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Social Studies Central is intended to provide resources with a focus on the Social Studies, to support teachers as they improve their instruction and to help educators engage kids in learning. You will find lesson plans, new web sites, links to standards and assessment advice, technology integration resources and information about workshops and staff development.

Express Yourself, Share Your Life, Connect with Friends Online You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

This blog is intended for educators in general, but with special attention given to history and social studies teachers.

MEP Training is a planned programme designed to improve performance and to bring about measurable changes in knowledge,skills,attitude and social behavior of employees.MEP training makes employees versatile ,mobile,flexible and useful to the organizations. Development is future-oriented training,focusing on the personal growth of the employee. Learining principles are the guidlines to the way people learn most effectively. More effective training in corporates more of these principles.The various types of training include

Tech Tech Boom can best be described as a social network for high school students interested in science and math. The unique thing about Tech Tech Boom is that its user interface was designed by kids.

Netvibes is a free web service that brings together your favorite media sources and online services. Everything that matters to you - blogs, news, weather, videos, photos, social networks, email and much more - is automatically updated every time you visit your page.

Timelines.TV is the website companion to a BAFTA award-winning television series. On Timelines.TV you will find four series of documentary videos arranged chronologically. There are three series about British history; social, political, and imperial. There is one series about the American West in the 19th Century. You can browse for videos using the timeline at the bottom of the homepage or use the drop-down menu at the top of every page. I've only had time to watch videos from the American West series, but if the rest of the videos are as good as those that I've watched, Timelines.TV is a high-quality production.

You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Vizerra is a very interesting project that has great potential for use in World History and World Geography courses. Vizerra provides downloadable 3D models of famous places. All of the models offer users a tour of their selected site. Currently, there are five models and tours available on Vizerra. Vizerra aims to have a total of thirty 3D models and tours available for download by the end of 2009.

Educational videos for k-12. Most subject areas

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe.

find out about everyday life from kids around the world

history trivia games

FriendFeed enables you to discover and discuss the interesting stuff your friends find on the web.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Take a virtual tour of a World War One trench and experience the conditions under which World War One soldiers fought and lived.

Make and annotate maps