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When teaching science, practitioners need to explain science in simple terms to keep learners engaged; on the other hand, it's important not to oversimplify things. Spongelabs provides teaching tools such as lesson plans, visual aids, and a class management dashboard to facilitate learning activities online. Search and the results are organized into graphics and images, games, animation, case studies, lesson plans, and more. Practitioners can then add any item to their list and turn them into a complete lesson.
Loop Labs is a free service from Club Create for creating your own music mixes using existing music loops and your own recordings.
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The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films,... The World Digital Library hosts almost 5,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the aim of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures.
The Office of Naval Research has an interactive site filled with science and technology exploration for learners. Learners can explore oceanography, space, and blow the ballast. Each section having sub categories that let learners narrow down their focus. The majority of the website is information with accompanying images and short quizzes. To be honest, the Science and Technology Office of Naval Research looks old fashioned but, because of the wealth of information that it offers and the student-friendly language and explanations it uses, I feel it is worth a closer look.
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It will also feature a contest (The deadline for all video submissions is January 28, 2009) in which musicians can upload samples of their work, and, like American Idol, winners will be chosen by a panel of judges and brought to perform at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony. (Get more from the YouTube Website.)