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Teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum

YouTubeSnips is a free tool that lets you download HD videos off YouTube! You can also download the video in mobile 3GP format, MP4 format, and FLV format.

"The tools in this Directory fall within 12 categories that support both formal education and training and informal learning"

There is no dearth of good 3D modeling software in the market but usually all of them cost an arm and a leg. Sculptris is a free 3D modeling program that offers you the same thing free of cost. Once downloaded, this free software lets you create 3D models and customize them using tons of features.

Do you want to archive tweets from your conference? How about a class topic?

BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This is accomplished by searching for users who have tweeted with a particular hashtag recently. For example, if you are interested in ISTE 2010 conference, you may want to search for users whose tweets have included the hashtag "#ISTE10". This would be useful if you are using Twitter in your classroom for students to follow a particular class thread.

Business sim where students try to make a career as a rock star. A hipper version of Lemonade Stand.

This blog presents a unique thought about what to do with QR codes. This would be a very KOOL project for annotating, podcasting, vodcasting, or blogging the artifacts of some historic places, museums, etc in the area!

Debatepedia is "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". Its mission is to "clarify public debates and improve decision-making globally". Debatepedia is a project of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), a 501c3 non-profit. It utilizes the same wiki technology powering Wikipedia to engage you and other citizen-editors in clarifying public debates by centralizing them into a single pro/con encyclopedia. This helps you, other citizens, and leaders better weigh ALL the pros and cons, develop positions, and make more informed decisions, votes, etc... And this significantly improves democracy and people's lives.

Serious games are games with purpose beyond just providing entertainment. Examples include, but are not limited to, games for learning, games for health, and games for policy and social change. Designing effective, engaging serious games requires theoretical understanding of learning, cognition, emotion, and play.

Holy somolyans! This is a site! I wonder where this has been hiding!