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Video of the Week
Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind  
Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful “A Day Made of Glass,” providing another look into what the future could be like with the growth of glass touchscreen interfaces, from innovative chalkboards and activity tables in classrooms to uses for it in hospitals. http://mashable.com/2012/02/03/day-of-glass/
Added: 4/02/2012
Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind  
Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful “A Day Made of Glass,” providing another look into what the future could be like with the growth of glass touchscreen interfaces, from innovative chalkboards and activity tables in classrooms to uses for it in hospitals. http://mashable.com/2012/02/03/day-of-glass/
Posted: 4/02/2012
 
WordSift  
WordSift (wordsift.com) is a fun tool for exploring the use of words. It lets you ‘sift’ through stories by simply cutting and pasting any text into the site. It will analyse the text and create a word cloud of the 50 most frequently used words. The most used will be displayed as a word web in a visual thesaurus. Google image and video search results are also shown.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Dyslexia Quest  
"Dyslexia Quest" by Nessy, An App for iPad / iPhone Six games that each test a different learning ability.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Omar Gallaga takes a look at storybook iPad app version of the Dr. Seuss classic,  
Awarded the Kirkus Star and selected as one of the Top Ten Storybook apps, this app is perfect for young readers age 2-8. One of over two dozen Dr. Seuss books available for the iPad, this app lets readers interact with every featured object and includes great narration. Please visit KirkusReviews.com for a full review, along with reviews for dozens of other iPad storybook apps.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Pages is the most beautiful word processing app ever designed for a mobile device.  
Its the application you know and love for the Mac, completely reworked from the ground up for iPad. Documents look stunning on the bright, vivid iPad display. And writing is a dream with the large onscreen keyboard. You can use Apple-designed templates and Multi-Touch gestures to lay out letters, flyers, brochures, reports, and more. With Pages for iPad, its never been easier to create great-looking documents, all with the touch of a finger.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Blurts Overview  
Blurts is an easy way to instantly add "color" to any shared content: a photo, video, tweet, sms, email, comment — by tagging it with a 30 second spoken story, description or anecdote.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Julia Sweeney has ‘The Talk’  
And finally, a sex talk with a difference. Despite her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little white lie when her eight-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction … and starts to ask some very smart questions.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching  
Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education – the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionise how we think about teaching.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity  
Celebrated ‘Net’ lawyer Larry Lessig cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the ‘ASCAP cartel’ in his TED Talk argument for reviving our creative culture. It looks great discussion starter on issues of copyright.
Posted: 30/11/2011
 
<i>A celebration of Steve’s Life</i>  
Tribute video Apple has posted a tribute video to company co-founder Steve Jobs. A celebration of Steve’s Life was a special service filmed live at the Apple campus in California. fizurl.com/stevejobs
Posted: 30/11/2011