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Educadium on Twitter says that this is a "how to" for creating an Open Source School.

"This free on-line graphing calculator is available to you 24hrs / 7days a week. This free online graphic calculator requires no subscription, no downloading, no soft-ware, and has no advertising. When you click on the link, a new window opens. If the calculator doesn't load right away close the new window and click on the link again. Once the window is open you may resize it or maximize it to fit your screen. "

If you are interested in being a better special ed teacher, you can use the following open courseware classes to learn interesting techniques, and even to prepare special education lesson plans. Increase your knowledge and become a better teacher with help from these 50 free open courseware classes for special education teachers:

And for those of you who have heard of twitter and have dismissed it thinking '"Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands" - think again Educators are connecting with each other on Twitter and using it like a big teachers lunch room that's open 24/7 whenever they need help, assistance or just want to connect with others.

Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia enhanced with cutting-edge functionalities and sophisticated features such as multimedia content, social media tools and real-time information; it's free to use and open for public participation, allowing users to discuss specific topics, post and answer questions, share relevant links or contribute in new creative ways. Mashpedia integrates a variety of online services and applications like Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Google News, Books, Blog Posts, and further contextual information into a single slick interface, presenting an organized outlook of live content feeds for every topic, thus providing a broad spectrum of services and features that eliminate the user's need to visit each service separately. Mashpedia provides articles for specific topics such as concepts, subjects, personalities, events, places, companies, products, etc., but not for broader, unspecific searches.

Great to use at the opening of an event! Motivating!

Plus magazine opens a door to the world of maths, with all its beauty and applications, by providing articles from the top mathematicians and science writers on topics as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology and sport. You can read the latest mathematical news on the site every week, browse our blog, listen to our podcasts and subscribe to our fortnightly email newsletter.

Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is fun, free, open source and makes it easy for kids and adults to make their own games!

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 850 films, and rapidly growing, you're bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.

The table contains all the usual information you find in a periodic table of elements, but then under each element, it lists real-world items that contain that element. This opens up a new avenue of projects for Science teachers where students can not only learn the different elements, but then connect them to real world uses and even explore the method in which the element is applied. For example, assigning a student to report on radon, they'll see it's a key element in earthquake predictors.

Here's an eye-opener!

I hope to keep my eyes open for typos!

ThumbScribes is your platform for creating collborative content. Anyone can participate. Scribes are collaborative works, created and passed between ThumbScribes' authors who each add a new section to the body of work until it's completed. You can create private scribes and invite a handful of friends or open your scribe up to the world and see what happens