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Google Documents Now you can simultaneously share a group of docs with your students, or other teachers by sharing an entire folder with them.

Google Earth A FREE and fantastic tool for the classroom! Enhance your instruction by visiting other countries, museums, the oceans and even the solar system! Take your students out of their homes to anywhere in the world! Take virtual field trips and record the track! Explore the ocean and watch animals tracked by scientists.
You can even leave Earth and explore Mars! Use Google Earth and bring the world and more into your classroom.

The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Librivox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported
basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

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Smoop makes learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

Tennessee Electronic Library(TEL)

Tennessee Electronic Learning Center – the Tennessee Department of Education’s latest educational advancement for students, parents, and teachers. Resources include content information, scientifically based research, and educational links. The ELC was designed for anyone…anytime…anyplace

Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs.

The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.

Wolfram Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of
science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

World Wide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to
function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.

Audacity – Would you like an easy tool for audio recording, sound editing, importing and exporting sound files, and changing sound effects? Are you ready to podcast, but not sure where to start? Could your voice overs use some help? Would you like all this FREE? Get tutorials.

iTunes

iTunes U iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 200,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there’s no end to what or where you can learn.

The site, www.watchknow.org launched in October 2009, currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history. The nonprofit site features new software, specially developed for the site by Dr. Larry Sanger, which allows wiki-style collaboration among users.

Learn360 allows teachers and students to stream and download thousands of videos, video clips, audio files (MP3), images, vocabulary resources, speeches, newsreels and other digital media for the K-12 classroom. Access is available from school or home and all content is searchable by keyword, subject area, state standard, media type and more. Video files are available in Windows Media, QuickTime, and Flash, and are encoded at rates that look sharp at full screen. Come discover how you can select the perfect media to support rich, unforgettable lessons across the curriculum to actively engage students. Learn how teachers can use My Learn360 to create quizzes, assignments and blogs using digital content. Choose from thousands of teachers’ favorite resources from the most trusted and awardwinning educational content partners including Weston Woods, Scholastic, Slim Goodbody, PBS, World Wide Entertainment, A&E, The History Channel, Arthur, Standard Deviants and more! Get your username and password from Wyatt Wilson in technology.

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“After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.”Read more.

Tennessee Electronic Learning Center – the Tennessee Department of Education’s latest educational advancement for students, parents, and teachers. Resources include content information, scientifically based research, and educational links. The ELC was designed for everyone…anytime…anyplace

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The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) supports and advances education through videoconferencing and other collaborative technologies. A nonprofit, CILC offers access to quality professional development and student educational content, as well as consulting and technical assistance. This helps schools leverage technology to improve educational outcomes, while saving time and money.

Incorporate video conferencing into the classroom to connect their students to the world. Check out Skype (What is Skype?), Ustream, and Livestream to assist in creating a truly interactive learning environment for both students and parents.

TNDLA is a non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of all forms of distance learning and to implement effective distance learning strategies for Tennesseans and other distance learning practitioners of the global community.

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Diigo is a free tool designed to improve the way we research and collaborate electronically. While reading online, you can highlight text, make notes on the page, forward the page to others, and organize all of your favorite sites into categories. Sharing your favorite sites, now containing your comments, has never been easier. The diigo community features allow you to create groups that share the same interests as you. Collaboration is instantaneous.

Second Life is an online 3D virtual world inhabited by millions. What is quite apparent is that there are endless possibilities in Second Life. It can be an ideal platform for training and collaborating with people across the world making it a great medium for professional development. Download Secondlife (at Secondlife.com).

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