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Website that brings together ordinary people and scientists for work on projects. Interesting way to bring real science projects into the classroom.

Google is looking for the brightest young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant to the world today.

Just received notice about November being Ocean month in Skype's "in the Classroom" project. Please let me know if you need any help. "Throughout November dive in to Skype in the classroom and make connections with some of the world's top ocean experts."

Free educational simulations covering a diverse topics designed by the University of Colorado available in various languages. This is a really great site to use for science resources. Teachers have also developed and posted lesson plans for each simulation.

Interactive Science Simulations Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

New to Wolfram is that you can now embed various demonstrations from their website.  To the right of this example is a line of code that you copy by placing your cursor inside the text box.  Copy (cmd + C) and paste the HTML code onto your site.   If you would like a demonstration of this please contact one of your TIF's for an explanation.

There are some good science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free.

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. A native spreadsheet and tools for collaborative authoring are planned for later.