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Free Reading Program.. Open Source

FreeReading is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

storyboarding with primary sources

Great resource for primary sources.

Yes I would agree. National History Day must tool.

Here at Archiving Early America you will be rewarded with a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings come to life just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than 250 years ago.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Open-source ebook editor.

This site looks amazing and a clever way of using the power of crowd sourcing to translate the web. Translate text into another language to learn Spanish, German, French, Italian and Chinese. The text is levelled to your ability. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects

I have been using Duolingo since November and is it fantastic. Not only is it free, but the system works. I am studying German and Spanish and I am amazed at not only how much I have learned, but how much I have retained.

free resource using crowd sourcing to promote translation of web resources and chance to practice learning a new language.  worth exploring

"Google and Stanford are more than just neighbors in Silicon Valley. They're becoming the leaders in the online learning revolution. And it's all happening fast and starting right about … now. Stanford, like Google, has now announced a free and open source platform that lets you run your very own Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Stanford's platform, dubbed Class2Go, has big and slightly different aspirations from its competitors. Developed as a non-profit project by eight Stanford Computer Science engineers, Class2Go is meant to offer not only a course-like project but also tools for collaborative research. The latter functionality is a change from what Google, edX, Coursera, and others are offering right now."

Another great source of videos

A place for Moodlers to share their Moodles. 145 courses and counting. New courses to be uploaded frequently.

A repository of moodle courses that have been shared - open source courses for reuse.  Includes subject areas and professional development courses.

Dans cette page ; Les principales sources d'énergie et leurs consommations aux USA et dans le monde. Remarquez la faible place qu'occupe les énergies dites vertes dans ce tableau, et ce malgré les beaux discours corpocrates. / On this page you'll find the USA and world consumption of main streamming energies. The green ones are really poor, nonobstant what we see, hear and read in the medias, -30-

Consommation mondiale de toutes les énergies. À voir pour comprendre l'importance de la situation. World consumption of all types of energies. A "Must Look" to understand the real situation.

"How can the ideas of the open source movement help foster learning? What are the most effective ways to bring learning to everyone? How does openness help the spread of knowledge? Part exhibition catalog, part manifesto, this is a concise, fun-to-read introduction to what Mozilla is doing to support learners everywhere."

Safe place for kids, 7-12 years old, to review a variety of sources: tech, toys and games, movies and TV, books and magazines, food, sports, pets, travel, obsessions, contests.

Allows you to combine videos, pictures, text paragraphs from any source and trun them into short movies. You can also pull content in from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final product. 

We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

Great source for a number of education-based games.