Genomics: Acceleration of Sequencing

Wow: Exemplary teacher videos FREE

This post is an excerpt from Teaching Channel.

Teaching Channel is committed to showcasing effective and inspiring teaching in public schools across America. Since our "beta launch" in early June, we have reached thousands of teachers in all 50 states. We thrive on your feedback as we rapidly grow our collection of videos and tools for online collaboration. Our mission is your mission: to improve the outcomes for all students in America.

Teaching Channel has been in the works since spring of 2010. A nonprofit, it has received seed funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Youtube: Edit your video Live Online

This post is an excerpt from YouTube Adds Video Editing Tools Right In the Browser.

YouTube just announced that users can now edit videos from within the browser and save changes. The editing tool enables rotation, stabilization, brightness, contrast and temperature controls, as well as adjustment of the start and end points. It also offers several color effects, which the YouTube team developed in collaboration with Google-owned photo editing site Picnik.

Great Sample Layout Designs (ISSUU)

http://issuu.com/

Some fabulous, professional design concepts.

WOW: They made a robotic flying bird

77 Resources for Teachers this Summer

77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer



From FreeTechnology4Teachers.com

Internet in a Suitcase: Stealth WWW

This post is an excerpt from U.S. Hopes "Internet in a Suitcase" Will Offset Internet Censorship.

The U.S. government has created what it is calling an "Internet in a suitcase" to cheat the switches on the filtering regimes of repressive countries. A kit of hardware, the suitcase creates a "shadow Internet" within a country that allows users to communicate with each other and the outside world despite electronic censorship.

The suitcase was funded by a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of State, according to the New York Times.
The Suitcase Nuke (Revisited)

"(T)he suitcase," the Times reported, "could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet." It creates a mesh network of interconnected device, each acting as a sort of miniature cell tower.