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Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.
GeoHive: Global Statistics
A site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more."
Factbook Charts Africa’s Footprint, Human Development Trends
"If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, while a number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that threshold in less than five years, according to a report issued today by Global Footprint Network and key partners. "
A Maths Dictionary for Kids
An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms in simple language."
"ANIMATED - definitions, examples, activities, practice, calculators - INTERACTIVE
Great stuff!!!! Librarians' Internet Index
This is a list of sites compiled by librarians to safe use internet sites. A great reference for school administrators, techies and teachers. It is a maintained directory of sorts and you can submit safe sites.
30 Resources to Find the Data You Need
I love the way that this list has been structured. Will defintely go into my reference section!
Let's say you have this idea for a visualization or application, or you're just curious about some trend. But you have a problem. You can't find the data, and without the data, you can't even start. This is a guide and a list of sources for where you can find that data you're looking for. There's a lot out there.
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
Guide for Educators/librarians - Ready Reference & Copyright Sources
Really a brilliant resource pages that covers just about everything that has do do with referencing and citation etc. Very good.
Digital Tools 4 Enquiring Minds
Digital tools are an integral part of the Enquiring Minds approach. Here we provide some examples of the kinds of new technologies that we think may benefit learners and teachers
Use BUBL to find websites catalogued by the Dewey Decimal System.
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas according to the DEWEY system.
Great digital resource: The National Science Digital Library
The NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation in 2000 to provide organized access to high quality online resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources
A wondeful site filled with lots of reference resources calculators and more!!! Going onto my favourite list!
Wikipedia for schools
Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).
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