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"Welcome to the Hands on Banking® program! Want to take charge of your own finances and reach your goals? Just pick your age group and get started! Whether you want to build your credit, your investments, or your own small business; invest in the market, a home, or higher education; shop for a loan, buy a car, or open your first bank accounts, the Hands on Banking program offers all the basic money tools, skills, and information you need."

For all things education, take a look at Expert Village's free How To Videos with amazing tips on school and teaching related issues. Get the most from a guidance counselor or discover the world of home schooling. Increase your educational knowledge and help students get excited about class materials. Prepare children for preschool or ease stress on test days. Expert Village's videos are easy to follow and packed with information.

Designed by educators, for educators. The people building Sakai work at campuses just like yours. We believe they know best what features academic users value. Flexible, Free and Open. Sakai is a powerful yet flexible solution that supports not only teaching and learning but also research and administrative collaboration. The Sakai CLE is distributed free of charge and our license is designed to encourage innovation and customization in order to meet local campus needs. Our Community. Sakai is an active community of educational institutions working together to solve common problems and share best practices. The professional development and cross-institutional knowledge sharing are benefits hard to find elsewhere.

In School 2.0, the learning ecosystem includes not just a school building, but also the combination of home, school, and community that collaborate to bring the wider world into day-to-day instruction and provide a rich array of learning opportunities.

With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.

for preschoolers

Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated television series that looks at the natural world from a preschooler's point of view. It introduces preschoolers to a fascinating world filled with loveable characters and stunning wildlife movies from National Geographic.

troops sharing their experiences online

Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen or to picture files. MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.

Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.

OCW shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1800 courses spanning MIT's entire curriculum.

WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format.

A free animated avatar creation site.

Founded in 1999, Thinkronize is a leader in the digital delivery of K-12 educational content. Thinkronize, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with highly effective technologies that deliver the rich educational value of the Internet to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. Thinkronize was first to market with its standards-based educational search engine, netTrekker d.i., the #1 educational search engine in K-12 schools. Utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks, the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration services, netTrekker d.i. is currently used in over 21,000 schools nationwide. The company's consumer product, netTrekker home, gives parents and students whose school or district has not yet purchased a netTrekker d.i. subscription access to its 180,000+ educator-selected resources.

Slidelive gives you a virtual classroom for students to attend live presentations! Ever wish you could securely share your content with students? Sign up now!