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MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. Published as a quarterly since February 2005, MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan). MAKE comes from O'Reilly, the Publisher of Record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.

a bit dated (not all links work anymore) but still very rich resource on using technology in education. 

In this project, you can make your plants send messages to Twitter, for example when they are thirsty. Pedagogical uses: learn about electronics, programming, media, sensor technology, collaboration Pros: creative, useful knowledge, innovation Cons: difficult, high learning curve, some equipment needed (to be purchased online)

"What is ThingLink? ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow. Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."

The Internet is loaded with free software, making it hard to know which one's you really need. This article will act as your guide to the top 20 free applications (Web and Windows) for increased productivity.

This web site colects web 2.0 tools. We suggest some of them for Pedagogical uses:: Skype and Gmail for communicating Google Calendar and 7.Zip for planifying Cam Studio and Audacity for creating videos and audio (they are bookmarked in this Diigo list aswell)

a tool similar to mindmapping...

An online mindmapping tool which enables you to create an online collection of files, links, notes and any other digital file about a certain topic. It is accessible from any online PC. Pedagogical uses: creation of digital archive, collection of material from students related to the subject, .

visualization website..

screen sharing tool.

pedagogical use: collaborative work on e.g. a presentation, the viewers can comment on it and the presenter can change the document, image, ... immediately