The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

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A listing of web sites created by Vicki Davis. These web sites are the most useful tools that she uses in her classroom. She uses most of them on a daily or weekly basis. This will give viewers an outline of the tools that she use and how. More information can be found on her Blog.

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This fascinating timeline, tracing important developments in Information Technology, is but a small part of the “Girls Are I.T.” site presented by the Girl Scouts of America. Users may either mouse over each icon for a quick summary or click each to obtain detailed information on that topic, such as the development of the cellphone.

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Organizations from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and the US, have formed a global alliance to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance has been established between the following founding members: the ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Network Australia (EdNA Online) in Australia, LORNET in Canada, Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) in the US, and National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan. These organizations have committed to work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content.

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Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use their community resources or start your own project space. Registration is free.

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A new computer program has been invented that allows anyone—it is aimed at children—to create interactive animations that mix pictures, sound and movement. The project, called “Scratch”, is the brainchild of Mitch Resnick and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.

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Inquiryschools is dedicated to freely sharing quality educational practices with teachers, students and parents across the world. It begins with two movies.

The first movie, ‘Water Crossing’ shows how schools on different continents can together build a community of learners through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Using an inquiry approach to teaching and learning, students in Australia look at water issues together with a school in Hong Kong.

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The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

The goal of the initiative is to help usher in a new series of policy education, exploration, and management tools utilizing state of the art computer game designs, technologies, and development skills.

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Need just the Facts? The free Basic Facts Worksheet Factory can generate worksheets that will provide students with the practice they need to become proficient in the basic math operations. You can easily create unlimited customized worksheets for the practice of arithmetic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It’s incredibly easy to use with a very friendly interface that lets you see exactly what your worksheet will look like as you design it. Print your first worksheet within a minute even the first time you use the program.

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The original Learning 2.0 Program was created to support The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County’s Learning 2.0 Program; a discovery learning program designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies and reward them for doing 23 Things. Since the program’s launched, it has fostered Learning 2.0 programs all over the world.

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