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This is a fabulous and fascinating YouTube channel where all sorts of science ideas are explored and explained in a friendly and engaging way. The topics range from near Earth Asteroid to dung beetles. The videos often cover science stories that are currently in the news. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

 Learn, ask, and excel- these are the three crucial phases covered in online science tutoring. It is a tool to free you from all your science pain. Now, you can get good scores and perform hugely well in your science subjects.Online science tutoring: A tool to ace science subjectsScience needs command over theoretical as well…

Meet the extraordinary world-renowned author, environmental campaigner, botanist and former broadcaster who is most famous for his numerous television shows in BBC in the seventies and eighties, as well as his activism against the theory of global warming, David Bellamy. Throughout his career, he has been significant in promoting environmental care and protection. "When I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my ­opinions". To read more about David Bellamy visit www.thextraordinary.org

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This site offers an interactive introduction to electric circuits covering the basics of circuits and leading up to conductors, insulators, switches, and circuit diagrams. Easy to use with bright colors, The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits presents the perfect introduction to circuits for the elementary student. Students follow Bob and the other Blobz through five lessons on circuits. Each lesson begins with background information, moves to an activity using drag and drop, and then ends with a quiz. 

"The listing here is in alphabetical order. it may be easier to search by genre. ( 16 pages here of different genres.) If you do not see one that covers your interests, let me know and I may be able to put one together. I have also put together a listing of sites that offer free and legal audio books at Free Audio Books Online These listings may be searched in the following methods: Alphabetical Listing - A listing of the site names in alphabetical order Listing by Genre - Links to pages here for different book genres (16) Online Local Libraries -These sites have links to local libraries which have much content for members"

The Open University's Creative Archive gives you access to exclusive rushes from OU course programmes covering a wide range of areas including science, technology and the environment as well as society and culture.

Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world. With the help of (amateur) photographers across the world we strive to ultimately cover every inch of our world map with images that represent the world's beauty and peculiarity from all different cultural perspectives. Users upload their photos into a free personal account protected by a password, or download pictures for personal use. User email addresses and passwords are not shared with any third parties whatsoever.

these are really good protective covers for your media and DVD disks. They stay on the disk all the time, and do not interefere with the play. No scratches and no fingerprints - ideal for classrooms and libraries

Wiley is one part Nostradamus and nine parts revolutionary, an educational evangelist who preaches about a world where students listen to lectures on iPods, and those lectures are also available online to everyone anywhere for free. Course materials are shared between universities, science labs are virtual, and digital textbooks are free. Institutions that don't adapt, he says, risk losing students to institutions that do. The warning applies to community colleges and ivy-covered universities, says Wiley, who is a professor of psychology and instructional technology at Brigham Young University. America's colleges and universities, says Wiley, have been acting as if what they offer - access to educational materials, a venue for socializing, the awarding of a credential - can't be obtained anywhere else. By and large, campus-based universities haven't been innovative, he says, because they've been a monopoly.

A great website that covers a lot of maths curriculum

Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series. It can be downloaded for free. Cool The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module.

Great site with videos 3-5 mintues covering various computer topics. Great for introducing topics such as blogs, twitter, hardware, sofatwere, etc.

Take this free online course to obtain a general introduction to Science. This course covers the basics of Science. It goes from observation and making inferences to scientific experiments and hypothesis testing. It talks about Piltdown Man and provides a safety overview for working in a Science laboratory. This course is suitable for any scientists interested in lab work. It is especially suitable for Science students.

Great article that paints our current educational direction toward trivia vs. deep understanding

Covers "'The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning,' by Michael B. Horn, co-founder and executive director of education at the Innosight Institute, and Heather Clayton Staker, a senior research fellow for education practice at the institute, [which] describes how blended learning can affect education, but why it also could fall short of its potential" (¶3).

Bowdon pointed out "how poorly ... traditional news media cover issues pertaining to children" (¶1), and illustrated the problem with what was then a news-breaking case in point, 48 hours after sending his findings to "Google's press office" and getting no response (¶14). Not long after posting on his blog, perhaps less than 12 hours later, Bowdon got a response from Google; and less than a day after that, he received a follow-up clarification from Google, both of which he subsequently reflected on in updates at the foot of this post.

A great maths video tutorial site that covers all the basics. Great to use for extra support or home study guides. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good general history site covering ancient civilisations from across the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. "EoL is the ultimate online field guide for citizen scientists," said Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. "There are many online sites dedicated to specific groups of species such as insects, birds or mammals. Not since Noah, however, has there been an effort like this to bring all the world's species together." The site uses content from 180 partners to bring together images, videos and scientific information, including 35m pages of scanned literature created by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The new site allows members to create their own collection of species. "The virtual collections put life into meaningful contexts from scholarly ones such as Invasive Insects of North America or Endangered Birds of Ecuador to personal collections such as A Checklist of Trees in My Backyard. Only imagination and energy limit the possibilities," said Jesse Ausubel, vice president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation which helps fund the EoL.