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Today’s Sitings

Wolfram Alpha - Developed by Wolfram Research, Wolfram Alpha was initially designed with academics in mind. The Independent reports that Wolfram Research’s head, Dr. Stephen Wolfram, has said that his goal is to curate, collect and make use of all the information of acquired by researchers over the years. For example, not only can the tool do things like provide geography statistics, but it can also offer supplemental data such as “geographical location and nearby towns, and other mountains, complete with graphs and charts

KinderKidsDraw - Kindergarten Classrooms around the world using VoiceThread

Vocab Grabber - VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

Stack Overflow -  Ask programming questions.

Primary Source Documents

Video Games as Teaching Tools  

Project Based Learning at High Tech High 

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