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Classroom idea: What if someone took the picture each day , tagged it on facebook, delicious, moodle ?

Making Youtubes more educational setting friendly

Youtubes have a customize button that , most importantly , lets you uncheck " Include related videos" , but also determine border color and video size. Look for the little cogwheel

Neok12

Neok12
http://www.neok12.com/ is a search list for educational videos. It seems to be mostly youtubes, and heavy on science.

WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha
http://www79.wolframalpha.com/

Screencast

This will be great for statistics, comparisons, health data.

I have to really get familiar with this.

youtube video tricks

Linking to a specific spot in youtube video from Jim Gates.

and this from Digital Inspiration
if you want more control over the size of the YouTube video player, here’s a simple hack - just replace the word "watch" in the URL of any YouTube video with "watch_popup" and the video will expand to fit your browser window, not the desktop.

For instance, if the original YouTube video is located at ..

youtube.com/watch?v=2mrRvUNlq50

the same video can be accessed standalone outside the YouTube website at..

youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2mrRvUNlq50

Resizing the browser window will also resize the YouTube player and you can press F11 in Firefox to mimic YouTube’s full screen mode even with this hack.

Google Search options

Classroom idea: Visual way to show keyword searching techniques

I Need to Read This

I Need to Read This Hmm. Maybe this tool will at least make me feel like I possibly can keep up.
http://ineedtoreadthis.com/

lets you add bookmarklets on your toolbar to add blog posts, articles you want to read. The matching bookmarklet lets you read the articles when you get a chance. I saw this on Demo Girl

Google Public Data

Create a chart of the unemployment and/or population for Us Counties. Simply type in Google population or unemployment and the county you want to compare.

"unemployment Contra Costa County" gets you a link to an interactive chart you can build one to suit your needs. I hope Google adds more statistics to this search.