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"Here are some animated GIF's to help explain basic Ethernet operation, below each one is a description of what is happening. "

"Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something. Zero is a 12'32 stop motion animation written and directed by Christopher Kezelos and produced by Christine Kezelos."

As with anything Apple, the recent education-themed announcement has everyone dreaming of a better future for the children, and all that. The question you keep reading is "will e-textbooks change the face of education?", just like people asked about the iPad when it first came out. And while I'm very impressed by the design of the new textbooks available on iBooks 2, and I love the fact that they include touchable animations and videos to supplement text, the books themselves don't seem revolutionary.

"Sozi is a small program that can play animated presentations. Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organized as a slideshow, but rather as a poster where the content of your presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show. "

Powerful addon that can be plugged into Inkscape, good for creating interesting looking presentations.

"The Buck Institute for Education commissioned the cutting-edge advertising agency, Common Craft, to create a short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of Project Based Learning (PBL). This simple video makes the essential elements of PBL come alive and brings to light the 21st Century skills and competencies (collaboration, communication, critical thinking) that will enable K-12 students to be college and work-ready as well as effective members of their communities."

The book has been out of print for a while, but now here it is. The programs are written in Atari Logo by a collection of Logo enthusiasts who hung out at the Atari Cambridge Research Lab. Except for the animation projects most of the programs will run in current versions of Logo. The book is divided into six sections: Wordplay Stories Games Turtle Geometry Music Programming Ideas

"Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn! Narrated by Damian Lewis"

The current programme of information and communications technology (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the education secretary has announced. It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming designed with the help of universities and industry.