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SRI's community for teachers, you can have your own "room" and you can attend sessions on different topics.

Links to a lot of different tools by topic

free open source curriculum, textbooks, and manuals on technical topics, such as audio editing, graphics, linux, video editing, blogging, streaming, open office, firefox, and VOIP

"Ever wondered how to make science or math flash cards for students to use with their mobile devices? This typically comes about because finding science and math flash cards specific to a particular concept, topic area, or unit is difficult. Often when appropriate flash cards are found, they are too expensive or need modification. Technological advances have uncomplicated the process of making tailor made free flash cards for students."

Qwiki finds pictures and information about a topic, and then reads the information out loud as it displays the pictures to create an "information experience"

animations in various science topics

"a collection of resources that can be used by educators or students regarding the issue of digital citizenship. Note: the questions used here are targeted primarily at high school students, but many of these questions apply to anyone new to the topic."

examples of student web pages on various topics, plus a rubric on how to judge them.

great collection of games on various topics

Free flash based games, many on education topics.

you enter a topic, and it searches the web to find pictures and puts them into a montage that you can download.

Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with the online interactive. Complete the missing final stages of the tapestry or recreate your favourite scenes. There are further fun activities for all, build a Norman ship and make the helmet of a Norman Soldier, alongside more teacher orientated material like the topic web.

Wiki that lists Voicethreads used by teachers on various topics

free videos on a number of topics, but the ones in math and science appear best.

quizzes in a game format, originally focusing on geography, but it has expanded to include other topics

Amazing Space is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to learn something about space. If you want basic information on topics such as gravity and black holes, the site offers it. If you want to gain some knowledge about Earth and how it was formed, you can learn that too. It's not as in-depth as some sites in this roundup, but it's not meant to be. Amazing Space is for the beginner.

The site gives you news each day that it gathers from a variety of astronomers and sources, like NASA. You'll find information on topics ranging from the extinction of dinosaurs to theories on the creation of small galaxies.

" Welcome to the e-gadget factory Welcome to the e-gadget factory shop. We sell interactive whiteboard activities called e-gadgets in topic packs that keep the cost at a very low level. These are available as downloads in Smart Notebook format, in Promethean Flipcharts or through an online subscription that will work with any whiteboard."

explanations and math problems for K-6 math topics

video and links for instructions on how to assign collaborative writing tasks, choosing topics, and grading