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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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Shwup is a great site for teachers and students to use in order to post and share pictures and videos on the web. You do need to sign up, but anyone who gets a log-in can be invited to share in creating a "muvee" with the images that their "friends" (classmates/colleagues) are sharing. This is a great way to do collaborative multimedia projects or keep pictures and videos in one place from an event that had more than one person taking footage/images. The videos can all be shareed on shwup and posted to blogs, Facebook and other social media sites. Fun, easy to operate, and very useful.

Shwup is a site that can be used for making collaborative slide shows.

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This is a user friendly site that uses a drag-and-drop interface to edit and mix video. "Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos and SoundCloud clips. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos."

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A fun site for creating animated slide shows that has lots of content to choose from. This site will let users create amazing slide shows and edit and share photos.

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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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FREE online community that provides educators with the resources for preparing for new courses and projects, or instructions on the skills needed to teach with Adobe software. Educators can share lesson plans, class projects, technical tutorials, background materials and other resources and get feedback and recognition from the community.

How to grow a "textbook". This article was in tech & Learning. Joyce Kasman Valenza a teacher-librarian shares her format for developing and creating an online course.

This page was shared by Joyce Valenza a teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania. This page has numerous links to resources for educators to use in creating online content.

This site is really interesting. It provides riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. This would be a great site to check out and link or embed into online courses. Some of the topics the talks relate to are Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, Global issues.

Google DOC quizzes and grading how-to!

There is a free trial version of the materials in the National Library of virtual manipulatives. Math topics Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis & Probablity are covered. I did not come across anything asking for money so I a not certain there is a cost. There are tons of manipulatives to access from each of the above categories. This site is associated with the Uta State University.

Archived Google Apps webinars

Link to the BBC History. There are interactives, games and virtual tours.

This site links to the American Museum of Natural History. There are a number of topics to select and then learn about. It looks very engaging.

This site has a variety of science and math related topics for students to click on and learn about.

"Want to learn how to quickly square a number that ends in 5? Or how to tell if a number is divisible by 3? Or maybe you'd like to learn how to calculate square roots by hand? That's the kind of fun and fascinating math tricks and trivia you'll find here at CuriousMath.com."

Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.

Interactiaves British and Metric Conversions