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"NOW OPEN: Siemens Summer of Learning Application A Siemens Foundation Initiative Applications due February 5, 2013 The Siemens Summer of Learning Application is now open! The Siemens STEM Academy offers two one-of-a-kind, all-expenses-paid professional development opportunities that provide unique experiences to middle and high school teachers from across the country looking to bolster STEM learning and gain pragmatic skills that they can translate back into the classroom. "

"While the Mac App Store is great, I still find myself downloading .dmg files and installing plenty of third-party software. I often forget to delete .dmg files after I've installed applications. Here's a script to automatically move the .dmg file to the trash when you eject the disk image. To use this script, select the mounted volume in the Finder (or in the "Devices" section of the Finder sidebar), and trigger this script via your favorite macro app instead of ejecting the disk image normally. "

"Stanford University is offering the iOS 5 edition of its well-regarded iPhone and iPad application development course free on iTunes U. "

"Welcome to the death defying Funderstanding Roller Coaster! This simulator is designed for people who want to design their own thrilling coaster and educators who want to use a cool activity to simulate the application of physics by using an exciting interactive tool and access to a wonderful reference source."

"Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

from Free Technology for Teachers: "Fresh Brain, a non-profit funded in part by Sun Microsystems, provides teachers and students with ideas for technology projects. On Fresh Brain students and teachers can find projects in which they build games, build iPhone and Facebook apps, make web pages, and mash-up videos. Fresh Brain provides space and a forum for students to connect and collaborate. To complete each project, Fresh Brain provides a list of suggested tools and getting started guides for completing each task. Some of the popular projects on Fresh Brain right now are a project in which students create a webpage about cultures and a graphic design competition. Applications for Education There is no shortage of project and activity ideas on Fresh Brain. Teachers looking for creative ways to bring digital content creation into the classroom should explore Fresh Brain. The projects and tools suggested on Fresh Brain are intended for middle school and high school use."

"TimeRime is a web application, which allows people to view, create, share and compare interactive timelines."

RawScripts is online screenwriting software. Scripts are private, secure and accessible from any computer. Nothing to install. You can try out the application, or login with your Google or Yahoo account and get working on your screenplay.

"Below you will find links to iPad applications that target the various levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. I only included free apps that were "content-neutral" to make them usable across the curriculum. I also tried to include apps for the iPad only, but a few iPhone apps may have snuck in!"

Screencasting for twitter integration: "Screenr, which just launched today, lets you record screencasts of up to 5 minutes in length and stands out because of how easy it is to use. ... Once you finish your recording, you can immediately send your video directly to your Twitter followers from within the application."

sample 6th grade performance task from Smarter Balanced

" See the 2010 nominations (PDF), as chosen by the fifteen book groups from YA Galley! Promote the titles at your library with the 2010 Teens' Top Ten toolkit (Word doc), including program ideas, customizable reproducibles, and more. YALSA is accepting applications from teen book groups for 2010-2012. Apply to be part of YA Galley. Voting for the Teens' Top Ten will take place in August and September at this website, with the winner announced during Teen Read Week 2010."