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Although YouTube has something of a reputation as a repository for inane content, some videos clearly illustrate fascinating scientific principles. The X-Ray Technician Schools blog has a collection of videos demonstrates various principles, theories, and laws that offer visitors a chance to learn something about how the world around them operates. By this point, it should go without saying that many of the following videos contain procedures that may be dangerous to perform at home or without the proper equipment and/or training. Please do not duplicate any of these experiments unless assured that they are entirely safe for amateurs. http://www.x-raytechnicianschools.org/100-coolest-science-experiments-on-youtube/

Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver . You can view these models in Google Earth by selecting in the 3D buildings layer. You can also view and tour the buildings by visiting the official 2010 Winter Olympics website and selecting the 3D View tab for any venue listed in the spectator guide . You can see the hockey venue here . http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/take-virtual-tour-of-olympics-in-3d.html

ConnectSafely is a website for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space – linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. The forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety. ConnectSafely.org is a project of Tech Parenting Group, nonprofit organization based in California, and Utah. http://www.connectsafely.org/

This wiki contains a lot of ideas and applications to support social networking in the classroom, but also contains background information that speaks directly how social networking can benefit to learning and student engagement. http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/

The Vocational Information Center website is an education directory that provides links to online resources for career exploration, technical education, workforce development, technical schools and related vocational learning resources. This is a huge site and well worth the visit. http://www.khake.com/

This website, Calculator.net offers a large number of free, on-line calculators for public use. There is also a snipped of code you can insert on your own website to include sample calculators. http://www.calculator.net/

Calling all K-12 teachers and students and schools from across the globe! Are you and your students using technologies in innovative ways? Would you like to engage your students with new technology in the classroom? Are you interested in connecting your school and classroom with the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games? (Like to see some examples ?). Pending approval by the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC), all submissions will be posted and hosted on the VANOC Education's Featured Showcase website page. Could your school use a cash prize of $2,010? Then take the Global Minds Challenge and share your experiences and ideas with classrooms everywhere. Tell the world how you are creatively using digital technologies. The UBC Global Minds Challenge will award up to five (5) prizes of $2,010 (CAD) to schools that submit projects that are: original, exciting, and pedagogically significant applications of learning technologies in a K-12 school context; and inspirational to a theme of...