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"Learn tips and tricks to explore the world, find interesting places and share content with others. Follow this hands-on learning game at your own pace until you complete each level and become a true explorer!"

A community of users who discuss the site and offer suggestions and even tips on how to use it.

A community of users who discuss the site and offer suggestions and even tips on how to use it. Don't forget to get the addon for Google. See both results on one page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006

Jim Burke's AP Literature wiki

Site of the Dirksen Center - history of congresses from 73rd on; documents, photos, key legislation passed, etc.

a high-quality, open-source, free reading intervention program for grades pK-6

website from the British Pharmaceutical industry. Interactive sims for chemistry and biology. Periodic table activities and population studies are two good ones here.

"Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects."

I have used and have seen this used. It is like a PowerPoint but web based. Presentations can be embedded.

What's a Bitstrip? It's an Online Comic Strip, Made by YOU! Click anywhere to get started!

"Classroom Resources to Counter Cyberbullying"

"Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It transforms text on any website using fonts, colors, and layouts of your choosing. By presenting content in a format that you're comfortable with, Readable makes the reading experience much more enjoyable - and faster too. Readable is the most customizable solution for manipulating content (on the web) and making it readable. It's also very simple to use and completely free."