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very cool community making cool designs

Quirky offers three different areas: You can help to develop new products of and product ideas of all different kinds. You can buy products. You can promote products via facebook and twitter. Last you can be a part of the community. Pedagogical uses:languages skills, creative designing, tag: Intermediate level, English languag skills requierd, art

cool project!

The goal of the project is to promote the growing of the edibles in your own garden, balcony, rooftop or even windowsill in big cities. Pedagogical uses: sustainability, producing your own food, handle plants, can be used to pilot such a project within reAct Tag: English skills requiered, biology

Pretty cool 3D modeling tool - free - can be used to create and tinker with 3D models, export them to 3D printing, etc. "Features & Benefits Solid modelling Designing physical models either for manufacturing or visualization requires solid modeling. All operations in Tinkercad are guaranteed to generate proper solids. Cloud storage The 3D designs created with Tinkercad are stored in the cloud for easy access from anywhere. We always use SSL encryption (same as online banks). Laser Cutting The SVG export in Tinkercad is specifically tailored for laser cutters. The standard workplane will cut a slice through your model which can then be laser cutted. Shapes Shapes are the basic building block of Tinkercad. Any shape can add or remove material and in addition to pre-existing shapes you can also import your own. Share models As Tinkercad is a web app you can easily share your models just by copying the link. Tinkercad also lets you fork someone elses model and develop it further. Import 2D With 2D import you can create vector shapes in your favorite vector editing tool and import them into Tinkercad and extrude them into solids. Great for adding logos or images. Grouping By grouping together a set of shapes you can create a new shape to work with. By building more and more intricate shapes you can create extremely detailed models. 3D printing Tinkercad supports all 3D printers on the market that accept the industry standard STL file format. You can also download VRML files for color printing. Import 3D Tinkercad features revolutionary 3D import that lets you turn an external file into a editable Tinkercad shape. There is a growing number of supported formats. Web based Tinkercad runs in any web browser that supports HTML5/WebGL be it on Windows, Mac or Linux. Suggested browsers are Google Chrome and Mozille FireFox. 3D printing services With direct integration with 3rd party printing services you can print a design from Tinkercad with just a few clicks of the mouse. F

Cool Dutch maker-education initiative and organisation.

very cool magazine tool - easy to make online magazine. just tried it out, quite easy to use.

cool platform to aggregate your online ID

This tool allows to manage your on line identity , it is not for pedagogical uses.

cool open source video recording and editing software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Pedagogical uses: creation of video-based information products, video presentations, video tutorials intermediate level Tags: free, video, creativity

very cool stuff to use data from Wikipedia in Google Spreadsheets

best mockup tool I've seen so far. design an interactive website in minutes.

create mockups of websites. Easy, intuitive interface. Easy to use. Pedagogical uses: creativity, web-design.

Seems that this application currently do not support Internet Explorer. It works with Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

cool 2do tool

It was renamed: http://stayuseful.com It focuses only on the things you actually need to do today. It gives you simple tools and friendly encouragement so you can feel more productive and less forgetful. It can be used with the most common Smart Phones: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android Phones Pedagogical uses: timetalbe, project management, workflow management, deadlines tag: free, 30 day trial

cool flash app to  make drawings

you draw, then the application turns it into an animated drawing that you can save and embed, all for free. Interesting if you like drawings and animation. Very simple and intuitive. No need for instructions. Pedagogical uses: storytelling in a different style; icebreaker; illustrator

Does it work with tablets? Would be a great drawing tool if you do not have to use your mouse for it.

Extremely cool product: a kind of paint/pencil that can be used (and erased from) any kind of surface.