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Free clip art, photos and animations from Microsoft Office.

Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics.

The Web is constantly turning out new and extraordinary services many of us are unfamiliar with. During TED University at this spring's TED2007 in Monterey, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, offered an ultra-fast-moving ride through sites in many different areas, from art, design and illustration, to daily news, blogs and curiosity. Now, by popular demand, here's his list of 100 websites you should know and use.

Selected stories from the never-ending, worldwide 1001 Flat World Tales wiki writing workshop.

Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services. You can embed your sprouts on any Website or leading social media sites, including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, Blogger, Typepad and more.

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

CoveritLive: Live Blogging 2.0 - CoveritLive.com is a web based Live Blogging tool that allows you to broadcast live commentary to your readers. Instead of waiting for tomorrow to read what you have to say, they hear from you live...right now! If your goal is to build your online audience, coveritlive.com is a tool worth a try.

Share, exchange and examine images from NASA- great solar system and space resource!

created by national geographic

Planned is a five-year campaign, called My Wonderful World, that will target children ages 8 to 17. The goal is to motivate parents and educators to expand geographic offerings in school, at home, and in their communities. (from eSchool News article)

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

The medical billing and coding programs at these career colleges offer a glimpse into medical billing education across the US. Though the course curriculum varies slightly from school to school, each of these colleges offers a quality learning experience for students entering the field of medical billing.

Broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Useful for phone blogs, collecting audio data, podcasting, and other digital recordings

LearnCentral is another project from Steve Hargadon. Join teachers from across the globe and learn along with them.

Lesson Ideas from Australia on using the Mimio. Similar to those found on mimio.com

Now you can view inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films. These WingClips™ can also be downloaded to use in your church, school or other non-profit organization for FREE.

animation and programming language from MIT for kids to create interactive stories, animations, games,

An online wordprocessing tool that allows collaboration.

Amazing collaboration tool from Adobe

Hello and welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.

A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.

Several hundred teachers, administrators, and educational technology specialists from around the country recently joined researchers and national experts in Washington to highlight effective ways to use tech-based resources, including television programs and computer games, to support literacy instruction.