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"The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide. "

"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."

"The Sandbox is the Lab's way of sharing high-quality video clips with you - for free. Use our clips to make a mash-up, documentary, music video, or whatever!"

"WatchKnow has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. Our Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. We have had a tremendously positive response from educators to the website. If we continue to work together, we can create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the world."

Video slideshow creation on the web.

"WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. Visit wa.cs.washington.edu to access WebAnywhere directly. And, it's completely FREE to use! "

Interactive, online learning for key stage 2 from The University of Manchester.

Read in Peace, Everywhere Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. No matter where you are or what device you use, your reading will be there."

Learning Clip is an online resource for teaching primary maths. There are hundreds of interactive activities, video clips and worksheets covering a huge range of mathematical topics, concepts and methods. Registration is free and registered users can access a great selection of free resources, and for the first time, from January 2011, we are offering online resources adapted for Promethean Activexpression and Activote learner response systems.

With Animal games and Nature games kids are able to gain academic knowledge while having fun playing with wild animals and exploring nature.

Interactive English Games and Activities

"Markup lets you draw on any webpage with a variety of tools to express your thoughts, make a point or just simply edit." This is a bookmarklet -- no download required!

This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years.

Simulation of taking a trip to the moon

Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available.

This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and it also includes links to other iPad information pages. You can submit your own resource to be added to the site. (Kathy Schrock)

Just what you think it is - a comprehensive table of applications that go aong with Bloom's Taxonomy of learning.

Evernote Peek is the first Smart Cover learning app. Connect Peek to your Evernote account and brush up on a language, make flashcards for a quiz or test your trivia knowledge, all by simply peeking under the Smart Cover.

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope-bringing together imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

"YouTube" for Children's eBooks This site does not have any intention of making any money, ever. Bandwidth and storage are cheap. We just want everybody to have an easy way to find, share, and self-publish their own free children's ebooks, whether the audience is just their own kids or the whole world.