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WatchKnow is a wiki-style portal that gathers and organizes educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. An age filter slider allows you to easily focus your search.

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"Wiki for teachers to explore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching."

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The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies.

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HeadsUp is a UK-based and oriented online space for teens to debate the political issues important to them. Young people share viewpoints with their peers and decision-makers up and down the UK.

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Opposing Views lets experts go “on the record” and state their position on a controversial issue.

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HippoCampus (project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)) provides high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. Each lesson includes multimedia lessons, the text of the lesson, and related resources.

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Read Children's Picture Books Online (or create your own) at BigUniverse. Big Universe has both fiction and nonfiction picture books to read. Books are easy to search by category, grade, reading level, interest age, and language. The free version of Big Universe offers a limited look at the premium publisher books. With the free version you can only create one ebook per user account.

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Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

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ARKive is a unique collection of thousands of videos, images, and fact-files illustrating the world's species. Arkive is a great website for biology teachers and students. Arkive has thousands of images and videos of threatened plants and animals. Arkive also has a Google Earth layer that students can use to view marine species habitat. The education section of Arkive has complete lesson plans including video clips and slideshows that teachers can download.

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Lingt is a tool for language teaching that allows teachers to create assignments online, into which you can add, images, text, voice recordings and videos.

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Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactives. Annotated documents from a collection written by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and many others, dealing with American politics, diplomacy, and social history.

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Shwup: free photo and video sharing without a registration or limit. Create the account and send invites to others via email. People you invite have the option of either uploading on the site or simply hitting reply to the email with attaching files. When all photos and videos are uploaded, Shwup allows the users to make slideshow "muvees" (movies) at the site.

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Stu's Double Jeopardy: an exciting, interactive and educational computer-based gameshow available to everybody.

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BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Features lesson plans, video, and more.

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Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation launched Edutopia in the hopes of creating educational best practices for multimedia in the classroom. The site includes online polls, curated blogs, assessment tools and a dedicated magazine for educators at the K-12 levels.

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Art images organised into categories, with an emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture. Thumbnails link to more detailed information including text references.

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This site was created by Kristin Hokanson to show teachers ways that they can create a "Connected" Classroom for their students. It is growing into a collection of presentations surrounding the ideas of using technology and web 2.0 as tools to create constructivist learning experiences for all students.

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Classroom 2.0 LIVE! hosts live webinars using Elluminate to showcase new tools useful in education. On this site, users can also search the archives of previous shows and resources.

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The "Top 25" Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

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