider how some of those factors could be co-opted into notebooks. Here are the top six: