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Saskatchewan Career Resource - this may be of some interest to your students involved in making career decisions. What other resources do you use in your school to help students with career choices? Relevance Magazine: Career Options for your Future

It's new and it is in a 'beta' state; however, Academic Earth is something to keep your eyes on. Currently, it offers thousands of post-secondary lectures from authorative sources - all free. The creators of this repository have worked hard to integrate features into it that make it extra useful. Each lecture has a side bar with a selection of special options, such as a download to iPod option, a citation option, an 'embed' option that gives you code you can copy and paste into your website (this means that you can distribute the video to your students without having to host the video on your server. Nice!). Each lecture is rated by registered users of the website (registration is free!). So over time, the most highly rated lecture will float to the top. While in the 'beta' state, Academic Earth strongly encourages users to leave feedback on any bugs you find as well as to make suggestions on how to improve the service. At the time of launching, it is b...

The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming. Oscar winners such as 1952's Neighbours , 1977's I'll Find a Way and 2004's Ryan are among the more than 700 films now available for screening online at NFB.ca. The online screening room was created as part of a $1.3-million project to digitize the NFB's collection of historic films. Check out http://www.nfb.ca/ to see their Online Screening Room and view a great diversity of Canadian film. NFB makes films free online

Thinking Guides are tools or frameworks for thinking through an issue and considering different aspects or perspectives. They can help to develop thinking skills. This website has a number of templates that students can fill in to help organize and communicate their thinking on a particular topic. There is a free registration option which allows the completed template to be customized, saved and forwarded to others. If you do any mind mapping or employ organizational tools in your classroom, check this out. Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab

Have you ever wondered how teachers are using cell phones for educational purposes? This collection of links illustrates a wide variety of applications. Cell Phones in Education

I found this site with over 100 free audio books available for download or streaming. There are many great resources here. Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free Open Culture Jan 28: another site is http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ . Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

From http://zaidlearn.wikispaces.com/ Here is the initial quick list: Learning 2.0 Programme This blog has been set-up as part of PLCMC's Learning 2.0 project to encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today. An Introduction to Social Learning (Jane Hart) Provides you with a practical approach to getting started with using social media for both formal and informal learning - either in the form of best-of-breed stand-alone tools or in an integrated suite of social media tools. ELearning T4T (WikiEducator) eLearning Training for Teachers is a project node for the collaborative development of "just-in-time" tutorials to help educators implement eLearning successfully. WebTools4u2use The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media pr...

These are great Java-based simulations you can either download to your computer or run off their website. Check out these great applications to help students visualize a number of science concepts. PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations

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