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Internet trends/predictions from a cell/handheld perspective over the next decade from the Pew Internet Trust.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.

The Nielsen report on internet use and social networking/blogging. Blogging/social networking is still the number one destination online, followed closely by gaming. It's interesting the populations that are growing, and the massive growth of mobile! 

Diigo does it again. A great tool for students to use to create a presentation of material or for a teacher to use to create a reading list/discussion board for students. Already one of the best web2.0 sites on the internet, Diigo makes sharing/discussion/synthesis of material easy and interesting. 

Google continues to support educators in developing student capacity to use the internet for academic search. Great resource to help teachers take an intentional developmental approach to student research skills. 

From the site, "Research and revise a wide variety of school subjects as Videojug presents tips and tutorials for a range of subjects across the school-board. Learn or re-learn English, Maths, Science , Modern and Traditional Foreign Languages, Sign Language, Politics, History and Geography. Between brain-teasers and fun experiments theres something for scholars old and new." Interesting take on organizing some of the many videos available on the internet. 

Here is where you'll find the course content for Spring, 2009. Assignments are here. Syllabus is here. GEOGEBRA: Throughout the notes, you will find many GeoGebra applets.  These are interactive Java applets.  To activate them, just click on them, and wait for the applet to load.  If you're using Internet Explorer, you may have to click on the "Allow ActiveX control" warning bar at the top of your browser, for the applet to load.  I encourage you to download GeoGebra yourself, or use the "Web Start" option, over at http://www.geogebra.org .  It's very easy to use, and a lot of fun!

Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics.  Interesting topics and free for now. Take advantage of the short topics to have students reading in mathematics and even some science topics!

free Firefox extension that helps you google the internet faster using tag cloud

I think this post or article is incredibly flawed and lacks a lot of basis for the positions being advicated, but if you have a Diigo account, it is a great example of participatory nature of the internet. You can leave a note for other Diigo users. It would be a fantastic way for students to read something, include their notes, respond to each other, and discuss in class the next day.

Anytime you have students using the internet for research then you 'should' be teaching about copyright. It is something that we as teachers often ignore, but it's an important lesson to learn and to share with our students. This is a recorded presentation by Wes Fryer. Worth a listen, some simple applicable points that you can immediately incorporate into your classroom.

A service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ) to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. Constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

A compilation of read/write/speak-listen activities from the internet.

Quora is an interesting tool and it looks like it is getting some attention from the journalism community. On Quora, people ask and answer questions, harnessing the power of the internet and scale. 

Video The world is rapidly changing due to a growing number of videos featuring innovative and creative people through the public realm of the Internet. Appearing from lectures, talks, conferences, debates, symposiums, and interviews, you will be moved by exciting, progressive, and thoughtful free videos of hundreds of men and women across the globe. Technology now allows us to listen to these people via the many websites below. Not just videos but lectures, talks, conferences

Great source for survey data on a variety of topics.