Lead by Example

Exploratorium: Educate
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Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
Great Web 2.0 resource wiki for teachers.
Tags: web2.0, teaching, resources, education, tools, school2.0, edtech, learning

Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet
Really cool — “Quizlet: the end of flashcards as we know it. These are cool and they connect with facebook!!
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Hot Potatoes Home Page
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. [...]

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language arts warm ups for everyday- questions to begin the school da
language arts warm ups
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language arts warm ups for every day – By Marie Coppolaro

Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.
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C.a.R.
Tags: geometry, software

Best website For Kids, Educational Websites selected by KBears, in Fun interactive online worlds
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The Future of Education (Thomas Frey – The DaVinci Institute)
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Best Practices for Meeting CIPA Requirements (Doug Johnson)
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Myths and Legends from E2BN
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Internet Archive: About IA
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data [...]

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Science Museums Science Fair Project Ideas Science Education
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JayCut – Online video editing
video editing online
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PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
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New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development – MacArthur Foundation
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http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.html
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Infinite Thinking Machine
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Issuu – You Publish
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Web Browser for Kids – KidRocket™ – PC Desktop Protection
# New Email for Kids with Art/eCard attachments
# New Time Lock for limiting a childs time on the computer.
# New updated browser navigation (thumbnail GUI) and graphics.
# New Kidrocket.org websites. [...]

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BBC – Skillswise – Homepage
Skillwise site, literacy and numeracy with suitable resources for junior and senior students
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I Love the Birds
About bird love.
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Mind Map: Best Online Collaboration Tools Robin Good’s Open Collaborative Map for LearningTrends2008 – MindMeister
Collaboration tools well categorized with a [...]

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Clipmarks – What are you finding on the web?
With Clipmarks in your browser you’re always a click away from sharing anything you find on the web. Instead of copying and pasting links, Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images [...]

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Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
Enjoy free music without getting in trouble by downloading the legal MP3s many musicians provide as a way to promote themselves.
By Michael David Crawford
You don’t need to worry about getting sued by the Recording Industry Assocation of America or [...]

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