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One of the biggest challenges when traveling abroad is, not knowing the native language. Although English is spoken in many parts of the world, you will be surprised to know that only one-fourth of the World's total population actually speaks the language.

Games in Education - a great list complete with resources for General, Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Business and Health (so far)

Create your own comics without having to draw. Share and remix with your friends. For all ages. Over 150 countries, 30 languages, and growing every day. Sign up now, it's free!

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a brand new database infrastructure for handling huge amounts of dynamic information, a wiki interface, multi-language support, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort, and book data. To date, we have gathered about 30 million records (20 million are available through the site now), and more are on the way. We have built the database infrastructure and the wiki interface, and you can search millions of book records, narrow results by facet, and search across the full text of 1 million scanned books. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.

WELCOME TO VOCABULARY.COM and a DAILY WORD PUZZLE - a free resource used in over 22,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.

VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice.

Pupil Pages allows your child/student to create and maintain an online portfolio of his/her work.

Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news.