Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when devices that you’ve built start to talk to each other, things really start to get interesting. Through a series of simple projects, you’ll learn how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming networks of smart devices that carry on conversations with you and your environment. Whether you need to plug some sensors in your home to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, Making Things Talk explains exactly what you need.

This book is perfect for people with little technical training but a lot of interest. Maybe you’re a science teacher who wants to show students how to monitor weather conditions at several locations at once, or a sculptor who wants to stage a room of choreographed mechanical sculptures. Making Things Talk demonstrates that once you figure out how objects communicate — whether they’re microcontroller-powered devices, email programs, or networked databases — you can get them to interact.

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Rafi.ki is the mother of all online learning communities. It is specially designed for shared learning at teacher and student levels, using state of the art technology.

For Students
The global reach of this community offers unprecedented personalised learning opportunities for students. Some pupils just chat to each other, sometimes in class and sometimes outside lesson times - just for fun. Many more actually participate in “projects”. A project usually consists of a series of lesson plans (and resources) that match up to the English (and other countries’) curricula. The idea is that you cover the work you would be doing anyway, but improve on it by “adding the international dimension” and working together with one or more schools.

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Gemin-i.org is a UK registered charity that develops innovative web-based solutions to empower, educate and inspire people across the world.

Africa Bookcase (the previous name for Gemin-i.org) was founded in 1997 by Henry Warren and Marsha Catchpole, both of whom had visited Africa during their year out before university.
The charity was founded with the core aims of facilitating education in the developing world and providing a basis for continued multilateral & bilateral aid through the promotion of development awareness in UK schools.

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UNESCO Young Digital Creators (YDC) Educator’s Kit is designed to help teachers and educators working in schools, youth clubs, community centres, and training institutes to generate and manage project-based learning activities with young people.

The “Young Digital Creators” (YDC) programme was designed by an interdisciplinary group of UNESCO professionals in the fields of culture, education, natural and social sciences,
communication and information. In the drawing-up process, UNESCO field offices were involved, as well as artists, musicians, educators, educational scientists specialising in new technologies, youth-organization representatives, and young people from a variety of geo-cultural backgrounds.

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Learn to meditate offers many different types of techniques to create inner peace and well being. An easy guide to the best techniques in meditation, affirmations and positive thinking. Reduce stress, worry and depression through this online free how-to-meditate site.

This Learn to Meditate site will hopefully teach your mind how to become more calm and focused. When we meditate our mind becomes recharged with our own positive energy. An individual whom meditates is able to remove and reduce negative and distracting thoughts. This enables the person that meditates to gain greater insight and clarity.

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Thinkfinity is built upon the foundation’s flagship education program formerly known as Verizon MarcoPolo, and the foundation’s comprehensive online resource for literacy, the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.

Thinkfinity reflects the Verizon Foundation’s goal of truly making a difference in the lives of students, teachers, families and the communities in which they live and work.

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Razoo is a community united around making a positive difference in the world. Where passion leads to action, and a whole lot of collective good comes from individual contributions.

The mission at Razoo is simple: to promote social good and to inspire others to get involved by making giving and serving fun, easy, and meaningful.

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The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) was established in 1986. The centre is a focus for research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning, with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges.

This CIMT Web-site was started in May 1995, and moved to University of Plymouth servers at the end of July 2005.

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ShareIdeas.org is an online community and a wiki for sharing ideas on how to use mobile communications for social and environmental benefits.

ShareIdeas.org was created with support from Nokia and Vodafone, but belongs to the growing global network of individuals and organizations that use this virtual gathering place to communicate - and collaborate.

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LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos–some of which are free to download.

LearnOutLoud.com’s mission is to promote the use of audio and video educational material for personal and professional development by turning ‘dead time’ (time spent commuting, exercising, doing chores, etc.) into ‘learning time.’ Most of us have at least a couple of hours each day where we could be learning a foreign language, deepening our spiritual or philosophical interests or learning about hundreds other different subjects.

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