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Want a quick tutorial on a certain website? See if it's listed here.

This might be a nice site to have ready for teachers who are just learning to use some of these sites. Nice, quick tutorials.

Worksheets for document analysis

"a mere sample of digital manuscripts available online. "

Here's a collection of newspaper front pages from throughout the world on the day after the attacks.

The Cable News Network has a special page of video and audio clips related to the attack.

from the National Geographic. It has short video interviews, along with transcripts, of key people connected to the event, including survivors.

"Laments about our schools are nothing new; everyone is an expert, it seems, when it comes to education. While most critics point to the lack of funding or the shortage of teachers, John Taylor Gatto insists the problem goes deeper; we've turned our schools, he says, into "torture chambers." If that sounds abrasively radical, consider this: Gatto, with almost thirty years' experience as a public-school teacher, has just been named New York City's Teacher of the Year for 1989. Gatto teaches seventh grade at Junior High School 54 on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Something of a local legend, he's a chess player and a songwriter - and he grows garlic. He was once named Citizen of the Week for coming to the aid of a woman who had been robbed. He has lectured on James Joyce's Ulysses at Cornell University and has taught philosophy at California State College. Perhaps it's not surprising that he's been approached by a film company interested in making a movie of his life. Gatto once ran for the New York State Senate on the Conservative Party ticket, and some of his ideas are quite traditional: he stresses "family values" and questions increased funds for education. But he's too much of a maverick to be easily labeled. At a recent hearing in New York, he castigated the school system for "the murder of 1 million black and Latino children," and was met with a standing ovation. What follows is the text of the speech he gave upon being named Teacher of the Year."

Apple has created a custom area for the App Store titled "Special Education: Learning for Everyone." The new section contains five subsections: Communication, Hearing, Language Development, Literacy & Learning, and Organization.

Build yourself an augmented reality library. Yum.

Multiple users can edit a wikispaces wiki page at the same time!

A New Web 2.0 Platform For Education - repurposed web 2.0 stuff for educational use

Stages of Personal Learning Networks Adoption

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One web page for every book ever publish is the goal of this project. Quite a large number are available with the full text of the book.