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NBC Learn has launched this website called Finishing the Dream. It chronicles the h istory of the civil rights movement. It includes more then 100 stories from NBC News archives. Materials include documentaries on significan events over the course of 60 years, including the Montgomery bus boycott; the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Freedom Riders; and more. The content provides the opportunity for community leaders, teachers, and students to discuss the impact of the civil rights movement and to consider related modern issues that affect people today.

This site has information for program providers and end users. Thsi is a great place to get topic ideas or to find out what is available right now. There is a listserve

I will be sharing sites I read in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.

"Watch as a book-loving ape and a tech-savvy donkey exchange words...from bestselling author Lane Smith comes this adorable nod to traditional books."

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed \nlocations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic \nterms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I liked the examples I looked at on this site. Students took a concept and created a video to demonstrate or explain the concept.

"# Use COLLAGE to quickly produce dynamic interactive panoramas with hot-spots. # Use STUDIO to build a personalized media presentation... and, place it in your COLLAGE. # Use EXPRESS to build presentations with dynamic content from RSS feeds and online albums. # Tap into CUT-OUT Express to use your photos as frames for slideshows."

SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 850 films, and rapidly growing, you're bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.

SnagFilms site

What would your students say?

The Futures Channel was founded in 1999 with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today's learners who will one day succeed them.

Seven minutes of simple explanations of physics content by Nobel Prize winner, quantum and nuclear physicist, Richard Feynman

An interactive web site for job and career exploration targeted to teenagers and young adults in middle school through college and the mentors who advise them.