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Teach Mate TeachMate.org is a service that helps people who wish to learn things find others who wish to teach them. You may think of it as of a dating service in education. We are also very fond of the idea of teaching for teaching: you can find people who'd love to teach you something in return for you teaching him another thing.
Learn about Rocks Interactive Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
Countdown COUNTDOWN is a challenging interactive television math program which has engaged tens of thousands of students through broadcasts on cable television in Chicago. Capitalizing on the one on one relationship a student viewer has with television, COUNTDOWN makes math “work”. Each week the program introduces a different math concept through direct instruction and reinforces lessons with literature, manipulatives, activities and related computer instruction. Student viewers are encouraged to call a televised phone number to participate in the show by responding to challenges presented by the on-air educators.
Surfing the Net with Kids Welcome to my vision of what's wonderful and educational on the Web for kids.
How Things Are Made If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place.
wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your edits, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 44,197 articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.
Learning Spaces The OpenLearn website gives free access to course materials from The Open University. The LearningSpace is open to learners anywhere in the world
How popular is you "First" and "Last" name? How popular are your first and last names in the United States?
What's That Stuff? C&EN presents a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday products.
Warp Drive, When? "...site focuses on the propulsion related issues, explaining the challenges of interstellar travel, existing propulsion ideas, and the possibilities emerging from scientific literature that may one day provide the desired breakthroughs."
Who Named It? Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
Wild Wild Weather Dan has created a new website that addresses the topic of Climate Change. Dan's Wild Wild Climate Page. He has put together a ton of info and resources. All based on peer reviewed science for students from 12 to 90.
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How did companies get their name? Wikipedia - This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed.
How are products made? How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery.
So You Wanna If you're looking for explanations online, the wild goose chase ends here.
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your age. The title says it all.
Everyday Mysteries Everyday Mysteries will help you get the answers to many of life's most interesting questions through scientific inquiry. In addition, we will introduce you to the Library of Congress' rich collections in science and technology.
Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
Instructables Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others
Technology Student The information sheets cover a wide range and include, the design process, gear systems, electronics, cams, printed circuit boards, PIC microcontrollers / computer control, key words/phrases, structures, vocational work, technology and cultures, basic CNC work. They are intended to provide a valuable resource for teachers and pupils AND they are free. By using this website you are agreeing to abide by the copyright outlined below.
Best Tech Videos Best Tech Videos' is a user driven social content website dedicated to finding the best educational videos for developers, designers, managers and other people in IT. If you are professional developer, you can find here new videos from recent conferences or interviews with famous people in IT. If you are just started learning some programming language or technology, you can find here lots of interesting screencasts created by really professional people.
Learn Music Theory All of the lesson animations and trainer interfaces were created using Adobe Flash. The lesson content and trainer text use a customized XML definition. All sound clips were made in Apple Logic Express using Apple GarageBand software instruments.
Learn Art and How to Draw Beginner, Intermediate, and advanced learners.
Learn Chemistry This page and the materials in this page are developed by and maintained by Yue-Ling Wong, Ph. D.
Human Anatomy Online Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses. Frog Dissection
CPR Learn CPR is a free public service supported by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Learn the basics of CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Learning Express Library (Check with VA., Bch. Library!) LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results
TED Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
WebQuest A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.
Filamentality Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
ThinkQuest a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
Connexions a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
Study Hacks Study Hacks is a blog dedicated to productivity hacks for students. If you like this article, you might also like these posts on how as an MIT grad student I never work past 5 PM, the difference between work and pseudo-work, and the key to becoming both impressive and relaxed. If you prefer more technical advice, consider my article on using a Monotypic e-mail inbox, this survey of effective student time management techniques, this story of a student who got a 4.0 with 0.0 notes, and these instructions for building a paper research database.
Scholastic Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn.
Free Tutorials Baycon Group provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics. All tutorials are in depth, comprehensive, online, and -- best of all -- absolutely free.
Yacapaca Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more. Discover modify and share assessments. Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically. Analyse with tools that improve your teaching.
Center for Learning At the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) we keep abreast of learning trends, technologies and tools in order to help learning professionals understand them and implement them successfully in their organisations for both formal and informal learning purposes as well as to support productivity and performance improvement
WiZiQ WiZiQ is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun
Graspr Create instructional video Recipes4us Our mission is to be the UK’s number one independent online culinary site, and with well over half a million page views per month, and over 7000 visitors per day, we are on our way
ICT Tech Lessons in technology This site is dedicated to teaching ICT at all levels. Students will find revision notes to learn your ICT subject along with plenty of quizzes, competitions, polls to keep things interesting. Teachers will find starters and plenaries along with Schemes of Work ( SoW) , lesson ideas and tons of free material. Revision resources for every level are available
Show Me Do Video Learning Kyran observed that learning-by-watching was a very powerful technique and one that the Internet hadn't exploited. Create a site where knowledgeable people could share their knowledge via video and things have kept on growing since then.
ElectroMechanical Devices, Systems and applications These interactive learning objects focus on concepts that cover a broad-based electromechanical program. The majority of these objects have been created for electronics, but during the next three years (until 2008), at least 300 more objects will be built that will focus on other topic areas such as hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical design, and process control (see complete list on the left side of this page)
100 Free Online Ivy League Courses You Should Take Just for Fun Even those without top notch grades can now go to Ivy League schools. With the the availability of open courseware classes coming out of some of the finest schools in America, the range of subjects is astounding. If you have ever wondered about the beginnings of Hip Hop, wanted to learn a new language, would like to create a film for social change, or are interested in learning about robotics while playing with Legos, then these courses are right up your alley. All you need to do is click on any one of these courses below to have access to free, online education.
Simple Technology Assessment SimpleAssessment is a revolutionary tool that takes all the guesswork out of assessing student technology proficiency.
Free Posters for Your Classroom They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We think they can inspire even more. You can download and print this poster, or if you send us your name, education institution address, and e-mail address we’ll send you a full-size poster—no charge—for your classroom.
Beyond Tomorrow Beyond Tomorrow is the cutting-edge series that will change the way you think about your future
JohnLocker.com was started in April of 2008 to help students, teachers, educators, and the public get educated on a variety of topics. As the first user powered online learning network, you can expect to come away with knowledge that both challenges and empowers you.
Curriculumbits Browse or search our resource library for games, quizzes, interactive animations and videos to use in your classroom today! Our e-learning resources are designed for use on a computer or interactive whiteboard. They can be used to assist the teaching and learning of a whole class, as a small group activity or for individual students as homework or revision exercises. You are welcome to make links to any of our e-learning resources from your schools website or intranet, and use them in the classroom to assist teaching and learning
Edublogs Upload your own videos or simply grab them from YouTube (it only takes a few clicks!) to avoid school filters.
Teacher Tube Videos like "You Tube" for Teachers. This is a free service.
Library of Congress Learning Page Activities offer an interactive, "hands on" experience and focus on a specific topic, rather than broad themes. They require teacher direction, but invite students to participate.Feature Presentations look across the American Memory collections to investigate curricular themes. They include historical background, helping to tell the story behind the theme.
e-Socrates.org aims to create the best free Moodle hosting service for everyone who wants to do e-learning activities. If you want to create a course, login or create a new account and fill a course request, you'll have the full moodle power in your hands, without restrictions of any kind! You'll also be able track your students subscriptions setting a password for the course enrolment.
FAQ's About Words Differences, Etymology/Origins, Grammar/Usage/Style, Spelling, Trivia, and more.
Dokeos Open Source Professional Learning Suite Build e-courses using templates, import SCORM courses. Assess learners through tests and surveys. Coach them through interaction tools. Convert Word and Powerpoint documents into courses.
Book TV Booknotes Booknotes.org is the permanent online archive for C-SPAN�s award-winning author interview program, Booknotes. For nearly sixteen years, from 1989 to 2004, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb interviewed contemporary non-fiction authors for one hour, discussing their books, their research, and their lives. The resulting archive of 800 interviews is a valuable collection of late twentieth century American scholarship, capturing the intellectual work of some of the country's best non-fiction writers, as well as the biographies and memoirs of Booknotes written transcripts, allow teachers, students, researchers and non-fiction book enthusiasts to see and hear these writers in their own words.
Test Toob TestToob is a place exclusively developed to showcase experiments done by school-age scientists. It offers the most up-to-date tools, fosters wonder, and gives youth an opportunity for creative self-expression. Simply, it’s a place to learn, to grow and to have safe fun.
Photoshop Tutorials Blog Watch and Learn Photoshop is a source of quality affordable video Photoshop Tutorials. Each week they release a free video tutorial, here I am going to list all the free video tutorials they provide for your Photoshopping pleasure.
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Watch Know The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. Despite its problems, the potential of the Internet for education is especially huge. Imagine tapping into that potential. Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos.
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