CareerForward 
The CareerForward course is a free, self-contained online learning course that may be used in companion with a variety of online career planning tools to provide students with the opportunity to assess their career interests, explore career options and create an educational development plan. http://nroc.careerforward.org/careerforward/
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42eXplore
This web project provides "four to eXplore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic.There are over 200 themes in this topic archive. We frequently update projects in our Topic Index as well as each of the subject areas above. Go to What's New? to learn about recent changes. Part of the Eduscapes.com lifelong learners site.http://www.42explore.com/index.htm
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A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher
Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources
more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips,
discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks,
printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. http://atozteacherstuff.com/
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Academic Earth
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
http://academicearth.org/
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Academic Info - Subject Guides
Our in-depth directory is a round up of the best and most useful
links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases they
list both printed reference works and electronic resources. The subject guides are also put together taking into account their
accessibility, authoritative sources as well as their ease of use and
aim to present a fair and well rounded perspective of the respective
subject matter. http://www.academicinfo.net/subject-guides
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American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Toolkit 
The Office for Intellectual Freedom, with the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee and others, develops toolkits on a variety of topics to assist librarians and the general public http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/intellectual.cfm
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Animated Knots
The knots are grouped by area of interest which means that some knots will appear in more than one place. Select the area of interest you need with the buttons or the pictures above, or go to the The Knot List to find the knot by name. If you know what you want to do, but don't know the name, look in the Uses page for that area. Each knot automatically "ties itself" when the page opens. To study
each stage, the animation can also be played step by step: just move
the mouse over the row of numbered buttons under the knot. For many
knots an extra button, Structure, shows a picture which helps
understand the way the knot "fits together". http://www.animatedknots.com/
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Apple Learning Interchange
Your colleagues in the Apple Learning Interchange have located and cataloged thousands of Internet resources that can be valuable for teaching and learning. You can search by any combination of the listed attributes. http://ali.apple.com/ali/resources.shtml |
ArizonaNativeNet
ArizonaNativeNet is a virtual university outreach and distance learning telecommunications center devoted to the higher educational needs of Native Nations in Arizona, the United States and the world through the utilization of the worldwide web and the knowledge-based and technical resources and expertise of the University of Arizona. It is a vital resource for Native Nations seeking to strengthen their nation-building efforts through telecommunications-based higher education, leadership and management training, and distance learning programs offered through ArizonaNativeNet by the University of Arizona.
http://www.arizonanativenet.com/
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AskA+ Locator
A searchable database of high-quality K-12 AskA services. http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml |
At the End of the Day
At the end of the day we ALL (homeschool & public school parents, private & public teachers) have one main goal to provide the best education. It would be wonderful for this group to utilize the opportunity to share information that would help accomplish this. This group is not about WHICH WAY is the best way, but IT IS about sharing methods, ideas, links, books, unit studies, lapbooks, web-sites, etc. that would benefit those teaching in the public, private or homeschool settings.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/at_the_end_of_the_day/
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Awesome Library
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Browsable by several languages. http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
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AwesomeStories.com
(subscription based, free to schools, libraries and other academic organizations)
AwesomeStories.com uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on-line primary sources. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see relevant maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, IN CONTEXT, within each story. Take advantage of human-based searches for a safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest. http://www.awesomestories.com/
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Big Dog's Grammar
A Bare Bones Guide to English - Here you have a list of the bare essentials of grammar. These are the things that English teachers love to comment on in your papers. They really are important, and, no, those profs don't just mark them so they can keep you from ever getting anything higher than a C on a paper. http://aliscot.com/bigdog/
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Blue Web'n
Blue Web'n is an online library of 2017 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions! Each month 5-10 new sites are added. You can get a description of these additions sent to you by signing up for free updates. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm
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Brainboost 
Brainboost can answer questions posed in plain English as apposed to simply directing users to pages that mention the question, like existing engines do. Brainboost represents a fundamentally different way to find knowledge on the web. Whereas Search engines force users to spend time scouring for an answer by tediously reading through search results, Brainboost does this work for the user by automatically reading hundreds of search results and extracting just those precious answers to the user’s question. http://www.brainboost.com/ |
Brigham Young University Independent Study open courseware
Independent Study now offers free courses in different areas of study. These areas include Family History, Family Life, and Religious Scripture Study, such as the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. Use these courses as a starting point for your personal studies or just to add insight to an area of interest. These courses are not for credit. http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm
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British Columbia International Digital Library
A guide to digital library collections, primarily text-based ones, and digital library construction technology in BC and around the world. http://bcdlib.tc.ca/ |
Busy Teachers' Web site K-12
This Site is designed: to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet. http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html |
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
NoodleTools directory of search engines for specific needs.
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
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City College Libraries
Reference and Resources – Research Resources by Subject area - The City College Libraries are committed to providing superior service and resources in support of the instructional and research mission of the College. We are dedicated to the education of the whole person, fostering information and communication literacy for academic and career success, preparing a highly diverse population for leadership and service to our city, nation and the world. http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/ccnysubjectindex.html
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Classroom 2.0
This network is devoted to those interested in the practical application of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in the classroom and in their own professional development. Especially we hope that those who feel they are "beginners" will find this a comfortable place to start being a part of the community dialog and to learn more. Not only is the CLASSROOM 2.0 social network centered on the discussion of the new technologies of the web, but you get to use those very technologies in a safe and non-intimidating way as part of the experience here: social networking (of course), user profiles, forums, blogging, photo and video sharing, and even RSS! http://classroom20.ning.com/
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Connexions
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material
made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses,
books, reports, etc. Connexions is an
environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly
publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains
educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to
professionals — organized in small modules
that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All
content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons
"attribution" license. http://cnx.org/
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Cornell University Gateways
CTC is committed to providing a wide range of educational resources to the national community. http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Services/Education/Gateways/ |
Credibility Commons
The Credibility Commons is an experimental environment enabling individuals the opportunity to try out different approaches to improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web. Tools will be provided to researchers as well as the public, allowing them to try out search strategies, collections and other approaches to improving access to credible information. The Commons can be viewed as a collaborative space in which to share ideas, data sets, results and innovations. This project is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation who is deeply invested in improving access to credible information on the World Wide Webhttp://www.credibilitycommons.org/
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CrossRef
CrossRef is the citation linking backbone -- a collaborative reference linking service that allows the user to click on a citation and be taken directly to the target content. http://www.crossref.org/ |
Curriculum-Specific Clip Art
The website is done by the Grosse Point Public School System in Michigan. http://www.gpschools.org/ci/graphics/content.htm
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Curriki
Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! We believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right of every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible. http://www.curriki.org
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Definr.com
Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet 2.0. http://definr.com/
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Dialogue - The Wilson Center
Dialogue is an award-winning weekly radio
program that explores the world of ideas through weekly, half-hour
conversations with renowned public figures, scholars, journalists, and
authors. Since 1988, Dialogue has offered its listeners informed
discussion on important ideas and issues in national and international
affairs, history, and culture – providing commentary that goes beyond
the superficial analysis presented in many of today's talk shows. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=dialogue.more_info
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eCYBERMISSION
eCYBERMISSION is a web-based science, math and technology competition
for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade teams. Your team will propose a
solution to a real problem in your community and compete for regional
and national awards. eCYBERMISSION challenges you to explore how
science, math and technology work in your world. http://www.ecybermission.com
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Ed Helper
edHelper.com is dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources. edHelper was created by a team of teachers who have edhelped (!) in its development http://www.edhelper.com/ (LIFE Note: Some of this site is fee based, but we include it here because of the quality of the free content.)
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Education Index
Welcome to the Education Index®, an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by Education Index | Subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about us, and about all that the Education Index has to offer. The Web WeaselSM is here to guide you through the site; you'll find "The Weas" (as we affectionately know it) mixing it up in the chemistry lab, providing health care, and running for office. http://www.educationindex.com/
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Education Portal
Education Portal and the American Library Association have
teamed up to promote the value and importance of todays librarians in the role
of teaching and research. We believe that librarians play an essential part in
meeting the intellectual knowledge demands of students and faculty. As
technology grows and information becomes increasingly decentralized it is more
important than ever to maintain our libraries as the focal point of academic
efforts on college and high school campuses. To learn more about the roles
librarians play in our children's future please visit the ALA.org and ACRL.org
websites. http://education-portal.com
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun adding materials to the database. http://www.eric.ed.gov/
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Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People
These websites have been chosen for their quality and special relevance for middle level educators. The list is checked at least twice per year to make sure the links are current and working properly. Selections will be added on a regular basis. Please email any suggestions for additions, questions, or concerns to jlerman@kean.edu. http://131.125.2.61/~njcms/educationalhotlinks/index.php
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eduScapes
EduScapes has been
consistently ranked in the 'Top 50' K-12 education sites by Google. we work with teachers,
parents, and children around the world to
effectively integrate technology into
teaching and learning environments http://eduscapes.com
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Art to Zoology - a huge compendium of resources, primary and secondary: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/
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eThemes
eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
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FactCheckEd
Our aim is to help students learn to be smart consumers of these messages, to see through the deceptions that they encounter daily, to dig for facts using the Internet and other resources, and to set aside prejudice and weigh evidence logically. http://www.factchecked.org/
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Federal Resources for Education Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. For an overview of what's available here at FREE, please visit the site map. http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
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Film Education
Since 1985, Film Education has been developing the range of
its resources and services to respond to the growing importance of Media
Education in the National Curriculum and to meet the increasing demand for
current educational material on film and film making.In supporting teachers, Film Education gives pupils the
opportunity to analyse and evaluate not only film but also a wide range of
Media. Study resources include film specific CD-ROMs and
educational online resources, study guides, generic study guides and videos,
plus digital video editing interactive resources. http://www.filmeducation.org
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Florida Virtual School (FLVS) Library
The Florida Virtual School (FLVS)
Literacy Team released the FLVS Virtual Library, a free interactive resource
site for students, teachers and school administrators. Teachers can use the
Virtual Library to find information on general education, English for
Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and literacy resources. The site also
offers students links to educational games, writing centers, study guide
sites, college and career advice. To learn more, visit http://www.flvs.net/FLVS_library/home.htm
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Franklin Institute's Educational Hotlists
The Franklin Institute's Educational Hotlists are organized lists of resources on the Internet that science educators, as well as science enthusiasts, may find useful.We've screened these resources for their educational appropriateness, helping take some of the guess work out of the web for you. Basically, to make the list, a resource needs to stimulate creative thinking and learning about science. Using the Hotlists should save you time and provide quality online resources for your classroom needs. http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/index.html
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Free Documentaries.org
Freedocumentaries.org streams full-length documentary films free of charge, with no registration needed. http://www.freedocumentaries.org
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Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner
There is a wealth of free educational resources available on the internet. These include countless stand alone programs, numerous websites offering quality online activities, myriad resources for download, as well as a rapidly growing number of powerful online tools that facilitate learning. The purpose of this blog is to explore and share some of these free resources. http://paulhami.edublogs.org/about/
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Free-Ed.Net
Free-Ed.Net is committed to providing an online "school" where users from around the world can study, take courses, and participate in online community activities at no cost. This enterprise requires us to build a new kind of learning model that takes into account the technological strengths of the Internet, information and computer technologies, and the needs of our users. Free-Ed.Net separates itself from other educational sites on the Internet by offering only the highest quality content that is available and by offering all content free of charge. http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
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FreeWorldU
Our mission is to provide free online education to everyone
worldwide. Our primary goal is to
develop a pre K-12 program. Our methods
of accelerated learning will eventually expand to an online university that
will include a wide range of practical subjects such as the computer sciences
and trades. We make learning absorbing and fun by breaking
down complex concepts into simple fact units that are placed on electronic
flash cards. Our software remembers
exactly which units the student knows, and only shows information that has not
yet been mastered. http://www.freeworldu.org/
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Global Educational Outreach (GEO)
The Global Educational Outreach (GEO) initiative uses new
technology to provide outstanding Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
teaching material. It is a highly flexible medium enabling a wide range of
different educational approaches to be explored and it is particularly useful
for SET teachers who will find valuable downloadable teaching resource material
created by the best science and technology experts and educators. A key aim is
to catalyse the creation of a global network of participating sites catering to
the local and global need for much improved SET education. The material on this website is free to view and download. http://www.geoset.info/
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. http://scholar.google.com/ |
HippoCampus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for
Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide
high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school
and college students free of charge. http://www.hippocampus.org
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Homeschooling and Libraries
Welcome! I’m a freelance writer and Children’s Librarian at
the Webster Public Library outside of Rochester,
New York. ALA Editions recently
published my first book, Helping Homeschoolers in the Library, and this blog
represents my continuing efforts to explore the homeschooling world and help my
colleagues build good relationships with the families in this growing community
of heavy library users.http://homeschoolingandlibraries.wordpress.com/
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InfoMine
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. http://infomine.ucr.edu/
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InfoPlease - Homework Center
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains.
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Informal Education
Infed is an open, independent and not-for-profit site put together by a small group of educators, based on the premise that, "We must move away from a view of education as a rite of passage involving the acquisition of enough knowledge and qualifications to acquire and adult station in life. The point of education should not be to inculcate a body of knowledge, but to develop capabilities: the basic ones of literacy and numeracy as well as the capability to act responsibly towards others, to take initiative and to work creatively and collaboratively. The most important capability, and the one which traditional education is worst at creating is the ability and yearning to carry on learning.(Leadbeater 2000: 111-112) http://www.infed.org/
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. http://www.archive.org/ |
Internet Public Library
The first public library of and for the Internet community http://www.ipl.org/
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Internet4Classrooms
Helping teachers use the Internet effectively. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm |
Intute: Virtual Training Suite
The Intute: Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from
the Web for your education and research.
The Virtual Training Suite is continually updated to provide FREE online Internet training tutorials for over 65 subject areas. Each tutorial covers Internet search and research skills
for a different subject - there's one for most of the subjects taught
in UK universities and colleges, with a few extras on topics of general
interest. The service is aimed at students, lecturers and researchers
in UK higher and further education, but is freely available for anyone
to use. http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Open Courseware
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. As challenges to the world's health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions. http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
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Learner.org
Annenberg Media uses media and
telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This
mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of
educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the
professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg
Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of
more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. Annenberg Media video
programs reach their audiences in three ways. First, they are distributed to
schools and other non-commercial community agencies on the organization's own
digital satellite channel, called the "Annenberg Channel." Second,
they are streamed on demand on the Learner.org Web site. Third, they are
distributed for purchase on videocassette and DVD through 1-800-LEARNER and
online ordering here at Learner.org. http://www.learner.org/
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Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
It has been my goal to create a vocabulary oriented site that would be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly. The site has something for everyone and there will be updates on an ongoing basis. If you would like to be informed when new items are added to the site, you can join the mailing list (1 mailing every 3-4 months). http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
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LessonPlanz.com
LessonPlanz.com
is searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources
for all grades and subjects. http://www.lessonplanz.com/
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Librarians Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world. http://lii.org/
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Librarians Index to the Internet
Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources. http://lii.org/search?basic_search=1
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Library of Congress Flickr pilot
The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections. The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division houses some 14 million items, ranging from historical photographs and architectural drawings to advertising labels and posters from all over the world. You can find more than one million pictures among the digitized collections in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog at the Library of Congress Web site. You might also enjoy the special presentations of photos also appear in American Memory and Exhibitions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/collections/72157601355524315/
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Library Spot
LibrarySpot.com, a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. http://www.libraryspot.com/
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LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public
domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all
public domain books available as free audio books. http://librivox.org/
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LINKS Learning
"LINKS Learning began in 1998 as a multi-state project to develop electronic resources that support states in their efforts to implement educational reform." Teachers can view multimedia lessons that demonstrate reading, math, and science strategies. Students can download interactive math games that teach decimals, fractions, angles, and more. Superintendents and principals can tap into leadership and management resources. Parents can also find methods to help kids learn. http://www.linkslearning.org/Home/_index.html
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Literacy.org
Literacy.org is a gateway to electronic resources and tools for the national and international youth and adult literacy communities. This site is jointly sponsored by the International Literacy Institute (ILI) and the National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL) at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. http://www.literacy.org/
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Marco Polo
MarcoPolo provides the highest quality educational resources to teachers and students. Developed by world-renowned organizations who are experts in their fields, these standards-based resources include lessons plans, student materials, reviewed Web resources and interactives.
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/teacher/teacher_index.aspx
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Materials Technology
Materials Technology@TMS is the on-line technical community environment developed by and for materials scientists and engineers. Here, materials professionals can network, share knowledge, and utilize resources in technology-specific communities through discussion boards, databases, research, articles, proceedings, newswires, and other informational tools. http://materialstechnology.tms.org
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Meet Me at the Corner- Virtual Field Trips for Kids
MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids, is a dynamic,
interactive site, which encourages individual expression and
participation through video submissions from children worldwide.
Through these video pod casts we hope to create a community of
children, who learn the art of self-expression and storytelling through
video. http://www.meetmeatthecorner.org/
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MIT's OpenCourseWare
a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
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Movie Worksheet Database
Movie Sheets provides a central location for all teachers to visit in order to find course and profession related video and movie guides. The idea behind the site is to provide teachers a "one stop shop" for everything related to their profession. The collection of files on this site was generously contributed by teachers from all over the world. The files are submitted voluntarily and are cataloged and placed into a the movie sheets database. You do not need to be a member to download files. Contributions are welcome http://www.moviesheets.com
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Myicourse
Our mission is to provide software that helps users create and post their own educational materials, at no cost. We do not believe all of life's necessary learning is contained within the walls of universities or between the binders of books. We want to democratize knowledge for those who wish to learn. Come help us flatten the world! http://myicourse.com/
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National Wildlife Federation Wildlife University
You can take Wildlife University courses for free at any time. It's fun
and easy to earn credit on your own time for career development,
university credit, service learning, continuing education or
experiential learning. http://www.nwf.org/wildlifeuniversity/
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Net Gold
NetGold is a DISCUSSION group with a specific purpose: sharing by its members of important, informative and useful Internet and sometimes other resources for learning and improvement of skills. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/
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NetLogo
NetLogo is a free, downloadable priogramming environmental
modeling tool for simulating natural and social phenomena. -- everything from forest fires and predator-prey
relationships to HIV. NetLogo is
particularly well suited for modeling complex systems developing over time.
Modelers can give instructions to hundreds or thousands of "agents"
all operating independently. This makes it possible to explore the connection
between the micro-level behavior of individuals and the macro-level patterns
that emerge from the interaction of many individuals. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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Ohio Treasure Chest of Technology Resources
Welcome to our Technology Resource Guide! We are constantly collecting technology treasures for you to use. Here you will find an archive of great web sites organized to match the indicators in the Ohio Academic Content Standards. You can also add any gems you find to our treasure chest. If you are not sure how to evaluate the worth of a resource, feel free to read our Gems vs. Junk page for suggestions. It all makes for a richer educational experience for everyone. http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~techresources/
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Omeka
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and
exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and
educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building
around collections and exhibits. It is designed with non-IT specialists in
mind, allowing users to focus on content rather than programming.http://omeka.org/
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OneLookŪ Dictionary Search
Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. http://www.onelook.com/
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Online Education Database
The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of
Research can be a time consuming and sometimes tedious task. How can you make it easier for yourself? While there is no complete substitute for a good old-fashioned trip to the library, you can find a wide variety of information with many research tools. Here are a few sites listed in alphabetical order. You might not be familiar with some of the resources, but they can help supplement and improve your research. http://oedb.org/library/features/best-online-research-sites
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Online Education Database (OEDb)
Welcome to the Online Education Database. OEDb currently
contains reviews of 1,045 programs from 88 accredited online colleges. Unlike
other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited
online colleges so that you can be sure that these degrees will be respected by
potential employers. Our database allows you to sort reviews by program,
college, or degree level. Our library section will educate you on the basics of
online universities. http://oedb.org/
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Open Culture: Audiobook podcast collection
Open Culture explores cultural and educational media
(podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web,
and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the
media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place.
Trust us, you’ll find engaging content here that will keep you learning and
sharp. And you will find it much more efficiently than if you spend your time
searching with Google, Yahoo or iTunes. http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html
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Open Education Portal
The Open Education Portal is for anyone who wants to find, use, create or distribute open educational resources. The OEP is for colleges and high-schools, secondary and primary schools, homeschools and community groups, teachers and parents, students and life-long learners. Browse guest accessible courses and homepages, or create your own account to really put the OEP to work for you. http://www.owli.org/moodle/
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Open Education Resources Commons
OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices. The emergence of OER signals the growing trend toward openness for teaching and learning materials.The mission of OER Commons is to expand educational opportunities by increasing access to high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER), and facilitating the creation, use, and re-use of OER, for instructors, students, and self-learners. http://www.oercommons.org/
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Open Source Education
We believe that open source methodologies have a lot to offer in the world of education. This is a forum for discussing how the open source way can be put into practice to improve the world of education: for teachers, children, parents, professors, administrators, and anyone who wants to learn or teach. http://opensource.com/education
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Open World Net
By researching, developing and distributing the very best in cost and commercial free educational content, OWL commits to bringing the message and opportunity of open education to everyone. To schools and home schools, teachers and students, instructors, professors, college and returning adult students, OWL brings the content, tools, teaching technology, elearning programs, Internet home schooling, and high-speed Internet access to make the digital revolution work for everyone. OWL is a Minnesota non-profit that has been serving the Minnesota home schooling and Wisconsin home schooling communities with on the ground and online support for educational excellence. Now, OWL joins others in helping to bring the open education message of high quality learning and teaching to all -the world is open!
http://www.openworldnet.org/
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PBS Teachers Connect
An online community for PreK-12 that supports the advancement of digital media content and technology integration in education. It is designed to foster discussion, use of digital media content, and to enable educators to form shared-interest groups online. The site offers a personalized Home page for each user, user profiles, a searchable database of resources and community members, bookmarking tools, and discussion threads. www.pbsteachers.org/connect
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PBS TeacherSource
3000+ free lesson plans and activities http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ |
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)
The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.
Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The
P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are
out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the
design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition
for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well. http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/
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Portals to the World
Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
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Power Point Games
These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games
to fit your curriculum needs. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/
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Purdue Writing Lab & Online Writing Lab (OWL)
In an attempt to bring the Writing Lab to students no matter where they were, Dr. Harris and David Taylor started the world's first Online Writing Lab (OWL) in 1994. The OWL has grown into a sprawling web site that received over 23 million hits from visitors all over the world during the 2002-2003 academic year. OWL tutors answered 1,212 e-mails, and over 10,000 users are subscribed to the Purdue OWL News, a free weekly e-newsletter. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html
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ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching and/or learning experience. Lessons can be selected according to grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and area of literacy practice. Each lesson is research-based, and includes a detailed instructional plan. The lessons are written for the teacher but include student-ready materials such as worksheets, interactives, and reviewed Web resources. http://www.readwritethink.org/
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ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel is a nonprofit media and technology organization that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures. Through cable and satellite distribution, ResearchChannel is available to more than 26 million U.S. households. The channel is also available on select academic networks in the United States and other countries. Online, ResearchChannel uses advanced streaming and broadband technologies to provide programs via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,000 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. http://researchchannel.org/prog/
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ResourceShelf
Welcome to ResourceShelf, where dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their directed (and occasionally quirky) web searches for resources and information. http://www.resourceshelf.com/
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Sites for Teachers
Sitesforteachers.com contains only links to sites that contain teacher's resource and educational material and the sites are ranked by popularity. No more surfing countless pages to find the occasional "good" site. Also, sitesforteachers.com doesn't just allow any site on the list. Sitesforteachers.com has strict rules for the listed webmasters. http://www.sitesforteachers.com/cgi-bin/in.cgi?id=Terri
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Songs for Teaching
The Definitive Source for Educational Music - Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum -- to students of all ages. A host of educational experts brings you tested ideas for using the magic of music in your lesson plans. This site contains thousands of pages for you to peruse -- many with lyrics, sound clips, and teaching suggestions. The top educational pros offer practical suggestions based on the latest in brain-based learning. Innovative teachers share their classroom pointers and extension activities using children's music. Songs from a wide variety of popular artists are presented by academic subject. See the categories below to find educational music and children's songs that complement your lesson plans. http://www.songsforteaching.com/
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Spark Notes
SparkNotes books and SparkNotes.com exist to help students learn and practice basic skills, write a paper, study for a test and achieve their academic goals. We believe that doing well in school and learning is its own reward, and that learning is more than just getting a diploma from a brand name college. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere and geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes study guides are the perfect aid for studying and writing papers. Each guide contains thorough summaries and insightful critical analysis of a nearly endless range of subjects including English literature, Shakespeare, History and Math and Science. We offer hundreds of study guides for free to read on the web, and many SparkNotes and SparkCharts as downloadable, printable PDFs. (LIFE Note: Some fee based services on this site, but we include it because of the quality of the wealth of free content.) http://www.sparknotes.com/
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Spotty Banana Homeschool
A homeschool site that is a remarkable education resource portal http://spottybanana.com/
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Stanford on iTunes U open acess
Stanford on iTunes U provides access to a wide range of Stanford-related digital audio content via the iTunes Music Store, Apple's popular music jukebox and online music store. The project includes two sites:
• a public site, targeted primarily at alumni, which includes Stanford faculty lectures, learning materials, music, sports, and more.
• an access-restricted site for the Stanford community only (via SUNet ID) delivering course-based materials and advising content.
o CourseWork-linked iTunes U
o Stanford Community iTunes U
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
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Study Guides and Strategies
The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, developed and maintained by Joe Landsberger as a learner-centric educational public service. These student guides are collaboratively maintained across institutional and national boundaries...Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt, and distribute individual Study Guides in print format in non-commercial educational settings that benefit learners. No request to link to the Web site is necessary. Please be aware that the Guides welcome, and are under, continuous review and revision. For that reason, reproduction of all content on the Internet can only be with permission through a licensed agreement. http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
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Teachers' Domain
Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components -- resource collections and professional development courses -- that help teachers facilitate student learning and advance their own teaching skills. Teachers' Domain resource collections constitute an extensive digital library of multimedia resources for K-12 teachers and students. http://www.teachersdomain.org/
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TeachersFirst
TeachersFirst is a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students. TeachersFirst is a division of Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not-for-profit learning technologies corporation which works with hundreds of schools throughout the United States. TeachersFirst is a free service; support is provided by corporate underwriters interested in encouraging improvements in the quality of American education.http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
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TeacherTube
Teacher Tube is free for everyone. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. http://www.teachertube.com
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Teaching Current Events via Newspapers, Magazine, TV
Teaching Current Events via Newspapers, Magazine, TV http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html
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Teaching with Contests
The purpose of Teaching with Contests is to assist educators in finding contests that can be used in the classroom to motivate students. We are here for the student and the teacher not the promotion of products or company public relations. Our goal is to select contests and programs whose primary goal is education and secondarily business/product promotion. http://teachingwithcontests.com/
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Teaching with TED 
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action? http://teachingwithted.pbworks.com/
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The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We
do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by
linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/
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The Earth Portal
The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely,
objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for
the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free,
expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and
to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental
issues in human affairs. It contains no commercial advertising and reaches a
large global audience. http://www.earthportal.org/
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The Educators Network
In the past 3 years, well over 1,000,000 teachers have visited our network of 'teacher-focused' sites. Of these, over 200,000 have become members and currently receive our weekly e-newsletter. If you are not yet a member, you can sign up in the box to the left. Membership has many benefits - Best of all, it's FREE. http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/
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The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM (GEM)
The key to one-stop, any-stop access to lesson plans, instructional units, and other education resources on the Internet. The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. http://www.thegateway.org/
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The Why Files
The mission of The Why Files is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day, and to present those topics in a clear, accessible and accurate manner. We are based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but The Why Files covers science at all institutions that engage in scientific exploration and discovery. We hope this information will help explain the relationship between science and daily life.
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The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields.
...From elementary education to front-line research, topics span an ever-growing array of categories. Some Demonstrations can be used to enliven a classroom or visualize tough concepts, while others shed new light on cutting-edge ideas relevant to high-level workgroups and thesis research. Each is reviewed for content, clarity, and presentation, edited by experts at Wolfram Research to ensure quality and reliability. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
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Thinkfinity
Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network. http://www.thinkfinity.org
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TrackStar
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too. http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/
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Tufts OpenCourseWare
Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT where course content is accessible for free to everyone online. Tufts' initial offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences, as well as a multidisciplinary approach, an international perspective and an underlying ethic of service to our local, national and international communities. Course list here: http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
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Udemy
Udemy's goal is to enable anyone to teach and learn online. In less than 5 minutes, you can create your own online course on Udemy. You can upload presentations, videos, host live classroom sessions and write articles. It's fast, easy and free. http://www.udemy.com/
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Utah State University OpenCourseWare
USU OCW has just created a new blog to accompany our OCW site.. We hope this will be a place where visitors can track the progress of new courses, discuss news concerning OCW, and give feedback on what kinds of courses you'd like to see in the future.http://ocw.usu.edu/Index/ECIndex_view
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Virtual Learning Resources Center
The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects! The Virtual LRC is both a dedicated index of over 10,000 web pages maintained by a real human being, as well as a meta-search engine that includes in its results information gleaned from many of the best research portals and university and public library Internet subject guides recommended by teachers and librarians. http://www.virtuallrc.com/
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Virtual Reference Desk
The Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) is a project dedicated to the advancement of digital reference and the successful creation and operation of human-mediated, Internet-based information services. VRD http://www.virtualref.com/
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Visual Literacy
This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often
neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely
visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual
representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate
advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their
shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new
ways of representing insights. http://www.visual-literacy.org/
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WatchKnow
WatchKnow has indexed over 15,000 online educational videos for children, putting them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. http://www.watchknow.org/
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Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
The "Webometrics Ranking of World
Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group
belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas (CSIC), the
largest public research body in Spain The ranking is not only focused on research results but also
in other indicators which may reflect better the global quality of the scholar
and research institutions worldwide.
http://www.webometrics.info/index.html
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Whyville
Welcome! Whyville is a virtual world geared for teen and
pre-teen girls and boys. Whyville's millions of registered "citizens" come
from all over to learn, create, and have fun together. Whyville is their world.
Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville
has its own newspaper, its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and
town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy - citizens earn
"clams" by playing educational games. And much, much, much more! Joining Whyville is free. The primary support for Whyville
comes from its sponsors. http://www.whyville.net/smmk/nice
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Wikibooks
Welcome to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about 26,945 modules in a multitude of textbooks. The central place to ask questions or discuss ideas is the Staff Lounge (this is the equivalent to Wikipedia's Village Pump; Wikipedians may wish to read our primer before getting started). See also the mailing list. If you're an instructor planning on using Wikibooks for a class project, please read our guidelines for class projects. Explore, be bold in editing pages, play around in the sandbox, have fun, and good luck! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
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WiZiQ
On WiZiQ, teachers and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using our virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents. http://www.wiziq.com/virtual_classroom.aspx
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wordIQ.com
wordIQ.com is a comprehensive and searchable reference tool on the web. We offer search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references. Our website is completely free and non-profit. http://www.wordiq.com/about.html |
World Lecture Hall
World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet - faculty, developers, and curious students alike. http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm
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World Wide Words
Everything about words! http://www.worldwidewords.org/
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WorldCat
WorldCat is the largest library network in the world. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their free resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. At the heart of WorldCat is a database of information about the things libraries own that is constantly updated by information professionals. Whether you're searching for something yourself or a librarian is working on your behalf, WorldCat makes it easier to find and obtain reliable, validated information. http://worldcat.org/
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Worldwide School
Welcome to the World Wide School. The best place on the Internet to learn just about anything. Just read, click and learn. This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time. http://www.worldwideschool.org/
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WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Subsequent versions of WorldWideScience.org will offer access to additional sources as well as enhanced features. http://www.worldwidescience.org/
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WWW Virtual Library
The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs,it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web. http://www.vlib.org/ |
Yahoo Digital Library Directory
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YouTube Edu
Videos and Lectures from YouTube College and University Partners
http://www.youtube.com/edu
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Zotero
Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)-the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references-and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. http://www.zotero.org/
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