Make your own Jeopardy - No Reg Required

This post is an excerpt from JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template.

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.

Kinect + Computer Vision + Javascript

This post is an excerpt from DepthJS on Vimeo.

DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect via Javascript.

Navigating the web is only one application of the framework we built - that is, we envision all sorts of applications that run in the browser, from games to specific utilities for specific sites. The great part is that now web developers who specialize in Javascript can work with the Kinect without having to learn any special languages or code. We believe this will allow a new set of interactions beyond what we first developed.

DepthJS from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo.

Make your design presentation a FABULOUS video

This post is an excerpt from Animoto - The End of Slideshows.

Are you applying to an Arts school?  Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique
video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.

Capturing the Atomic Bomb on Film

This post is an excerpt from Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film - Audio & Photos - NYTimes.com.

As a history teacher I used to tell my students that "Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it".  Let these images be a lesson to us all.

Google Funds Innovation

This post is an excerpt from Project 10 to the 100.

Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted over 150,000 ideas. From that group, we narrowed it to the final 16 ideas for public vote.

The following five ideas received the most votes and are the winners of Project 10100. Over the past 12 months, we have reviewed concrete proposals to tackle these ideas. We are pleased to give a total of $10 million to five inspiring organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges.

Khan Academy: Online Lessons for Every Student

This post is an excerpt from Khan Academy.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.(online SAT test prep as well)

Steps to better web research

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Steps to Better Web Research.

Last fall I published Beyond Google which examines fifteen tools and strategies for getting students to look beyond the first two pages of Google search results. This morning I found through Kevin Jarrett a great presentation that complements my ebook. Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research is a Slideshare presentation created by Mark Moran and Shannon Firth at Dulcinea Media. Dulcinea Media is the producer of Sweet Search a search engine for students.

Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research