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NY Times – Inside the Olympic Action

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NY Times – Inside the Olympic Action:

The New York Times has good collection of videos and audio slideshows designed to take you ‘inside the action‘ of Winter Olympic events. The videos will take you down a luge run at 90mph, through a snowboard half pipe, and down the men’s downhill ski course. Along the way athletes and coaches explain intricacies of each event and how the athletes maneuver through their events.

Applications for Education

Inside the Action could be a good resource for learning about Olympic events from an ‘insider’s perspective.’ You might want to use these videos in conjunction with a Google Maps Street View tour of the Winter Olympics.”

(Via FreeTech4Teachers.com.)

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Fun Free Math Multiplayer Games for K-5

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Defend your space station from incoming meteors by solving multiplication problems or drag race your friends through division. AcademicSkillBuilders.com has a number of great math games covering Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Addition, Subtraction, and Integers. The games run great under any web browser and are quick to start and easy to play. All of the games are research based, and aligned to state standards.

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Theres also a selection of language arts games focusing on spelling, vowels, verbs and Social Studies games focusing on State Capitals and countries. Now I better close the window so I can get some work done…

Arcademic Skill Builders - Captial Penguin

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Social Media Counts

Thanks to Nadine Norris for passing this along via her “Life Long Learning” blog.

Social media has transformed the communication landscape, and its use is only continuing to explode. Gary Hayes on his “Personalize Media” blog has created a Social Media Counts tracker which shows the growth of social media over a given time period. Just while writing this blog post facebook has gained 1300 new members, 4 million searches were done on Google, and 40 Billion Text messages were sent. Mind blowing.

I’ve embedded the tracker below:

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