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very nice website that contains lots of good tutorials about design.

Teachers can ask students who are interested in design, to follow one of the beginner tutorials and create a design, model or drawing of a car, building, or something else they like.

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.

making your own font based on your hand-writing

My First Font is a tool that allows creating fonts based in someone's handwriting. Pedagogical uses: It can be used with low skilled learners to introduce them in the use of devises like scanner, printer and software packs. It's a kind of learning game. It can be used also as an international game.

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

Create and view beautifully informative animated maps, for free. Very interesting tool to transform the way learners discover maps and the globe. A funny way to tell stories. I recommend to first look at the Show Case. The tutorial helps as well. Pedagogical uses: research and organization; story telling