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A crazy huge collection of free curriculum resources, well sorted by age, theme, subject, et al., and with a search engine. These would be great for lessons in geography, history, social studies, ecology, intercultural understanding, etc. Many of the resources are activities, such as "Be an African Family" where you decide how to make the most of the rural village where you live.

Pretty cool for kids. The site is kid-save and pulls up images, including videos and games when words are input. A Google site.

"With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example. Using such websites, teachers will be able to help in holding online and real-time discussions with their students, help them in their projects and assignments, guide their learning, do backchanneling, and synchronously moderate discussion threads and many more." The focus here is on tools for collaboration. Many are new and interesting, such as virtual whiteboards, searchteam to do online searches together, browse websites together, create online projects collaboratively, create your own chatroom, etc.. Some of these will be gone quickly, but they all appear quite useful. About 30 in the list.

A great place to find poetry online. Search almost 800,000 poems by 78,000+ poets, songs, quotations, etc. Also has a forum for discussing various aspects of poetry. You can collect favorite poems, read a poem of the day, and browse through poetry links and contests. Great literature site.

"Search through 158,138 icons or browse 820 icon sets E.g. arrow, twitter or facebook" Might be useful for student projects.

Watch TV shows on your computer. You may wish to use excerpts from episodes in your class as conversation starters or models for social interactions to be play-acted.

Although dated 2005, this article is still of interest to those thinking about how the digital age is progressing.

"Complete coverage for major TV network affiliates in all 210 US DMAs, national cable news, as well as the most international coverage available anywhere." Called by one user, "a virtual DVR for every channel, every city, at every hour of the day." Also for mobile platforms. Free trial.

The problem of non-access to YouTube for many classrooms around the world is solved by looking to such alternate resources for videos as TeacherTube and Teachers.tv. This blog also links to a page with many other such alternative video sites.