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http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. Its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews. Poll [...]

It’s been said that the strongest combination is a good tool in the right hands. This is one of the best visualization and storytelling tools I have seen since I have started using Keynote on my Mac. This is worth checking out. http://www.prezi.com

[youtube nZ-VjUKAsao Pattie Maes: Unveiling game-changing wearable tech]

http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/ A conversation about integrating student cell phones into classroom curricula.

Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/245 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/