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How to Smile is an online community of educators that have vetted over 3,000 engaging hands-on, interactive STEM activities. With both desktop and mobile capabilities, How to Smile is full of activities that are both physical and virtual that are sure to get students involved. Tip: Use How to Smile's search by chemical directory to find activities for any type of experiment.

"Code Hero is a game that teaches you how to make games and save the world with a code ray that shoots Javascript. Become a code hero and shape the future! Code Hero is a co-op first-person science shooter where you use the code ray to manipulate code. Your code ray can copy code like new items and fire it like ammunition to do new things. You can edit new code to do anything you can imagine. You'll learn how to blast the enemy, manipulate the world, and build structures creatively to create the games of your dreams and recruit an army of coders to save the world from rogue AI. "

Welcome to the Google SketchUp for Educators Community, a site to share, connect & learn This site is brought to you by Google and made especially for Google SketchUp educators and students.  Come join and help us build it! Google SketchUp is an easy-to-use program that lets you and your students create, modify and share 3D models. From history to calculus, you'll be surprised at how easy it is to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

great way to help your students understand how to read a web address

"Useful robot algorithms in both pseudocode and source code. Because programming is a very huge subject and there are billions of books and tutorials on how to program already written, all I plan to cover is specifically what is important to programming robots not mentioned in common literature."

This is a great website that will help you not only properly cite your resources but also conduct your researches. It provides material on quoting and paragraphing your research sources, as well as material on how to avoid plagiarism. It also provides help on how to cite resources using four different styles like: APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of style.

Learners will be able to discuss a few basic issues in game design and analyze their impact on game play. Students will understand how to design a simple game and give feedback on that game design. They should also see how repeated play makes a game better, and recognize that it is a process of iterative refinement that makes good games.

"Travel through the App Galaxy to learn how to get your app discovered through promotion, earn enough money to quit your day job, measure your success, and evaluate your current flight path to ensure you're headed in the right direction. Read more about the App Galaxy."

3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. ModelMetricks books contain easy-to-follow projects based on the free Google SketchUp application, to show how to model anything in 3D.

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.A nice free site that allows users to learn to code for creating websites, games, apps, etc.  This is done in step by step instructions and a user can track their progress.

Initiated by Xavier Encinas, this blog focuses on typography and graphic design, with posts on advertising, fashion and Helvetica. One book review looks at how companies like Apple make design a competitive advantage and an integral part of business. Illustrating the tension between print and digital publishing, a post on Process Journal shows how a print publisher redesigned its content to create an iPad app.

This is MIT's Open Courseware course Introduction to Python. It includes exercises and labs, and also links to the PDF textbook, "How to think like a computer scientist."

And, if you're tired of being asked by your peers to look information up for them, use Let Me Google That for You to show them how to do their own searches in the future. But be careful; they may not think it's funny!

Want to give your readers fast access to all images in the same album? Then this is the best gallery mode for you. With options to slide through the thumbnail carousel or through the photos themselves, this method is not unlike how you view the gallery in some smartphones, making it an intuitive experience.

This site has TONS to do and teaches about diseases, nutrition, physical activity, safety (on and off line), being smart consumers (like how to read through to the message in advertising, and body image)  There is a great teacher integration corner, printables galore...

The Hour of Code features great resources for ages 6 to 100 to learn how to create simple or complex programs, beginning with drag-and-drop programming.

Great lists from presentations of tools and how to integrate them

"arlier this year, Microsoft released a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of its robot-programming SDK, called "Microsoft Robotics Studio," the result of work done by one of the groups emerging from Microsoft Research. Robotics Studio provides a high-level generic interface for programming a wide range of robots using a distributed model. The utility of this approach is apparent by the fact that both hobbyists controlling robotic kits or toy robots and serious roboticists controlling large and complicated robots can use the same SDK. This article presents an overview of Robotics Studio, and then shows you how to use the SDK to program the iRobot Roomba vacuum robot."

This blog for designers and Web designers serves up daily visual treats like Batman movie posters for collectors, Pinterest favorites and awesome t-shirts. Mirko Humbert, a Swiss graphic designer, shares ideas, links to beautiful stuff and more. Articles explore topics like designing better infographics, using stickers for marketing, time management for Web designers and how to convince clients of the importance of white space.

At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies. Select a tutorial from the menu to the left.