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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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The Reference Bible indexes Concordance, Dictionary and Encyclopedia entries for each term.

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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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The What's Next Database is a quality source for series information that is easily accessible to all readers, patrons, and library staff. Searchable by author, title, series, character or even genre it’s hard not to find what you’re looking for.

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The University of Oklahoma College of Law provides texts of historical documents.

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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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MediaFire is another smashing, free file hosting service. Features include, Unlimited storage, Up to 100MB per file, Unlimited uploads, Unlimited downloads, Unlimited bandwidth, Image galleries, No sign up required and no software is needed

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No email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want.

Just choose a URL, add the files you need, hit “drop it” and you’re done.

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Wordnik gives you word meaning and context, but it also shows you all the conversations, pictures, and other talk about your word.

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smush.it doesn't discriminate. Dump a bunch of images in, and smush.it shaves them down. The service strips metadata and recompresses the images to decrease the file size, while its compression algorithm does an excellent job preserving image quality with little to no visible artifacts.

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A place for English Teachers to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work.

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If you have found your way to this site, you are probably either planning to attend college or you are already there. You are discovering (or will discover soon) that although many things about college classes and coursework are pretty similar to high school, there are still big differences. Explore this site to learn more about what is involved in transitioning to college.

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CustomGuide has software cheat sheets available to print (on the front and back of one page).

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VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button.

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Set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers, and researchers improve their Internet information skills.

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Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers
other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

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Digital copies in the Archival Research Catalog from the National Archives

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The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of the US National Archives and Records Administration's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

Click the Search Options and search using the Digital Copies tab to find a variety of primary sources.

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Based on your search needs, this Noodletools guide helps you refine which search tools will be most appropriate

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