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Our collection of Google Earth tours grows by the day, with many contributors adding theirs. All the sights of the world are now at your fingertips right here! * Rate each tour - let everyone know which ones are hot and which are not! * Check out the Hints and Tips page for ideas about creating amazing tours. * If you have improvements or corrections for a tour, you can follow the Upload new version link on each tour page to send your updated one to us! * Two write-ups about GoogleTouring, on hegnar.no and Frankwatching.

The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952, when Madison Avenue advertising executive Rosser Reeves convinced Dwight Eisenhower that short ads played during such popular TV programs as I Love Lucy would reach more voters than any other form of advertising. This innovation had a permanent effect on the way presidential campaigns are run.

"Watch, Laugh, Learn, and Share * Largest video collection for kids anywhere * New videos added daily * Videos approved by parents and teachers * Watch your favorite videos and discover new ones * TV mode that plays all videos * Search with suggestions and KidRank"

"More and more educators and students are using Prezi in the classroom. We want to capture the ideas and experiences of our educational community by sharing, adding, and cataloging great prezis used for educating around the world. "

"With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. The elementary, middle, and secondary surveys have been re-designed and updated in February of 2009. The virtual tour, blog, podcast, and teacher site evaluations have been added since 2005 and updated in 2009."

TechUniversity is a video tutorial and screencast site dedicated to teaching you how to use your Mac and Apple products better. We're launching with close to two dozen screencasts and will be adding new videos every week. You can watch the videos directly on the site or download high-quality, DRM-free videos with chapter markers. And to get your feet wet, you can check out a few free episodes in the Freebies section.

I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.

"This site features online printable greeting cards, free calendars, including yearly and monthly layouts with new designs being added on a regular basis. "

Strip the ads, comments, related videos from Youtube videos.

"The sites are labeled by grade level to help guide you to those that best suit your students. In addition, I've added ratings to give teachers and students an idea of how much interactivity is available at each site. Some allow students to create from beginning to end, while others simply generate the final product with minimal effort. What you will not find here are basic virtual coloring sheets. I tried to find sites that would give students a chance to generate their own original works of art. What could be better?"

"First and Always Ahead. There was a time once when creating web forms was a big pain for webmasters. Then came JotForm, first web based WYSIWYG form builder, and turned into a joy. Today JotForm has over 500,000 users. Free. JotForm is a free web form builder. For basic usage, upto 100 submissions/month, you can use JotForm fully. No crippleware. No ads. Just what you need. Fast. When you need to create forms quickly, JotForm is your best friend. We don't waste your time with things like registration. Just point your browser to jotform.com, create your form and post it on your web site. Literally in minutes!" **CAN USE AS A DROPBOX FOR STUDENTS TO UPLOAD FILES TO YOU**

Whether you're artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy - design talent optional! Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use as filling in a web form. We've added a couple of desktop applications that make visual communication a lot quicker and easier, even for those of us without a ton of graphic design skills.

Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats. Select your favorite categories from the menu on the left, or browse the list of recently added books below.

More and more websites are coming online to give students the ability to unleash their creativity in new and innovative ways. From abstract art to pointillism, students now can click and draw their way into original works of art, and today's freebie gives you a great list of places to begin. The sites are labeled by grade level to help guide you to those that best suit your students. In addition, I've added ratings to give teachers and students an idea of how much interactivity is available at each site. Some allow students to create from beginning to end, while others simply generate the final product with minimal effort. What you will not find here are basic virtual coloring sheets. I tried to find sites that would give students a chance to generate their own original works of art. What could be better?

FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

In Babelyou you can find new friends, learn languages together and keep the contact with them. Show your photos and videos to others, practice languages with a language buddy, and discover the culture of the countries you are looking forward to visit. Connect yourself with the whole world and create interesting groups of discussion. Ads and events will help you to find a job abroad as well as to be informed about activities worldwide. Students will be able to know everything about their universities before they start a degree abroad. Babelyou is already available in 75 countries and 45 languages.

Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript education application that runs in any modern internet browser but does not require an internet connection. The simple controls allow teachers or parents to create unlimited math crosswords, or supply their own word:hint pairs. Support has recently been added for French, Spanish, pt-Brasillian, Kiswahili, and special characters (accents, tildes etc), in general. Some suggested uses include: cities, countries, lattitudes and longitudes to teach geography and spherical trig, simultaneously; Periodic table word:hint pairs; Language[i]:Language[j] word:hint pairs, for foreign language learning exercise; Terminology practice with virtually any other subject.

One in 8 Million tells the stories of New York characters in sound and images. A new profile is added weekly.

"Word Magnets will take a piece of text and break it into individual magnets which can be moved around the screen, resized, removed, colour coded, grouped, sorted and so on. New magnets can also be added at any point. The resource also offers a range of backgrounds for use in a variety of activities."