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Fowl Idea: Angry Birds Cookbook Finally Released The book is stocked with cute illustrations and characters from the popular, bird-slinging mobile game. As the title suggests, the cookbook is packed with egg recipes including breakfast dishes (omelets), heartier fare (egg sandwiches), desserts (souffle) and more adventurous options such as “Egg Sushi.” tags: idea birds cookbook released Instructor Experiences with Implementing Technology in Blended Learning Courses Organizational leaders in institutions of higher education expect instructors to implement blended learning courses without understanding instructor experiences with technology. Requiring faculty to teach blended learning courses without fully understanding the experiences instructors had implementing technology may lead to de

maschek.hu - Online Image Map Editor Online Image Map Editor tags: online image map editor Solar System Exploration: Planets Our galaxy - the Milky Way - is a spiral galaxy with arms extending from the center like a pinwheel. Our solar system is in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. Our Sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. And our galaxy is just one of roughly 100 billion in the visible universe. tags: planets Science astronomy space nasa solarsystem solar system solar Welcome - Ommwriter OmmWriter is a beautiful writing environment that helps you concentrate and cr

SMART Board Goodies » Blog Archive » Facebook & Twitter Guides for Educators A few weeks ago, I was asked to create Facebook and Twitter guides for educators in my district. They were released this week so I wanted to share them with you all! Click below to download them. tags: facebook twitter educators Celebrating innovative education with Microsoft Partners in Learning > Microsoft Europe Throughout the year, the Microsoft group Partners in Learning (PIL) hosts a series of professional development events and competitions for teachers and school leaders culminating in the Partners in Learning Global Forum, which this year took place in Washington, D.C. from November 7-10, 2011. Microsoft PIL is a global program focused on improving teaching and learning through the effective use of technolog

Magic Muggle Clock Visualizes Foursquare Check-Ins What the Magic Muggle Clock does do is show you where your foursquare friends are based on the type of place of their most recent check-in. tags: magic clock foursquare Technology and Education | Box of Tricks These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. You might also want to take a look at my Diigo account for more links. This list is not exhaustive in any way. In fact, if you think there is a tool or application for use in education that should be added to this list, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and suggest it! tags: web2.0 resources

Web Studio Live Home Building a standards-compliant website in Web Studio Live is quick and painless. We pack a lot of intelligence under the hood in order to maintain a comfortable experience for the novice, while at the same time allowing more advanced designers to tweak their HTML, CSS, & Javascript. tags: web studio PressBooks | simple book production PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, print-on-demand-ready PDF, HTML, and inDesign-ready XML. tags: publishing ebooks book 10 Free Wiki Software Platforms – Choose the Best One To Build You Wiki All of us are aware of Wikipedia, an ocean

Take A Stand Together Take a stand against bullying and build your avatar. tags: bullying cyberbullying interactive educational education WildcatWebSafety - home Welcome to Wildcat Web Safety! Created By Kids, For Kids To Keep You Safe Online! tags: internet safety safety InternetSafety digital 11trees: Better Documents. Fewer Trees. Annotate for Microsoft Word or Excel brings an easy-to-edit library of comments to your workflow. tags: grading writing tools edtech software teaching

Address Is Approximate on Vimeo Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins. Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. tags: google animation stop-motion vimeo streetview Unshred Looking for a puzzle to solve?  Wow. tags: puzzle online shred BC Hydro - Energy in BC How does electricity get to your home?  See how with the assistance of Google Maps and the interface from BC Hydro. tags:

Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero The time is finally here for my annual list of my top favorite sites of the year.  This year I decided to up my post to the top 100 instead of 25 due to the number of sites that I reviewed and due to the popularity of the post. tags: blog web2.0 technology education resources tools Blogs tidbits iLibrarian » 5 Amazing Free Data Visualization Tools Want to create your own maps, graphs, charts, and diagrams but don’t have the software to do it? Here are five top-notch applications which will let you create professional quality data visualizations for free. tags: visualization data visualization tools data

Busy Teacher's Cafe - A K-6 site for busy teachers like you! Busy Teacher's Cafe is a K-6 resource site for busy teachers!  Here you will find resources, ideas, lessons, free printables, and more! Take a look around and enjoy your visit! tags: teacher cafe site teachers Top 10 Most Educational iPad Books | The Digital Media Diet In honor of Digital-Storytime’s recent makeover, this top ten list is a based on the books that scored high in a new category  - Educational. These are all top picks for iPad books that make learning especially fun.  tags: iPad books educational education Quantified Self Guide Guides to self-trac

Google just used its Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS onto the iPad Regardless, it's a very slick application... tags: chrome os elements google managed search Engaging ... - 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning | Collaboration in the 21st Century classroom | Scoop.it Collaboration in the 21st Century classroom “Information on how students can better collaborate in classrooms, across classrooms and outside classrooms” tags: educational technology technology learning collaboration classroom scoop Printable dice with text and images | free online dice maker, dice generator,