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Note: click here to see the full syllabus and other related teaching materials. As anyone who's ever done it knows, the art of syllabussing is a fine one. (Yes, it's a word; don't look it up, take my word for it- Syllabussing: creating the perfect syllabus for a college-level course). Open culture is a high-quality cultural and educational media source. A staggering collection of 400 courses, online, for free, from Ivy League universities, such as Stanford, UCLA, Columbia and Oxford University.Courses run from science and art to math and economics.

Aris is an open source platform for creating and playing mobile games, developing tours and telling interactive stories. " Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience  a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space."

Creaza is a tool for making any sort of media project. It can be used for cartoons, video, and audio.

Wikimedia Commons is a database that provides users with over 16 million free-to-use media files, including images, sound, and videos.

If you are looking for random facts about history or looking for information for a project, this is the website for you. This website offers activities, interactive media, and examples of the artifacts in the Smithsonian museum.

This is a great online video editing website which gives the user the option to access the videos from anywhere via internet.

Application used for collaborative creation and editing of video and other types of media.

Saywire is an educational social media site that allows students to safely collaborate under the supervision of teachers. Students and their peers no longer have to work alone as they learn isolated.

ThingLink lets users add interactive links to any photo and turn them into fun web experiences that drive engagement. Using ThinkLink, anyone can make interactive images. Adding text, video, sound, and other media to the picture, ThinkLink can be used as a unique learning device. Classes can also interact and collaborate on images. Teachers and students can add their own input and links to the image to create an educational masterpiece. Teachers can create images for their students to explore and contribute to. Students can do the same and can also use ThinkLink as a unique means for presenting information for any kind of project.

Using Kaltura is similar to creating a google doc or making a wiki. Students can collaborate on one project from multiple computers simultaneously. However, unlike google docs or a wiki, Kaltura allows students to upload videos, audio files, and pictures and collaborate on their uploaded media to create a video presentation.

This tool helps you create beautiful timelines with additional media (pictures, videos, & audio).

With Tagboard, you can search any hashtag and get all the social media posts associating with that particular hashtag.

This site allows you o take notes while watching youtube videos.

Learner.org is a site with lots of teacher resources. They use media and telecommunications to advance teaching in American schools. They try to find more effective ways to train teachers. There are workshops the teachers can attend to improve learning in classrooms.

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner

This is a free service through Apple that grants anyone, with a device with iTunes installed, access to hundreds of lectures and other information that is downloadable to any media device.

Gooru is a tool that provides teachers and students with reliable educational resources in the contents areas of Math, Science, Social Studies, and English. Some of the resources provided by this website include videos, quizzes, documents, and other interactive media.

ChemED DL is a useful tool for learning chemistry. The site provides an interactive periodic table, three dimensional, and explanations for key chemistry concepts. It can allow students another media in which to learn chemistry concepts and understand elements and their structures. The site also allows students to make connections between concepts in chemistry and in other sciences.

It helps you with any questions with Chemistry it has periodic table,models, and chemPRIME.