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"Using a unique keyboard with only two 'keys' and a novel curriculum, teachers with Project Blue Skies are giving children with autism the ability to both communicate and to explore the online world."

The Page 99 Test is simple: After reading page 99, would you want to turn the page? For decades, readers have used the Page 99 Test to judge the writing of a book before buying it. That's the idea here... but with a twist. Here, published and unpublished writers share their page 99s with readers like you. And you get to rate their writing (without knowing if it's published or who the author is). It's fast. Fun. Addictive.

The TimeMap aims to provide a visual guide to each civilization and nation in history, be an authoritive resource for historical enquiry, and provide an accessible way of looking at the 'bigger picture' of the world's past. Maps are the ideal starting point for historical enquiry. Without understanding the location of a civilization or state, within the axis of time and space, there can be no historical understanding of an episode. To study Ancient Egypt in isolation, not knowing whether it comes before or after the Ancient Greeks or the Ancient Romans, is on a par with studying myths and legends. What students need - what all citizens of today's world need, if they are to understand its past - is an overview, a chronological framework, in which detailed knowledge can be slotted. The TimeMaps History project seeks to provide both the overview and the detail, so that the latter is served up within its full context. TimeMaps materials are designed to be accessible for anyone interested in history; they also support teachers of history and their students. We take great care to ensure that our work is of the highest quality, based on sound academic research. We seek to communicate history in such a way that we can be as useful to a historian looking for a background on a topic, as for a student searching for a particular, specific piece of information.

Free clipart for teachers. Educational clip art and free printable teaching resources ready for teachers to use in their classroom.

Interactive Blooms site great for use with an IWB

Might be used nicely with interactive whiteboards

Mark Garrison presents 51 useful sites in 50 minutes with a great underlying message. "If you're not having fun in education then do something different. There are plenty of boring jobs out there, do one of those"

A great video to show how vector addition can be used in the 'real world' in video game development

Type a message, select a voice and Cepstral will read the message back to you - Use the demo for FREE!

Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.