Librarian Chick's New Additions!
3/23/09
Academic Info - Extensive subject guides and distance learning information
Direct Textbook - Check textbook prices on your phone via Twitter
First Tutors - Search to find UK private tutors in your area
QuizMaster Manager - An Open Source project that lets users create, edit and manage quizzes
RN to BSN - An easily searchable database of RN to BSN degree programs
3/1/09
arXiv.org - E-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
BooksShouldBeFree - Free MP3 audio books you can browse by category
eBook Hood - An online library of electronic books available in various ebook formats
FreeBookSpot - The online source of free downloadable ebooks
Getfreeebooks - A site where you can legally download free books
2/26,27/09
5 Caps - Provides free college course and dormitory reviews
Arts & Letters Daily - A regularly updated listing of articles, books, essays and ideas from The Chronicle of Higher Education
BooksInMyPhone -Formatted ebooks that you can read from any java enable mobile phone
ClichéSite - The largest collection of clichés, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations
Harvard University Library OCP - Online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - A collection of palindromes and links to similar resources
ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader
Medical Assistant Schools - A searchable database of nationally accredited Medical Assistant schools in the US
RN to MSN - A directory of nationally accredited programs offered by more than 470 schools
PhET - Free physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
Programming Ebooks - A listing of freely available programming related ebooks
Pulse-Project - Audio and video lectures for both general and specialised audiences, delivered by eminent academics
Quotefolio - Quotes, sayings, proverbs and adages
SimpleTuition - Find and compare student loans
SlapAStory - Write, submit, read and discuss short stories online
SmartTutor Freebies - Free educational games and activities for children
The Poet Sanctuary - A safe and enjoyable haven for fans of poetry
World History Sources - Reviews describe online primary–source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions
2/8/09
Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy - 3D images of human anatomy
BrainFlips - Create and share flashcards with audio, text, images and video
HowTo - Access free books, with no registration, no fees, no catch
Infobarrel - Community contributed information and how-to guides
Memoryplay - A fun customizable memory card game
Places and Spaces - Maps designed to help understand, navigate and manage physical places and abstract information spaces
Wired-Marker - A permanent indelible highlighter that you use on Web pages
1/4/09
Memidex - A dictionary/thesaurus including extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, and frequent updates
The Open Letter Project - An online collection of open historical letters, contemporary letters and users can write their own
1/3/09
Accredited Online College Degrees - Assists you in finding information regarding higher education
Learning Vocabulary Fun - Test preparation and vocabulary building made fun
LookyBook - View, talk about, and buy from a diverse and rapidly expanding collection of picture books
Newspaper Index - Free access to newspapers from all over the world
SpellingCity - Online spelling games that make practicing for tests fun
12/29/08
CollegeView - Free resources to those hunting for colleges and financial aid
Butterscotch - A video site about technology with computer tips and tutorials
11/08/08
Applied Language Solutions - Free text, email and website translation tools
Business Schools - Worldwide business schools directory
Dictionarist - A talking dictionary which can provide translations with pronunciation and sound in over a dozen languages
ExamToolkits - A complete resource for gaining information on your next exam
Labmeeting - Scientists can upload, search, organize, and retrieve their research papers and recommend them to colleagues
PolicyMap - An online Geographic Information System that enables users to create custom tables, charts and maps
Tutor Hunt - Connecting private tutors and students for free
9/5/08
Edmodo - A microblogging platform where teachers and students can exchange notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, etc.
Gimao - Group knowledge and information management
9/1/08
Drill Dictionary - A free multilanguage dictionary, text reader and vocabulary building tool
History and Politics Out Loud - A database of multimedia documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics
Howjsay - An English pronouncing dictionary with instant sound
Jotcloud - Sticky notes for the web
NoteMesh - A free service that allows college students in the same classes to share notes with each other
Stikkit - Organize notes and data — share, collaborate and comment on ideas
8/29/08
CampusBooks - Comparison shop for textbooks to find the lowest prices on any book in print
Math Expressions - Offers online math tutoring using videos, study tips and practice questions
8/12/08
Babiloo - An open source free OS independent dictionary
Claroline - An Open Source eLearning platform that allows teachers to build online courses and collaborative activities on the Web
Childsplay - A suite of educational games for young children with additional plugins
dokeos - Build e-courses using templates, Word and Powerpoint documents
GCompris - An educational software that offers over 50 games and activities for children ages 2 to 10
JaLingo - A free OS independent dictionary application
StarDict - A cross-platform and international dictionary software
8/11/08
Adult Learn - An aggregator of educational institutions in a diverse array of concentrations
Engineering Degrees Online - Get your Engineering Degree online
Mathway - A step-by-step math problem solver
8/8/08
authorSTREAM - Online PowerPoint presentations and slideshow sharing
Global Text Project - Open content electronic textbooks
Microsoft Photo Story - Create slideshows with special effects using your digital photos
Slideshare - Share your presentations privately or publicly
Vega - An independent broadcaster of informed scientific visual and audio media
8/7/08
Kids Open Dictionary Builder - A free, open simple dictionary for students to use that anyone can contribute t__o__
Spinscape - A collaborative mind mapping software that offers a new way of gathering and managing information
The Dusty Library - Public domain books, poems and short stories
8/2/08
EOL - Encyclopedia of Life is a site with a goal to document all species of life on Earth
Knol - A site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects
Perseus Digital Library - An evolving library documenting the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world
PoducateMe - Practical solutions for podcasting in education
7/15/08
Bookbyte - Sell a used college textbook or buy a new or used college textbook at a great price
Graspr - An online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics
7/7/08
BookLamp - A service that matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles
6/29/08
bubbl.us - Free brainstorming web application with colorful mind maps that you can embed on your web site
Funschool - Fun and educational activities and games for kids
Gliffy - Create all types of diagrams, flow charts, floor plans, wireframes and more online
Jottit - Create simple websites and collaboritive blogs that are easy to edit and share
KidsVid - An instructional web site that helps teachers and students use video production in the classroom
Mind42 - A browser based online mind mapping application
Mindomo - Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends
Project Draw - Create custom flowcharts, diagrams and graphs online and share them, export them, or convert to PDF or image
RecallPlus Lite - A study-based mind mapping software that tests students on their notes
ScienceHack - A unique video search engine for science videos
Viewpoints Education Reviews - The inside scoop on what you should and should not expect when searching for the right college
WiseMapping - Create, edit and access your mindmaps from anywhere over the Web
yEd - Quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks
6/22/08
Exploring Life's Origins - A timeline of life's evolution
Fact Monster - Atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and much more from Information Please
GCFLearnFree - The freedom to learn what you want, when you want, absolutely free
MatchCollege - A free website that provides in-depth statistical information regarding colleges, universities and trade schools
Open-Site - A free Internet encyclopedia that is edited by volunteers, freely available under the GNU Free Documentation License
webcast.berkeley - Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for live viewing and on-demand replay over the Internet
WEbook.com - An online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces
5/28/08
Cramster - A global online study community
New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete eBooks still covered by copyright
Textbooks - Find the best deals on college textbooks, other books, music and movies
TuitionU - A community of students, parents, teachers, and professionals that have conversations regarding all aspects of higher education
5/22/08
bab.la - A free collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and a language forum featuring user-generated content
5/14/08
CENSUS of Antique Works of Art - An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity
Fonetiks - Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages
Poetry Magic - A resource about the theory and craft of writing poetry
Purplemath - Practical algebra lessons
The Biology Project - An interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona
The Free Library - A free, searchable archive that provides access to a daily-updated collection of 4 million articles from classic works of literature and leading periodicals
Visual Calculus - Tutorials, quizzes and interactive modules
4/27/08
BEOLINGUS - German, Spanish, Portuguese and English translation and dictionary tool
BEYOND - Confronting the big questions of existence raised by scientific advances and facilitating new research initiatives
College Degree - Find the best colleges that offer online courses and degrees
Connotea - Free social reference management for researchers, clinicians and scientists
Footnote - Discover, interact and share millions sources from a repository of the world's greatest archives of historical documents
HomeSchooler Network - Cver 5,000 innovative lessons, activities, and inspirational articles to help you in your homeschooling life
Instacalc - Fast and powerful calculation, unit conversion, analysis and charting tools
lib.rario.us - A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs
LibWorm - A search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries
Literacy Center Education Network - Serving aproximately 1.5 million free lessons a day to children in more than two hundred countries
Physlets - Flexible Jave applets designed for science education
Primary Resources - Free teaching resources, lesson plans, ideas and worksheets for primary and elementary teachers
Word Count Tool - Free online tool to count the number of words - just copy and paste
4/16/08
Animal Photos - Creative Commons photos of animals that can be used for web sites, school projects and presentations
Directory of Open Access - Open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content
Exploratorium - The museum of science, art and human perception
Howtopedia - A collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies
Ink Textbooks - Free textbooks and supplemental content from professors and students from around the globe
KnowledgeForge - A digital open knowledge community that provides the facilities and tools to create everything from textbooks to maps
LocalCensus - Free statistical information about the United States of America and all of its cities, zip codes, and counties
Open Text Book - A registry of open textbooks and text book material
SFSKIDS - A fun site for kids to learn about music from The San Franciso Symphony
SoYouWanna - Teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
SpongeFish - Sharing your advice, lessons, tips, tutorials, and how-to's has never been easier
The Assayer - One of the web's largest catalogs of free books where users can submit reviews.
Thinkature - Free unlimited workspaces for real-time collaboration online
ThinkQuest - A world-renowned resource for educational sites and web-based lessons created for students, by students
Wikiversity - Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research
4/14/08
WikiCliche - Meanings and origins of clichés, proverbs, idioms, phrases, and sayings
4/8/08
AmphibiaWeb - An online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation
Avibase - A database about birds, containing over 3.5 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies
BabyMint - Save towards a child's college tuition or for other major life events without incurring out-of-pocket expenses
eduFire - A community of people teaching and learning languages through a combination of video, voice and text chat
Encylcopedia of Life - An ongoing collaborative to document all species of life on Earth
Greek Gods Family Tree - A unique tree graphing the genealogies of the Greek Gods
NSDL - An online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics
Upromise - Learn how to earn, save, and pay for college
4/3/08
4shared - Upload, download and share music, books, video and more with 5 BG of free space
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - About 14,000 classic public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
Dictionarist - A free online multilingual and talking dictionary service which can provide translation in
Figure Drawing Ebooks - A library of free rare and valuable figure drawing books in PDF format
Free Book Notes - A guide to free book notes, summaries, literature notes, and study guides for over 1600 books, plays, and poems
The Etext Archives - Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal
3/19/08
100 Words - This is an exercise in disciplined creativity in which you must write exactly 100 words at a time
Confusing Words - A collection of words that are troublesome to readers and writers
K12OS.org - News, links, resources and discussion to help promote the use of open source software in schools
My Book Buyer - Sell used text books and ship them for free
Open Learning Initiative - A collection of openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course
Science Toys - Use common household materials to make toys that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles
Take Lessons - Find a local instructor that teaches music, singing, acting or dance
WebMD - Award winning authority on health and medicine information
Wordie - Lets you make lists of words and phrases that you like or hate
Word Spy - Devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases
3/9/08
A Journey to a New Land - A site exploring the first peopling of the New World funded by the Virtual Museum of Canada
Cackleberries - A safe place for kids to play educational games online
Free Educational Teaching Resources - Free games and educational software by Adrian Bruce
French Assistant - Free French language lessons with audio
STARTDL Puzzles - more than 36 different educational puzzles including Anagrams, Word and Number Games, Trivia
The Book Page - Provides free on-line classic and not-so-well known books, articles and more
Thinkfinity - Thousands of lesson plans, educational games and activities from Verizon
3/5,7/08
ChestofBooks - Free online books on various topics
Teachbits - A listing of free resources for teachers by teachers
UNEP/GRID-Adrenal Maps and Graphics Library - Search and explore vast amounts of global and regional data through an interactive interface
Planet eBook - Free classic literature to download and share
Miscellaneous Mathematical Utilities - This page contains links to several javascript mathematical utilities
My Notes Tiddlywiki - A note-taking and organizational software
2/20/08
Visual Dictionary - Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images
GameGoo - Educational spelling and reading games
PhotoSoup - Create word search puzzles with tag-photo pairs taken from Flickr
Play Music - Learn about symphonies and compose your own music
Intaractives - strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas
Visible Body - A complete and fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
2/16/08
TeachersFirst - a rich collection of lessons, units and web resources
Numbernut - If you are looking for math information, this site is for you!
Schoolr - Many types of reference and research tools in one handy location
The Virtual Smithsonian - A virtual tour through the Smithsonian Insitute
SchoolTube - Safe, effective video production and online video sharing
2/14/08
Eclipse Crossword - An easy and free way to create crossword puzzles in seconds
Essentials of Music - Information about classical music
Creating Music - An online creative music environment for children of all ages
DSOkids - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning
Play Music - Learn about symphonies and compose your own music
Sebran's ABC - Software that teaches letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading
Lightning Bug - Helping you write a story from beginning to end
The Learning Toolbox - Learning resources for parents, teachers and secondary students with learning disabilities and ADHD
NatureServe Explorer - An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada - An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada
Science Animations - Science animations, movies and interactive tutorial links
Scientific Commons - The largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public
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