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U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra addresses participants at the Edustat University 2009 conference, hosted by Albemarle County Public Schools in Charlottesville July 20-22, 2009. Chopra discusses using data to help discover and overcome gaps in student learning and how to know what we teach and how well it is working. (2:24 minutes)

Urtak is an easy to use web tool that lets teachers and students make smart, sticky polls where participants can ask and answer questions. The polls are unlimited, embeddable, and allow the user to analyze results in real time.

Now here is a thought!

With this widget, you can make beautiful interactive timelines

Ahead is a web application that facilitates Creative processes. We are a team of architects, designers, developers, and business people with backgrounds in the creative industry. Ahead originated out of frustration with the shortcomings of current tools for online collaboration and publishing because we don't think they support rich media and visual creative processes and communication very well. Inspired by the proven zoom and pan user interfaces known from main creative authoring tools like Autodesk, Adobe, and Sketch-up we're committed to develop the first online tool ever that makes it as fast, natural and fun to publish and work with visual concepts together online.

As with all instructional strategies, however, we found that some approaches to summarizing are more effective than others. Five strategies appear to influence students' ability to comprehend text.