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middlespot is a better way to visually discover, collect, and organize what you like. With a mashtab you can collect webpages, images, music, videos, web widgets, files, documents, code, and more in one central spot.

"Find exactly what you're looking for, only faster. yolink's FREE browser add-on tool takes search to the next level. By scanning web pages, search results, e-books and more, yolink brings you just the information you need in only seconds. Sorry Control+F. Your days are numbered. " Scans and organizes web searches, integrates with #GoogleDocs #EasyBib #Diigo

"To help you develop such an understanding, we present these 10 reasons you cannot rely [soley] on information in Wikipedia:"

Intervue is a quick and easy tool for publishers who are looking to gather short video responses online from anyone with a webcam. This is an interesting concept. Seems like it would be great for a number of school applications.

Quintura for Kids is a search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud in that results can be embedded in a site.

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Middlespot is an innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. This would be a great tool for teachers to organize content appropriate web sites and then share them with their students.

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Visual search combining audio, video, tweets, images, and more. Be cautious - unfiltered.

Sophia is a first of its kind online social teaching and learnign platform that provides free academic content to educators. in beta testing since March, 2011, the site lets educators supplement their teaching methods with Web 2.0 tools to craete public or private learning environments

Free resource another place to find some supplemental materials

A Three Hour Tour: Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet (Kathy Schrock)

SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value. LEARN MORE ABOUT US CONTACT US ADVERTISING TERMS OF USE PRIVACY POLICY FAQ U.S. Census Bureau National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) National Weather Service (NWS) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Guttmacher Institute Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life U.S. Department of Agriculture (DoA) Energy Information Agency (EIA) Office of Surface Mining (OSM) U.S. Green Building Council U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wilderness.net Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) U.S Geological Survey (USGS) National Mining Association (NMA) Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) export.gov Realty Trac, Inc. American Gaming Association (AGA) Bureau of Labor Satistics (BLS) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Clerk of the House of Representatives opensecrets.org National Archives and Records Administration (U.S. Archives) whitehouse.gov fedspending.gov Social Security Administration (SSA) Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) NAACP Legal Defense Fund Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Beer Institute U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Rollercoaster Database Cinema Treasures Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) National UFO Reporting Center PEOPLE U.S. Census Bureau -the federal agency that conducts the decennial census and collects data about the nation and its people National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) -a federal agency t

Choose a subject, i.e. people, planet, politics, etc. and watch the map change based on the data representation.

Promoting education and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a simple, nonpartisan pro-con format

Where the world goes to talk about science.