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Videos from National Geographic on different animals, environments, ecosystems, etc.

A free office suite alternative (includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, math formula writer, graphics, and database) to Microsoft Office and other proprietary alternatives

This free applications provides presentation, word processing, and spreadsheet software and allows you to collaborate on your documents with others. It also provides a version history to show all the edits that you (or others) have made to the document. You can revert back to prior editions if needed.

This application offers a slew of services (including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation). I don't like them as much as Google applications because they have a for profit mentality. They give you very limited services on many of the applications with the expectation that you will purchase a yearly subscription.

This is a free video hosting site that allows for 500 MB uploads without a time delay. Additionally you can tag videos and write comments or attach additional movies. They accept AVI, DV, MOV, QT, MPG2, MPEG2, MPEG4, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, ASF, WMV, and FLV. You can make your videos completely public, completely private, or select which viddler friends can view the files. It also allows you to determine who can comment on, tag, embed, or download videos on an individual basis.

Links to videos published elsewhere on the Internet (e.g., YouTube, Google Video, etc.) and allows you to embed comments in them. The resulting web page is then emailed to you and you can give others either access to make their own comments (or edit yours) or view the comments that you made

Middle school math problems from Math TV. Each problem is accompanied by a video tutorial, follow-up problems, online calculator and sketch pad.

This is an open source course management tool based on PHP. It functions similarly to eCompanion but is free to users that can serve it on their own systems

A free plugin for Firefox browsers on Mac, PC, and Linux that allows you to organize research articles for professional purposes

James Gee (a Linguist by trade) discusses the use of games, particularly video games, to teach difficult subjects like Chemistry.

ZDNet is a blogging news site that specializes in all things geeky. It covers recent technology and problems and solutions associated with it. It's sister site it CNET. However, whereas CNET focuses on the consumer market--with several reviews of consumer products, ZDNet is geared more towards IT professionals and hobby geeks.

Similar to Skype but allows for more people to connect at once

Open Source Desktop Publishing much like PageMaker or InDesign

A site similar to Jstor.org but much more organized with a larger\ncollection of material. The site also includes sites like Jstor to help \nkeep the collections quite large.

Jstor is a collection of journal articles from several fields, that covers mostly Political Science and History. The site does, carry several articles on various subjects beyond the two mentioned.

Ebscohost is a massive search site that is similar to Jstor but contains more general and various sources of information. Does include pdf versions along with html and also a search option for peer review articles.