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Dr Seuss's great imagination created memorable characters and imparted lessons that are still relevant and resonate today. The Whos and the “a person’s a person, no matter how small” line speak to any downtrodden or underrepresented group. And The Lorax and his “I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues” quote is still a very relevant and important message! 
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Gavin Hammond is a musician, writer and photographer from London. He began taking photos when travelling the world as a musician and now captures the world as if he were creating the soundtrack for a traveller.
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Patrick Larkin from Connected Principals makes some important points! For all of the school administrators and/or school policy makers who are hell bent on making sure that resources that can assist in learning remain off the table in their schools, you may need to add to the ever-expanding list of things to which you deny learners access if Google’s latest innovation or anything like it hits the market.
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Whether you’re looking to inspire or entertain your students, the following TED talks have terrific lessons embedded in fascinating talks.While not every single talk is appropiate, there are likely a few that you should think about showing to students this year.
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From the folks @ Edutopia... What should collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking look like in a modern classroom? How can parents help educators accomplish their goals? This guide helps bring more parents into the conversation about improving education.
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Animator Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in the book IMAGINE: How Creatvitiy Works are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer.
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A series of large-format posters designed to help teach math skills to young students, published as part of an extensive set, referred to as a “teaching machine” in 1894 by the publisher, the Diamond Litho-Publishing Company of Minneapolis.
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The 101 best web 2.0 tools for teachers based on functionality, application, ease of use and compatibility with educational technology.
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Caldwell Tanner has struck again. This time the resident College Humor witticist has turned his mind to the future with this awesome series of Travel Posters for Lazy People. It’s hard not to the relate to all them, which is either a bad sign for me, or a good one for the future of humanity.
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An in-depth look into the different ecosystems located on Earth.
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Pinterest is taking the social media world by storm, and it isn’t just popular with individual users. Businesses, nonprofits, and even libraries are sharing ideas and information through the site as well, connecting with people from around the country and around the globe.
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One of the best things living in the digital age is being able to connect across the globe to other students, professionals, and cultural organizations who can show unique perspectives from their corner of the world. Nothing beats the real-life experience of going on actual field trips, but savvy schools and teachers have long been taking advantage of sites like Skype to give students from San Diego to New Zealand the opportunity to interact with people from all the world and to stamp their virtual field trip passports.
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Recently, Flavorwire found out about a cookbook that you can actually eat after you're done reading the recipes inside, which sounds pretty much like the best idea ever. Inspired by this elegant and — let's face it — kind of crazy book, they went hunting for other wildly unusual book designs, from the edible to the mechanical to the technically alive.
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Born in 1967, Anne Middleton grew up in an environment surrounded by art and beauty. Her childhood spent in the forests of Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges, surrounded by the paintings of artist parents, Max and Elsa, has resulted in Anne’s fascination with painting natural form. Anne’s paintings display a fascination with the rigorous beauty of extreme realism.
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One teacher who has taken advantage of the web as an educational tool is Cheryl Oakes, a resource room teacher in Wells, Maine. She’s also been able to tailor the vast resources available on the web to each student’s ability. This approach has proven invaluable for Cheryl’s students, in particular 16-year-old Morgan, whose learning disability makes it daunting to sort through search results to find those webpages that she can comfortably read.
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From the very beginning in the 1960s to present day, this infographic walks you through the many nooks and crannies of the major social networks that rose and fell over the past decades.
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After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica has decided to halt the presses and go out of print. Facing the realities and the stiff competition from Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica will now focus primarily on their online services. Wikipedia has grown to be the number one source for students. In fact, many students will stop research and change topics if it’s not on Wikipedia.
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This video was created with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post. "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" is featured on Josh Ritter's new EP, Bringing In The Darlings.
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They've listed some of the best get-togethers on Twitter for learning about everything from resume writing to working with recruiters.
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Suren was born in Yerevan in 1976. He received PhD in Theoretical Physics from Yerevan State University in 2001 for researches in the field of Quantum Chaos.He teaches physics, mathematics, projective geometry and astronomy in Yerevan Waldorf School for more than 10 years. Suren started to photograph when he was sixteen. He became professional photographer at 2006. Suren involved nearly in all fields of photography, especially in Macro, Portraits, Creative photo projects, Landscape, etc. One of his popular series of close ups of human eyes called "Your beautiful eyes" and series "Animal eyes"
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Justin "Coro" Kaufman. is an artist based in San Francisco, California. Coro is a co-founder of the mighty Massive Black and a great artist, both personally and professionally. His oil portraits are a pleasure and his seminal work, Transient, is a massive achievement in the field of self-produced graphic novels.
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Pi is the never ending mathematical fascination that keeps us going and keeps us wondering.
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Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. These network diagrams attempt to show the relationships that exist among users.
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