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Videora Converter is a free video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your video playing device. The software can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats that play on your video playing device. It is available for Windows and Mac.

This site has free computer games to put a fun spinon learning about government. This site is an expanded version of an earlier site called OurCourts.org. Games on icivics include "Do I Have a Right", in which the player runs a virtual firm specializing in constitutional law; "Executive Command," which offers a chance to play president; "Supreme Decision," about the Supreme Court; "Branches of Power," which gives the player control of all three brances of government; and "Law Craft," in which the player is a member of Congress. The Icivics program is based on Georgetown University Law School. The online role-playing games on Icivis are free, teacher-friendly, and effective--and it has been found that kids like them so much that they play them at home.

Shakespeare searched was created by the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, and allows students to search for specific words within the lines of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. A keyword search can identify a specific passage in a specific poem or play or find larger meaning and themes within his many works. Search the word "love" for example, pulls hunderds of passages from plays like "Romeo and Juliet," " A Midsummer Night's Dream," and, of course, "Love's Labour's Lost." within each search, common results are grouped by topic. These grouplings or clusters break the search down further to show how many tiems a Shakespearean character used the word love, or find words that are most commonly associated with love.

If you're trying to learn how to play an instrument, you might be thinking about hiring a local tutor. After all, it's the way it has always been done. But you might be surprised to learn that the Web is a great place to learn how to play that instrument.

"Classcraft is a free online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together in the classroom. Acting as a gamification layer around any existing curriculum, the game transforms the way a class is experienced, throughout the school year."

Insult generator, resources, videos and blog!

"Use Flash, Scientific Notebook and LiveMath to explore mathematics and get a better understanding of what it all means. Go ahead - play and learn! Check out the extensive math lessons - easy to understand and easy to read. This site is perfect for... * Students of mathematics at secondary and undergraduate levels * Those studying for maths quizzes, tests and exams * Teachers of mathematics * Interested readers"

Play games with students from other countries

This recommendation came to me by way of the Diigo Math group.

Collection of QR code resources in LiveBinders.

Great resource with a variety of web 2.0 resources for secondary teachers. Great exampl of livebinder (another free tool)

FREE YouTube Converter Pro gives you all the tools needed to quickly convert your favorite online video files to a format ready to play on your iPod, iPhone, Xbox, etc. It's free, fast, and fun!

Serious games are games with purpose beyond just providing entertainment. Examples include, but are not limited to, games for learning, games for health, and games for policy and social change. Designing effective, engaging serious games requires theoretical understanding of learning, cognition, emotion, and play.

Specially designed games for musicians Learn to improvise and play music by ear Improve your musical sense Understand the patterns in music

"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.

Pogue said: Want to download a YouTube video as a file on your hard drive to have, edit, or play anytime? I just discovered keepvid.com. Works great.

In our virtual mall, you can play games, design ads, chat with customers and store owners, and much more. You'll learn key consumer concepts, such as how advertising affects you, how you benefit when businesses compete, how (and why) to protect your information, and how to spot scams. What better place to do it than at the mall!

"When these teachers play rap videos like Fractions in class, they find that students can quickly grasp complicated concepts: The repetition and rhyme help with memorization, and students connect with the lesson."

music for projects - can play and download

"MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL."