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Great tool for students to define vocabulary or spelling words or to study multiple meanings of a word. Uses Wiktionary database for definitions instead of the WordNet database. Also has an iPhone app. Case sensitive when looking up words.

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Full text of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

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A facinating site on 'Words' (British. It offers more than 2100 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. .

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This is a free multi-media web-resource/book designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. The authors decided to create a multi-media survey of art history web-book. They created audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and added text and still images.

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This sie can help you to get a more personal perspective on history through this site. It is a site that would engage kids with first-hand accounts of historical events, photos, audio and more.

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Put in any day in the year and find out what major events happened on it through this helpful tool. This could be a good way to begin a class - by finding out what happened on today's date that is significant.

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Powerful collection of online tools. A good online function plotter (graphing calculator) is here.

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The aim of this site is to provide a resource of technical and scientific information. There is a huge amount of links for math, science and even history, etc. Includes interactives & animations. , It was designed to help educators search for internet material appropriate for their classrooms, autocad, educypedia, computer hardware, datacommunication, microprocessors, motherboards, audio, electricity, biology, botany, chemistry, climate, geographic, geology, mechanics, mathematics, space, worldwars

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data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets.

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The eMints National Center, has put together a wonderful website with themed Internet resources by year/grade level. Search the resources alphabetically by theme, by grade-level, or via search.

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Welcome to Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour

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100 Best First Lines of Novels As chosen by the editors of American Book Review (in Tabular format)

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"A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.

Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge"

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Discover when the golden hour is at your current location, explore visually how the golden hour changes with the seasons and where you are in the world.

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A well known source for many classic e-books that can be downloaded as webpages or PDFs. You could take a book and use it as a shared reading lesson using projecting onto a screen. You could use Diigo to highlight and identify key ideas, comment, ask questions, etc. Our tablets offer you further tools.

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A list of links put together by the folks at Mashable

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Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author's name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors' names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you're most likely to enjoy.

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This is an attempt by some enterprising souls to photograph the entirety of the British Isles, and they are being kind enough to release all of the photos as Creative Commons.

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Most people only think of Archive.org for the Wayback Machine, but it also offers up a huge selection of audio, video and text documents under the Creative Commons license.

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