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Sugar Labs—learning software for children
The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software.
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FreshBrain
Technology is advancing at an accelerating rate. Schools are providing teens with a traditional education, but they are unable to keep up with this evolution. Limited individual computer accessibility, minimal hands-on training for teachers, and insufficient technical support are all obstacles many schools face. While the availability of curriculum continues to grow, the lack of time and skills required to select, integrate, and teach with technology continues to be a barrier. In addition, funding to provide updated computers, ongoing maintenance, training and support will always be a challenge.
The result is an inability for schools to provide the time, space, or platform for teens to fully utilize technology, either individually or in groups. This lack of integration prevents teens from gaining skills and extending their abilities with technology. Therefore, teens miss the opportunity to find their passion with, or through the use of technology, including the chance to interact with others.
FreshBrain Fills This Gap
At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects.
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Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
The links below are categorized to help
you find Web 2.0
tools that might
be of use to the K-12 classroom teacher. (Disclaimer:
It is highly recommended that the individual teacher carefully preview any sites
before sharing materials in the classroom with students!)
more fromwww.kn.pacbell.com
TEL.A.VISION Home | TEL.A.VISION
Thank you for your interest in TEL·A·VISION, a new Web 2.0 technology developed to inspire more hope and possibility in the world through creating and sharing "Vision Videos."
more fromwww.telavision.tv
WatchKnow - Home
The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. 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.
Just think: hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth.
Finally, imagine them all deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught.
WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is trying to do this.
WatchKnow a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
WatchKnow is now available for beta-testing, although it is not yet "officially" launched (see News below). Whether you’re a teacher, a student, or just someone who cares about the education of children, you can now get involved. Please sign up--but note that you can add new videos to our system without signing up (they'll have to be approved first).
There is no better cause to support online than the future of our children. And just imagine how fantastic it would be if there were a resource online we could go to, or send our kids to, that would explain every topic they study in school instantly and reliably.
If we get together, we can create it.
more fromwww.watchknow.org
Welcome | Teaching Copyright
There's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era.
more fromwww.teachingcopyright.org
FORA.tv - Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet
FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
in list: Online Video
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Photo: free photo and free stock photo - Photoxpress
in list: Fun With Photos
more fromwww.photoxpress.com
Google Earth Lessons
in list: Geography
more fromwww.gelessons.com
tutpup - play, compete, learn
Welcome to Tutpup, where you can compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World!
more fromwww.tutpup.com
http://www.anithings.com
What is AniThings?
Anithings is a brand new children's creativity tool. It enables animated stories to be created simply and quickly, allowing children's creativity to run wild.
more fromwww.anithings.com
open thinking » 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
more fromeducationaltechnology.ca
Medical Animation Library
more frompennhealth.com
Public Domain Photos and Wallpapers
This is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, All photos on Photos8.com are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial.
in list: Fun With Photos
more fromwww.photos8.com
WTT - We The Teachers
WetheTeachers sprung out of a hypothetical idea that Nate and Amy Chambers had in the fall of 2005. After getting frustrated from fruitless searches for lesson plans and ideas, Amy wondered why there were so few websites that effectively catered to teachers. There is a lot of information, but little is organized. Even worse, many times the resources you need are only available with a yearly fee.
They imagined a website that combined both the resource aspect of teacher-focused sites, and the community aspect of social websites. Many months of work later, the site was born!
more fromwww.wetheteachers.com
ExploreLearning - Interactive Math and Science Simulations.
K-12 Math and Science Interactions
more fromwww.explorescience.com
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