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In this harsh economic climate, class trips to exciting places like New York City and San Francisco are probably out of many people's reach. But the educational Web site MeetMeAtTheCorner.org offers kids virtual tours of these and other cities without leaving the classroom. And it's all free. 

A new era of change has even come to the White House Web site!

Good summary of various Skype recording tools

This is a lot of fun to play with. And you can use it with students who are at a loss of what to read next - pretty accurate suggestions.

Tools to Use With Flickr

This relates to our Skype discussion about the presence of SMS and text in education.

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Dr.Nicholson sent the link to this site via email.

A "how to" list for implementing Web 2.0 in your library.

Recorded Books K-12-for the students that just don't want to read.

This is an archive that allows users to see what a page (Google, for example) looked like in the past. It's an interesting way to see how websites have evolved.

How and when to employ technologically-based learning methods to the best advantage.

Curriculink is a web tool created by Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES School Library System. If you are not a member of this BOCES you can still access the site. The only area you cannnot access is the section for lesson plans. This tab leads to lesson plans written by librarians in this BOCES, you can also create lesson plans in the templates provided. The focus of the site is develop library awarness skills, and lifelong reading skills.

There are many examples of rubrics on the site for different projects plus a tool to create your own rubric.

Highlight portions of a website and links to that portion for sharing.

A place to catalog your books, magazine, anything you want.

Reference for internet links to all subjects already screened for education.

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Firefoxquickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional. In January 2000, T-Online asked Oliver Reichenstein, what we'd do if we could design a browser from scratch. The answer was "Tabs". Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, again asked about the future of new tab. Oliver Reichenstein answer after days of mailing back and forth: "Forget tabs!"