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As a special education teacher giving support to struggling learners, I’m always on the look out for yet another way to teach concepts to my students. I figure if they didn’t get it the first time they were taught it in the classroom, it’s time to try another way so I’m always looking for other ways and thanks to @KarenJan on Twitter, I found another way- Molecular Work Bench .

Molecular Workbench is free, open source software which is absolutely great because the budget is always limited. I’ve had a quick look at it, and it looks promising. Have a look for yourself and keep it in mind for when you need an other way to teach a concept.

Let me just say here that I’ve found Twitter a wonderful tool because it lets me see what other people are doing and sharing. I’ve gotten lots of valuable information from the folks on twitter.
At first it was hard to know who to follow, so I started following people whose blogs I read and then started to follow some of the people they were following. Each person has a short biography so you can get some idea what they are about. I just choose people I think are interesting. It’s actually straight forward. Check out the people I’m following, maybe you’l find them interesting too.

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