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Finally, an easy way to tell your story. Just drag and drop your favorite stuff into Freepath's playlist - no need to convert files, upload videos or embed links. Just like that, your digital life became bigger and better! Best of all, it's FREE.

Wordie lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible to everyone but can be added to by just you, a group of friends, or anyone, as you wish.

So what happens when the cure is worse than the disease?

WORRIES about the damage the internet may be doing to young people has produced a mountain of books-a suitably old technology in which to express concerns about the new. Robert Bly claims that, thanks to the internet, the "neo-cortex is finally eating itself". Today's youth may be web-savvy, but they also stand accused of being unread, bad at communicating, socially inept, shameless, dishonest, work-shy, narcissistic and indifferent to the needs of others.

Reading Companion is available for free to elementary public schools and nonprofit organizations that offer adult literacy assistance. Individuals who wish to participate must be affiliated with a Reading Companion grant site. Click here for Participating Organizations. IBM is now accepting proposals for consideration. Please send us your full contact information by completing the form below and IBM will send your school/nonprofit organization a proposal request.

Social Media Classroom Open Source Howard Rheingold 21st Century Literacies

Celestia is a free and open source space simulator that allows you to explore space right from your computer. Celestia is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X, and even Linux. Celestia has many very cool features, including an eclipse finder. Not only does the eclipse finder allow you to find solar and lunar eclipses on Earth, but you can seek eclipses on other planets as well. I found out something really cool when checking out eclipses on Jupiter - because Jupiter is very large and has many moons, solar eclipses are very common.

Even if you can't attend an Ivy League college, you can still take advantage of the intellectual and professional resources that many have to offer through the colleges' websites. Check out the list of 100 great video lectures you can watch to learn from experts.

Easily add full video capabilities to any site at little or no cost

This is an elementary based wiki for students to learn more about December holidays.

Contains links and an embedded video explaining fair use and copyright for educators and students from the Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University (CSMSC@AM?).

This site is for EFL & ESL students. Each day you can find a new simple online activity to help you improve your English.